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Originally posted by Undertoad
..and at the time I moaned that the system is moving away from the local Philly scene, but this looks like how it's intended to be anyway.
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It's an unavoidable consequence of the new access economics. When the Cellar was a dial-up BBS, it took a certain amount of cost (which was distance-sensitive) and technical effort to participate, people would be careful with how they used their online time, and uploads were even more difficult. Now access is available to anyone who's on the net and has nothing else to do...and that and vBulletin have largely commoditized the place. Now the traffic seems dominated by photoshopping and personal blogs ("I got up this morning. I went to work. Now I'm at work. I'll be going home soon. Work sucks.")
There was almost no response to the proposal of a GTG, which shows you how different the New Cellar has become. It *is* a shame, because I liked the Old Cellar, which had a much stronger sense of community. But there really is no reasonable way of going back.
As for something being on "the first page", I seldom spend any time on the first page; I always go right to the "view new messages" link, which shows me where the activity is.