Fan Forums These Days

[Deleted]

I notice that this forum hasn't been as active as it used to be when it comes to comments. I wonder why?

[Tais]

everyone is on facebook fan groups, and everyone also uses phones, where facebook is convenient and forum browsing on phone has become inconvenient


i personally like forums more than facebook, its especially useful when google searching for fan related info..

[Parkman]

Exactly what Tais said.

I prefer the forums and find a lot of information with the search feature. The Facebook groups are more convenient but I don't care because this is much more organized and I like the format better along with less younger kids are on the forums.

[Cole D]

I agree with both. And the Facebook groups don't keep an archive of info like forums do, or at least it's hard to find archived info. Plus I'm more into vintage fan but like you say the Facebook groups tend to have younger kids, which means new fans usually. But I'm more interested in vintage fans.

And, I don't like having a personal account tied to forums.

[Deleted]

And I also noticed that DT Fan Forums no longer exist. I wonder if facebook was the reason for that too?

[Cole D]

Partly, but there were other reasons. Which is a shame, it was a great forum back a few year ago.

[Parkman]

I always was upset the original DT Forum crashed back in 2010 or whatever I'd love to be able to read those threads. Now the relaunched forum is gone. I'm very grateful and more happy VCF is still here with all the old content.

Also thankfully Zachary Y. had a lot to post with the Iheartfans site from DT like the catalogs.

Overall at least the whole forum rivalry thing has disappeared as far as I'm concerned from seeing and were still here and you can be there too if you want to be.

[philippe1995]

Apr 1, 2019 23:47:13 GMT -5 Tais said:

everyone is on facebook fan groups, and everyone also uses phones, where facebook is convenient and forum browsing on phone has become inconvenient


i personally like forums more than facebook, its especially useful when google searching for fan related info..

I agree with you. guess the people still here have the same opinion. I will try to still post here some sightings and acquisition if I have some more this year.

[Cole D]

Apr 3, 2019 7:06:35 GMT -5 Parkman said:

I always was upset the original DT Forum crashed back in 2010 or whatever I'd love to be able to read those threads. Now the relaunched forum is gone. I'm very grateful and more happy VCF is still here with all the old content.

Also thankfully Zachary Y. had a lot to post with the Iheartfans site from DT like the catalogs.

Overall at least the whole forum rivalry thing has disappeared as far as I'm concerned from seeing and were still here and you can be there too if you want to be.

DT was really hopping about 2008-09. It took a few years but by that point it was getting a lot of traffic. The general section was busy too. And I learned a ton about portable fans from there, because the  only other forum at the time that really dealt with portables was AFCA but they were mostly into the antique fans. So DT was the first site where you could really discuss 1950s and newer fans, and get much feedback. And we must have discussed just about every one on there. lol There was so much good info that's not gone unfortunately.

But that aside, I'm really glad VCF is still here and has its posts from the beginning. (I used to post on here as Fanman, by the way.)

[Parkman]

I joined DT around Christmas of 08. I had no complaints and the general section was cool. I think it was more busy also since they had the portable section that was pretty popular. I just hated the politics of it and I enjoyed being here too

I always wished the general section here would get as popular I remember in like 2010ish when I started college it was hopping there, Perrey did a lot of talking in there.

[Tais]

i used to regularly post here, but due to lack of activity which is due to facebook and phone internet plus stuff happening around me, i slowed down pretty much, but i plan to keep on track....


also, photobucket is acting so terrible with their stupid limitations.. first was the 2.5gb limit, i am above that and i created a new account, only to see the limit further reduced to 250 photos

[Jared H.]

Let it be established that the Facebook groups, despite the rampant idiocy, are just as much a treasure trove of information and vintage goodness as this forum is. If there’s something specific you’re looking for, there is a convienent ‘group search’ function. You can search all the way back to when the group was first created to try and dig stuff up.
Furthermore, who says you NEED to tie your personal account to these forums? You don’t! You can absolutely be on Facebook and these forums while keeping the accounts 100% separate.

[Jean Lemieux]

As other said, the lack of activity here is mostly because of Facebook groups killing forums plus many members that were simply lost in the wild because of the destruction of DT.

I tried to access both here and Facebook groups from a mobile when I was on a trip away from computers for a while and neither one were easy. Everything is very restrictive and frustrating from a phone. Typing, posting photos and seeing other photos. Why would I use that when I can have a keyboard and a computer screen much larger where I can have multiple pages opens at the same time and view everything in detail.

I prefer a lot more how everything is more organized on a forum, while a Facebook group is a big mess. Facebook groups can be okay for posting random photos of sightings but when come times of posting an acquisition with photos and a video in the same post, it gets very disorganized. Either the video goes in the comments below if the photos goes first or the other way around or everything about the same fan has to be posted in various disconnected posts which ends of being very messy. If all photos are posted in the same post, they are not shown all at once contrary to a forum because of the lack of space on Facebook. Here were have different threads where everything about same fan can be in the same thread, plus we have photo galleries that are practical especially in case we forgot how a certain type of fan looks, how it's called, how it's supposed to be with all of it's original pieces, what kind of fans a specific brand that no longer exist had etc.

All the information accumulated here for more than 15 years is gold. It's a shame that many collector are trading this for a disorganized and squeezed space like Facebook.

[Parkman]

Apr 14, 2019 1:05:23 GMT -5 Jean Lemieux said:

As other said, the lack of activity here is mostly because of Facebook groups killing forums plus many members that were simply lost in the wild because of the destruction of DT.

I tried to access both here and Facebook groups from a mobile when I was on a trip away from computers for a while and neither one were easy. Everything is very restrictive and frustrating from a phone. Typing, posting photos and seeing other photos. Why would I use that when I can have a keyboard and a computer screen much larger where I can have multiple pages opens at the same time and view everything in detail.

I prefer a lot more how everything is more organized on a forum, while a Facebook group is a big mess. Facebook groups can be okay for posting random photos of sightings but when come times of posting an acquisition with photos and a video in the same post, it gets very disorganized. Either the video goes in the comments below if the photos goes first or the other way around or everything about the same fan has to be posted in various disconnected posts which ends of being very messy. If all photos are posted in the same post, they are not shown all at once contrary to a forum because of the lack of space on Facebook. Here were have different threads where everything about same fan can be in the same thread, plus we have photo galleries that are practical especially in case we forgot how a certain type of fan looks, how it's called, how it's supposed to be with all of it's original pieces, what kind of fans a specific brand that no longer exist had etc.

All the information accumulated here for more than 15 years is gold. It's a shame that many collector are trading this for a disorganized and squeezed space like Facebook.

I completely agree Jean.  I get the Facebook Groups have a search function however whenever I've used it it brings up more misinformation than it does good.  The downside of the forums is the extra work to post photos but I find it much more interesting and the archive of information here is substantial.

Even here if someone posts a picture of a fan they replaced it has more "meat on the bones" on Facebook where it seems you just get likes, some kid will try to ask if he can buy the fan for nothing, and then someone yells that they should have put this fan up of better quality.  In my opinion I don't think Facebook can ever beat this forum in my opinion.

[Deleted]

Not to mention that Andrew G. doesn't post ceiling fan pictures on New Crap anymore.