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Sep 29, 2018, 01:36 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
Posts: 12,517
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Whimsical man I thought you started a thread on the groups about the activity or lack of, but I can't find it now.
Personally, I've always preferred the groups to the forums. When I joined back in 2008, they weren't on there. A couple of months later, they added them. I thought it was so cool that members could create and manage groups. And they had an option of whether they wanted to create a forum for the group or leave it as is. Some members added forums to their groups, which made the group portion "die off". I didn't add forums to my groups.
Then last December or so, they changed the format so you could start individual threads, like a forum. You could also "subscribe", like on a forum. Until they added that, you had to check manually for activity. I think people forgot they joined the groups since they didn't know if a new post was added. Then, since they didn't go to the much groups anyway, they don't know you can subscribe to them now......
But I noticed since that change, the groups have been even LESS active. They were never as active as the forums, BUT a few I belong to were moderately active, like the books group.
No more...I left a few, and I just check for activity once in awhile. I've given up on them. But if I do see new posts, I respond so at least that person will know SOMEBODY saw their post, just to acknowledge them.
I agree that the posts in the groups should show up in your statistics, but they never did. Now I can't even open my own statistics; I can only see previews. Yeah they were a great addition to the site. Also, they had more wiggle room on what you can post....
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