Is this site dying out — General Discussion on True Nudists

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Oct 22, 2008

Is it my imagination or does it seem like this site is dying out. I hope its my imagination, because I kind of like it here, there is a lot of friendly ppl hereand many more that I would like to get to know

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Thomas
Oct 22, 2008
I don't think this site is dying out, I know the chat room is alive and well.
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Swifthawk
Oct 22, 2008
I don't think it's dying out at all. The chatroom is very popular and we now have at least 3 people with over 100 posts on the forums, with more hot on our heels. That to me says that it's alive and kicking. What makes you think it's dying out?
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ME
MemberOriginal Poster
Oct 22, 2008
Trying to get answers out of TT1
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Swifthawk
Oct 23, 2008
What kind of answers are you looking for? Didn't you say in another post that he had responded to an email by you saying that he's pretty tied up with site maintenance? I have always suspected that it would be a great amount of work to keep this site up and running, not to mention approving pics, profiles, answering flag's, and moderating when he can. In the short amount of time that I've been here, I've seen this place grow in leaps and bounds, so I would imagine that he's swamped. Throw in real life and I'm sure his head is spinning.

The thing we have to keep in mind is that this site is free, 100% free. With that comes limitations in time management from the site admins. As far as free sites go, this site is pretty good. The forums are pretty free of filth ,as is the chatrooms and for the most part the maintence of the site is good (pics being approved, site running smoothly and the like). So, in my minds eye, other than his absence from the chatroom and forums, there is really little to complain about. Basically, what I'm trying to say, is that we do have it pretty good and we shoudn't complain too loudly, as we aren't paying a thing for it. I'm sure that with the amount of time TT1 has put into this site, he will not want it to go down the crapper. I would imagine that once he get's thing sorted he will let us know what's going on, peruse the forums and maybe come up with some ideas on how to share his obviously large work load.
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ME
Member
Oct 23, 2008
Not too sure where you got that idea from we just hit 3k users! This site is a community. As cool as I am, I don't think 3000 people have joined to hear from me. It's a site for you users to enjoy each other's company and I will inject my dry humor here and there. I am here, lurking silently, fighting pervs with the click of the mouse. I've elaborated on the issue and some ways to help me below. Please give it a read.http://www.truenudists.com/blog/2008/10/3000-users/
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Member
Oct 23, 2008
[quote]What kind of answers are you looking for? Didn't you say in another post that he had responded to an email by you saying that he's pretty tied up with site maintenance? I have always suspected that it would be a great amount of work to keep this site up and running, not to mention approving pics, profiles, answering flag's, and moderating when he can. In the short amount of time that I've been here, I've seen this place grow in leaps and bounds, so I would imagine that he's swamped. Throw in real life and I'm sure his head is spinning. The thing we have to keep in mind is that this site is free, 100% free. With that comes limitations in time management from the site admins. As far as free sites go, this site is pretty good. The forums are pretty free of filth ,as is the chatrooms and for the most part the maintence of the site is good (pics being approved, site running smoothly and the like). So, in my minds eye, other than his absence from the chatroom and forums, there is really little to complain about. Basically, what I'm trying to say, is that we do have it pretty good and we shoudn't complain too loudly, as we aren't paying a thing for it. I'm sure that with the amount of time TT1 has put into this site, he will not want it to go down the crapper. I would imagine that once he get's thing sorted he will let us know what's going on, peruse the forums and maybe come up with some ideas on how to share his obviously large work load.[/quote] Swifty, I hate to differ with you, but as I have said before, the site is NOT free. SOMEONE is paying for the electric, internet access, cooling, hardware maintenance and possibly software updates. It just happens to NOT be US. I think that distinction needs to be made. I know in my case that running the server I ran would have been easier if people had understood that a little more. Especially when it comes to a problem, and there is always a problem. Once you have a big blowup, you start saying things like; "Why am I trying so hard to get this web site back up?" In any case, I never saw the site as dying out, more like overrun. I wish I were good at html/java, etc. He seems to need someone there. Thanks -Jerry
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Swifthawk
Oct 23, 2008
[quote][quote]What kind of answers are you looking for? Didn't you say in another post that he had responded to an email by you saying that he's pretty tied up with site maintenance? I have always suspected that it would be a great amount of work to keep this site up and running, not to mention approving pics, profiles, answering flag's, and moderating when he can. In the short amount of time that I've been here, I've seen this place grow in leaps and bounds, so I would imagine that he's swamped. Throw in real life and I'm sure his head is spinning. The thing we have to keep in mind is that this site is free, 100% free. With that comes limitations in time management from the site admins. As far as free sites go, this site is pretty good. The forums are pretty free of filth ,as is the chatrooms and for the most part the maintence of the site is good (pics being approved, site running smoothly and the like). So, in my minds eye, other than his absence from the chatroom and forums, there is really little to complain about. Basically, what I'm trying to say, is that we do have it pretty good and we shoudn't complain too loudly, as we aren't paying a thing for it. I'm sure that with the amount of time TT1 has put into this site, he will not want it to go down the crapper. I would imagine that once he get's thing sorted he will let us know what's going on, peruse the forums and maybe come up with some ideas on how to share his obviously large work load.[/quote] Swifty, I hate to differ with you, but as I have said before, the site is NOT free. SOMEONE is paying for the electric, internet access, cooling, hardware maintenance and possibly software updates. It just happens to NOT be US. I think that distinction needs to be made. I know in my case that running the server I ran would have been easier if people had understood that a little more. Especially when it comes to a problem, and there is always a problem. Once you have a big blowup, you start saying things like; "Why am I trying so hard to get this web site back up?" In any case, I never saw the site as dying out, more like overrun. I wish I were good at html/java, etc. He seems to need someone there. Thanks -Jerry [/quote] Hehe...Jr, I think you misunderstood me, mate. I was refering to the site being 100% free for our use, not free in general. Nothing in life is free and I know full well that there are major costs in operating a site such as this. I guess in a muddy way, the point I was trying to make in my post, is that as we aren't paying for it, we shouldn't be too demanding. Now, if this site were like other sites and charged us to send messages, chat, whatever, then ofcourse we should have higher expectations. I've seen sites that offer similar features as to this one and they will charge you like $50+ USD for every three months and here we are, not obligated to pay anything. Hehe...I don't know, I guess coming from some pretty crappy nudists sites, I'm so very thankful to have this one that I try to keep my bitching to a minimum. Not that I don't think we have the right to, we do to a degree, we just need to keep in mind that we aren't paying for the privlege to post here.
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Member
Oct 23, 2008
[quote] Swifty, I hate to differ with you, but as I have said before, the site is NOT free. SOMEONE is paying for the electric, internet access, cooling, hardware maintenance and possibly software updates. It just happens to NOT be US. I think that distinction needs to be made. I know in my case that running the server I ran would have been easier if people had understood that a little more. Especially when it comes to a problem, and there is always a problem. Once you have a big blowup, you start saying things like; "Why am I trying so hard to get this web site back up?" In any case, I never saw the site as dying out, more like overrun. I wish I were good at html/java, etc. He seems to need someone there [/quote] Have to agree with Jerry, their are costs involved let alone the time. On site I do belong to is free, but you are limited to what you get for free, a small fee will get you a full membership and acess to everything and the pictures are protected as much as they can be, the Admin are on top of everything and do inter act with others, the $$ goes right to the site only for maintainance, upgrades, I see TT1 did chime in here and said we had hit the 3K mark and is busy checking people with paper signs, should be checking people who have no profiles and misleading pictures. But I am not seeing any improvements in the Forums area, the program for this board should allow for adjustments in the way it is done like this topic, when you go to the forum and "Is this site dying out" you should go to the last post made not have to work you way to the last post. As far as HTML I know, JAVA I don't, web sites I know, JAVA I don't. h1 /h1
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ME
Member
Oct 23, 2008
Now how did this get in here ( h1 /h1 ) HTML on this site is tricky!
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ME
Member
Oct 23, 2008
[quote][quote] Swifty, I hate to differ with you, but as I have said before, the site is NOT free. SOMEONE is paying for the electric, internet access, cooling, hardware maintenance and possibly software updates. It just happens to NOT be US. I think that distinction needs to be made. I know in my case that running the server I ran would have been easier if people had understood that a little more. Especially when it comes to a problem, and there is always a problem. Once you have a big blowup, you start saying things like; "Why am I trying so hard to get this web site back up?" In any case, I never saw the site as dying out, more like overrun. I wish I were good at html/java, etc. He seems to need someone there [/quote] Have to agree with Jerry, their are costs involved let alone the time. On site I do belong to is free, but you are limited to what you get for free, a small fee will get you a full membership and acess to everything and the pictures are protected as much as they can be, the Admin are on top of everything and do inter act with others, the $$ goes right to the site only for maintainance, upgrades, I see TT1 did chime in here and said we had hit the 3K mark and is busy checking people with paper signs, should be checking people who have no profiles and misleading pictures. But I am not seeing any improvements in the Forums area, the program for this board should allow for adjustments in the way it is done like this topic, when you go to the forum and "Is this site dying out" you should go to the last post made not have to work you way to the last post. As far as HTML I know, JAVA I don't, web sites I know, JAVA I don't. h1 /h1[/quote] Hmmm, well maybe after the stream of certifications and locations and pictures is done, then maybe he can focus on that. But then again, he did empower us. He told us to use the flag to mark those that are bad apples. Sooooo it's flagaroonie time...... Thanks Jerry
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Member
Oct 23, 2008
[quote][quote][/quote] But then again, he did empower us. He told us to use the flag to mark those that are bad apples. Sooooo it's flagaroonie time...... Thanks Jerry[/quote] Oh no not the dreaded " Flagaroonie Man"
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Member
Oct 23, 2008
[quote]Not too sure where you got that idea from we just hit 3k users! This site is a community. As cool as I am, I don't think 3000 people have joined to hear from me. It's a site for you users to enjoy each other's company and I will inject my dry humor here and there. I am here, lurking silently, fighting pervs with the click of the mouse. I've elaborated on the issue and some ways to help me below. Please give it a read.http://www.truenudists.com/blog/2008/10/3000-users/[/quote]Your doing a great job teamtrue1, we encourage the utmost of good nudity conduct amongst our Christian Naturist group, as we try to set the example by emphasizing Christian values, we want to invite all those who value these qualities to come and join us in the Christian Naturist group, and to be active members of the largest growing group here at TN. It is not because of what we do but what God is doing through us, as we set the good example to all the world wide web that good nudity exists today just as it did in the beginning when God made man and women in His image and likeness, naked unashamed. We can make the difference in the eyes of the world about good nudity today especially from a Christian perspective, if God is for us then who can come against us.
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MemberOriginal Poster
Oct 23, 2008
Boy did I ever stir up a Hornets nest which I am very sorry for. I had a very frustrating day and couldn't figure out how to do something on one of my groups. I guess I just need to sit back take it easy and be quite. I'm sorry if I riled anyone up, especiaoly TT1 I know he is spending a lot of time and time keeping this site running right. So I guess I will just sit back and keep my mouth shut and wait for things to happen
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Philfreeeuk
Oct 23, 2008
[quote]Is it my imagination or does it seem like this site is dying out. I hope its my imagination, because I kind of like it here, there is a lot of friendly ppl hereand many more that I would like to get to know[/quote] If you click on "Nudists" at the top next to "Home" it gives you the current profile count. At time of writing it is 3,026, when I joined a few weeks back it was only 1,800, so it's nearly doubled in the last month or so.
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Thomas
Oct 23, 2008
[quote][quote]Is it my imagination or does it seem like this site is dying out. I hope its my imagination, because I kind of like it here, there is a lot of friendly ppl hereand many more that I would like to get to know[/quote] If you click on "Nudists" at the top next to "Home" it gives you the current profile count. At time of writing it is 3,026, when I joined a few weeks back it was only 1,800, so it's nearly doubled in the last month or so.[/quote] When I joined a couple of months ago, there were around 700. This site has really grown since I joined. There have been a few people who have joined who have caused problems but the ones I know about have quickly been banned.
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ME
Member
Dec 27, 2008
I hope not, I just joined
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Member
Dec 27, 2008
How can one say that a site is 'dying out'. What you get out of this site, is what you put in to it. The more active you are with posting comments, emailing others, posting photos, FILLING OUT PROFILES, so that others get to know who you are, will get you the response and activity that you seek. This site is a tool, and like any other tool, if you let it just sit on the bench and don't use it, nothing happens, pick up the tool and use it, and the creation that comes from it is limited by only you. Keep in mind, that we are in the midst of the busiest season of the year for most, and that there will be cyclic activity that surges and subsides throughout the year. Let me guess that once the holiday season has passed, that activity will pick up again. But in the end, you will get back what you put out, and btw, if you put out what is in line with the community, you will be welcomed by a group of wonderful people who have a commnon thread.
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Philfreeeuk
Dec 27, 2008
[quote]I hope not, I just joined[/quote] Don't see how you can think that. If you read this thread though, sure we've had a few teething probs, but over all, it's going from strength to strength. New members are joining at the rate of nearly 1,000 a week, and if you look at the posts here, you can tell a lot of them are new cos they only have one or two posts to their name. I hardly call that dying out. And we have an admin that actually asks US for suggestions and is constantly adding improvements and responds to e-mails queries. That's pretty damn good I'd say! Phil :)
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Member
Dec 27, 2008
If you look at the thread it was started and died over three months ago. Things where slow to get started and there was an issue or two that have been fixed and a few others that have come up in that time. Seems to me that things are alive and well here and growing stronger by the day. Take some time and look around. You'll find that there is in fact quite a bit of activity. You just have to jump in feet first and get involved. Join a conversation in the forum, check into the chat room, or jump into some of the groups. Before you know it you'll have more friends than you can shake a stick at and you'll have a hard time not checking in here at least once a day to see what's new on the board.
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tim1954
Jan 4, 2009
i hope this site is not dieing out robin an i just got on an are finding our way around and try to chat its fun and fun to chat we are aanr members and members of a c o camp here in ny and in the winter were nude at home when the girls are not here but this site gives us a chance to interact with other fellow nudists we would not be able to other wise lack of funds to go somewhere warmer in winter tim robin
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