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Icelander53

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Just curious. I have noticed that posting is slowed considerably on the weekends. I would think the opposite. What's going on here?
 
Most weekends I'm busy with family stuff so getting online takes a backseat. I have more free time to get online during the week oddly enough. I imagine it's the same for a lot of other folks.

However, I'm all alone this weekend since the wife and kid are off bonding so I'm left to my own devices, which is mainly moving as little as possible.
 
Yeah, Icelander53, I noticed that too, and I thought the same thing. I figgered they were too busy, buying new Ukes or trying out new and different strings.

I suppose there's also a chance that they are playing at jam sessions, etc . . . :eek:ld:
 
I think it has a lot to do with the return of nicer weather. Folks have all sorts of other stuff that they have to, or want to, do when the weather is nice.

And, this particular weekend, many UUer's are at Ukulele World Congress, and out of touch, temporarily....
 
mailman said:
I think it has a lot to do with the return of nicer weather. Folks have all sorts of other stuff that they have to, or want to, do when the weather is nice.

And, this particular weekend, many UUer's are at Ukulele World Congress, and out of touch, temporarily....
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I noticed it all year but I don't have a life so I get to post everyday.
 
Quit tip toeing around, working people post more on week days during working hours, when they are stuck on their work computer.
 
Rllink said:
Quit tip toeing around, working people post more on week days during working hours, when they are stuck on their work computer.
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Even though we've never met you know me oh so well.
 
Pippin said:
Things pick up a lot in the winter. This time of year in the USA, people are out playing. :)
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Despite frigid cold, this past winter did not pick up as it has in the past; there were threads this winter about how slow it was here, Pip.
 
Rllink said:
Quit tip toeing around, working people post more on week days during working hours, when they are stuck on their work computer.
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Yep. This exactly.

As a computer serf, I try to spend my weekends living more... analog than digital. Most of my posting is done during work downtime... which sometimes happens on the weekend as well, but rarely.
 
OK I think we have a valid reason with the computer at work stuff. I myself am retired so the days are all the same to me.
 
coolkayaker1 said:
Despite frigid cold, this past winter did not pick up as it has in the past; there were threads this winter about how slow it was here, Pip.
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What are ukulele sales like? Is there a noticeable drop, too?

Ukulele has been trendy for a while. It's still more of a "novelty" (for a lack of better word) instrument than, say, guitar, so slowdowns in popularity are probably normal.

When I played Go (Asian board game) a lot, there was a massive spike when the Japanese manga and anime "Hikaru no Go" was really popular worldwide (it featured the game) and activity on the online servers and forums surged. The popularity waned again after a few years and Go became once more somewhat of a niche game in the west with a much smaller community and fewer newbies.
 
For those of working age the weekends are family time, getting outside time, actually engaging with life. Weekdays folks are looking for a 10 minute sabbatical from their office work on the computer and it's nice to unwind at night at catch up on the day's forum gabble that you've missed.

Add to that a lot of our membership are older people and semi retired. Through the week is downtime for them but on weekends the opportunities for socialising, going to the theatre, a park, a movie, a picnic etc are more opportune perhaps.

Last of all there are the folks like me who have no life at all, and are incapacitated, anti-social hermits who are endlessly frustrated by that block of three of five hours that occur daily (in my time in Oz between 4pm and 9pm) when the UU is a ghost town and the tumbleweeds blow. Yup, here comes another sorry lookin one now...

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Hippie Dribble said:
Last of all there are the folks like me who have no life at all, and are incapacitated, anti-social hermits who are endlessly frustrated by that block of three of five hours that occur daily (in my time in Oz between 4pm and 9pm) when the UU is a ghost town and the tumbleweeds blow. Yup, here comes another sorry lookin one now...

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But that "tumbleweed" time of yours gives the rest of us something to read in the morning. Or, while at work. On the weekends. :)

Bill
 
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Mivo said:
Ukulele has been trendy for a while. It's still more of a "novelty" (for a lack of better word) instrument than, say, guitar...
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One of the Disney princesses, the Littlest Mermaid, plays uke, right? That influences at least one demographic. Yeah, novelty trends are quirky. Some last, some don't; c.f. skateboards vs hula hoops. In photography, really horrible film cameras like the Holga and Diana (plastic lenses, light leaks, double exposures) are 'hip' enough to drive film sales and keep some firms producing raw films. Is Disney [shudder] saving the uke?

[I shudder because Disney has destroyed the public domain in intellectual property. But that's another subject. Don't get me started on Nestle's either.]

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Last of all there are the folks like me who have no life at all, and are incapacitated, anti-social hermits...
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I'm only slightly incapacitated. Otherwise, I've been close enough to that model... and yeah, we grumpy old phartz are the mainstay of many online forums. Free time + obsessions + attitudes = lively discussions.
 
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First off, to Ice53 - great topic for a thread, I've been thinking about this to for a while, on and off, and was curious as to the cause...Kudos to you!

Hippie Dribble said:
For those of working age the weekends are family time, getting outside time, actually engaging with life. Weekdays folks are looking for a 10 minute sabbatical from their office work on the computer and it's nice to unwind at night at catch up on the day's forum gabble that you've missed.

Add to that a lot of our membership are older people and semi retired. Through the week is downtime for them but on weekends the opportunities for socialising, going to the theatre, a park, a movie, a picnic etc are more opportune perhaps.
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In the 2 yrs since I joined I've noticed that about a dozen folks who were on the forum every day, creating interesting new threads and/or contributing significantly with great info to other threads, who are simply absent now for over a year. Tudorp, OldePhart and Uke Munga come to mind, there are others as well...

Luckily, some folks that joined around the time that I did, as well as some 'old-timers' here have stepped up to fill the void. I wont name names and call out anyone, but we, and they know who they are, and I thank and appreciate them too.

Also I remember that from Oct 2013 thru about Jan 2014, this forum was a hotbed of activity (maybe an surge/influx of new members? who rec'd ukes for Xmas?) and after about April of that year, MANY of those folks are not visible in threads for a LONG time now as well. Maybe they gave up the uke since their so-called friends told them it was uncool, but I'd like to think that life got busy and then will return some day.

This past (2014/2015) winter's activity on the forum was pretty low compared to the time referenced above in the previous year. It seems to me that activity is down here on average. When I hit the 'What's New' button, whether logged in or not, there seem to be fewer NEW threads, and lower activity on threads that are only a few days old.

I think also that many new members do not know how to SUBSCRIBE to threads via email notification, and as such, after a day or two of a new member creating a thread, they forget to manually go back and check it. A result of this, to me it seems, that many threads created by new folks with a low post count seem to fizzle out quickly, since the OP is no longer part of the conversation. I dunno...it saddens me that folks dont put up the effort to utilize or learn about all the tools available to them on this (and other forums) and maximize their use to ENGAGE with others, but I am not an expert either. To each his own I guess.

Yes, I have been told TOO MANY TIMES before, that I have too much time on my hands, and I sincerely detest that phrase, but these are my perceptions of almost daily use of this forum for 2 yrs.

Hippie Dribble said:
Last of all there are the folks like me who have no life at all, and are incapacitated, anti-social hermits who are endlessly frustrated by that block of three of five hours that occur daily (in my time in Oz between 4pm and 9pm) when the UU is a ghost town and the tumbleweeds blow. Yup, here comes another sorry lookin one now...
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Brother Tumbleweed :), I too have been accused of being a contented hermit (by friends and family). I 'work' from home, at the computer all day (writing software now), and have to discipline myself to stay off this forum (and reddit, slashdot, hacker news, techmeme, etc) and actually try to get some work done. (But I ALWAYS have a uke by my side at my desk :music:)

Also when gas prices were over $3/gallon, I had to really justify leaving the house, and got used to having things delivered 'free' in 2 days via Amazon Prime.

For a while it was like, 'outside, WHAT is THAT all about?' but now gas prices are lower, weather is better, and lots of live music to get out and see, so maybe I am just a selective hermit. I see nothing wrong with being a hermit, but YMMV. :shaka:
 
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