[Coco] A New CoCo Forum, just what we need?

Peter Cetinski pete at pski.net
Mon Oct 16 16:34:28 EDT 2017


You can come join us on the VCF Tandy forum!  It’s the top place for monochrome TRS-80 dialogue, from Model I to 6000.  CoCo’s are welcome!

Pete

> On Oct 16, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com> wrote:
> 
> I have to agree. Forums were much needed and a big deal in the late 1990s
> through the mid-2000s, but it's remarkably difficult to get a new forum
> going these days. Even with a hardcore community like this one - the type
> of audience who would generally understand and appreciate the benefits of a
> good forum - there are remarkably few people who really care enough to put
> in the effort to even sign up, let alone participate. Generally speaking,
> I'd say between VCF, AtariAge, and Facebook - all already previously
> well-established - things are covered. Even something like this mailing
> list is a dying breed, but certainly thriving enough with this particular
> audience (and similar communities) to probably keep running indefinitely.
> With that said, similarly, I'd have my doubts a newly created mailing list
> would get much traction nowadays.
> 
> -Bill
> 
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>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Not me - there are more than enough venues already set for the CoCo, let
>> alone retrocomputing... I am spread out thin as it is: Facebook, Google+,
>> this mailing list, VCF, AtariAge... gasp!.
>> 
>> My $0.02 -> work with what we have :-)
>> 
>> 
>> -- RP
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