Decline in popularity of IAH; Where are you now?

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The penetration of social media has tremendously affected forums like this. Anyway, this post is not about the reasons why there was a decline, but is a reconnaissance post in finding where is the wealth of information now? Where do newbies go to ask stupid questions, about compatibility between "Parrot Fish" and Gouramis? Where to intermediate hobbyists go to ask for their DIY LED Unit builds?

There are plenty of "Pages" on facebook and instagram but they are not even remotely close to the expanse of information held by active forum posters. Also, lets be real, we all chose to post on mostly anonymous hobby forums because we're not social butterflies like the average social media user Chuckle

My question is simple, where are all you people? I see a few names still somewhat regular but a huge chunk have disappeared. I myself only seldom post here anymore.

What about the community coming together to give the forum a boost? We could pitch in donations, help the mods plan out photo-contests, meet-ups, giveaways etc.

Seasoned hobbyists pretty much have most of the knowledge they require. New hobbyists are nowadays lazy buggers who cant be bothered to do research and need instant spoon-fed info that they get from Whatsapp groups or FB where generally they get sold a quick fix product that they dont really need by one of the numerous sellers that exist nowadays.

Unfortunately this is the norm currently Very Happy

This question I always have in mind, but for sure its not only IAH, but most of the forums loosing its charm due to social media. But for sure nothing can replace the forum knowledge.

I don't use social media. I post regularly on this forum. Its the people who make the community, hopefully things will turn around!

I am still around and frequently read all posts. Even I hate the fact that people have moved to Social media from here.
there are 100s of groups that serve the same purpose. I would still rely on IAH for any of my queries.

I would request all old members to drop in to say a 'Hello' on this thread. Smile

While Social Media may have temporarily taken over forums, it will never be an able or an ideal substitute. I have nothing but contempt for FB type sites parading as sources of knowledge. Forums are forums and I will wait till the significance of such forums is realised by social media 'converts'.

Till then, 'Hello'. Smile

For me.. I frequently use the site to look up projects and queries that members have posted and to get Tank Ideas. The other source for me is Youtube. With a lot of established channels there i can get a lot of info from there as well.

First of all I would like to say 'Hello".
Request the hobbyist who are reading this thread to put a word across to the old members if they are in contact with them and help IAH to regain its old glory.

Hello!

I'm fortunate to have witnessed the forum at its full glory at the time I joined the forum.

It seems to me that most of the seniors got so serious with the hobby that they finally graduated to next level and are into commercial business of aquatics. Others may have taken a break.

There's hundreds of entries by Indians in IAPLC, I doubt whether they have accounts in IAH. Even if they have, they are not active. Clearly they are sharing and obtaining knowledge from International Forums. If these guys get active here and share their expertise, I'm sure we'll get the crowd.

regards,

Anyone knows where is Beta, Rasiknayak, retro_gk (Rahul) ?

Are they still active in the hobby? I miss the old days of IAH.

Hi ,

Really one time lot of post will be uploaded and lot of content to read and improve the knowledge but very sad now days very few post are getting uploaded also lot of post goes unattended or no reply at all which also give negative impact for that particular member and the last we should have at least one meet once in a month to be honest i have also not attended the meet for quite a long time so i will be happy to be part of the next meet if anybody take the initiative.

regards