Current Events > How come this board's so alive?

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10-15 years ago, this board wasn't so healthy. And now, I work with teenagers who generally don't even know what is a message board or a discussion forum because they're all social medias (IG, SC, a bit of FB), making me believe that these kind of sites are very close to vanishing. Yet, this board's very frequented.

I find this to be intriguing.
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I started coming here 2 years ago and now everyone posts more in an effort to get on my good side and win my favor. Only theory I can think of.
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Basically as Gamefaqs has been dying people have been migrating to CE because their old board of choice is dead.
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supercrono posted...

Basically as Gamefaqs has been dying people have been migrating to CE because their old board of choice is dead.

That's kind of what I thought.

Back in the days, this board was the LUE board for those who didn't get to know it or to subscribe to it. Nowadays, it's like the GameFAQs social board by default I guess.
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Neh, pretty sure it's my thing
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supercrono posted...

Basically as Gamefaqs has been dying people have been migrating to CE because their old board of choice is dead.

that makes sense

Bro I make up at least 70% of CE's traffic. Allen needs to start paying me for real.
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GregShmedley posted...

I feel like most of us have been here for 10+ years and come here out of habit and addiction. Most of us would probably benefit (self included) leaving this place behind but we dont. We just dont.

I only been here for 2 years and sometimes I pick up my phone and click a topic before my brain even registers what Im doing.
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GregShmedley posted...

I feel like most of us have been here for 10+ years and come here out of habit and addiction. Most of us would probably benefit (self included) leaving this place behind but we dont. We just dont.

Yeah, that's my feeling. I'd be curious to know what is the average age of the board's users. My guess is we were numerous to spend time here over 10 years ago when message boards were the thing. When I was a teenager (from 12 to like 18), I'd pretty much log on multiple, multiple times a day. I'd be on MSN Messenger chatting with friends, listening to some music not downloaded on Napster/Kazaa/Limewire (wow, I remembered them without even thinking), and chill on GFAQs' boards for video game and social stuff/nostalgicrant

Then, after 18, it was over. I'm 31 now and since then, I must've logged on GFAQs once every 1-2 years, sometimes a bit more or a bit less. And as I said, the teenagers with whom I work generally don't even know what's a message board. Once, I was giving a course on digital citizenship and when I mentioned message boards and forums, the whole group (about 50 13 years olds) had a wtf stare.
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Because you can talk about literally anything on this board. You can do that on other boards too now but for the most part people on the game boards stay on topic. Plus theres lots of funny posts here
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Blackestmage posted...

supercrono posted...

Basically as Gamefaqs has been dying people have been migrating to CE because their old board of choice is dead.

That's kind of what I thought.

Back in the days, this board was the LUE board for those who didn't get to know it or to subscribe to it. Nowadays, it's like the GameFAQs social board by default I guess.

This. Honestly gamefaqs needs a basic default social board instead of the dozen or so random ones.
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Makeveli_lives posted...

Blackestmage posted...

supercrono posted...

Basically as Gamefaqs has been dying people have been migrating to CE because their old board of choice is dead.

That's kind of what I thought.

Back in the days, this board was the LUE board for those who didn't get to know it or to subscribe to it. Nowadays, it's like the GameFAQs social board by default I guess.

This. Honestly gamefaqs needs a basic default social board instead of the dozen or so random ones.

Has this been adressed to the ones in charge?
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Blackestmage posted...

Makeveli_lives posted...

Blackestmage posted...

supercrono posted...

Basically as Gamefaqs has been dying people have been migrating to CE because their old board of choice is dead.

That's kind of what I thought.

Back in the days, this board was the LUE board for those who didn't get to know it or to subscribe to it. Nowadays, it's like the GameFAQs social board by default I guess.

This. Honestly gamefaqs needs a basic default social board instead of the dozen or so random ones.

Has this been adressed to the ones in charge?

The ones on top don't listen to us lol
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It's not really alive it's like 10 people shitposting at each other all day every day.
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this board is really just 1000 Hoth alts arguing with each other
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Vyrulisse posted...

It's not really alive it's like 10 people shitposting at each other all day every day.

and im one of the targets.
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