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So I took a look at ex-astris recently and noticed that the forum it was associated with, http://subspace-comms.net, seems to have vanished.

Going to that URL just brings up one of those ads you get when there's nothing there. So did the forum die? Anybody know anything about how and why? I know when I last looked at it, it wasn't terribly active (even compared to us, lol). Shut down due to lack of interest, perhaps?

From what I could gather Bernd did shut it down from lack of traffic, hell who knows, maybe Flagg killed it off.

That's a shame. I wish we had more people here posting, but Trek sites don't seem to get a lot of interest in general these days.

in general the forums tend to go in disuse nowadays I think :\

I’m a member of three forums and they’ve all got a lot less traffic, I think as media moves away from this and more to twitter and Facebook.

Also help if the new trek wasn’t arse and got people interested.

Teaos wrote:I’m a member of three forums and they’ve all got a lot less traffic, I think as media moves away from this and more to twitter and Facebook.

Yeah, a shame that.

Also help if the new trek wasn’t arse and got people interested.

Also a shame.

I think Reddit really took a big chunk out of forums. Reddit is a mega-mall of junk, the stuff you like, the stuff you are curious about, and the stuff you hate. You can go there for Star Trek discussions, then go to world news, or politics, or joke, of nsfw stuff, all in one location.

Maybe but reddit was huge before this forum started.

I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that I’m every forum I’m on, the average age is 30+ with the odd youngling

Different type of media for different generations. They like arguing with strangers, we like arguing with internet buddies.

something similar happened years ago with usenet

remember the old group it.fan.startrek receive thousands of messages a month ... today yes and no and it makes a dozen

bladela wrote:something similar happened years ago with usenet

remember the old group it.fan.startrek receive thousands of messages a month ... today yes and no and it makes a dozen

ISPs used to offer free usenet access. I imagine once that ended and you had to pay for Usenet, it was probably the death knell for usenet groups that weren't about pirated stuff.