Hope all is going fine with your fine restaurant .
This forum stopped being the go-to place for PV thanks to a mix of elements, but most of them (in hindsight) were of my making. First off, when we were dependent on the tourism board, their homophobic stance at the time forced me to clamp down on gay subjects on the forum and that created a big exodus in the early 2000s, from that many fora arose, I can remember one by Jennybean, but there are more, most defunct by now (if not all). After that, I changed the forum software to phpBB, a system that did not send an e-mail message each time someone posted on the site, so I became distracted and worked on other things while the posts were not responded.
As the internet has evolved, people expected faster and faster responses, so that was negative.
Another way you can keep a forum alive is by stocking the flames, by posting news, ideas, comments, keeping the threads alive, something I didn't do but have seen in other more successful fora.
When Social media took off, that was the last nail in the coffin for this forum, I concentrated even more on other ways to grab attention and developed PV social media profiles that are quite effective in keeping the conversation alive, promoting the site and mainly PV as a whole, including places outside Jalisco, something people from those areas do not appreciate
Anyway, some die-hard forum users are still around but I think things have definitely moved on and I keep this section on site as it still includes relevant information and can be found via search engines.
So that's my point of view on what's the current state of affairs here in the fossilized forum.
Greetings
WebhamsterStatistics:Posted by webmaster — Sun Jun 18, 2017 2:34 pm
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