That is about what I would expect. I have joined several different forums and never posted anything, I'm just there to read. You always get some core people who post a lot and a whole lot of people who post occasionally or never.

I believe that Facebook slinging group is linked on our Social Media board, https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1701227208.  If it's a different one let me know and we can link it.


On the other topic, if you're talking about active members, we're way lower than 10%.  For "active" I generally figure that's someone who posts at least once a month.  Yeah, the bar is low.  It's slinging.  What can we do...

I keep meaning to tally some numbers to see where they actually are, but the largest percentage of slinging.org members fall into one of three categories:

• Got an account and never logged in.
• Got an account, posted an introduction, and never came back.
• Got an account and posted for a little bit (say less than 50 posts, or less than a month or two of posting).

That is easily 90% of new member sign-ups.  Maybe that's what CA was referring to with the "10%" (but I'm skeptical if it's that high).  There are also hundreds (if not thousands) of old members that aren't around anymore.  It's actually pretty hard to tally things up.

At the end of the day, it makes sense to me.  The majority of people are going to see a slinging video somewhere and say 'That's super cool!  I'm going to do it!'.  They sign up on the forum, or Facebook, or whatever.  Sling for a week or so.  Lose the "coolness" aspect.  And then drop it.  You said the membership of that Facebook group has jumped to 9000 quickly.  I'd love to know how many of those folks are actually slinging regularly.  And how many will still be slinging regularly in 6 months.  I don't mean to be pessimistic about the situation.  There are tons of activities and hobbies out there that people try and don't continue doing long-term.  If 1 out of every 100 people that sign up on this forum really get into slinging and keep doing it for years, I would call that a win.

And then there some of us who have been here for decades
But only post in spurts lol

joe_meadmaker wrote on Aug 1^st, 2024 at 11:58pm:

Just ran the numbers on this. Looking at the members tab, 12.8% of members have made more than 50 posts, and 36.2% of members have made 1 post or less. Of course, this doesn't take into account whether they're active or not. Regardless, it's kinda disappointing, but important to remember when I'm trying to get others potentially involved in slinging.

I started the Facebook group 3 1/2 years ago. It took 3 years to hit 1000. Since April to August we added another 10,000. I believe it has to do with the Facebook algorithm. After 1000 members people were seeing it as a suggested group of interest. I’m curious if membership here has grown at all. This site is promoted frequently as a place of good resources.