Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Bex
Date : Thu Nov 10 2022 09:39:00

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Bex <=-

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

 pF> Every once in a while we get an influx of kidz who read about retro
 pF> networks and chime in, but I don't think any of them have hung around.

You just made me think of a really good analogy: we are a roadside
attraction, like the Giant Tumbleweed or the World's Largest Ball of
String! Many people stop by to see it when driving from Point A to Point B.
Some people make us a destination attraction - they come by and spend some
time in the attraction's little town. Most people drive on the major
highways and have no idea that there's a little town with a small roadside
attraction along the old roads that most people have long since abandoned.

And then there's us. We are the townies. We keep the attraction pretty, we
make sure there are plenty of flowers to brighten up the place, we have our
little five and dimes where we try to get tourists to spend a little bit of
money and time. And then we wave goodbye as the tourists move on.

Our little town is dying, the flow of tourists are mostly going somewhere
else. We'll stay in our town and convince ourselves that things will turn
around in just a couple of weeks. We hold on to the hope that someday our
little town will return to its former glory.

But it isn't going to happen, and our little town will just keep turning
into a ghost town.



-+- Brightening your day. -Bex <3

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