The death of a forum

Nerik · July 29, 2016

This week was a pretty sad one in terms of my "online life". The Liverpool forum I have formed part of for nearly 13yrs has closed down. I am referring to www.bOOTroom.org

This was a forum set up by a group of posters who had been kicked out of LFC Online back in 2003 (long story). It was group of people who had got to know each other online. We were from different parts of the world. From England,Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Australia, India, USA, Singapore, Malta etc. We are all united by our love for Liverpool. Over the years most of us even managed to meet up and go and watch games together. It was a great forum, but there was one major problem. Being set up by a group of "friends" who had been through the LFC Online saga together, it was always hard for new comers to feel as if they'd fit in. New posters would join up and whilst some great guys remained and grew to form part of our community, many others dropped out after a while. Then, as with all small groups, the inevitable happened. Some people fell out of love with online life and posted less regularly. Others got married, moved etc. and could not keep in touch as much as they did before. Others also fell out, as often happens online and often over some trivial comment, and left. Over the past couple of years the amount of posts per day has dwindled significantly. It no longer made sense to keep the forum going as the cost was being shared by an increasingly smaller group of people. We've decided to instead move our chats to a Facebook group.

Enough of my sob story. There are still great Liverpool forums around, starting from this one

charlie clown · July 29, 2016

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