This Forum is Dying?

[MarJay]

Re: making actual changes to the forum.

t'aint gonna happen. Unless there is some legal imperative for Korn to do it, he's checked out. He's a married man with a career and whatever. He doesn't really want to keep this place going, but does because people like Ste would send him knobcat pics for the rest of his natural life if he allowed it to close down.

So, we either make it good, or we let it die.
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[grr666]

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Then it's destined to become as delapidated and unused as the High Street has become. Enjoy it while you can.
But the lack of interest from K is clear wherever you look at the site. I suppose we all start stuff that we CBA to finish.
or maintain. I guess this is no different. Shame so many people grew to like the place. The lack of investment of either
time or money is very easy to spot when you look at any other relatively popular forum. I'm a laptop site user, I can't be
getting on with BCF on my phone. I can't see it without my glasses so the current format suits my method of use and
available technology. But it won't bring in new blood.

[Daytona Loner]

[MarJay]

[panrider_uk]

[Ste]

Browsing BCF is much better with signatures disabled.

Even more so when using a phone.

The multi coloured walls of text filled mostly with pointless information like when you passed your CBT, your full test, lists of what bikes you've ever owned, etc etc etc are unnecessary crap that overshadows the posted content in many threads.

Give it a go, you'll be surprised just how much tider and easier to browse it makes the forum.

[P.]

[Polarbear]

I do think that unless we get a phone app or phone friendly system it will slowly die. I know younger people who don't ever use a computer now, everything is done on phone or tablet.

I, being an old fart have a laptop and prefer to use that but last night I was out on my boat with only a phone signal. When I tried to read BCF it was all zoom in, zoom out turn the phone round and then try and read micro letters. It doesn't work on a phone.

Newbies can be picked on a bit heavily but usually it's because of what they have asked. Something what seems stupid to 'us' may not be to them, so maybe think twice before jumping down their throats. Stuff like bodyguards 'put a durex over your head you slag' shouldn't be tolerated at all though, deleted and banned.

As far as the current affairs page, it's become inundated with crap from two posters slagging each other off which I find a total pain especially when it spills into other areas. What's the answer? warnings, short term bans? I don't know. I don't even know what is possible with this site it's so archaic.

Maybe if Korn doesn't want to run it anymore someone else should take it over. I'd be willing to pay a bit towards it's upkeep. I'd be willing to help run it but I really don't have a clue about this sort of thing, it needs someone with the expertise to make it good.
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[Ste]

[thx1138]

[chickenstrip]

[MarJay]

[Hahadumball]

mr lambert has been pretty absent on the forum for quite a while now, he lost interest a long time ago and has other shit to do..

he can hand ownership to me and ill make it great again STE FOR MOD


imho bcf started to die during karmageddon.. i miss my old account

since that day we had new accounts and didnt give a shit, then people got bored because it became too mumsnet at times and the utter spastics (dont you dare point at me) where allowed to run amok without any real consequences, then i guess over time people got bored of posting their bikes because it just became "hALP ME wIth My BiEk" or mundane threads that could be solved with google.

i used to come here multiple times a day and check out new threads for win... now i just come here every few days sometimes once a week (more frequent if ive posted and want to see replies) all i do is check threads head to show and tell, found on the net and then go about my day.

the forum needs new life and someone whos actually going to listen to what is wanted rather than implementing playground rules and letting it stagnate.

lets be honest... bcf has been dying for the past 5 years, i would be surprised if korn doesnt close it down by mid to end 2019.

would be nice to see full analytics data from the past few years.
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[Ste]

The legal challenges that come up here? Let's register the site to Paddy's cat.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

good ol' stu
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[Polarbear]

[arry]

Forums are just dying in general and have been since Facebook groups really. Facebook is dying in general, too, and the cool kids will have moved onto something else by now for sure.

I don't think there's anyone I've met from this forum (admittedly not very many) that actually still posts on here. One of the members that used to post a bit now doesn't, but is still doing loads of stuff with the SE Crew - I know because we go on a jolly occasionally and we keep in contact. The other few disappeared off a while back and that's a shame - one posted loads of write ups and pics of trips away on bikes and the other was just a generally really funny guy with a wicked sarcastic sense of humour that came across well on the forum.

I said a while back my favourite thread on here is Where Have You Been On Your Bike Today? because it's actually about biking, and it hasn't turned into a semi-political squabble between the FITE Club currently going on here (which is pretty tedious and one of the reasons I couldn't be bothered to log back in for 4-5 months earlier in the year). Half the problem that is, IMO, with try-hards trying hard to win the internet when actually nobody gives a flying fuck and it just gets in the way. The 'fun' went out of the political threads a while back and now it's just a bitch fest. Shame, because it was quite good reading the balanced arguments which went on before.

As for the BBQ - events like that get tougher the more the forum goes on. I'd been going to car club weekends away for over a decade and saw them go from 50+ cars strong down to struggling to fill a stand of 10 vehicles. We used to completely sell out an entire trackday allocation within the first 2 days of the post being up with payment details, now they're advertising it out to other car clubs to join in or make a huge loss/ask members to cough up more money. I wouldn't take it personally, Suntan.

[Pjay]

Facebook and Discord are the two main places these days.
Internet forums are a dying format, they have been for a few years now.

We need a discord.
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[chickenstrip]

[Polarbear]

[thx1138]

[DrSnoosnoo]

[Pjay]

[P.]

Yeah man, I am in Discord for many things. Specifically NSFW.

[chickenstrip]