Originally Posted by
Rowan
My feeling is that when magazines start closing down, the interest in their subject is waning, too. Maybe, just maybe, the interest in cycling has peaked, and now is starting to decline. The participation rate in BFs is another one of those indicators that has been declining for a while. Another cycling website in Australia that I contemplated participating in shows almost no activity.
Having said that, a lot of what Mobile 155 says is true. I will glance through the local rag if someone has it, but most of the "news" is what I read and heard the day before. Just about all my news information comes through my computer.
And taken to its logical conclusion, I am being somewhat more environmentally friendly in not consuming newsprint and magazine paper.
True - it used to be that there were more folks online at any given time. I attribute some of this, however, to certain policies of BFN that have infuriated some folks, and also allowing some folks, such as in this forum, to attack or belittle participants while being more worried about whether or not the thread is in the right cubicle. (Well, I wonder how long this post (or I) will last??)