Hmm Who's still around these days?
- Thread starter Ellery
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Welcome back!
Yes, a lot has changed, but some of us are still old school. I'm using a MH and LED combo for my lighting and still use a Red Sea Wavemaster wave maker with powerheads
I have also just started checking back after at least a 10 year hiatus from the hobby and RC. Upstate Reef Society used to be a vibrant forum with a number of superstars including at least one tank of the month recipients.... eg. Gary M. I actually started the Southern tier reef society many years ago since I live in Binghamton, but it appears pretty much deceased. I have been contemplating jumping back into the hobby with smallish nano reefs but this hobby definitely benefits from community support, interaction and inspiration. so it seems some reefers may be returning.,. perhaps the dawning of a renaissance in upstate?
Invite people you know to come back. We’ve lost a lot of people to Facebook groups, local club forums and other forums.
darkwaterdevil
Member
I'm back starting up my reeftank again. I'm pretty much starting fresh I don't have much left. I last had it setup in Massachusetts and doesn't seem like their is many "reef stores" around rochester
Welcome back
Primarily Facebook. Even on R2R, the club activity seems very minimal
Yep, FB really impacted a lot of forums and not just this hobby. Seems to have done so across all hobby forums.
Paul B
Premium Member
Whats Facebook? I have a face and I wrote a book, so I'm good.
RudeBoy
Premium Member
As soon as my 75 year old mom started becoming "FB savy", I knew it was time to go.
Hoping some folks will come back... if they have a good enough reason too. This place has been so good to me over the years and I'd hate to see it wither. I'll definitely come back and start sharing again.
OrionN
Moved on
I am also back. It is true that the forum is really slow. I wanted to post pictures but almost all my file are too large. I don’t have the ability to resize my picture on my phone and ended up not posting.
I know it cost to have all the memory but maybe RC should increase the picture file size.
After all it is the pictures that get the thread thumbing.
I know it cost to have all the memory but maybe RC should increase the picture file size.
After all it is the pictures that get the thread thumbing.
For that, I am glad. I am in both places, but for different reasons. This is my home. I don't post as much as I used to because of my health problems. but I'm on here more often than not. On FB, I keep track of my health. It's funny though, all the old crew from reefing are there, we just don't talk much about reefing. Some are still in the hobby, but they do conferences, books, mags and such, but don't spend a lot of time on social media. I just had a pic of Sanjay and Julian come across my feed. They spend quite a bit of time traveling.
The new guard is quite different though. They learned what took us 30 years to figure out by the time they were 15, and then got science degrees. More and more knowledge is being gained, but in FB they have to be able to communicate it differently. Ask one question, and you get 50 replys with no moderation, It can become a cesspool in seconds.
The nice thing about here is, the discussion goes both ways. You can go back and re-read at nasuam till you get what you want out of it.Using a video for hat can be annoying. He may go through the one thing you need quickly, or you might just miss it. Some are still kids, smart as heck, but don't know how to communicate it well.
They'll get better, then you'll have a hologram that comes in and starts working on your tank while go into the bedroom and take a trip to Hawaii.
@JohnL re: picture size
OrionN
Moved on
@Misled
It is us that advances the hobby with trials and errors. It is much easier these days for those that read and so research. I remembered the old time when I started, there was nothing until the internet.
Hope your health is not bad. I am older too. Take a handful of meds everyday. That is what telling me that I am old.
It is us that advances the hobby with trials and errors. It is much easier these days for those that read and so research. I remembered the old time when I started, there was nothing until the internet.
Hope your health is not bad. I am older too. Take a handful of meds everyday. That is what telling me that I am old.
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shred5
Premium Member
I feel it is harder now a days. There is so much garbage on the internet is it hard to weed through what is true and false. Plus since google became public you have to wade through pages of adds and paid for content to find anything worth while. They do not care about better product now just money. I think partly why turn over is so high nowadays.
Before the internet though there was CompuServe's fishnet if you found it or someone told you about it. It was a forum for aquarist but was taken over by reefers. The problem is knowing it was there and having a computer with a 300 baud modem too access and a monthly fee. I used to talk to people like Bob Goemans or John Tullock on the phone. Bob called me up and said you have to get one Fishnet everyone is on there. I got on there and anyone who ever wrote a article or a book was there plus allot of other people. It was a sad day when it went down places like Reef Central killed it when the internet started, I think the last person to leave was Dana Riddle. Most those authors went to all different places and a few here like Eric Borneman and Ron Shimek. I would bet most of what we did back then and still allot now started there. This was late 80's early 90's.
There was more information out there than people knew you just had to find it.
I think the earlier years of RC were when it was the easiest. There was readily information, more books and less methods and equipment had improved to make life easier.
