quiet forum?
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Yes Pete,,,,hope your well mate...PSH said:
Never have i know it this quiet,,,,,
i dont know if its about a lot of 944s being bought to be kept in garages as they continue to go up,,,,
or people are not happy about certain things that occured in the last while,,,,
but its dead as a dodo at the moment with all the regular posters "missing in action" and a very small group of his still posting,,,,
Very sad and i hope not a sign of things to come,,,,,
blade7
Well-known member
Many years ago I used to attend the big Ford RS meetings, there was a much friendlier atmosphere than I've found at the few 944 meets I've attended. Looking on Ford forums now they still seem friendly. With a few exceptions the Porsche fraternity seems very cliquey. If I get blanked by someone I return the compliment now.
Dan944t
New member
I’ve not been on here myself for a while due to family life has been crazy since just mooving into the new Home which I’ve spent the last 8months renovating and just settling In Now. My two girls are under 4 and take up all the little time I have left in the day and becuase of this Ive not even had the time to begin building my engine up from scratch ??.....
Hence the reason I don’t get to come On here lately.....
Im a true 944 nut and always have been and if you ask my wife she will tell you as ive owned one from the age of 17 and 37 now and it nearly came between us in my 20s as I was constantly spending money on the bloody thing which pushed me to buying another which was my much Loved turbo that I am rebuilding the engine on today..
i very much look forward to meeting you guys at one of your meets so I can only speak for myself and this is my short answer to why I’ve been a little quite on here.
Hoping to buikd the engine gibe this year and I miss it incredibly as I’ve been withought it for a few years now and I can’t explain how much I miss it every day believe it or not even though I drive other vehicles, nothing comes close! ??
Atb
daniel
Hence the reason I don’t get to come On here lately.....
Im a true 944 nut and always have been and if you ask my wife she will tell you as ive owned one from the age of 17 and 37 now and it nearly came between us in my 20s as I was constantly spending money on the bloody thing which pushed me to buying another which was my much Loved turbo that I am rebuilding the engine on today..
i very much look forward to meeting you guys at one of your meets so I can only speak for myself and this is my short answer to why I’ve been a little quite on here.
Hoping to buikd the engine gibe this year and I miss it incredibly as I’ve been withought it for a few years now and I can’t explain how much I miss it every day believe it or not even though I drive other vehicles, nothing comes close! ??
Atb
daniel
you may have hit the nail on the head there Glen...the various FB groups are very active...perhaps we are seeing another change in popularity of type of social media. I very much miss the 'Titanic' days, back then meets were very often, great people and great cars. Many came to this forum and Titanic died although I believe it's still there, just no one posts, I haven't unsubscribed. Seems that perhaps this forum is experiencing the same fate as Titanic, with people going to FB, TIPEC are very active on FB, I get invites to events regularly even though I'm not a member, I don't even know if PCGB has a FB page, never needed to look?
Pete
edit:...just took a look, there are PCGB pages....can't see if it's members only or not though? perhaps everyone is there...
Pete
edit:...just took a look, there are PCGB pages....can't see if it's members only or not though? perhaps everyone is there...
GlennS
New member
Yes, there are PCGB Facebook pages. The London Region one used to be particularly active but I haven't looked in a while. It isn't just the club based groups, though. There are a plethora of model-specific pages set up on Facebook that people use and post to.
Forums like this still have the edge if you're after technical advice, I think, but the fun/random chat threads seem to have gone elsewhere.
Forums like this still have the edge if you're after technical advice, I think, but the fun/random chat threads seem to have gone elsewhere.
Monkeythree
New member
Roger ruined it.
Hasn’t recovered yet.
Hasn’t recovered yet.
Hi, still pop in when I get a moment, I did 220 miles between Mots on the cab last year though so not had a lot of time for playing with 944s, very busy with work, 3 years into a 4 year project that is taking us all over the country Lands end to the Shetland islands with some pretty remote spots in between!
Tony
Tony
graham tompkins
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Totally wrong attitude takenMonkeythree said:
Roger wasn’t / isn’t responsible . He is not everyone’s cup of tea but very knowledgeable and active, stood up for himself and was bullied by the clique mentality referred to and the pompous snowflakes who don’t understand what a forum should be about. .. hardly surprising it’s dying slowly .
sorry .. has to be said.
Graham
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It is a great shame that a once great forum may be seeing it's swan song, but things change.
Some here will, I am sure, have fond memories of Titanic (the email list not the film). It was once the lynch pin of the 944 community but went the way of its nautical namesake some years ago when this forum really took over.
As some have noted, the integrated nature of Facebook and the like means people can get their 944 fix without having to log into a forum. I still prefer fora as (also noted above) the ability to search and retrieve information is much greater.
With any group there tends to be a core of chums who create the nucleus apron which others bind. With regret, with many of the "Old Guard" less involved, if at all, the current forum no longer seems to have critical mass (plenty of criticism but not what I mean). It has been less able to ride the few storms it has encountered recently and isn't helped by the clunky nature of the forum where we have to keep re logging in.
I also think the 944 community has diversified and perhaps the Boxster community is more akin to what we once were. "Back in the day" the 944 was a hidden gem which offered outstanding performance on the cheap. Little could touch a 944 £/bhp/grin, parts were readily available, and not especially expensive. It was a cheap performance car. It is now neither of those things by comparison to many other offerings available.
There are fewer 944s on the road. Few are used as daily transport like they were. They now require a completely different mindset to own and run compared to a Hot Hatch. Ten years ago that wasn't the case. The 944 hasn't slipped into the category that we might have considered an E Type Jag a few years ago but it is nearer that than track day/fast road tool of choice.
Some here will, I am sure, have fond memories of Titanic (the email list not the film). It was once the lynch pin of the 944 community but went the way of its nautical namesake some years ago when this forum really took over.
As some have noted, the integrated nature of Facebook and the like means people can get their 944 fix without having to log into a forum. I still prefer fora as (also noted above) the ability to search and retrieve information is much greater.
With any group there tends to be a core of chums who create the nucleus apron which others bind. With regret, with many of the "Old Guard" less involved, if at all, the current forum no longer seems to have critical mass (plenty of criticism but not what I mean). It has been less able to ride the few storms it has encountered recently and isn't helped by the clunky nature of the forum where we have to keep re logging in.
I also think the 944 community has diversified and perhaps the Boxster community is more akin to what we once were. "Back in the day" the 944 was a hidden gem which offered outstanding performance on the cheap. Little could touch a 944 £/bhp/grin, parts were readily available, and not especially expensive. It was a cheap performance car. It is now neither of those things by comparison to many other offerings available.
There are fewer 944s on the road. Few are used as daily transport like they were. They now require a completely different mindset to own and run compared to a Hot Hatch. Ten years ago that wasn't the case. The 944 hasn't slipped into the category that we might have considered an E Type Jag a few years ago but it is nearer that than track day/fast road tool of choice.
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