Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : paulie420
From : Bex
Date : Mon Oct 10 2022 15:00:00

-=>  paulie420 said to Irish_Monk:  <=-

 Ir> I see a lot of chatting about "making more popular, more users,
 Ir> So my question is, since I havnt been around BBS's since
 Ir> the BBS world been? Is this the most "dead" its been?

Pa> Hell no - l00k around; we got active FTNs, plenty of rad/active bbSes,
Pa> modders, groups, ANSI - we've got a bbSphere!

I could be wrong, because I was out of the BBS scene since I shut down my
last board in the late-90s, so I have no actual data on this, but it seems
like there was a major lull around 2008-2016 or so, and then things started
to make a comeback about then. Then another lull around, and then the
pandemic.

I do still think that we are in the end BBS times, once this group of
nostalgia-seeking Gen Xers (I'm proudly in that group) moves on, there
isn't going to be anyone who wants to bring it back. The nostalgia window
is a moving window, driven mostly by people in their 40s and 50s. As they
age out, the new group is nostalgia for other experiences.

This BBS renaissance is great, but it probably only has 5 years max before
all but the most devoted move on to something else.

-*- Bex  <3

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