FWIW, I HATE FB. IT's trerrible for archiving conversations or finding anything that didn't happen in the last few minutes. So, if this group goes somewhere better, I'd be happy.
-----Original Message----- From: h-costume <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lavolta Press Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2019 5:48 PM To: Historical Costume <[email protected]> Subject: [h-cost] New forums/groups I will add that if we use a mission statement to recruit people to the h-costume list, the old one was great except Facebook did not exist then. The many costume groups on Facebook are largely show and tell. If people want that there is no reason to leave Facebook. So I think it is important to say this group is for longer and more substantive discussions than the Facebook format allows, not just for people to post photos and have everyone say they love the outfit. Let alone posting photos and have everyone tear it down. As for cautionary tales: Amazon used to host a ton of forums on various subjects. I belonged to a very active and interesting forum related to books. Amazon decided they no longer wanted to support forums, so the book forum and many others disappeared. People who had loved the book forum were very disappointed. So, different people created different forums on three different platforms, each supposed to be a follow-on of the original forum. That was at least a year ago, and none of those forums has taken off. The one I see most often has about six active users. Fran Lavolta Press www.lavoltapress.com On 4/27/2019 5:36 PM, Lavolta Press wrote: > I see zero need for a whole new forum. > > > Fran _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
