Why is the forum so dead?

Why is the forum so dead?

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rassi

Original Poster:

2,483 posts

258 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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I joined PH many many years ago and still remember when the forum(s) were much busier and enthusiast driven.

Now, the last post in an existing thread was last Thursday, how come nobody is active anymore?


Terminator X

16,359 posts

211 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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New M4 and M2 killed off potential customers wink

TX.

rev-erend

21,536 posts

291 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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Very true.

Maybe people now use Insta ticktok facethingie

I use m3cutters when I have BMW questions..

BlueJ

348 posts

52 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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I think a lot of subjects have been covered, so unless a new car or new owner comes along there's not much to say!

jm doc

2,928 posts

239 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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Move on, nothing to see here tumbleweed

Mr Tidy

24,377 posts

134 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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I have a Z4M so I use z4forum and M3Cutters. rolleyes

R33FAL

576 posts

175 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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BMW has driven all their customers away.... to Porsche... smile have a look at how busy that side of the forum is!

Caddyshack

11,857 posts

213 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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The new M cars are bought by very different customers in my opinion.

JJ55

684 posts

122 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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Caddyshack said:
The new M cars are bought by very different customers in my opinion.
This

kef9

23 posts

34 months

Monday 17th July 2023
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The new M cars are bloated overpriced shi*e. Let’s be honest. There is no way I would buy a recent model BMW. The loss of such a large customer base means that interest on this forum and the modern M Cars means that it’s inevitable.

philmots

4,650 posts

267 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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It’s all on Facebook groups now, some are pretty good, some are pretty bad.

worsy

5,953 posts

182 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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M3 cutters or bimmerpost. The former very UK centric the latter very US centric.

sagaris99

23 posts

60 months

Wednesday 19th July 2023
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kef9 said:
The new M cars are bloated overpriced shi*e. Let’s be honest. There is no way I would buy a recent model BMW. The loss of such a large customer base means that interest on this forum and the modern M Cars means that it’s inevitable.
Higher sales numbers than ever before, more hype around New releases than ever before, better reviews than ever before..... what customer base has been lost?

Oh, apart from the luddites like you whose only contribution to this forum for the last year is repeating the same waffle about how you don't like the new Ms. Great, good for you. You aren't the target market.

Like a broken record.

As has been said above, there are already more popular and better established forums with deeper insight on specific models than is on this subforumm. M3 Cutters, baby bmw, bimmerpost, bimmerforum.

If you had a specific query with your F87, would you ask it here, or on a forum only frequented by other F87 owners?

Edited by sagaris99 on Wednesday 19th July 10:42

Colinv6

100 posts

100 months

Wednesday 19th July 2023
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I’ve never had Facebook so I like browsing a forum.

M3cutters and bimmerpost for me. Mainly cutters, been on there a scary 15 years now.

bumskins

1,935 posts

22 months

Wednesday 19th July 2023
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sagaris99 said:
Higher sales numbers than ever before, more hype around New releases than ever before, better reviews than ever before..... what customer base has been lost?

Oh, apart from the luddites like you whose only contribution to this forum for the last year is repeating the same waffle about how you don't like the new Ms. Great, good for you. You aren't the target market.

Like a broken record.

As has been said above, there are already more popular and better established forums with deeper insight on specific models than is on this subforumm. M3 Cutters, baby bmw, bimmerpost, bimmerforum.

If you had a specific query with your F87, would you ask it here, or on a forum only frequented by other F87 owners?

Edited by sagaris99 on Wednesday 19th July 10:42
The irony of your post when i've read the part in bold on this very forum 3 times so far this week is excellent rofl

As kef9 states, modern M Cars are that far removed from the core brand values they have no interest to me, I prefer driver involvement to letting a car do everything for me.

PH is a Porsche circle jerk now, although I seem to recall the M sub-forum of PH was pretty dead even 10 years ago - used to post under a previous long-forgotten login at the time and wasn't exactly drowned in responses.

bucksmanuk

2,332 posts

177 months

Wednesday 19th July 2023
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There's only so many times one wishes to read about what oil to use.....

TheAngryDog

12,521 posts

216 months

Wednesday 19th July 2023
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Facebook groups is the answer generally. I don't use this forum much for asking questions as it's very unlikely anyone will have the answer to them given that my car is a 17 year old M5, and that's not how things are done around here any more.

Don't sweat it.

jm doc

2,928 posts

239 months

Wednesday 19th July 2023
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bumskins said:
sagaris99 said:
Higher sales numbers than ever before, more hype around New releases than ever before, better reviews than ever before..... what customer base has been lost?

Oh, apart from the luddites like you whose only contribution to this forum for the last year is repeating the same waffle about how you don't like the new Ms. Great, good for you. You aren't the target market.

Like a broken record.

As has been said above, there are already more popular and better established forums with deeper insight on specific models than is on this subforumm. M3 Cutters, baby bmw, bimmerpost, bimmerforum.

If you had a specific query with your F87, would you ask it here, or on a forum only frequented by other F87 owners?

Edited by sagaris99 on Wednesday 19th July 10:42
The irony of your post when i've read the part in bold on this very forum 3 times so far this week is excellent rofl

As kef9 states, modern M Cars are that far removed from the core brand values they have no interest to me, I prefer driver involvement to letting a car do everything for me.

PH is a Porsche circle jerk now, although I seem to recall the M sub-forum of PH was pretty dead even 10 years ago - used to post under a previous long-forgotten login at the time and wasn't exactly drowned in responses.
If your posts under a previous login were anything like as bad as your current posts are, it's no surprise that you got few responses. The current M5 is state of the art and without doubt the best M5 BMW have ever made and are absolutely faithful to their core values. You claim you like "driving", but you can choose exactly how much "driving" you want to do in the current M5, have you actually been near one? Pathetic.

What are you actually doing hanging around here? Looking for where the 20th century went? loser

Discombobulate

5,132 posts

193 months

Wednesday 19th July 2023
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jm doc said:
If your posts under a previous login were anything like as bad as your current posts are, it's no surprise that you got few responses. The current M5 is state of the art and without doubt the best M5 BMW have ever made and are absolutely faithful to their core values. You claim you like "driving", but you can choose exactly how much "driving" you want to do in the current M5, have you actually been near one? Pathetic.

What are you actually doing hanging around here? Looking for where the 20th century went? loser
Latest cars are great, but I do miss my 1995 3.8. It was just so different to drive compared to everything else at the time. A real Q car.
Anyway back to my slippers...

kef9

23 posts

34 months

Thursday 20th July 2023
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sagaris99 said:
Higher sales numbers than ever before, more hype around New releases than ever before, better reviews than ever before..... what customer base has been lost?

Oh, apart from the luddites like you whose only contribution to this forum for the last year is repeating the same waffle about how you don't like the new Ms. Great, good for you. You aren't the target market.

Like a broken record.

As has been said above, there are already more popular and better established forums with deeper insight on specific models than is on this subforumm. M3 Cutters, baby bmw, bimmerpost, bimmerforum.

If you had a specific query with your F87, would you ask it here, or on a forum only frequented by other F87 owners?

Edited by sagaris99 on Wednesday 19th July 10:42
Ridiculous. Please provide evidence. I have hardly seen any G series cars on the road. They clearly have not sold in the same numbers as the F series cars fir good reason.

I can buy any car I want. It won’t be a G series BMW.