Walt wrote:
Steve Cramer wrote:
Dan Valleskey wrote:
I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there
any old timers still lurking about?

I check it periodically. Nothing much happening.


So, where'd everybody go? It's not like kayaking is less popular than
before (just the opposite, IMHO).

Is there a web-based watering hole where everybody gathers now? That's
what happened to the sailing and skiing newsgroups that I participate
in. Where's the rbp web substitute?

//Walt

Looks like there are now a lot of web-based forums that not only cater
to specific groups of boaters (fla****er, sea, rodeo, river running
etc.), but that are aiming at boaters from individual countries and even
regions as well. The greater numer of people online nowadays sure help
to make even pretty small forums seem as active as RBP once was. That
does come at the price of splitting an international community into such
tiny bits that not a lot of folks seem to even know that there are
others on boating forums as well any more.

The interface of those forums is different and the messages in some
forums are dropping off the page quickly. I also find the atmosphere
very different from RBP, but that may be due to a greater number of
participants influencing it. A good thing is that with many of those
forums, there are active admins who can actually do something about most
trolls.

Still, IMO, they are not a real substitute to the atmosphere of the old
RBP community of the middle to late 90's.

I will remember that time fondly, and I still am in touch with several
friends from back then. Alas, it's no more, and it's time to move on.

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