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Old 01-25-19, 04:43 AM
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Bulletin boards as social media device have long passed their prime. Folks who look for this sort of interchange are generally using facebook groups, but people's screen time has simply been replaced in other ways for the most part. Why talk about strava on BF when you can watch Gaimon's youtube videos, and then interact with your friends on Zwift?

The endless subforums didn't help BF. Rather than having the critical mass folks talk of, the sense that there's one person posting in a forum that heathpack mentions is pretty universal. From my eye it seems BF's biggest traffic is in the non cycling threads of politics, trollheim, and foo. There was a push to combine forums, but things are so scattered it's daunting to decide what's going to get lumped and who you're going to piss off in the process.

Along with heathpack, Chappy carries this place and he's not even a master!

I gave up my blue star at the end of the year. I couldn't muster the enthusiasm to continue to feel obligate to come and sort out spam and mediate arguments.
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