Do you think it's the format or just the fact that when a newbie looks here they find nothing?

I know the other 2 boards I frequent show pages of new posts or updated threads every half hour and if you miss a day, 23 pages of them. Here, most of the time I click New Posts I get the nothing new message.

The death of this place actually happened years ago when they switched to vBullcr@p software while the boards that seem to thrive use something a bit more friendly and clearly laid out.

I stay for the interaction with old virtual friends but for real discussions about similar gear and music, I need to go elsewhere unfortunately.