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Yeah yeah, I know social media exists but if you need to search for specific information about your cars, forums were where it was at! It was the easiest way to interact with like minded people and find valuable tech information.
I am happy to see Revscene is still around. So many forums have either been bought out by large companies or they the domains no longer exist. The problem with the latter is that all that information is completely lost in time. The problem with the former is when companies like Vertical Scope would buy out forums, they would completely kill them and they would be barely active.
What can we do to make forums popular again? I feel like Instagram is a great platform for showcasing your build journal but for so many other reasons, I feel forums are way better. Man, I feel old and I am in my late 20s.
People our age don't like to use the search button and would rather post new questions on Facebook, or now whatsapp. All my car groups are on WhatsApp chats. There's no information retention in there. Some are on Discord for that reason.
Also late 20s and you posted a thread with pics from 2002?? Dude we would've been like 6 years old.
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Its gone man, you need a new generation of car enthusiasts.
Latest gen would rather make tik tok videos in an uber than drive (Look up the stats when teenagers get drivers license)
And the ones that do like cars, dont like modding/DIY which boosts forum engagement
Speaking of manual trans, i keep seeing e-tron GTs on the road, im not an audi fan, but thats one car i could see myself abusing.
So i search, "does e-tron GT come in manual", and sure enough, nope, auto only. maybe when im a geezer and my left knee is half way out the door i can pick one up
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donk has to be trolling, no way he googled if E-tron GT came in manual lolol
But on the other hand, seeing how the Ioniq 5 N has mimic the DCT, I can see a similar feat being done for a manual in EV. I know Toyota already has it in prototypes and such.
So far the feedback seems good, yes it will be a gimmick... but hey thats awesome (I am getting old)
Fake sound, fake transmission, fake clutch here we go, if the experience is close enough, I dont see why not~
++ I will no longer alienate my wife for buying a car like that, she can flip a switch and drive it like a traditional automatic.
My kids are just not into cars, its my failure as a father, they know more about cars than their peers because their dad wouldnt shut up about them. But no.. they are not super excited about this car or that car....
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A few factors, but probably the combo of photobucket wrecking all the images right as social media was really taking off was a big one. Most people struggled with posting images on forums to begin with and places like IG let you tap a couple things and fire it right from your phone easy peasy.
It sucks though cause like you said all the information on those platforms is basically just an unorganized mess, so there's no long term access to it. And even then the format of all of them is shit so there's less info. I've never seen a proper build thread or DIY guide on any social media platform.
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What killed it was age... we grew up. My MR2T has been in the garage for 15 years. I bought a new car thinking I would take my time and restore the MR2 but I haven't done a damn thing to the car and I'm on my 3rd new car now... I still poke around on RS here and there... sometimes I'll post a few weeks apart, sometimes, I'm gone for months or years... we just have better things to do these days and forums just didn't attract the amount of new users to replace us.
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I don't think there is a silver bullet to answer the question, but here are some of my observations, a few which several members touched on already.
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1. We are getting older (at least here on Revscene.) Our priorities have shifted.
2. *Edited* The advent of social media and more interest-focused forums detracted from general sites like RevScene, which are more regionally focused
3. There's just so much more information these days on the internet. People used to ask how to open the hood of a car on this forum. Now, you can just Google search and get an answer without fear of being judged.
4. This one might trigger some people, but I think cars just got better and faster. 200HP back in the day, Intake, header, exhaust swaps and the money formula have lost its relevance in today's market.
5. Maybe we got dumber? We complain about how bad plastics are in new cars, but this is something we've always complained about, but lust over the interior of 1990s Honda Civic.
6. Social attitudes towards cars have shifted. Why spend your limited salary on an entry level car worth more than your take home pay? Uber and public transit will get the job done.
7. I think we, as car enthusiasts, also haven't done a good job on succession planning. What I mean is setting things up for a new generation of car enthusiasts to get involved in the community. Meets fizzled out, cliques formed etc. It became harder (I think) to get together and to be a more inclusive community.
8. This is highly subjective and open to interpretation, but I think cops don't hate us for the same reason anymore. Back in the day, law enforcement and the general public waged a war against car enthusiasts for being street racers. They were a common enemy and that united enthusiasts. Now that war is over, it's about VPD VIs, and even that sort of fizzled out. People can now drive in Richmond without fear for being pulled over for their rice.
9. Rice is dead. RIP body kits, Altezza style lights, and stuff like that. Hellaflush and Stancewars also fizzled out (at least I think so, in Vancouver.) Mods cost money. People don't really have money.
10. Scammers and bot accounts on forums are annoying as hell!
Any way, that was a long brain dump. Hope that sparks the conversation further.
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Most young kids nowadays can barely afford a bus pass let alone a car so there's no reason to visit car forums. It's a sad reality but car culture is now for oldies.
I noticed that a lot of car forums are still very much alive, but everyone's talking about mechanical issues or almost stock cars and not really modding.
Why sign up to another forum when you already have a Facebook or Reddit account. Facebook as a lot of car groups. Also setting up a group on Facebook or Reddit is free and you don't have to worry about servers going down.
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Why sign up to another forum when you already have a Facebook or Reddit account. Facebook as a lot of car groups. Also setting up a group on Facebook or Reddit is free and you don't have to worry about servers going down.
Lots of fragmentation in model-specific FB groups (5-10-20-100 random groups trying to cover the same make or model), plus the search function sucks, and the spammers/scammers are becoming a huge problem
What killed it was age... we grew up. My MR2T has been in the garage for 15 years. I bought a new car thinking I would take my time and restore the MR2 but I haven't done a damn thing to the car and I'm on my 3rd new car now... I still poke around on RS here and there... sometimes I'll post a few weeks apart, sometimes, I'm gone for months or years... we just have better things to do these days and forums just didn't attract the amount of new users to replace us.
So now I don't feel so alone having my project sit for 10 years. Although its not from me not trying to get it back on the road.
As much as it has to do with us getting old, it also has a lot to do with this current generation and below having the attention span of a gnat. They only get amped up with instant gratification which is why platforms like tiktok have excelled because you can only keep their attention for like 10 seconds at a time.
Locally, I really do think the end of our yearly meets really killed things and began a large fracturing of car groups. Yes, we had specific forums for certain makes/models (vancouver civics for example) but after the meets died I noticed 8th gen Civic, FK8 etc groups branching off (a bit of elitism there) and similar things among other groups too.
RS meets really were the melting pot of all car groups showing up to show off for better or worse. We certainly didn't need dudes in Mustangs pulling off burn outs in our parking lots but having all makes and models come together was one hell of a thing to witness.
Heck, even the Byrne meets were iconic for awhile there before it was ruined again by the idiots. That was kind of the peak for me. My EK was in top form (still in the exact shape now, just older lol) and it's just become a core memory for me when I think back to all the meets we went to in our 20's.
But yeah, I digress. Geriatric Motor Club it is from now on.. we old bruh.
PS: there is a BC EF club on FB that is a collection of mostly younger owners than me, but even that is nowhere near as active as what we used to have on forums
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maybe when im a geezer and my left knee is half way out the door i can pick one up
