The problem I am starting to see with forums is that now we have facebook and twitter where we can share our thoughts and ideas more freely. I have apps on my phone for both so I can always post whats on my mind and I am fining less and less reason to come to forums and post my thoughts.

Any thoughts?

I dunno, but not much I can do about that. It's either runa forum or don't. I can;'t make people post. There are still tons of forum sites that get posted on constantly though. I go to one site where there's posting all the time. I'm sure they get thousads and thousands of posts per day.

So there's still a way, but I don't know what the way is. People may say well there's a million forums so why come here? I say because I've been online actively for so many years that I know how forums should be run and also you can't replicate a good community itself. If the right people were here it would be a unique community itself and so other forums similar to this would mean nothing when people had friends here.

There are some facebook and twitter features on here, but they're not related to posting really. On facebook there is a way to update your status and it show up on here automatically. There is some twitter feature also, but I don't recall what it is honestly.

So from what you're saying it would be nice to have apps for phones which would easily post on here. But the way forum software companies are they would rather wait until 100 years from now to do something that wise.

You can post on here from your phone too though, but it's just not as convenient as the others. By the same token if you want features you have to add more complexity to the mix though.

You don't answer texts on your phone anyway so not like a phone is replacing posting for you anyway. Not to mention on twitter it's more of you having a personal page rather than a community feel.