What is going on?

[Tuck91]

Re: What is going on?

Its been getting slower and slower IMO. especially over the last 4-5 months.

There was another thread posted as well stating the exact same thing.

All of the action is mainly at Autopia now. There is a lot of good info there though.

[Detroit CC]

Re: What is going on?

I'm relatively new to the forum and very grateful to the help and advice given by fellow members, but it is too easy to get the information from the site without being a member.
Maybe allow three thread views before having to be a member to the site, as an option.

Are we trying to convert visitors into members or just want people to step out of the guest shadow and be known?

All I know is, I'll be around for a while yet.

[ajb39oh]

Re: What is going on?

I've been a member fpr 3 years. I also have noticed less activity. Could some of the other forums be growing and taking away from this one?

[gtrspeed]

Re: What is going on?

I can certainly understand why, given that this forum is centered around one brand of products. While I consider this to be my "home" forum for detailing (and the vast majority of products I use are Meg's), I spend a lot of time over at AG. It's a more active forum, and I tend to learn about a wider variety of products there than I would if I never strayed from MOL.

[CieraSL]

Re: What is going on?

While I rarely post on MOL anymore (last post before this one was on August 22nd), I do check MOL once or twice a day, just to keep up with what's going on. I don't usually log in though. I spend most of my time on Autogeek's forum - seems like there's a lot more activity and information there (especially with Mike Phillips being primarily active on Autogeek). I will definitely be keeping a close eye on MOL though as SEMA gets closer. Looking forward to seeing what Meguiar's will come up with for 2012.

[greg0303]

Re: What is going on?

SEMA 2011 and Meguiar's 2012 Product announcement are just around the corner.

Mike will be super busy again explaining how to use new stuff.

[Deaner5]

Re: What is going on?

I haven't logged into MOL in about 3 months and haven't posted for a while either. I'm a "weekend warrior" as opposed to a pro-detailer and one thing that sort of turned me off to the forum for a while was many people would always recommend pro-line items for solutions and a regiment that almost seemed too much to me.

I still keep a great looking car, but I'm at that 95% state (where my paint is 95% correct and I'm pretty content with that). I'll certainly stay tuned to the new products as I am always curious what is new and improved.

[Golden]

Re: What is going on?

I always browse here. I have not posted any write ups, because I have not had time to do any detailing. I plan to do a winter prop on my DD soon, so I will definitely post up some results.

[Mark58]

Re: What is going on?

OK SEMA is over so where is everyone?

[john m.]

Re: What is going on?

I havent been very active myself lately. Though for me its really for a few reasons. One being that I am in college and being a senior Ive been really busy doing projects and such. Also, I studied this site for YEARS lol, and almost feel like I got to a point where there wasnt much more that I was learning from here or from other members IRL. So I sporadically check out the site to see if anything is new that I dont know about from Facebook, and see what is being discussed.

[paulcr39]

Re: What is going on?

Is it me or something going on here? There is less and less posting going on here. Come on MEMBERS lets get little more active. I also see lot's of guests on here. There are more guests then Members. Yes I do know lot of them are "BOTS" but what can we do to get more members here and increase activity? I am sure someone here can get creative to increase traffic.

Just my observation in past few months.

There are currently 337 users online. 17 members and 320 guests

I've looked several times since reading your original post and the ratio of lurkers to members stays about the same, that in a nutshell is the problem.



Currently Active Users



There are currently 519 users online. 16 members and 503 guests







C'mon lurkers, register, it's free and easy. Then join in the conversation. We won't bite, I promise.

[Mark58]

Re: What is going on?

Most of the lurkers are Google Spiders and not real people,,,There are few that need to Join!

[davey g-force]

Re: What is going on?

Im still on here every day, but I have noticed that activity has slowed right down the last few months.

Quite a few of the 'gurus' don't often visit here any more (Nick Chapman etc) so that may have something to do with it. I'm not sure why they're not visiting MOL much any more though..

This is still my 'go to' detailing forum and I plan to hang around - I just hope it gets a little more active around here!

[BlueZero]

Re: What is going on?

I do notice the forum is slow for me at least. Wasn't sure if it was a problem with my laptop or not but the rest of the internet seems to work okay.

[Hemin8r]

Re: What is going on?

I have noticed the site slower as well. I try and check in when I can.