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#4330263 - 01/21/17 10:22 PM Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ?  
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It's surprising how traffic here has slowed down so much. Is social media to blame ? Lack of decent PC Simulations ?
Kind of sad.

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#4330265 - 01/21/17 10:26 PM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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#4330267 - 01/21/17 10:27 PM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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Considering that this place was built for sim hobbyist when now releases are drying up compared to the golden age of the 90's. Its a fair bet that we're running out of topics to discuss when we flooded 2016 with death notes.

#4330268 - 01/21/17 10:29 PM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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smile Forums are social media


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#4330269 - 01/21/17 10:31 PM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: 462cid]  
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Originally Posted By: 462cid
smile Forums are social media


AND, at one time, minus a LOT of the data mining.


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#4330279 - 01/21/17 11:36 PM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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I hardly sim any more,in fact as of this moment not one flight sim resides on my hard drive but I'll keep coming here,every day smile


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#4330282 - 01/21/17 11:43 PM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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I still play off-line IL-2 1946 and Wings Over Vietnam. Don't play around with the mods like years ago. Those were the salad days of flight sims. I have found that this forum seems to be a lot more civil then other places I have visited. There are some characters here that are good for some laughs and good advice. Also a good place to vent form time to time.

#4330292 - 01/22/17 12:31 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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I think the slowdown is due to several reasons.

1. Hardly any new members and younger members joining the site and adding new blood. The average age of the SimHQ member is probably around 45.

2. Flight sim genre in general not as widespread as it used to be.

3. Management change and exodus of some key members.


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#4330296 - 01/22/17 12:53 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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SimHQ posts are down!

You won't believe reason number six as to why!

smile


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#4330298 - 01/22/17 01:09 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: Dart]  
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Originally Posted By: Dart
SimHQ posts are down!

You won't believe reason number six as to why!

smile

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#4330303 - 01/22/17 01:22 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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I blame porn.

#4330326 - 01/22/17 03:15 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: LB4LB]  
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#4330332 - 01/22/17 03:25 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted By: PanzerMeyer
I think the slowdown is due to several reasons.

1. Hardly any new members and younger members joining the site and adding new blood. The average age of the SimHQ member is probably around 45.

2. Flight sim genre in general not as widespread as it used to be.

3. Management change and exodus of some key members.



I did not know about #3

#4330343 - 01/22/17 04:16 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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I've been trying to retire from my position for the past two years but am still called in for issues because I still have the keys to the forum control panel...lol.

I don't sim anymore, and haven't for over two years. My current games that I'm playing are Rocksmith (guitar learning) and recently Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag which is an older title, but I bought it during a Steam sale...lol.


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#4330344 - 01/22/17 04:19 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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Weasel further elaborated on my point #2. Quite a few SimHQ members who used to sim all the time don't sim anymore for a myriad of reasons. Since they don't sim, they have less to post about.


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#4330348 - 01/22/17 04:42 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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It probably is inevitable that the posts are down.

As most of you know I am the resident 'old fart' here on the boards. I don't post that often anymore either and my days of being an Administrator of the boards are long gone-thankfully.

I was here during the great C-Sim migration. The site went from what was a relatively small, quaint forum into a behemoth in less than a week. We WERE and in some respects still ARE the site for combat simulations. But the heyday of flight simulations has pretty much passed. They are still there but most are products built on prior products and the time when we would get six or seven new combat sims is gone.

So it is inevitable that we would lose traffic. People get older, change gaming habits, or just plain stop playing. I fly infrequently now. It is funny that I have a gaming system that I could only dream about in 1998 but actually getting my old butt into the thing and trying to figure out what all the buttons do now is more effort than I want to spend sometimes. I think this happens to a lot of us.

I also think that most games have specific sites that are dedicated to a particular game and if there are questions people go there. 20 years ago these sites were either pretty rudimentary or were non existent. Now there are sites dedicated to sims that have more specific information and more content than a general site like ours does.

I am actually happy that the site did shrink some. It feels more like the old SimHQ, the one I joined back in the late 90s before the explosion. People come here to chat. Conflicts still occur but not at the rate they did back in the early 2000s. It is more fun coming here and less of a headache.

So it isn't necessarily a bad thing.


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#4330352 - 01/22/17 06:58 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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Originally Posted By: WangoTango
It's surprising how traffic here has slowed down so much. Is social media to blame ? Lack of decent PC Simulations ?
Kind of sad.


i left this site for a good 6 7 years,nothing changed from then, no new sim releases except arma series,and some old timers dead or banned,some left as well.
,since 2012 ish i guess SimHQ had become console hq,instead of pc talks folks were talking console release and such, main hall was more of a hang out place instead of serious discussions like it used to be,people losing their #%&*$# over obama didnt help much either,or maybe it was bush,i remember having a lot of altercations with 20mm and some other member. i dont remember around the time the consensus was made to create pwc and keep the hall clean becouse too many friends now turned enemies over politics.

not many people hanged out here anyway,some stay in their niche forums and never wander.
But if traffic is slowing down,maybe someone should change panzermeyer batteries.


we can't say fecal matter anymore ? wow this site has changed.

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#4330363 - 01/22/17 10:30 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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this has not much to do with SimHQ - this is a very widespread thing, forum traffic is not as high as it used to be.

#4330371 - 01/22/17 11:14 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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Lack of growth in flightsimmers is obvious.
But it is quite a hurdle to go from nothing to BMS or DCS full module today.

We old-farts grew from nothing to simple pixel level flightsims one could master using the keyboard.
Step-by-step the sims added complexity but we could master it and kept going.

With the level we have today, and the attitude towards folks asking for simplifying things, I can't see why anyone would bother getting into it.

Just a simple thing like DCS Viggen will come in all swedish by default. My suggestion to LN was to make the module english, cockpit and manual, by default letting us few swedes to flip it to full real through settings.

After all, foreigners (non-swedes) interested in Viggen is probably keen to learn the aircraft and how to utilize it in different situations, not the swedish language.

When I learnt the MiG-15 and Mirage 2000C I got this feeling that I had to learn the cockpits by memory making it much harder to fully enjoy the plane alternative learn the russian and french names/acronyms - but as said, I was there because I was interested in the plane, not their language.

Sometimes I feel the realism-crowd, you know - those that could kill people suggesting what-if possibilities, is killing their own future without knowing it.

#4330372 - 01/22/17 11:18 AM Re: Is social media killing the SimHQ Community Hall ? [Re: WangoTango]  
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The simulation community is still going strong. Twitch, for example, has build up a good sized sim community over the years. Its just that the younger people tend to use other channels to communicate like Discord.

So in a way OP is correct that social media is killing forums like this. Just like newsgroups were killed by forums like this.

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