# Holy heck, is it just me or are these forums dying?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 9, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240 "2004-02-09T07:03:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/1 "2004-02-09T07:03:39Z")
I have noticed less and less response to threads. Fewer new threads being born. I really get the feeling that these forums are dying down lately.
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/2 "2004-02-09T07:10:46Z")
Not just here, either - my other hangouts are pretty dead, as well.
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### Author:  [@captainQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/captainQwark)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/3 "2004-02-09T07:21:40Z")
I hope this is just a slump. Anyway, I just haven’t had any good questions to ask lately. I wodr if that has happened to a fair amount of people.
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### Author:  [@Starguard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starguard)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/4 "2004-02-09T07:41:36Z")
Its just a slump. Soon someone will post something outrageous that will piss off almost everyone else on the site. Once the flaming starts, all hell will break loose 😃
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/5 "2004-02-09T07:53:12Z")
Just wait. Son of “this damnfool war” will be along soon enough. Besides, I’ve posted approximately 50 times in the last two days.
Heck, I went over 1,500 posts and didn’t notice until just now.
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### Author:  [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/6 "2004-02-09T08:31:10Z")
It will pick up. These boards have survived alot and will survive more in the future. I think it’s just alot of people took a break during the upgrade cycle.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/7 "2004-02-09T09:09:43Z")
> [@captainQwark](#):
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> I hope this is just a slump. Anyway, I just haven’t had any good questions to ask lately. I wodr if that has happened to a fair amount of people.
Hmmm… Perhaps now is the time for my “Gay AIDS babies should be euthanized by black affirmative action doctors” thread that I have been saving.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/8 "2004-02-09T09:10:52Z")
Well crap, I meant to quoate **Starguard**.
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### Author:  [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/9 "2004-02-09T13:39:03Z")
Well, personally speaking, the boards are unstable, so I can’t read as much. Seems like every time I’m on, halfway through my usual routine I wind up with everything hanging, then “Server not found”, then “Database error!”, then 10 minutes of that, then it’s back up and I hafta log in again. It’s usually not worth the irritation, so I just close all the threads I was reading and do something else.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/10 "2004-02-09T13:44:48Z")
What **GMRyujin** said. I’ll be happily reading and bam! The boards go down. So I go something else and come back later.
I hope they finish what they’re doing soon, because I think that’s a large part of the reason for the slump. It’s hard to post when you can’t get in.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/11 "2004-02-09T13:47:03Z")
I open six threads at a time, then peruse each one at my leisure, to avoid just that.
Cuts back on the level of “Gah! Stupid thread title making me open a thread I have no interest in!” too.
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### Author:  [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/12 "2004-02-09T13:54:35Z")
I dunno; with the new setup, I’m actually able to get in 99% of the time that I try, as opposed to about 50% before. So I’m here every day that I’m at work.
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### Author:  [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/13 "2004-02-09T13:58:09Z")
I’ve noticed too. My main irritation is getting logged out every 20-30 minutes. At some point I tend to reduce myself to just reading.
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/14 "2004-02-09T14:17:51Z")
> [@GMRyujin](#):
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> Well, personally speaking, the boards are unstable, so I can’t read as much. Seems like every time I’m on, halfway through my usual routine I wind up with everything hanging, .
I think that is part of it. I thought that as the boards got ‘younger’, people would be less tolerant of waiting.
So, I think I see alot of the old faces round these parts, but less of the newbies.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/15 "2004-02-09T15:05:29Z")
Twice last week I spent 45 minutes to an hour hammering out the OP to a new and hopefully entertaining thread, only to have both eaten during preview. Kinda takes the wind out of your shorts.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/16 "2004-02-09T15:07:31Z")
I open multiple threads at a time, too, but when it decides it won’t open any more, then it’s time for a break.
I have yet to have a post eaten. I guess I’ve been super, super lucky.
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/17 "2004-02-09T15:26:36Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> Twice last week I spent 45 minutes to an hour hammering out the OP to a new and hopefully entertaining thread, only to have both eaten during preview. Kinda takes the wind out of your shorts.
Ooooo, I learned my lesson with that. As soon as I’m done, I highlight and copy all the text and then hit preview. That way if it gets eaten, I can log back in and just paste it in again. Nothing worse than losing a good diatribe.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/18 "2004-02-09T15:29:13Z")
I’m also having problems with “database errors” which cut down on my reading, but I think the slump can also be attributed to a couple of things that make it harder to post:
–No “quick reply” window
–The database doesn’t reliably “remember” me, so I have to log in before I can post a lot of the time.
So, I’m posting a little less.
And if everybody posts a little less, then there is less to reply to, so we all read less, etc.
I know the database problems are being worked out. I hope they’re putting the quick relply window back.
But in the meantime, if I get a good thread idea, I’ll start it up. 🙂
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/19 "2004-02-09T15:29:17Z")
They’ve been behaving themselves for me over the last week.
I’d blame most of the lull in traffic on winter burnout. I’m barely able to get out of bed these days, let alone think of charming things to say to a bunch of largely imaginary people. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-heck-is-it-just-me-or-are-these-forums-dying/228240/20 "2004-02-09T15:33:18Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> Twice last week I spent 45 minutes to an hour hammering out the OP to a new and hopefully entertaining thread, only to have both eaten during preview. Kinda takes the wind out of your shorts.
Same here. I understand the magnitude of keeping a board like this in working condition, but it’s kind of a buzzkill at times.
I knew I should have written down that formula for cold fusion somewhere before I posted it…_sigh_
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