I miss this place

[Dog Burger]

Have spent a bit more time on these forums over the past few days, with the weather starting to turn for the better and festivals beginning to loom on the horizon again, and it made me realise I've missed this place.

Used to enjoy a really good community spirit on the Glastonbury board, and in here, hanging on the line-up announcements, weather forecasts, flag making threads, and general mutual excitement. Neil's bits of info and wisdom, efestivals radio, and the CD mix threads. There was a great spirit and I used to really enjoy being a part of the place. Do you think it's been maintained as the faces have changed and the years have passed? Think I'll make sure I'm on here a bit more again from now on

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Have spent a bit more time on these forums over the past few days, with the weather starting to turn for the better and festivals beginning to loom on the horizon again, and it made me realise I've missed this place.

Used to enjoy a really good community spirit on the Glastonbury board, and in here, hanging on the line-up announcements, weather forecasts, flag making threads, and general mutual excitement. Neil's bits of info and wisdom, efestivals radio, and the CD mix threads. There was a great spirit and I used to really enjoy being a part of the place. Do you think it's been maintained as the faces have changed and the years have passed? Think I'll make sure I'm on here a bit more again from now on

[Dog Burger]

Thank fuck for a reasonable post. I had to read it twice before I realised it was not going to be a fucking survey

[Stash]

I've even got bored of giving mildly amusing and childish answers to the surveys!

[Rachie]

Nice to see you back DB

[grumpyhack]

The old hands are still around. There's just a lot of irritating new kids on the block with their dissertation surveys. But the real festi goers are still here.

I'm now about three weeks away from the completion of the extension of my car parking area to accomodate the caravan I'm buying for this year's fests. I'll then be able to bore for Britain on caravans and asking advice on taking them to fests.

[t8yman]

I think the dissertation survey threads should be banned, there should be one sticky thread where people are allowed to post requests for participants, and a ban for any that post outside of there.

hows that for grumpy?

[The Nal]

I think the dissertation survey threads should be banned, there should be one sticky thread where people are allowed to post requests for participants, and a ban for any that post outside of there.

hows that for grumpy?

[A-Rob]

I think soical networks mainly facebook contributed to decline in the number of posts in here.

[Dog Burger]

Edited March 27, 2012 by Dog Burger

[eFestivals]

I think soical networks mainly facebook contributed to decline in the number of posts in here.

Except, there's been just about no decline - which surprises even me.

[A-Rob]

That's good to hear Neil!

I joined these forums years ago, at first I only posted in the festivals that i was intrested/attending to gain some knowlege and insights from the festival veterans which I found very useful.

But then I started visiting the discussion forum as well, which I found very intresting topics to read and post about.

[Dog Burger]

I only realised this morning that efestivals has a Blogs section (which apparently has been there for five years!) so I cracked out this one on Glastonbury, if anyone's interested:

/blog/892/entry-1550-a-glastonbury-free-summer/">http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/blog/892/entry-1550-a-glastonbury-free-summer/

[The Nal]

I only realised this morning that efestivals has a Blogs section (which apparently has been there for five years!)

Edited March 27, 2012 by The Nal

[Dog Burger]

It does?!

Cool!

2004 was my first Glasto. What do you mean about the Macca/24 hour party fest?

[Dog Burger]

It does?!

Cool!

2004 was my first Glasto. What do you mean about the Macca/24 hour party fest?

[The Nal]

I don't mean that year specifically, I mean that's how it felt in the earlier years - every stall had a big soundsystem, things didn't quieten down across large parts of the site at 2am, there weren't specifc late night areas, the whole place seemed to go on all night. 2002 - the first year after the introduction of the super fence and subsequent reduced capacity - felt for me felt quieter, but by 2004, it felt back to its best in that respect. This is, of course subjective and hamstrung by my incredibly hazy memories of the time

[Katster]

Its definitely not the same and doesn't feel as busy. Which is odd because older members are still here and new people keep coming. Its just seems quieter despite numbers. Did we finally run out of things to say?

[thegremlin_1999]

Its definitely not the same and doesn't feel as busy. Which is odd because older members are still here and new people keep coming. Its just seems quieter despite numbers. Did we finally run out of things to say?

[LondonTom]

Its definitely not the same and doesn't feel as busy. Which is odd because older members are still here and new people keep coming. Its just seems quieter despite numbers. Did we finally run out of things to say?

[eFestivals]

Its definitely not the same and doesn't feel as busy. Which is odd because older members are still here and new people keep coming. Its just seems quieter despite numbers. Did we finally run out of things to say?

I'd say that for you, an oldie who tends to only post in response to other oldies, it definitely won't feel as busy. There's less of the people around who you tend to communicate here with, just as a natural consequence of time going by.

But also, it's probably the case that you do feel you've run out of things to say to some extent - I know that I often feel I'm repeating myself, or don't post something I was considering posting because it's the same as something I've posted before.

It's also possibly the case that things you might have once posted here you now post on facebook, to some of the people who used to post here but now use there.

Things might be a little quieter here than they were (say) 5+ years ago due to facebook, but the number of posts being made year on year hasn't changed very much - there was a small drop-off that I put down to facebook but the last 3 years have defo been pretty much the same, and in fact things were busier both on these forums and on efests as a whole during February this year then they were for February last year, despite the absence of Glastonbury this year.

And writing that has just given me an extra thought, that because many of the Glasto regular posters aren't posting this year because of no Glasto, that's probably adding to your feeling that it's quieter, because you're seeing less familiar names.

But overall I'm very surprised at how little facebook has effected things here - but part of that is facebook having an overly-large quota of idiots, who've never been hugely welcomed here.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I'd say that for you, an oldie who tends to only post in response to other oldies, it definitely won't feel as busy. There's less of the people around who you tend to communicate here with, just as a natural consequence of time going by.

But also, it's probably the case that you do feel you've run out of things to say to some extent - I know that I often feel I'm repeating myself, or don't post something I was considering posting because it's the same as something I've posted before.

It's also possibly the case that things you might have once posted here you now post on facebook, to some of the people who used to post here but now use there.

Things might be a little quieter here than they were (say) 5+ years ago due to facebook, but the number of posts being made year on year hasn't changed very much - there was a small drop-off that I put down to facebook but the last 3 years have defo been pretty much the same, and in fact things were busier both on these forums and on efests as a whole during February this year then they were for February last year, despite the absence of Glastonbury this year.

And writing that has just given me an extra thought, that because many of the Glasto regular posters aren't posting this year because of no Glasto, that's probably adding to your feeling that it's quieter, because you're seeing less familiar names.

But overall I'm very surprised at how little facebook has effected things here - but part of that is facebook having an overly-large quota of idiots, who've never been hugely welcomed here.

[nightcrawler13]

Its definitely not the same and doesn't feel as busy. Which is odd because older members are still here and new people keep coming. Its just seems quieter despite numbers. Did we finally run out of things to say?

[Katster]

I don't only reply to oldies but newbies don't seem to say much, possibly for the reason n c has stated but not convinced its just that because it never stopped them before?

[A-Rob]

But overall I'm very surprised at how little facebook has effected things here - but part of that is facebook having an overly-large quota of idiots, who've never been hugely welcomed here.