Wonder what happened to eham?

[AK9R]

OMG! OMG! OMG! Now QRZ.com is down!

Whatever will we do????

 

[GlobalNorth]

OMG! OMG! OMG! Now QRZ.com is down!

Whatever will we do????

80 meters is now overrun with pensioners complaining about that!

 

[ladn]

80 meters is now overrun with pensioners complaining about that!

Which is probably better than hearing about their prostate problems.

 

[GlobalNorth]

Oh, how I concur!

 

[iowabassplayer]

You haven't "HF'd" properly until you've checked into the "80 Meter Gout Net" on Sunday night...

 

[Boombox]

Websites go down all the time. It's just a fact of life. What I don't understand is the compulsion of hams (and ham radio forums are the only place I see this behavior) to announce a web site going down on every other forum they can access.

It's at least one indicator that people actually use those websites, though. Forum use net-wide is probably way down from where it was 10 years ago, radio forums included.

 

[vagrant]

Forum use net-wide is probably way down from where it was 10 years ago, radio forums included.

What data reporting do you base that on?

 

[Boombox]

What data reporting do you base that on?

From my own observations, and from comments on professional radio sites made by radio professionals who apparently have access to the data. Social media has been replacing forums and blogs and similar sites.

As for radio forums themselves, all one has to do is look around. I've seen some radio forums where there might be a posting once a month. You look through them and most of the postings were before 2015 or so. Same with some other forums that are not radio oriented. This thread started out talking about eHam. In 2012 or so when I joined it was a LOT busier.