is it just me , or does this forum seem to be........................
loosing people rapidly ?there doesnt seem to be quite as many posts as there used to ?
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Is it just the "summer weekend" effect?
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It's cos I left. :-|
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Maybe we have said all there is to be said? I am not convinced. Has been quiet, maybe the rain has dampened activity? We could have another helmet Debate? I used to play badminton at craiglockhart and there was a group of four men there at the same time every week ( they must have had a system for booking the court as we were always having to scuffle over times). Watching these guys was like ballet, they all knew where every shot was going, where the returns would be etc
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Well I spent the last couple of weeks in SQA marking. No actual paper needed for me anymore, it all pops up on the screen. Every 20 or so they send a pre marked script to check you're doing it properly. If not you get locked out until you explain yourself. Its not fun reading the same thing 350 times but it will pay for some Brompton repairs.
NLC refused to pony up for rims as they said I couldn't prove it was their 10 cm deep hole which caused the dents.
Today I'm taking 30 weans to Millport (Gt Cumbrae really but there you go).
I'm baby sitting my niece's labradoodle for a few weeks. This means I have to vido the dog running round the park and post it on the YouTubes so she can see her beloved beast.
An ear fell off one Brompton so I'll spend some time drilling out the bolt in the hinge to replace that bit of frame. I'm unlikely to buy the £200 reamer to fit the new one as you can buy a lot of hinges for that.
I got a bottle of Smidge so I'll try that out over the summer.
Number one son had a dozen of his chums round for an all nighter on Saturday. Nothing seems to have been broken but they were loud.
I'm up at this time because I'm sure I have forgotten something to do with Millport. I sorted out the mismatch of the cash and number of kids yesterday. i'd forgotten to mark one of them as having paid in Bento (consumer level database for Macs and iPads). Luckily I had scanned all the permission forms and found his so the sums added up properly.
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Folds you should have bigged up the bike shop in Millport for hiring bikes and tandems for circumnavigating greater cumbrae or taking the hill to the trig point, also the joke shop with hilarious bombs for inserting into your father's benson and hedges, the cafe at fintry bay, the crocodile rock.
Many a childhood summer spent there, though it didn't rain then, looks like you might be lucky with the weather?
35 years ago this August I was sent for the rolls and the Sunday mail and was therefore the first in my family to know that The king was dead.
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is it just me , or does this forum seem to be........................
loosing people rapidly ?there doesnt seem to be quite as many posts as there used to ?"
I think the answer is no, but -
Quite a few 'regulars' are posting less - obviously for individual reasons (including exam marking!)
There is some correlation between site 'hits' and posts and it looks like this month will be the first this year that doesn't have twice as many views as the same time last year, so some evidence of slowing down.
Maybe that CCE has reached some sort of 'maturity' this is quite normal with forums (apparently).
There was a noticeable increase in hits around the time of PoP. I think that showed one of the true values of CCE. A lot the direct action - postering, flyering etc. - was done by people who happen to be CCE members - some may have got involved anyway, hearing about it from other sources, but I strongly suspect that the turnout would have been smaller without the existence of CCE as a focus.
Similarly the idea and organisation of the recent Bike Breakfast rides wouldn't have happened without CCE. Also PY meets and random rides.
So if CCE is inspiring people to ride more and do things rather than sit in front of screens then great!
Some people who have signed up have still not posted, others have added a second post months after their first. Plenty of people never even 'join'.
"Maybe we have said all there is to be said?"
I'm sure there is some element of that. Lot's have questions have been asked and answered (and are still there to be found if the search facility does its job adequately).
I might pull the plug when it gets down to just half a dozen people talking to each other!
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"35 years ago this August I was sent for the rolls and the Sunday mail and was therefore the first in my family to know that The king was dead."
I was working at a library in Paris when I heard the news. One of the women I worked with was so distraught she had to be sent home. We had to send for her daughter to collect her as she was falling on the floor with grief.
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In my limited experience, forums go quiet in the summer (for want of a better word) as people think of better things to do with their evenings.
Maybe if the forum had a mobile version of its pages that made it easier to read/post on a phone? I'd probably post more since at the moment I only post if I'm sitting at my laptop (or at work).
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Not that bad really!
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I think CCE goes through phases of busy and quiet spells but generally speaking you don't have to be 'away' from the site for long (two days probably) before you can no longer see any 'unread' stuff on the first page (can that be made a bit longer?)
I think it's been mentioned before that chdot has worked very hard to create new topics; contribute to topics and to keep topics on topic. Certainly in the early days the forum may have floundered without that effort.
Have I detected a bit of a decrease in posts from chdot in the last few months? Totally understandable if there has been; maybe I'm wrong anyway...
I also think that many of the 'regulars' perhaps converse on Twitter rather than here, these days. Has that picked up a lot in the last wee while?
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"can that be made a bit longer?"
I think I tried that once, but had some unexpected consequence (can't remember),
It would be good if there was some 'next page' facility.
If you click on the forum headings (on "THEMES" list) you get the recent stuff going back quite a few days. Of course that partly relies on people putting things in the 'correct' category - or just leave the default as Infrastructure - currently showing a week's worth.
"Certainly in the early days the forum may have floundered without that effort"
Maybe. Basically I think I've set a 'tone', with a bias towards what I'm interested in - 'getting more people cycling' while trying to encourage a 'broad range of interest(ing)s.
"to keep topics on topic" not sure about that!!
"I also think that many of the 'regulars' perhaps converse on Twitter rather than here"
I think that's probably true - and a perfectly good sideways/additional forum.
I don't follow most people on here on Twitter, but it's interesting to see which things people cross-post. I'm sure some people use FB too.
There's only so much...
Twitter has it's own dynamic and momentum and a lot of interesting stuff (sometimes)
Came across this recently
SCPHRP @SCPHRP
Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy (SCPHRP). Researches health inequalities, early years, risk taking behaviour, obesity, later life
Edinburgh, Scotland · https://www.scphrp.ac.ukMore interesting than
Scot Gov Greener @GreenerScotland
Official Twitter channel of the Scottish Government's Greener communications team - updates about environment, food and drink, rural and marine issues.
Edinburgh · http://www.scotland.gov.uk/greenerSo it's official - Green doesn't include transport!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Haha! This is my post on this exact same subject from a year ago.
Every forum I have ever been a member/reader of has become quiet during the summer months. Every year everybody wonders why it becomes quiet during the summer months. No-one ever comes up with a satisfactory explanation.
Strange but true. :-P
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Define "summer"...
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One improvement about Scot Gov greener, was that i no longer had to email communicationsruralaffairsandenvironment@...
I'm not kidding.
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Define "summer"...
"That time of year where the rain is slightly less cold"
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"Maybe if the forum had a mobile version of its pages that made it easier to read/post on a phone?"
Don't think that's possible(?)
But quite a few people read/update. I assume not all on iPhones.
What 'phone OS are you using?
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Mapes bike shop in Millport did a stand up job of outfitting the youngsters. One pair decided to try a tandem so I gave them a quick lesson in how to set off… they seemed to figure out how to stop.
I was tail end Charlie. I swept up 4 girls going the wrong way and one boy whose chain had fallen off but he didn't know how to put it back on. He didn't appear to know his left from right and when I shouted about a car coming up behind him he went over to the wrong side of the road.
You would think "Keep the sea on your left." was a fairly simple instruction but a few got confused about that. Gear selection was a complete mystery.
We nearly picked up some girls from a different school, one of whom had fallen off in some stingy nettles, and we only figured out our mistake when their real teacher arrived. That could have landed us in the Daily Record.
One sore arm from the chain boy and one skint elbow.
I was at my mum's parents when the King died and I haven't forgotten either. Freddie I heard about just before I got on the 0700 bus from Ayr to Glasgow.
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I always go round Millport in an anti-clockwise direction, out by the crocodile rock, possible cup of tea in last house in Millport which was a pancake place in 1977, right round to the caff at fintry bay then into town for he fish and chips on the pier
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I had planned to have the sea on the right for just that reason but two older members met us there and might have had to get the boat early so clockwise put them passing the slip on the second half of the island.
Cheese toasty and black coffee in the Ritz. Ate my pieces on the bus home.
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35 years ago this August I was sent for the rolls and the Sunday mail and was therefore the first in my family to know that The king was dead.
How often did you go for the rolls and mail, gembo? I was in what was then The Viceroy pub on Lothian Rd when it came on the TV and it was a Tuesday night.
Good grief, it's coming true http://xkcd.com/386/
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A Tuesday? I thought it was a Saturday? It was announced on multi coloured swap shop but the but and Ben in Millport we went to did not have a telly and we had been out fishing or some such and didn't find out til the Sunday. I will look into tis matter! Jeez, I knew Millport was behind the times but five days is stretching it. it is conceivable that we did not find out til the Sunday when the Sunday mail ran with it as cover, I will now need to check that, or more prosaically it was the daily record.
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I offer these exhibits for the defence, m'lud . . .
Date of death August 16, 1977
August 16, 1977 was a Tuesday
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"Don't think that's possible(?)"
Wouldn't know although I know that some sites detect the browser you're using and redirect you to a page formatted for small screens. I guess it would mean different style sheets.
I've access the forum on occasions from my phone (iPhone) and found the zooming and scroll enough of a chore to not bother but that's maybe just me. Anyway, I'm not recommending it more than a tiny little bit.
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Been up to the eyeballs in work and "part time" (ha!) work, and we have a four month old in the house.
The defence rests....!
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I think this forum is excellent, and if evidence of 'usefulnes' required look no further than the POP28 stuff (as chdot said earlier), or recombodna getting sproglets bike back from brucey yesterday.
I agree with Min - its summer, it always quietens down on forums.
I got a new job at work a couple of months ago, and have been drowning in meetings/deadlines/extra hours - can hardly keep up with the family let alone forums/twitter.
Edinburgh cyclists need this forum, IMO, as many 'other' bike forums are very london centric. However, I see it a bit like local shops - i.e. use it or lose it.
This hiatus will pass, and come the dark days of winter, all will be well again.
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"I've access the forum on occasions from my phone (iPhone) and found the zooming and scroll enough of a chore to not bother but that's maybe just me."
Well maybe practice a bit. Safari is a pretty good browser. I hate sites that automatically open in the 'mobile version'.
'Sent from my iPhone'...
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"Some fora are tapatalk compatible."
Interesting. Free to install on sites BUT mobile users need to pay for the app.
Anyone use it?
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No, cos CCE dinnae use it.
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