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

[Bill Loguidice]

Not for nothing other than relevance to the topic of forum challenges,
there was a posting on the AtariAge forums today about the Digital Press
forums being down (or, more precisely, everything but the forums), which
led me to this topic on Digital Press:
https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?175838-Main-DP-Sites-are-Temporarily-Unavailable

Comments 8 - 14 in that topic seem to well capture some of the challenges I
was alluding to earlier, including the general disinterest in forums that
started happening years ago (much to my personal disappointment) and then
trying to maintain them, etc. It's pretty fascinating stuff in my opinion,
particularly since with my own site, Armchair Arcade, which has been around
since 2003, I've gone through many revisions and re-imaginings to evolve
with the changing times as well (and even my current format, which is
strictly blog-based, is rather passe' these days, but at least serves my
specific needs). I find it terribly interesting how even our core
communities can turn off on something particularly useful. I suppose in the
CoCo community's case, however, a lot of it had to do with the inconsistent
status of the CoCo3.com forums. I've seen other, even major, communities
become dispersed for that same reason, since you obviously lose people with
each time it goes offline and/or changes ownership. After enough times
there's just no getting the same audience back since they've moved onto and
become comfortable with other things.

As much as I love the format, the only forums I regularly visit now are the
ones at AtariAge, so I guess I'm as guilty as anyone in their general
downfall. That (AtariAge) generally has the right mix of personalities for
my current temperament/tolerance for things (some of the other
platform-specific forums are very click-ish, which I find off-putting) and
better suits my "all platforms" interests.

-Bill

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Rietveld Rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I am offering my feedback because you asked
>
> I get my info from the LIST most of the time
>                               From FB group some of the time
>                               And from the Coco Crew Podcast all of the
> time
>
> Some times too much really is too much.
> Not to say any of your content or resources are not good, the opposite is
> true, but I just find that when you go to a restaurant that offers
> everything you spend more time looking at the menu than you do enjoying the
> food
>
> Again I offer my opinion because you asked
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.