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Originally Posted by preston
I've noticed the big dropoff in forum participation too, including this one. Sad, because so much good information was shared. I don't really get how you are supposed to interact about car tech on IG or FB. I mean its fine if you are following a particular person or build but how does that help you figure out how to find the right main seal for your oddball motor or best approach to painting raw metal.
I don't have a solution though, I just keep randomly poking around the remaining forums when I have time. I guess I need to do my part and provide more content as well. I'm always building cool stuff but I take crappy photos they always make my stuff look like junk.
I think what I miss the most though is the professional builds from the Roadster Shop and Ironworks etc. Those threads always thrilled me, much harder to find that stuff by poking around. The Ironworks web page in particular only has 2% of the photos of their projects. I don't know if they have an IG feed or something where there is more stuff. The RS web site is good but I still miss the individula therads and comments from the owner. Rad Rides used t have a great photo gallery but their site sucks now too.
I am not on FB and I hate going on there to look at stuff, there is so much crap streaming everywhere and dumb comments and nothing seems to really stay in a coherent stream
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You make a good point, we don't see a whole lot of the threads displaying the build threads from the top end shops. But we could certainly bring it back ourselves, start a thread specifically linking builds to their websites and then reposting the links when there's updates, I feel like I could do it relatively easy if it was what the people want.
Roadstershop and Detroit speed post a ridiculous amount of pictures on their sites weekly, they literally have social media and marketing staff in house now.
I have a heavy foot in social media so I feel like I keep up to date with most builds, but I don't think I see anything on the forums anymore.
hat off to Speedtech and a couple other shops who keep us informed here, that probably is the reason I now run their subframe.
There was only a very small number of cars kept a secret for SEMA this year, Detroit speed don't keep many secrets and roadstershop only hide the last month or two of their builds, ring brothers shared almost nothing on their AMX.
My thought is that they're dipping away from forums because social media is so much easier for mass coverage.
perhaps it's our job, the people of this thread, to bring it back