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marc801
Jul 13, 2015, 3:03 PM
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sungam wrote: Yeah but does "most active group" mean most time spent on candy crush and farmville? ))))))))))))
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dynosore
Jul 13, 2015, 4:22 PM
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ncrockclimber wrote: dynosore wrote: My impression is a lot less people climb now than 10 years ago. I am sure that is it.
This site has been hit particularly hard due to lack of care. BUT, I still contend that climbing has dropped off in popularity. From my local gym to all the places I visit, I see a lot less people than I did 10 years ago.
A few crags that are easy to access are still busy i.e. Garden of the Gods, but anything requiring disposable income to reach is quite empty.
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jorgegonzalez
Jul 13, 2015, 8:40 PM
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I just realized the old 50's diner across the street from me has closed - don't know if permanently or not.
But, although the food was fine, it's popularity had been dropping off for awhile, and if it was to stay in business, it had to be because the customers found what they wanted there. The food, the facilities, and the service were fine, at least adequate, but it seems the community around here didn't support it's premise anymore, standard American faire for inexpensive prices, right in the neighborhood.
Perhaps people were more enticed by glitzy, new couture, expensive food, more than likely because they wanted to follow the crowd. Where's the next fashionable place to be seen?
It's a shame in a sense, because right here at home we could get that same "feel good comfort food" that we always want to come back to. But we took it for granted and ignored it, and now will begin to feel nostalgic longings for what we used to have, but don't anymore.
Is it really the site, the new owner, the old outdated code, that has prompted most of us to move on? Or is it really a lack of interest, or distaste for all the nasty and vitriolic exchanges we were vicariously subjected to, or just boredom?
Who knows. But if there really is a community out there that cares for this forum it is up to us, and us alone, to revive it and make it what we always wanted, and I would say, always had. It does not matter that some of us are old (I resemble that remark), and some of us are young, some of us climb all the time, and some of us are happy to get on a 5.8 top rope every blue moon. It's the diversity of the audience, of the opinions, of the subject matters that makes this place interesting, and makes people want to come and visit.
The young learn from the old, and the old get to tell stories of the life they once led and enjoyed. What's wrong with that?
(This post was edited by jorgegonzalez on Jul 13, 2015, 8:43 PM)
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kennoyce
Jul 14, 2015, 8:32 PM
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dynosore wrote: ncrockclimber wrote: dynosore wrote: My impression is a lot less people climb now than 10 years ago. I am sure that is it. This site has been hit particularly hard due to lack of care. BUT, I still contend that climbing has dropped off in popularity. From my local gym to all the places I visit, I see a lot less people than I did 10 years ago. A few crags that are easy to access are still busy i.e. Garden of the Gods, but anything requiring disposable income to reach is quite empty.
Probably just an area specific thing, I know that I see a lot more people out climbing now than I did 10 years ago. That's just my personal experience, but I think that there is data out there backing up a growing popularity in climbing over the past 10 years.
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Re: [sungam] This place is DEAD!
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