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Sure, it might not be in its golden years, but not many are, the concept of a messageboard is a bit old hat nowadays.
What springs to mind to me is that there are beginner guitarists, novice guitarists, experienced guitarists and downright awesome guitarists. Some of you have been playing 30, 40, 50 years ffs, even played to hundreds or thousands of people.
But we all play guitar, right?
There are no separate sections for the awesome, experienced, novice or beginner guitarists to hang out. So what you get is beginner guitarists feeling a little intimidated, novice guitarists looking elsewhere for some technical advice or words of wisdom, experienced guitarists a little wound up because they've never quite got to the next level, and awesome guitarists looking to play a 50 string sitar just for some variety.
Its a guitar-fashioned-Maslow's-hierarchy.
Nobody is 'quite' getting what they wanted.
Sign up tae sell then bugger off?
But there’s a lot of sign ups that don’t post at all, or post a couple of bits then disappear
Seriously tho, it’s good to hear you get that out of it
I suppose its all down to how much traffic do the Mods really want or need and is there a desire to grow this forum really ?
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I think the effort of signing up is too much for many people, as they are only on the site for the one reason, and don't need to be registered to view.
Forums in general aren't a lot of people's cup of tea - I find that being (and feeling) part of the community is necessary to make a forum somewhere I can stick with - if there's no sense of community, a forum is just a bunch of posts by random strangers, and there's less reason to come back. TFB has a core of regular posters, some of whom are active all over, others are more active in certain sections, but they are regular, adding to sections, and obviously over the years (and various incarnations of the forum) many have got to know each other.
There are some posts that get heated, and some people who post unpleasant things, but for the most part it's an inviting place with plenty of people willing to offer their knowledge to those in search of wisdom. Most people just don't want to engage, they just want an answer to their question.
There are people out there who aren't interested in the minutiae of guitars, amps, effects and so on. There are people out there, people who play guitar, to who any guitar is much the same as any other. My father in law isn't all that fussed about tuning his guitar properly, let alone changing strings, worrying about not slot length or what material the saddle is made from.
How you retain more people, should you wish to, is a bit tricky - you could make people sign up, but that would make lots navigate away instantly. You could make people sign up to use the search function, but that would have a similar effect. Restrict some areas? That would at least mean people can't see the P+E, Coronavirus etc sections and be scared away immediately.
But seriously folks, this is one of the more civilised public spaces on the internet. I keep away from the threads that I know will end up as sequential posts of the "you smell", "no, you smell" variety. And I spend much less time on here now that I'm working l-o-n-g hours.
And if people want to leave, let them. They smell.