Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
That's non sense that people are not participating because they read off topic threads.

They may not like topics, although many don't t care if it aligns with their thoughts.

You refuse to acknowledge the most basic thing there is, NOT enough songs being posted not enough rotation, and the biggest of all bullshite, pointless reviews.

Geez I wasted all that time in this song, and all any can say is..good job, pleasant melody, pretty song.

Obvious, let me throw that at you so you come to mine, yes I know I said nothing, had no real interest in where your cooking from with your song, but I want you to come to mine.

The flame wars have always always existed here, Christianity threads, political threads,opinions on in everything have been posted here.

The forum still thrived. there wasn't 15 minutes going by without something new being posted.

If a dozen writers didn't post, another dozen did, it was an endless supply of members.

Your assumptions are wrong it has always been yap city here.

The issue is there's no writers left.

Writers are using new tools, new sites, new social media. People still want info, and some of our oldest posts still catch internet searches. There's not much music content out there without a paywall. We also get tons of international traffic from Europe, Japan, Australia, Brazil, India and Canada/Mexico. People are searching for songwriting tips, and also reading examples of lyrics. It's amazing how much traffic lyrics get! I don't think they are likely to follow a link to another site, so many places have dangerous links and people are smart not to trust random links that could be malicious. But if people post their lyrics or any real conversation is taking place that isn't the droning on between you 3, it gets views. It's also interesting to see how many registered users still visit the site, but don't log in. They are still checking in by the thousands every month. We haven't had a working sign up for 3 years. The Captcha thing is broke. I am hoping the update will fix that as well. Every time Windows does an update, it seems to affect how the entire web works. And one more feature stops working here.

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