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Tweets Trending on Chocky 16-Sep-2018 At 11:53:23 PM ima.seriousyoungliza

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M8@9
Chocky started 6 Jun 2002 at 5:35:33 PM ...
Yesterday 17 Dec 2017 was the first day in its history that it did not have a post made to it, although about 90 people logged in to check out the non-action...
In the last couple of months we have been down to a couple of posts on some days, and sometimes even spammers have provided some light reading material!
Even the resident trolls have been quiet lately...
What's going on?
(* I note a recent [sic] thread on Crag X titled The Graveyard, and a comment within suggesting it's a memorial Site!)

Claw
local FB groups now supply much of the much-needed ego swelling tomfoolery

Fatboy
Chockstone dying ? Yeah I think it is too, and to echo a few others' opinion, I reckon there's three real reasons:
hopelessly outdated forum software that is clunky, buggy and has no integration with anything else - I have also repeatedly offered help here and been met with crickets, and
Content is poor - although this is possibly more "effect" than "cause" with disappearing numbers, poor software and the fact that most current discussion in climbing is best linked to specific areas and/or climbs which makes thecrag are far more effective platform, and
the inane trolling - it started a long time ago and I reckon this has been death by a thousand cuts

Daliah
I spend time on a number of forums across different interests, and all are slowing with more people moving across to FB and other social media.
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Ima reackons Fatboys got it way wrong and Daliahs got it way right....

Time to hava thread where its way OK to wander between topics/threads seemlessly...

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