This has come up a number of times in the past year or so. Most of the lack of posting seems to be attributed to Facebook. Forum posting seems to have become "your father's Oldsmobile."  In my Sunbeam Tiger world we had an email based way of communicating through AutoX. 10-15 years ago there were 20+ related emails rolling in every day. Now a week can go by and there is nothing.

 Also, over the past few years we have had about 3-4 long time posters (Dianne and Fred Morgan come to mind) who have past away.  Others seem to have indicated they were offended here and have either dropped off or only lurk, but don't post. I find that aspect rather sad.  There was one poster who seemed to instigate but frankly he has been gone for well over a year now.  So unless there are other things I'm unaware of my hope is that those offended by that particular poster will return.

We may also be over the hump of Pinto's and their interest.  The bottom line is that as time goes by there will be less Pintos for people to have interest in. And as we all pass on there will be less people who have interest in Pintos. Those who have the remaining Pintos will have fixed them to a functional level.  So, the need for input will diminish.  I also believe the collector car realm seems to have more people today who buy (decent) cars and have others repair their cars. They are more enthusiasts than hobbyists.  Thus they are not come to sites like the PCCA for advise.

What I do find interesting is I am on a Studebaker forum.  There were a little over three million Pinto's manufactured and from what I find a bit less than five million Studebakers. So the total production of those cars is not too far apart.  Also Studebaker has been out of business for over 50 years now.  The last Pinto was manufactured 36 years ago.  When you factor that you would think the "interest" would be close strictly based on numbers and maybe greater in the Pinto based on time from last manufacture and well as the parent company still exists.  That said the Studebaker site has traffic ten to twenty times what we get here.  Now, this might be the difference. The Studebaker site has the appearance of posters being predominantly 60 years old - and up.  Here at the PCCA the posters seem to be predominantly 60 years old - and younger.

But who knows??? So, I'll more directly ask the questions:

 If you frequent this site and have decreased your posting, why?

If you frequent this site but generally don't post, why (kink of a stupid question because I doubt people who don't post will answer - but I had to ask)?

For me it comes down to time. Life gets in the way at times & prevents me from posting as much as I'd like to. I mainly update my restoration post & don't see much new so it's hard to really post much

When away working I seldom get on line or post. No time. Work is taking all my hours...... about 15+ a day.
No shop time, so nothing to report on my projects.
Just tonight I was going to show a fellow the engine running video & couldn't find it on my computer. Had to look in my B2 car topic.
We started working 7 day weeks....will catch up on the next long week end in about 9 days.