by Andy » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:36 am
Maybe it is a combination of factors? I can obviously talk only about myself, so here we go:
1) Figure skating has taken a direction I do not particularly enjoy, especially in the Ladies event. My interest in skating as a sport has quite decreased - the only event I truly enjoy watching is Pairs, bar a few random performances here and there. Long gone are the days when I loved to sit through a full free dance competition and enjoy the lower ranked skaters as much as the higher.
2) This board is the only board I read and I used to contribute to. I enjoy discussing skating as a sport: discussing taste and likes is great, but I have no interest for gushing or random gossip. This was the precise reason why I have been using only this forum and not others. That said, there was a point in which (I suspect) some of the 'usual' posters have been put off by a group of other posters that were busy only with nationalistic comments or with teenage tantrums. The discussions on tech analysis I was used to seemed to disappear, or been reduced to a minimum. The occasional discussion/disagreement among posters seemed to become less about skating and more about personal issues. For me this was a major put off.
3) This is the off season. The 'innocent gossip' which would normally occupy some of the trends of the board is now shared with twitter, facebook, instagram etc, which is a faster (albeit, in my opinion, more limited) way to spread the news.
Andy