Facebook versus the message board

[admin]

It may seem hard to believe now, but a long time ago, the AHSCS Message Board was a pretty happening place with sometimes literally dozens of posts every day! There was talk about upcoming races, issues within the series, race reports, and some smack talk sprinkled in as well.

For multiple reasons, that changed and activity on the message board tapered off drastically, especially as Facebook and other social media platforms have arisen. These social media platforms are obviously convenient for keeping up with friends and family, among other things, but it seems like conversations about local racing have suffered.

On Facebook, thoughts and opinions tend to be fragmented to where you can completely miss an entire discussion if you don't happen to be Facebook friends with the right person. And then, sometimes even if you see a post pop up from a friend that turns into an interesting discussion, you may never see it again in your newsfeed, even as the conversion continues.

Personally, I'd love to see some more activity on the message board, but realize it's an uphill battle to get people back in the habit of visiting (and posting) here regularly again. If enough people start making a concerted effort to join in, however, we just might be able to get the ball rolling and have some fun chatting again about things going on at the races and in the series. So if you have any thoughts, questions, or concerns, post 'em up!

It's either that or stick to Facebook, clicking through photos of your Aunt Mildred's latest trip to Branson!

[slugnnthugn]

I would love to see this place jumping again! Bikes being posted for sale, pics of the races. It was easier to find info without having to scroll through the one facebook page looking for a post from two weeks ago. Bring this back!

[wfopete]

What they said ^ ^ ^

FB is all over the place and has too much crap posted.

[greg]

Yes what they said.

[65motos]

I would just like to be approved to join the fb page. My request to join it has be waiting on approval for months.
I think the moderators are asleep!🤣🤣🤣

[ShelbyJohnson]

You must be looking at the wrong group. Anyone can follow @OfficialAHSCS

[1dn4up]

I believe there has to be something that is worth someone (or many) logging in every day or every other day. Like a video of the week, tech tips, etc. of course you can find these things on youtube these days but would be a more personal way to interact with friends. Shelby, I always enjoyed your Gunpowder Racing blogs and bench racing segments you posted all the time. Unique things like that to keep folks coming back. Something cool maybe would be a AHSCS fantasy SX segment of sorts, something to being folks together off the track by means of this website.