# Why is the SDMB membership declining, and what's the best way to add younger members? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 14, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sdmb-membership-declining-and-whats-the-best-way-to-add-younger-members/944208 "2021-06-14T02:28:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 207
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sdmb-membership-declining-and-whats-the-best-way-to-add-younger-members/944208/207 "2021-06-15T20:56:36Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > I’m kinda halfway on this one H&R. I agree that specialty boards are thriving, but generalist boards in general are not. I’m completely agreed with you on this. This thread basically asked about people’s experiences with other general interest message boards. There were none that I hadn’t heard of before in 128 posts, and most of them were declining. > [@Your experiences with other message boards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experiences-with-other-message-boards/938980): > > Checked out the city-data (dot) com forum a while ago. Looks like it was originally designed for people planning to move. It has specific categories for individual states/cities and for real estate and investing and such. There were even a few well-informed long-time posters in the real estate category. But then I looked at posts in some of the other categories. The signal to noise ratio was not good. Have you found any other message boards besides our SDMB that you’re impressed with? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-sdmb-membership-declining-and-whats-the-best-way-to-add-younger-members/944208)._