Cazpuh Posted June 17, 2017 Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 How many reliable, knowledgeable sources are there still active on this site? The only posts i see are of some age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pucksr Posted June 17, 2017 Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 There are not a lot of American forums dedicated exclusively to shrimp.There are active global forums, particularly focused in Germany. There is another popular Australian forum and a popular Singapore forum.There are more active forums that aren't shrimp-focused. Plantedtank has a lot of shrimpersSent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk huntingtrees 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oem Posted June 17, 2017 Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 There are quite a number of experienced shrimpers on this forum including Award winning people. In the last year and a half I have learned much from these folks both from questions asked on the forum and by personal PMs. Summer here in the USA seems to have less activity as people are on vacation,weddings, family gatherings, ect.. I'll PM people as they will get notifications and generally get back to me in a couple of days. I also look to see whose online and PM them immediately. Archives are a wealth of knowledge but you have to work at it vs. instant gratification with no effort involved. WWW is also your go to source with options immediately available. Shrimp Life, huntingtrees and pucksr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblongShrimp Posted June 17, 2017 Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 Unfortunately the forum isn't as active as it used to be. I have been super busy lately and haven't been able to spend as much time on here as I would like to. huntingtrees 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimp Life Posted June 17, 2017 Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 I think lately the warm weather is causing alot of people to stray from the forum but there are lots of knowledgeable members here who will respond to posts if you need advice. Also there is so much info in the archives, like OEM said. huntingtrees 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntingtrees Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 Like dazalea said, I've seen lots of advice given out by whom I would consider pros in the hobby. Just ask your question. But the archives is where the real information is at. Almost anything you want to know can by found by searching the forums. Just now I wanted to know the difference between Royal Blue Tigers and BTOE and I found the answer by using the search feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loverland Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 As a fish hobby forum owner (www.minnfish.com), I can tell you that traffic in summer drops significantly. The hobby in Minnesota almost shuts down, and it's much harder to sell livestock. But, fall comes around and it ramps back up. Traffic usually maxes out around January/February, which makes a ton of sense considering Minnesota weather. oem 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r45t4m4n Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Facebook group has had an effect on traffic here as well. revolutionhope 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishRFriendz Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 TBH I've purposely reduced my activity on most forums. When I was active I always ended up with a sour taste after dealing with kids with 5k posts and only a few months membership taking any and every thread they could off topic to yell at you for your stocking/cycling, or mods that seemed more interested in winning debates and then browbeating you with mod powers when they were wrong. More of my activity go towards facebook where I can interact with my direct friends that I know IRL. Just makes for less polarizing discussion when you literally see ppl face to face regularly. Shrimple minded 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy6107 Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 this forum specifically is a great place to learn and share. There is very little of "dealing with kids with 5k posts and only a few months membership taking any and every thread they could off topic to yell at you for your stocking/cycling". I do like facebook, but not for forum style group. I much prefer this type of forum setting. Shrimp Life 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishRFriendz Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 41 minutes ago, chappy6107 said: There is very little of "dealing with kids with 5k posts and only a few months membership taking any and every thread they could off topic to yell at you for your stocking/cycling". Yeah, I think possibly it's a lot better here for that. It's really the big big all inclusive forums that have that problem. But I think that's an inevitable problem of having much larger member/visitor base. The problems I referenced were really experiences I had at Plantedtank and Fishlore, which are regular results on google when I look for anything fish related. By the time I found this forum, I'd already thrown in the towel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pucksr Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Sorry if my first post wasn't exactly the best addressing this specific forum's activity, but in response to others talking about forum experiences: It seems that the internet was getting pretty organized along some rational lines a few years back: -Information webpages/wikis for reference -Forums for discussion -chat for quick interaction(IRC) Then it all kinda went to hell. Reddit has r/shrimptank, for example, but there is almost zero information Facebook has groups, but they fall somewhere between forum/chat. Plus navigation is a mess Some forums got too big and suffered from problems detailed by FishRFriendz. The community became its own worst enemy. Even wikipedia has this issue. The people who are willing and able to contribute lengthy and complex information(be it correct or not) on topics are typically not the best at handling conflict. However, if you lack people contributing detailed information then it becomes a worthless webpage. A catch-22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazpuh Posted June 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 I havent checked the thread in a ehile due to not expecting much response. Lol its seems to be active enough to be still relevant. Ill definitely stick around. oem 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royboy808 Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 The facebook groups definitely have more activity/traffic, i wish sponsors would update sales/specials here though, kinda hard to find specials on the fb groups due to the random algorithm for the group posts. Cazpuh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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