Newschoolers/Ski forum popularity history

[Mag]

Hey, I've been away a long time, unfortunately haven't been getting to ski much since then but hoping to return.

I'm not meaning to be pejorative but it seems like newschoolers is a lot less popular than it used to be, or am i just misremembering? If that is the case what happened to all the online skiiers, did they just transition to insta/tiktok etc or are they on other forums?

Mag

 

[Slugger66]

IG, Tik Tok, YouTube, you name it.

Most younger skiers are only familiar with NS as an IG page. Some may venture here for a specific gear question, but the community has largely moved elsewhere. The forums today are a mix of old heads, users who joined post-peak, and a select number of young guns.

NS forums are still fairly active at certain times. You can find good conversations and information if you hang around long enough. But your intuition is correct - there is significantly less traffic and activity these days.

 

[.nasty]

forum format BST needs to come back as well, it generated a ton of discussion just like what still happens on TGR. Unfortunately no one who works for NS seems to care anymore about much.

 

[Lonely]

forum format BST needs to come back as well, it generated a ton of discussion just like what still happens on TGR. Unfortunately no one who works for NS seems to care anymore about much.

 

[freestyler540]

NS has phases. Some days it seems people are posting every second. Others, you can see the e-tumbleweeds. Forum content is still pretty top tier. People are posting mostly quality content.

Its not its haydays of 2008, but the community is strong.

 

[treebeard]

NS has phases. Some days it seems people are posting every second. Others, you can see the e-tumbleweeds. Forum content is still pretty top tier. People are posting mostly quality content.

Its not its haydays of 2008, but the community is strong.

After being gone for almost 10 years, I came back to ask a pretty specific ski recommendation question and I guess it brought me back to logging in more regularly (killing time at work is wonderful, isn't it?).

I've been pleasantly surprised at how active the forums still are. Sure, it's nothing like 2008-2012ish era, but there are more new threads and more ongoing threads with useful content than I was expecting. I mean look at the Pinkbike forums if you really wanna see the death of forum discussion, there's like one new post a week and no one replies to anything other than the five or six megathreads.

NS is definitely not the same, but it's also far from dead

 

[Freezy]

I’m not dead yet!