I come here because it's one of the first forums I found. Missed the whole ecf thing. Lots of helpful people here who took the time of day helping me sort things out and understand stuff. I try to pay it back when I can helping other new vapers. That said the forum seems kind of slow, sometimes it'll be days and not much if anything goes on. Maybe some subforums do but in general it seems slower. Everything seems slower though.
Just a guess but I think it's a number of things. People seem far more active on fb groups or other stuff, mobile friendly mediums. I'm still a dinosaur using a pc so forums are fine for me. And I'm long winded, I'd croak if I had to rely on just a phone (though many do). I've checked the forums here from a phone and it's a pain in the ass reading long responses. On the flipside, many things can't be answered in 140 characters, not effectively.
Another may be vaping itself. It goes through phases and it sorta switched from rta/rda to mesh to squonking (no offense to juicy lucy lmao), now pod systems. I'm all for variety but when vaping goes through these phases it's all or nothing. One has a pod system, everyone makes a pod. Multiple pods and it's just pod this and pod that. Well if you don't use pods (I don't), there's a ton of boring shit. If you make your own coils and don't use mesh, more stuff to bypass. Where I used to frequently watch yt reviews of new products and would get excited about mod reviews, it went stagnant. Now I can check once a week or every two weeks and instead of 3-4 cool videos that drew me in every couple days I'm lucky to find 3-4 total after a week or two I care to even watch.
Mods haven't changed much, they pretty much capped out around 200w. There's not a whole lot of innovation going on aside from updating a mod to take 2x700's. Some are becoming water/dust resistant. Not like it was when the wattage wars were strong or tc was being improved. The few things like rda's coming out are mostly just near identical to others or updated versions of what already exists. The dead rabbit, the drop, the drop dead, the dead rabbit i dropped down the hole.. One of these days the pod (aka modern cigalike) craze will subside and maybe something cool will come out. But I also realize not everyone wants to build their own shit, mix their own juice and finger fuck their vape. Some just want factory line ready to go out of the box on/off devices that just 'work'. And I respect the value those things add to people trying to quit. Just not my cup of tea is all.
Of course, it's like the eggplant that ate cinncinnati, it just keeps expanding. It went from this:
