this place turns 25 soon

[CyberCubed]

Nobody under 25 is coming to an online forum. They're on reddit, twitter or stay on youtube or whatever.

[IndigoErth]

Eh, who knows, forums or forum-like environments might have a renaissance someday among people who want to have real conversations, not just post a pointless string of short comments. But it's gonna take a resurgence of attention spans and interest in more than just their own thoughts.

Reddit itself is still rather forum-like really, and there's certainly plenty of forum-minded people on it that post longer comments and longer conversations...or debates.

[CyberCubed]

The reasons why forums were so popular and active in the late 90's and early 2000's is for the obvious reason that....there was nowhere else to post anything. Social media didn't exist yet, facebook was mainly for sharing family photo's, etc. People wanted to discuss videogames, cartoons, movies and TV shows...and that's why there were so many forums and message boards for virtually everything.

Reddit is basically a forum for everything all on one site. Literally fan forums died because reddit is the same thing. And besides that people stay on twitter or tumblr/youtube to post art or discuss things. Every major forum I've been on since the early 2000's is basically dead now and only kept alive by some 30+ year olds who haven't moved on.

[Coola Yagami]

Social media sucks for actual discussion. It's just people posting dumb thought and not really listening to each other, except to cancel each other. Look at how something like Twitter encourages short posts.

Message Boards still work best for people with actual attention spans. Plus it's 10 times easier to go back to find older posts to respond to when compared to social media where you'll have to scroll forever to find something posted 2 days prior.

[KROW]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

Wow, I've been here for more than half of my life...

I'm reaching that moment myself in a couple years. My hair's matching the color of the background.

On a side note, my 20-year anniversary as a member was in June of this year. Oof.

Anyway, I think it's pretty cool that Krang has been keeping the lights on for so long. This is a fairly decent, dark, dank, bleak corner of the internet that still feels like home... of an emotionally volatile second cousin who has all the neat toys.

[CyberCubed]

The irony is it's pretty much time for this place to shut down. Most of the old users have either left on their own (look at all the old usernames from the early 2000's in older threads, none of them are around anymore), or got banned.

Meanwhile the new TMNT stuff doesn't bring much discussion here, neither Rise of the TMNT nor Mutant Mayhem or it's cartoon bring much talk here compared to the earlier TMNT cartoons, probably because a lot of people here don't watch or care about them.

IDW TMNT reached it's high point a long time ago, but the current run may turn things around with the new #1 but it'll take awhile yet to see how things turn out. And even then there isn't as much discussion as there used to be. All that's left is some discussion of the toys or videogames and that's about it.

I think this place will be done before 2030, maybe sooner. That's only about 5 years from now, so we'll see.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The irony is it's pretty much time for this place to shut down. Most of the old users have either left on their own (look at all the old usernames from the early 2000's in older threads, none of them are around anymore), or got banned.

Meanwhile the new TMNT stuff doesn't bring much discussion here, neither Rise of the TMNT nor Mutant Mayhem or it's cartoon bring much talk here compared to the earlier TMNT cartoons, probably because a lot of people here don't watch or care about them.

IDW TMNT reached it's high point a long time ago, but the current run may turn things around with the new #1 but it'll take awhile yet to see how things turn out. And even then there isn't as much discussion as there used to be. All that's left is some discussion of the toys or videogames and that's about it.

I think this place will be done before 2030, maybe sooner. That's only about 5 years from now, so we'll see.

I mean... the Turtles aren't going anywhere unless IDW goes under and there aren't any new buyers. The comics are going, more games are coming, for better or for worse, Mutant Mayhem is getting a sequel.

The forum might go down cause forums are unfortunately obsolete due to stupid dopamine-burned out kids with non-existent attention spans, but it's not going down due to lack of turtle content.