Facebook is the death of forums.
Bush Flyers Down under for one example, has over 13,000 members.
GA pilots has 7,000 members.
Functionality is the key, for example if I like what you’ve written and want to show that I agree with it, here I have to respond to the post, whereas on Facebook I can simply like it.
Plus, the Facebook groups are run by people who are passionate about aviation, not just a company that makes money from advertising.
There’s also another forum out there that has gone from thousands of members to just a handful of peanuts posting a few times a week. The only reason why that one survives is because Facebook allows all users to report bad behaviour easily, so the power-hungry types are soon outed and blocked, so they go elsewhere to spread their hidden agendas.
Video killed the radio star.