Are forums dying?
 

Look at this http://www.xda-developers.com/changelog/ In 2013 there were 40000 posts per day and in 2014 it was down to 28000 posts per day. I am not sure what it is now. Are forums dying?

28,000 posts per day is dying? :erm:

It used to have 40000 posts per day. Even though 28000 is a huge amount of posts per day, it is a significant drop from 40000 posts per day.

They are not running anymore?

EDIT: They changed vBulletin a lot :-O

Select the classic style at the bottom ;)

Wow, "classic" is a bit um .... bright.

If it always loads as slow as when I just visited, I'm amazed anyone posts.
Given its running 3.8.9 (Beta 2 oddly, they really should upgrade) it *should* be much faster.

It says it is powered by searchlight. What even is searchlight?

Dying? No. Shrinking? Yes.

The audience who will tolerate using forums has shrunk dramatically in the last 10 years. Social media has captured much of the younger blood who would have replaced the people that left.

There will still be forums as we know then for 4 or 5 years. But in 10 years? I'm less sure. I don't believe the knowledge would be lost but transformed into something we have yet to imagine.

You can't go by post count ... back then people were paying for fake posts, using feeds for posts, paying for "paid content", etc.

Not saying that they did - just saying it's bad to rely on post count to come to conclusions.

Oh, there's also mobile growth. This has changed EVERYTHING. People spend less time on pages.

There's a lot of reasons but it doesn't mean it's "dying".

I found my old account at xda: You last visited: 7th March 2014 at 05:18 PM :-)