05-04-2013, 05:00 AM
davester wrote:
[quote=Black]
If a forum like this was set up on a remote site, would you folks register and frequent it?
I can't help but think of the other two phorums that were set up around big exodus time.
There were two? I only knew about AppleSwitcher.
As I recall there were three attempts to deliver a DM alternative. Two were non-commercial and then this. AppleSwitcher prevailed due to Matt's perseverance, the other (I'd have to fire up the old G3 to recall the site name now) never really got off the ground.
MR absorbed most of the DM refugees while AppleSwitcher assumed the burden of the really political and/or deranged amongst us. Both have been moribund when it comes to new users and will probably remain so.
Most of the original impetus to join a Mac specific forum disappeared when Apple went Intel, that's not likely to return. The other impetus, being a Machead in a windows world evaporated with the ascension of Apple itself. We are no longer a besieged minority.