Anyone else notice

[DoctorNick]

Well many of us have been here a decade plus, and are middle aged or approaching it. So not too surprising. I was 25 when I started lurking here. I'm 40 now

I was in high-school when I first found this site and I'll be 35 this summer.

 

[Krixes]

Is that you in your av too? Could never figure out what the guy is doing

That's Crixus from Spartacus in my AV. I loved his character so I named my dog Krixes after him...

 

[High Test With da Best]

Ok, I’m sorry I will.

Good.

And so will I, to defend myself when talking shit to other posters

That's Crixus from Spartacus in my AV. I loved his character so I named my dog Krixes after him...

Cool, asked cause I saw some resemblance. Sounds like saying "crickets" with a speech impediment lol

 

[Fedorgasm]

No, UFC audience numbers are much higher than they were 2003. Plenty of younger people are watching MMA.

Sherdog aging out has more to do with this style of message board being "old internet."

Message boards like this have been around since the 1990s. It's ancient technology. The majority of attention and discussion has shifted to social media. Every day, the message board user community gets smaller.

Reddit and Discord are pretty much the only internet forums with growth, and their formats are much different than Sherdog.

Yup this makes me so sad too, because the newer forum styles are actually inferior to this one.

Social media like Facebook and Twitter only show a few replies to a post, AND only your followers see it. Sherdog is better because strangers see what you wrote and you get differing opinions which is actually healthy for you rather than some stupid echo chamber.

Discord isn't even a discussion forum, it's like a group chat. If you don't happen to be online when a subject is being discussed you just miss it. You're never going to go back and scroll through miles of text to see what people talked about yesterday.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I'm an old man but I'm still true to my Sherdog roots.... Dirty mirror Krixes is born...

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Loved you in Kuffs

 

[Mike]

I was in high-school when I first found this site and I'll be 35 this summer.

It's crazy how time gets away from you. Sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday

 

[Karl_Hungus]

I'm an old man but I'm still true to my Sherdog roots.... Dirty mirror Krixes is born...

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[Karl_Hungus]

Well many of us have been here a decade plus, and are middle aged or approaching it. So not too surprising. I was 25 when I started lurking here. I'm 40 now

You and me both, bro. But, I'm doing just fine. I mean, look at all the cool stuff I have:

 

[bjjHERRERA]

I think the age of the average Sherdog member has increased because MMA has failed to bring in younger people, and the ones still online and watching MMA are those of us older 35 who started watching back in 2003.

or '93

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

Cliffs?

 

[deucesarewild]

That Sherdog has become less of this ^

And a lot more of this ^

I feel like this actual OP is proving its own 2nd pic, which I am okay with.

 

[Bos Docken]

How does discord even work? I thought it was like teamspeak and ventrilo where you can just talk to people through mics

Yes Discord is real-time chat.... audio, text, and even video. Ideal for live conversation with a friend group or gaming team

But it is becoming more and more common for a Discord server to be dedicated to a discussion topic, with open invitation

For example there is a public MMA Discord with 44,000 members. you can log on and talk MMA in a much more immediate way than Sherdog

Many subreddits have their own Discord communities, so a topic has a built in user base

Of course the signal-to-noise ratio is worse than message boards - You must put up with a lot more nonsense.

But that is the nature of the internet now. faster and more noisy than the message board era.

 

[Bos Docken]

Yup this makes me so sad too, because the newer forum styles are actually inferior to this one.

Social media like Facebook and Twitter only show a few replies to a post, AND only your followers see it. Sherdog is better because strangers see what you wrote and you get differing opinions which is actually healthy for you rather than some stupid echo chamber.

Discord isn't even a discussion forum, it's like a group chat. If you don't happen to be online when a subject is being discussed you just miss it. You're never going to go back and scroll through miles of text to see what people talked about yesterday.

Yep, it is much tougher to separate wheat from chaff on Discord.

But that is the nature of the internet now. More immediate. which means more chaotic

That is what younger internet users want

This might mark me out as old, but a lot of Generation Z oriented content is overwhelming to me.

I've seen stuff on TikTok and Twitch that is hugely popular but I can't make sense of it. Can't tell what the fuck is going on

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

 

[biscuitsbrah]

Yes Discord is real-time chat.... audio, text, and even video. Ideal for live conversation with a friend group or gaming team

But it is becoming more and more common for a Discord server to be dedicated to a discussion topic, with open invitation

For example there is a public MMA Discord with 44,000 members. you can log on and talk MMA in a much more immediate way than Sherdog

Many subreddits have their own Discord communities, so a topic has a built in user base

Of course the signal-to-noise ratio is worse than message boards - You must put up with a lot more nonsense.

But that is the nature of the internet now. faster and more noisy than the message board era.

How do they deal with possibly 44k people speaking at once. I don’t even understand how that would work

 

[gspieler]

No, UFC audience numbers are much higher than they were 2003. Plenty of younger people are watching MMA.

Sherdog aging out has more to do with this style of message board being "old internet."

Message boards like this have been around since the 1990s. It's ancient technology. The majority of attention and discussion has shifted to social media. Every day, the message board user community gets smaller.

Reddit and Discord are pretty much the only internet forums with growth, and their formats are much different than Sherdog.

Yup this makes me so sad too, because the newer forum styles are actually inferior to this one.

Social media like Facebook and Twitter only show a few replies to a post, AND only your followers see it. Sherdog is better because strangers see what you wrote and you get differing opinions which is actually healthy for you rather than some stupid echo chamber.

Discord isn't even a discussion forum, it's like a group chat. If you don't happen to be online when a subject is being discussed you just miss it. You're never going to go back and scroll through miles of text to see what people talked about yesterday.

The majority of mma fans probably started watching over a decade ago. The fact that the sport had small, incremental growth in the 2010's(relative to the 2000's), is not a good indicator that the average age of mma fans has not gone up from a decade+ ago, IMO.

 

[Bos Docken]

How do they deal with possibly 44k people speaking at once. I don’t even understand how that would work

Typically only about 10% of the membership are online at any one time

In the chat, you can @ a user to get their attention for direct correspondence

Or you can create a channel for a smaller community conversation within the server

Most big servers have categories of channels geared to specific subjects in the server topic