Keep the Forum going?

[RikTheChief]

It's coming up to that time of year when we need to renew the forum (September). This is usually paid for by the members' yearly subs. Last year it was £61.10 to renew.

Is it worth it due to the low use of the forum? I would like your opinion please, we have had this discussion before and have decided to keep it on (you can see the arguments for and against in the history section).

If you have strong feelings either way, now is your chance to put your view forward.

[swilbur]

I still check it most weeks, but these days I'm usually organizing games with people through other channels (or I have no idea what I'll feel like playing on Tuesday, so I don't organize anything and just show up). I guess there's a question about whether the forum drives any new players to show up who wouldn't have found the facebook group.

[Lizzy]

I check in every week in case someone’s posted about a game I’d like to sign up to, but that hasn’t happened for months now

There’s no point keeping it because it’d be nice if people used it

[systemsam]

Obviously a fairly long-time user of the forum myself, like Lizzy, but agree it doesn't seem to be earning it's keep at all anymore. The odd conversation here could easily be moved to Facebook, though if we want to make the group more digitally active, a Discord community would do that much better than a forum these days, and wouldn't incur any cost. Would be worth setting one up I think? Be a pity to lose the forum, but is really outmoded now.

[systemsam]

P.s. I don't think of swilbur as a long time user as they clearly turned up more recently. Just checked. 7 years apparently!! The other 3 of us in this thread are at 8,9 and 10 years - a nice gradient.

[DaveB]

Honestly given how little traffic it sees, I don't see any real benefit to keeping the forum, even given that historically it was by far my preferred method of discussion - the transitory nature of most social network apps is a big reason why I rarely use them...

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