RIP Y&Ying forum?

Originally posted by Chris_H

   I don't see this as a 'failure of the forum' but far more a case that shows a  further maturing of the way we all communicate on line. Like many of you, I too have other interests and follow other forums and although it is always a dodgy move to generalise, my take on the trends is that what was exciting a decade ago, still worked maybe 5 years past but now is 'old hat' - there are better and more immediate ways to get your viewpoints across.
But don't be fooled into thinking that this is IT.....already some of the social media sites are going into a Closed status...which when you look at it is more like a forum unless you include the anything goes mentality over at SA.  If that's your thing then fine, but from what I see - trying to take that broader look across the piece, so many of the forums and social media sites are populated by yesterday's sailors - the really active ones of today are somewhere else yet again.

Of course, I'm speaking as one who has a dog in this fight! But as long as people keep liking the articles on the boats and people of yesteryear (spoiler alert - Hornets and Enterprise coming sometime soon) I can carry on worrying about the wood botherers for the foreseeable future. I do fear that when I hang up wetsuit, notebook and pencil to sail off into the sunset that the cause of some consideration (at the very least) for the wonderful heritage that underpins our sport will be weakened, but by then we'll all be sailing either roto-moulded lumps at one extreme or super-duper high tech flying machines at the other extreme and so no one will care!
Dougaldog...somewhere on the Solent