Unfortunately the s197 platform is 15 years old with the last 3v made over 10 years ago. Once the Coyote engines came out everybody jumped to new forums. Several members here don't even own a Mustang any more (myself included). The ones that still own the older Mustangs aren't doing much to them any more. The race crowd doing all the mods and installing blowers have all moved to the Coyote engine since it is vastly superior to the 4.6 in every way.
This forum will die just as the Fox body forums have died. You're only relevant as long as you're relevant.
ThemustangsourceWhat is...'TMS' ?
Because of FB the searches happen because people are looking for stuff to laugh at. S197forum on FB is the laughing stock out of all the mustang pages. Of course it gets grouped with the forum.The s197 mustangs themselves won't just disappear. The one you sold off will have other owners and those owners may have questions and find this place. Forums won't die due to an older model stang, it will die if there aren't new members replacing the old. S197forum.com still gets decent traffic from search engines. As long as people still own s197s and have questions, this still will survive.
Will it ever be like it was in the hay days? Hell no, but it could still be a decently active forum for years to come.
taken care ofhttps://www.s197forum.com/threads/bunch-o-parts.137119/ Post #4 does not help. I don't see anything wrong with this post. Seems to be a joke. Maybe we can all see that and move on?
... it will die if there aren't new members replacing the old...
Because of FB the searches happen because people are looking for stuff to laugh at. S197forum on FB is the laughing stock out of all the mustang pages. Of course it gets grouped with the forum.
Ah i posted chit chat in tech for 2-3 years and I hung around. Built an amazing car. Your point is overstated-jmhoAll well said, including what I edited out, but why would the next/younger generation have any interest in joining a group of old guys that constantly seek out ways to hate/shame/disqualify/criticise (whatever you want to call it) their input? Why bother yet one more time to ask a poster "did you do a search"? To me that's like having a fellow car guy at a car show ask about a mod, and telling them "google it, you have a phone".
Flame away. Doesn't change the outcome. Accelerating our own demise.
All well said, including what I edited out, but why would the next/younger generation have any interest in joining a group of old guys that constantly seek out ways to hate/shame/disqualify/criticise (whatever you want to call it) their input? Why bother yet one more time to ask a poster "did you do a search"? To me that's like having a fellow car guy at a car show ask about a mod, and telling them "google it, you have a phone".
Flame away. Doesn't change the outcome. Accelerating our own demise.
tjm73"post: 2461576 said:why the fikk do you think any one of us has to make any response...
...said no long term member EVER...
Let me make a slightly different suggestion here. Sometimes you know that a question has been answered at length, so instead of trying to cover it all yourself, why not provide a link to that thread or threads . . . or at least a search term that has some hope of finding them.So in saying that this is a great forum. I love it. If any of us have a question , post it. No matter how small the question is , post it. Quit saying stuff about the search function. Help a new member with anything they need.
So what is this 'Tapatalk' and why would anybody need to go through them to get here when it seems just as easy to refer them to 's197forums dot com'? I really don't seen the need for an intermediary.Yes Facebook is convinent but it will be the death of online knowledge base. Have s197 buddies , direct them to Tapatalk to use the forums.
Me, I'm just old . . . but I sort of get what you're saying.I'm just a old forum owner
If it's worth even trying to make a suggestion, it's that the advertising needs to stop hogging bandwidth. I'm apt to have the site stop recognizing keystrokes mid-word. That already holds my participation down (at 3000 posts as of this one, I do have a fair amount of time and effort invested). I can't imagine that being something that would have a newbie continuing to come back, most would cut their losses at a single digit number of posts.
Norm
Due respect, which I sincerely feel you've earned as you do add value and great experience to the Forum without the bashing. On the other hand, if a consensus wants to maintain the "old ways" of bashing "newbie idiots" etc., and justify it often in near threatening tones, don't expect to grow or survive. No search engine, lack of ads, etc. will change the ultimate outcome. Just be good with it. As I suspect many of you already are.