The Site Slow Down is Due to....

The Site Slow Down is Due to...

  • Technical Issues

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Environmental Issues

    Votes: 4 23.5%

  • Mikie has been away

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • Who the hail is Mikie?

    Votes: 13 76.5%
  • Total voters
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Mikie

Mikie

Admin/iMTB Hooligan
Hey!
(This is a humor post not a serious post, but can be a serious post if yah want tah)
It's been pointed out that the Site has been running slow. I'm not talking due to technical difficulties. I'm talking that there has not been a lot of participation.

I was thinking it was because we have been in a CV19 pandemic, everything is shut down, the forest is on fire so riding is mostly shutdown, and quite frankly... we have run outta Sh!t to talk about.

One hooligan suggested that it was because I have not been adding my extremely valuable and life changing smack talk wisdom here as of late due to my crazy world of selling a home, working 26 hours a day and not riding my bike!
My response to that was there are plenty of imtbtrails hooligan celebrities here to more than maintain the site without me and that I could fade back as sweep and not worry about content and direction.

So what is the scoop? You all sick and tired of a polarized world and the reflection it casts on the site as we discover each other as people, other than mountain bikers? You know, this is my first rodeo as a mountain bike forum owner and moderator so it's not like I got the formula for a self perpetuating website of smack talking mountain bikers.

I as always, so appreciate the folks that have stuck around and developed into the hooligan personalities they have on the site. By no means does this mean the site is slowing down, in decay mode, blah blah blah. I think we have a lot of fashizzle going on and we all can easily be distracted. Possibly all going stir crazy with bikes to ride and no place to ride them. Hang tight!

If you ever want to talk about stuff in private with me about difficult anythings... I'm always there for you.

Mikie still loves all of you!
:)Mikie
 
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Derkderkall said:
@Mikie does your admin toolbox have stats?
Can you see and compare posting activity?

Make us some excel graphs hefe
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Forums like this are cyclical. They get busy, then you do hit some slow/dead times....but eventually they pick back up.

Perhaps it is the lack of free time these days. Perhaps there is more family time.

There is some political division, whether intentional or unintentional that keeps brewing....but alot of that is just a mirror of the world we live in. It's hard to have discussions when everything is politically charged.


There is always sh*t talk to be had.

I wouldn't worry too much about it....it'll pick back up.
 
Truthfully, if you hadn't mentioned it, I don't think I would have necessarily noticed it being slower, but now that you mention it..... I had taken note of a few key players being absent. Less places available to ride, and conditions being often adverse means less riding to talk about. Bikes and parts not being available means less toys to talk about. That leaves more space for the current event/social issue type stuff that sometimes turns political or confrontational, despite our best efforts to self police. I could see how that would drive some away.

Solution? Probably doing what we do best, which is ride, and ride together. Hopefully conditions will allow for some IMTB social rides before long. Those ride reports and posts always seem to get the proverbial juices flowing, and the camaraderie spikes.
 
It hasnt been noticably slower to me. I check the site most commonly through my phone so I am dependant on a cell signal which varies wildly up here in Southern Canada due to the insane density of tall ass trees. A few of my work stops have wifi that I tap into which makes service fast, fast, fast.

So, no complaints from me but who is “Mikie”???
 
buggravy said:
Truthfully, if you hadn't mentioned it, I don't think I would have necessarily noticed it being slower, but now that you mention it..... I had taken note of a few key players being absent. Less places available to ride, and conditions being often adverse means less riding to talk about. Bikes and parts not being available means less toys to talk about. That leaves more space for the current event/social issue type stuff that sometimes turns political or confrontational, despite our best efforts to self police. I could see how that would drive some away.

Solution? Probably doing what we do best, which is ride, and ride together. Hopefully conditions will allow for some IMTB social rides before long. Those ride reports and posts always seem to get the proverbial juices flowing, and the camaraderie spikes.
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Yup. Nowhere to ride, nothing worth buying, everything sellable has been sold, and we have other places to go for health tips and voting advice.

I’m heading out of town for a week, maybe riding new/other dirt will perk me up, but for now I’m kinda not feeling the love.

As they say, mtb is about getting away from the cars, the cops, and the concrete. Nowadays most every time I go out, it’s the crowds, the kooks, and the ebikes.
 
It's trending down since March or when Covid hit. The Coronavirus thread alone which was started on March 5th was 28 pages deep just in March alone. That being said, with people not being able to travel to ride in far off lands, there's less "new" stuff to talk about. Heck last year, you guys had 1000 posts of "who was riding with who" and "who's leaving when" for the Kokopelli ride alone. I know I enjoy the photos and ride reports from places outside of SoCal like @evdog posts even if I don't like to HAB. The Montana trip photos always get me geeked up and wanting to get up there as well. I guess you can only see so much Joplin, Motorway & Blackstar.
 
mtbMike said:
It's trending down since March or when Covid hit. The Coronavirus thread alone which was started on March 5th was 28 pages deep just in March alone. That being said, with people not being able to travel to ride in far off lands, there's less "new" stuff to talk about. Heck last year, you guys had 1000 posts of "who was riding with who" and "who's leaving when" for the Kokopelli ride alone. I know I enjoy the photos and ride reports from places outside of SoCal like @evdog posts even if I don't like to HAB. The Montana trip photos always get me geeked up and wanting to get up there as well. I guess you can only see so much Joplin, Motorway & Blackstar.
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This website has lots of photos on a couple of MTB Hottie threads...one of which is obviously better than the other.
 
DangerDirtyD said:
This website has lots of photos on a couple of MTB Hottie threads...one of which is obviously better than the other.
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Yeah, it has a lot of photos of hotties....who have probably never been on a mountain bike. I contributed a few of Kate Courtney...before many even realized who she was yet. But the queen of them all will always be Paola Pezzo. I'll never forget when I saw her photo in the dressing room of Supergo for the first time. I do realize that some of you prefer Missy Giove :gag::gag::gag::gag::gag::gag::gag::gag::gag::gag::gag:
 
Summer usually seems to slow down as it isn't our prime riding season. There are vacations and trips to high elevation but not as much in terms of big regular rides. Sept is slower yet, shoulder season where kids have (usually) gone back to school so trips taper off but it's still hot. Having covid closures and now forest closures has not helped. Once forests reopen and temps drop I'd expect to see activity pick up again. This site seems to have a fairly solid base of regular posters. No too big so you get a lot of garbage like MTBR and not to small that there's no traffic.
 
yes. It seems a few key players are not on lately, the new ones get jazzed and then are sporadic and taper off.

I've noticed there is an eb and flow to the site for sure. Right now its down a little, might be too much smack talk, might be too little riding, or maybe folks are just trying to avoid the internet which is a black hole in and of itself.

For riding, this is my prime season. Warm mornings still sunny evenings, but not much traveling due to fires and Covid. But then hey,I just ride the same trail over and over again anyway.
 
I've been getting parts and working on re-jiggering the Cannondale Synapse for the wife. She's recovered well enough from getting the new knee in June that she's about ready to get back out there. Ordered up a BB30-24 bottom bracket and 46/30 chainrings, along with a new front derailleur and crankset. It'll make it easier for her to ride it. Haven't been talking it up because it's a road bike and no one cares....:laugh::laugh:

Somehow, though, the braze-0n clamp adapter got "damaged in transit" and I had to reorder. It's supposed to be here in about an hour. Overnight delivery. I have no idea how something like that could be damaged in transit. o_O Maybe it was a "Castaway" event.

I've had almost zero problem getting parts.
 
To be brutally honest, this site has too many assholes on it now.
You know who they are.
Before it was just me, you, and a couple others.
Now we got internet-educated, wanna be pucker holes who don't know how to argue like real sphincters.
These willfully ignorant pro-lapses spew mental diarrhea from their scat-laden keyboards like unattended firehoses.
It's hard to read when you need to tp your eyes every few minutes.
So don't ask me what's wrong. It's those other assholes, not me.
 
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rossage said:
To be brutally honest, this site has too many assholes on it now.
You know who they are.
Before it was just me, you, and a couple others.
Now we got internet-educated, wanna be pucker holes who don't know how to argue like real sphincters.
These willfully ignorant pro-lapses spew mental diarrhea from their scat-laden keyboards like unattended firehoses.
It's hard to read when you need to tp your eyes every few minutes.
So don't ask me what's wrong. It's those other assholes, not me.
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Dude - I'm right here. Sheeesh. :oops:


And I blame @evdog's abundance of photos for physically slowing down the site. Stay home for once Ev!
 
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