I must say that I agree!Having started to post a few images years ago and getting in to the spirit of the site more I started uni and from then on (including now I work) I just don't have the time to fire up Photoshop or paint to make anything worth posting. I'm always disappointed when I log onto /board nowadays but I do feel that people like me not actually contributing anything is also a problem. A busy bar gets busier and a quiet bar gets quieter of course. So they, whoever they are, told me when I worked in pubs at uni.
Before uni I used computers for fun, now I use them at work and I just don't want to sit in front of a screen all evening as well.
I also think as a member of 11 years, and unregistered viewer for a few years before (2001 or 2002? I can't remember when the site started!), that the internet has changed significantly since then. Back when the site started people like Joel Vietch and Jonty, among many other talented folk, were cocking about with their sites and promoting their material on here which inspired others to post and so on. This isn't meant as a slight on them but a few years down the line, maybe 6 or 7 years ago these chaps started appearing on news channels being interviewed about the internet and stuff. The people that started and really gave b3ta a kick up the arse have used it as a platform to build on and gone on to other things. With the advent of social media there seems to be fewer people around with the time or ability to knock up amusing pictures in Photoshop etc. I may not have chosen the best examples, as I say I'm far too busy now to spend large amounts of time on the internet. I'm mostly typing this to delay having to go out and be disappointed by a not-starting motorbike, but it is something I feel, with rose-tinted glasses no doubt, passionate about.
/rant over
God I'm boring.
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Sun 7 Dec 2014, 14:05,
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Before uni I used computers for fun, now I use them at work and I just don't want to sit in front of a screen all evening as well.
I also think as a member of 11 years, and unregistered viewer for a few years before (2001 or 2002? I can't remember when the site started!), that the internet has changed significantly since then. Back when the site started people like Joel Vietch and Jonty, among many other talented folk, were cocking about with their sites and promoting their material on here which inspired others to post and so on. This isn't meant as a slight on them but a few years down the line, maybe 6 or 7 years ago these chaps started appearing on news channels being interviewed about the internet and stuff. The people that started and really gave b3ta a kick up the arse have used it as a platform to build on and gone on to other things. With the advent of social media there seems to be fewer people around with the time or ability to knock up amusing pictures in Photoshop etc. I may not have chosen the best examples, as I say I'm far too busy now to spend large amounts of time on the internet. I'm mostly typing this to delay having to go out and be disappointed by a not-starting motorbike, but it is something I feel, with rose-tinted glasses no doubt, passionate about.
/rant over
God I'm boring.