It has come to my attention -

[Jayac]

It has come to my attention, that nobody goes on here anymore! I've not seen a new post or thread or topic on here in months! so, my question for this week -

What's happened?!?!? Is it too much work preventing you from getting on here? Too much school/college/university work?
Or - have you found that you no longer have the need to visit this site?

Its just out of interest (not me being pushy for you to come onto here!) but I think its a shame that this site is not used as much as it should/could be by its members!

Jayac

[Uberreicher]

I'm going to take it upon myself to make posts and attempt to start discussions. We could both give it a try, but we might not get many replies. I don't want this to become a vicious cycle where people don't come to the site because no one is posting, so fewer people are on the site to post, and so on...Good Luck.

[Lochsmith]

Hi Jayac,

If you respond to my post, you are adding the very thing that you want.... More posts. There's also another bonus, it will be your 100th post.  So please respond to my post.  As for members not posting very often, maybe we're all boring.  I'm on facebook much more often chatting and posting.  I know there are nude groups on there, but I don't check my special interest groups often. Not everyone wants to be outed on facebook either.  We need a better sense of community. so many of the regular posters left for various reasons.  Just keep contributing and encourage your friends to come on here nudist or not. why not?  we are all naked everyday at some point or another. If we got our friends to be on here, I think this site will be back to it's glory days.

-G

[Jayac]

just had to reply to make it my 100th post!! YAY!! 

my only query with being 'open' on facebook - is that there may be some people (me included) who dont want all of their friends knowing about their sense of freedom. having this site (for me) means i can open up to all sorts of people about problems we can relate to.

its a strange one - i think something needs to happen to the site (this is my opinion) in order to gain more popularity

Jayac

[Storm29]

I admit I don't visit this site as often anymore either. There's other non-nudist sites out there that I'm mush more active in (Phantasytour) that have much more activity. I guess one thing that almost limits this site is that mostly everything here is nudity related. How much of our day to day lives revolve around nudity, and how often do we actually get to experience it? Probably not as much as we'd like, and maybe that's why there's limited activity on here...or maybe I'm generalizing? (I know I'D like to have more nudist experiences to talk about!) For instance another board I'm active on (Phantasytour) started as a fan board for the band Phish, and it evolved to include several other jam bands. People discuss the bands as well as TONS of other non-Phish related stuff, and has evolved into a general community. It would be nice to see this board evolve to that point too, but I think there's several things working against us here that will prevent that. One being is that the idea of public nudity is taboo to many people. Second, many of us here are "closet nudists", which is perfectly okay if you want it that way, but at the same time no one else knows of our interest. Third, I know that people from all over the world visit this site, and it's great that we all have this nudity thing in common, but it's more of a challenge for it to evolve further than that (like the board I previously mentioned) because we all have our own differences/interests/ways of relating at our own corners of the globe that may not be relatable or of interest to others. Honestly, does anyone in Australia give a sh*t about the band Phish?? And I can tell you that talking about the Rugby World Cup will get a bunch of blank stares in the USA. Does any of this make sense???

[Lochsmith]

Congratulating J on post 100. I'm not nudist on Facebook but I have friends there.

We don't have naked time often but we still have life to share. Being an exclusive web page to nudism, I agree we don't have as much to share. We should share more about everyday here. Keep this place alive. Advertise more too?

[LondonMan]

I'm the same with Facebook - would love to add people from here but obviosuly dont want their whole friends network knowing you agree with the naturist way of life!

Its a question of trust i guess, which you build up perhaps on this board!

[Storm29]

What other message boards/forums/fan sites are all of you active in? (naturist or otherwise) What are some of the popular topics there? Start threads like that here! I'll see what I can dig up.

[Lochsmith]

Funny cat stuff on YouTube cracks me up.

[Lochsmith]

Congratulations on post 100 storm.

[Storm29]

Funny cat stuff on YouTube cracks me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBU18yIMcfM  This one cracks me up every time.

[Storm29]

Congratulations on post 100 storm.

Thanks, your turn now!

[Lochsmith]

Sorry to  burst your bubble. I am also wordloch on this form. I was already at 200+ posts when I potentially had my comp hacked.  I do look forward to breaking the 100 post mark a second time.

-G

[Pyre]

There is also this thread on the same subject

[saurus]

This does seem like rather a quiet forum but maybe that is a good thing in some ways?

Like, a lot of people posting can make a forum a little hard to follow if you don't have time to get on often, but if it is slow and quiet it is more suited to people who don't sit at their computer all day and all night but have loved ones and lives and school and jobs and such?

I hope this forum isn't dead as it is a good one for me to join as it is my age group and also is not blocked by filter software in the place I work (unlike a lot of other naturist forums and sites which are restricted due to being about "alternative lifestyles" - I wish I was joking!).