I wanted to write a PM, but your box is full. 
Simply put, I suggest- again- that several of the threads, such as "shop-made tools" and "what did you machine today" have grown FAR too large, and it's long past time to close them.
"Shop made" is over two hundred and seventy pages long, and "today" is over a hundred and fifty. Other posters have noted a seeming drop in traffic and interest here, and I believe the issue is twofold: One, regulars here are posting their new content to a handful of sub-threads that not even all the regulars read, and few or no new reader is going to try and wade through, and that's robbing the main forum of said content. Which leads to a catch-22: Without new content to draw in regular readers, said regular readers stop being so regular. And more importantly, NEW readers, seeing there's minimal new content, don't return.
The big threads should be locked- stickied if necessary, but locked- and the participants therein encouraged to continue posting their works as regular individual threads in the open forum. Which is, after all, the entire purpose of a forum like this.
We're already losing a LOT of traffic to Facebook and the like, and making the board less enticing to both new and regular readers alike, is not in our best interests. We should be as welcoming and open as possible- there's a lot of interesting work being done and shown here, but far too much of it is getting entombed in unindexed and unsearchable monster threads that each only see a fraction of the board's overall traffic.
Doc.

Simply put, I suggest- again- that several of the threads, such as "shop-made tools" and "what did you machine today" have grown FAR too large, and it's long past time to close them.
"Shop made" is over two hundred and seventy pages long, and "today" is over a hundred and fifty. Other posters have noted a seeming drop in traffic and interest here, and I believe the issue is twofold: One, regulars here are posting their new content to a handful of sub-threads that not even all the regulars read, and few or no new reader is going to try and wade through, and that's robbing the main forum of said content. Which leads to a catch-22: Without new content to draw in regular readers, said regular readers stop being so regular. And more importantly, NEW readers, seeing there's minimal new content, don't return.
The big threads should be locked- stickied if necessary, but locked- and the participants therein encouraged to continue posting their works as regular individual threads in the open forum. Which is, after all, the entire purpose of a forum like this.
We're already losing a LOT of traffic to Facebook and the like, and making the board less enticing to both new and regular readers alike, is not in our best interests. We should be as welcoming and open as possible- there's a lot of interesting work being done and shown here, but far too much of it is getting entombed in unindexed and unsearchable monster threads that each only see a fraction of the board's overall traffic.
Doc.
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