This Forum is Dying?

[RhynoCZ]

Make BCF great again, Ste for mod!
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[waffles]

Within the last few years I have gone from having nobody on my enemies list to using it more frequently. This place used to be interesting and helpful with good natured leg pulling and piss taking, now there are some members who are just crude and offensive for no reason at all.
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Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[nowhere.elysium]

Discord is too chat-oriented to replace a forum properly.
That said, forums have gone the way of newsgroups, and BBS boards before them.

I would be willing to go into partnership with someone or a few people to put together a newer-styled forum, but I don't know if it'll make a serious difference to the overall community decline. There does need to be active admin engagement, in order to at least back up the mods, but also to show that the site isn't just abandon ware at this stage. Nothing against korn, but it doesn't really inspire confidence when the admin has been absent for years.
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'10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project

[Pjay]

[TheSmiler]

It's been dying for a while I mentioned it to several people at bubbs the last time I was there. People want instant replies but a simple notification system on here for if someone replies or quotes you; would instantly improve this place.

For me there have been too many point scorers, the fun aspect has gone and licence problems. I've gone from a regular poster to just a lurker due to the constant stupid replies you get.
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CB125>CG125>GN125>ER5>K100RS>R1100RS>K100RS
A2 completed 23/07/15 Ready for the Golden Crisp Packet

[nowhere.elysium]

Smiler raises a good point - of the few fora that I still use, the successful ones have got notification systems that work. Something that tracks your active threads/ratings received, that sort of thing. PhpBB is older than most discord users, and it shows
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'10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project

[iooi]

[recman]

[nowhere.elysium]

[bhinso]

I usually check in most days, I don't really think it's dying. I like the politics threads where people try and have a sensible discussion but it's inter spaced by two or three members flaming each other, which is quite amusing.

I've lost a little bit of interest since a certain thread fell down the memory hole, that was really entertaining

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I thought Discord was Minor Threat's record label.
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Also yeah - the search function. How can this not work? Does Korn or someone have to pay phpBB extra for such a feature? If not, what the actual heck is going on. These forums have a lot of mindless crap on them (I know because I post a lot of it) - but there's also a shit load of extremely useful bike-related content that's rendered inaccessible and irretrievable due to a search function that neither searches nor functions. Which is kind of the antithesis of the internet's primary purpose, iytai.
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[panrider_uk]

[nowhere.elysium]

[Ste]

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[Ste]

Imagine if there was a feature that allowed you to block another user so that you never have to read any of their posts again!!

[MCN]

[linuxyeti]

[iooi]

[thx1138]

this forum started going downhill in October 2005

[Polarbear]

[AshWebster]

Its a hell of a lot more active than the Scooby forum im active on.

On there are a load of helpful people too though
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Honda cg125 J reg peice of shit ---> CB650F ---> 2016 CBR600RR
Ford KA ---> 93' MR2 ---> 94'MR2 ---> 98' Subaru WRX STI Ver 3 (track car)

[woo]

This forum was so funny when i first joined in 2005, some are still here from then.

I only found out about this forum as i ordered a Yamaha R6 service manual on cd from korn off ebay and he emailed me inviting me to join and ive been here ever since

I dont post as much as i used to but still read here almost everyday.

This place has got more quiet in the past 10yrs
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[Polarbear]