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Would you consider the forums dead?

AustinB

Professional loser
No disrespect twords the mods, but the sight isn't really all that active. Like, some of the front page threads have replies from nearly 5 days ago. I would consider this a small, yet humble website with a cool dedicated community. I think it should get more traffic though. Barley anyone even knows that fur affinity has a forum website. Maybe the mods could advertise the forums a little bit on FA? That'd probably get some more members up in here.
 

Simo

Professional Watermelon Farmer
A very fair question. It seems like a lot of furry forums are slower, these days, as is the forum format in general. But I tend to like the format, because it gives me a chance to meet others in a variety of ways: via their profiles, introductions, posts, private messages...and to me, it seems better suited to finding people with whom you share more particular things in common than, say, random groups on Discord. I use Discord, but have noted that not many fill out profiles there, and that though I have met a few people, it's more random/hit and miss. And also, the usergroups tend to be much smaller.

So yeah, I'd like to see the forums grow, attract and retain new members, and some promotion couldn't hurt.

For my own part, I try to be welcoming, friendly and polite, and seek common ground; I always figure good manners cost nothing, and that the main reason I come to a furry site is for fun, as opposed to proving I'm right, or bickering, though I'm not against a good debate, here and again, and am in fact known to be pretty opinionated IRL...but on a furry forum, I'm more interested in building a sense of goodwill and community.
 

Belatucadros

Bitches love sticks
I agree, it seems like I see the same people on here.
 

Belatucadros

Bitches love sticks
I personally don't mind if activity on the forum is a little slow or the same people are making use of it, helps make it easier to keep up with everything and form a more tight-knit community.
That's a good point actually
 

MT45

Just Another Fox
I think it's happening to all the forums out there. With the faster and easier to use social media options out there, it's kinda easy to see why forums are becoming less used. Granted, there will always be people who prefer to use the forums.
 

Yakamaru

Woof? Woof
This forum? Kinda.

Discord's where it's at, bruh.
 
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Randon

Guest
Eh, it's not dead. Its still a small little community, I like smaller communities. I remember joining in 2013 only to come back to this site a few years later, and here I am now. Its faired pretty alright, and I recognize quite a few faces.

Now I'm coming out of my cocoon to be a bit more active again.


My optimism says the place has been kept pretty tidy while I was gone! I would consider the forums small, but not dead.
 

Bidoyinn

Active Member
I'm not a person that regularly uses forums, so being able to easily keep up with what happens in threads is really nice for me. It doesn't move terribly fast, but I wouldn't say the forums are super slow either. It's not dead yet.
 

Activoid

Ace Artist
Yeah I just joined after being on FurAffinity for several years and when I got here I've been nothing but disappointed at how slow and (like you said... basically dead) the forums are here.

You'd think there would be more furries posting around and stuff, because this fandom is so huge, right?

I wonder if everyone didn't move to Discord or something. :[
 

-Praydeth-

The Trickster coyote.
Yeah I just joined after being on FurAffinity for several years and when I got here I've been nothing but disappointed at how slow and (like you said... basically dead) the forums are here.

You'd think there would be more furries posting around and stuff, because this fandom is so huge, right?

I wonder if everyone didn't move to Discord or something. :[


I definitely did not get A crap ton of people who were very active on these forums addicted to discord, Nope! No sir-ree.
 

Simo

Professional Watermelon Farmer
Huh, it does seem kinda dead, as of late...lots of new members join, but I don't see a lot of posting. Still, it seems like a good place to meet people.

I have joined some Discord groups, but can't say I've ever really met many/any furs on them, as in 'for the first time'. Just does not seem to happen...It seems I meet them here, or on forums, and then, maybe we chat there, but as in a place to meet furs, the Discord groups I've been on, I have not felt too much a part of, overall, and it feels harder to talk 'meet' people. Or, at least that's been my take.

Often it seems Discord has a lot of 'splinter' groups, where one subset of furs breaks into another and another; I guess this is inevitable, as people settle into friendships, but it can also feel very insular and isolating, if you're not part of it already. Plus, it's hard for me to communicate in one sentence replies! :p

I do hope it picks up around here; I try to welcome as many new furs as I can, with the hopes of keeping this p;ace lively and dynamic.
 

Simo

Professional Watermelon Farmer
True...there's slower forums, to be sure; ones that are almost like ghost ships...but it does seem like it's been losing steam, here. Still, new members join, and it remains among the better forums to meet new people, which is nice to see.
 

nerdbat

Green butt of reason
They're hardly dead - there is some consistent activity going on, with new members and relatively active threads showing up every day. It's a bit of binary, buzzfeed-esque way of thinking, that "stuff can be either "a new future" or "completely dead"", and FAF are neither this or that - they just exist for moderate amount of people who want to participate in open conversations with other members of the fandom aside of just posting/lurking some artwork, and it was like that for years :D
 
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jayhusky

Guest
With the rise of instant messengers/social platforms such as Discord and Telegram, the forums have lost some of their former users, others have either left the community or moved on in life.

I wouldn't call the forums "dead" as such, but definitely quieter than they have been.
 

Jinrou

Gargoyles FTW
I hope not, I need a social outlet to find kindred spirits and so far this
is the only active furry forum I've noticed.
 

Iriastar

Rawr.
These forums need a bit of a shake. Something interesting going on. Etc.
 
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