Why is PA dying?

For me, looks like people facing progressive rock have got more sincere and cooled down.

Rumours of her demise are greatly exaggerated...

Angelo wrote: people organised massive 'band competition polls'-

I remember those, what a pain

Angelo wrote: in general people don't come here to promote music, but socialize with like spirits.

yes I would say, after being a reference source, this is  largely a social experience (music-related of course)
 

In the last 24 hours, we had posts in 130+ topics, and more than one post in most of them - be careful not to mistake thread count for post count. Apart from that, the days we had over 1000 posts per day occurred in the times the Velvet Room was at it's peak and people organised massive 'band competition polls'- and those weren't the most useful topic when it comes to promoting music. Besides, if you really want to promote prog, the PA database and modern social media sites are more effective means - in general people don't come here to promote music, but socialize with like spirits.

Sometimes people are just busy. I usually post a lot more but damn if this systems analysis and design project isn't completely hindering my free time for the next couple of weeks.

It seems like prog is gaining even more steam in the mainstream. So I was just wondering why ppl think this site is languishing and what we could do to improve the community and get the word out. I remember when there would be 1000s of new posts a day. Now it seems lucky if we break 100, discounting the JFF section.