Do you think o/t will ever be busy again?

I dunno, my 10,000 rambles are genuinely wedding related, well, wedding forum related. I think the OT forums died really and many people are posting OT stuff on either forum. BT have a MILK thread (tho im still trying to figure out what it means, other than its off topic stuff...)

i think the responses are better in the wp forum but not everyone wants to contribute/read them....

people are trying but....

I think the milk thing was like breast-milk - the more you produce, the more comes, and was a way to get BT-busy (I stalk bt because I want to ttc, but it's impossible at the minute for work/financial reasons) so I guess none of them are likely to venture over here, because they want to get BT busy.

I just thought it'd be nice to have somewhere that was neither WP or BT but in between. P'raps stazzle'll be all over it when she gets back from honeymoon.

I think it will get busier over time, although it will take a while. I'm a BT girl really, I occasionally ventured over to the OT of the old days, but it was a bit scary sometimes!

After the mass exodus, it was completely dead on here, now the front page only goes back 4 days - that's a huge improvement.

I don't think you can enforce people not to talk about OT things on WP or BT though, as people want to post where they feel most comfortable, nothing wrong with that. I guess if we want OT to succeed we have to make a concerted effort to post on it from time to time to keep it ticking over and gradually more people will post.

Ive only been around on hitched for a short while but i hardly ever venture here because it seems nobody seems to come to the O/T board so it seems a bit pointless to post if nobody replies. I dare say thats how others think as well. I should imagine the only way to get more people posting on this board is to clamp down on people posting o/t posts elsewhere.

I doubt it. Its been over a year now and it hasn't improved one iota. Whats the point talking to yourself here when there are so many far better forums out there?

<toddles back out of OT for another year>

er, yes it has. It's been almost a year, and at first, the first page of posts went back about 6 weeks. Now it's only a few days. There are gradually more and more people posting here and it is slowly creeping back up to being a functionning forum. Why I'm replying to you when you won't be here for another year, I'm not sure. Because this post sure as hell won't be on the front page when you return, because it will have been too busy ?

Sure catarina ?

You never know! You came back quicker than a year (is Deadwood just Dead tonight then?)

New hitchers might float over here too and make something of it.

This is the busiest thread all year ?

I never really left btw, I often have a little nosy on here but sadly its never regained its popularity and I genuinely believe it never will. I think Darren would be better off deleting it and keeping the others that are busy. A dull forum looks far worse than just not having an OT.

? Dead just last night? Surely they are all too busy being preoccupied about lurkers to worry?!? I hope it will get better here - the outage was a good thing in some respects.

I just wanted to post to see how many I do have! Long time since I have been on here, I left as the site just went so slow it was painful.

I don't think it will ever be as busy as it was, as the people who contributed the most have all moved on and no one has stepped up to pick up the slack.

This is my first post here in a year I think. ?

Oh, and EmsieS, are you one of the lurkers people are so fussed about?

Old timer clocking in to go 'woo, four days!' Seriously, as someone who moved to DW a year ago (anniversary tomorrow to be precise) and who had been a hitcher for 7 years or so prior to that, I still find it sad that this place is so slow. However, the 'powers that be' made it so.

I do wonder if and how it's affected their business. The site must get far fewer hits than it did.

ETA holy buggery! 38,156 posts!😲

I suppose it will be if enough planners move over to carry on chatting after their weddings, but I doubt the DWers will be back. I certainly won't be. I don't see how the 'outage' was a good thing for Hitched - back in the day you had to read fast or the topic you were interested in was on page 2 before you knew it. Only the current members can make that happen again.

I guess WPers will move over here and gradually repopulate the board. Although it's been a year now and it's still pretty quiet...

BT has a lot of OT posts over there now so doesnt always need another place for OT stuff.

I dont fully understand why people who think this forum is rubbish carry on lurking though.

I think it might get busier as time goes on (will take a v long time I reckon), but i really dont think it will be as popular as it was up to a year ago.

I tend to look over here every now and then to see how certain BTers are getting on and then have a quick look at OT as well.

There's an assumption there that there's a kind of 'us and them' mentality there. that's not the case, as far as I'm aware. I'm sad that Hitched OT died such a death and think massive mistakes were made, but it's 'somewhere' I'd spent a lot off time and where I've met a lot of lovely people. Call it nostalgia, call it sentimentality, call it hopefulness that the old Hitched could perhaps be recaptured. I don't think it's about thinking it's 'rubbish'.

What actually did happen to OT? i used to be on wp then moved to bt which is mostly where i post now and only recently noticed the tumbleweeds over on OT

when i was on WP a few years ago OT was a little scarey but always a good read and a good debate

now it's just dead nad i've no idea what happened?

People got frustatred with problems on the forum - delays, outages, having to click things twice, etc etc. Another forum was set up as a temporary 'home' for chat while the Hitched Power That Be sorted out their server issues.

At around the time they started to be sorted, one of the Hitched staff told OT-ers off for swearing, saying that there'd been complaints from various people. It was all a bit condescending and not nice so people went back to the temp forum. Darren did apologise but by then I think everyone was settle 'over there'.

I don't know about other people, but I still find this forum a bit clunky - for example I had to click the 'Quote' button 3 times before it worked.

I've never understood this technical issue everyone has with Hitched? Always works fine for me? Maybe my computer is weird ?

Coming back just to say yes. I think it will be busy again ??

Has never been slow for me either Petal.

EmsieS - I get what you mean

I'm not going to prove Flaming Nora wrong if I keep bouncing this thread up though!

Maybe it was some sort of conspiracy eh catarina ??

Leave this thread be now. Otherwise Flaming Nora will be back saying "Flaming nora, I told you so..." ? Although apparently not for a year...

Yes ?

? Petal - She'll never know! Weep. I'm almost tempted to run over to DW OT and post for her. Almost.

DW - what's that? ??

What am I thinking though? It's still ON the front page. Doh. Maybe next week...