Maybe the headliner can have good unicycle pictures, like UDC, and it’ll be more appealing
I think it sounds reasonable. Maybe you could ask Klaas_Bil to get good pictures. He has for years made calendars with 12 great photos.
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That’s 100% me too 
On most other forums I never become a registered user, because I already get my answers.
The difference here has also been that I knew other users personally and we were planning meetings on this platform.
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Obligatory reference for us geezers.
Vinyl was big in its day. Then came along CDs and vinyl sales went way down. Now vinyl, from what I’ve heard, is making some gains and is increasing in popularity. Ebb and flow with the times.
Mentioning the forum is likely the best way to foster new growth. At worst you get called a “weirdo”. At best someone looks it up and becomes and active contributing member of said forum. I personally feel the forums are a great repository of info. I’ve used the search function a fair number of times to great effect in finding and answer.
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3 posts were split to a new topic: Increase of seemingly not genuine users
As an ant keeper I was searching for the largest ant forum to join. The AI proposed AntsCanada forum (30000-35000registered users said AI) to be the largest one. But the last active posts were more or less from 2017. I saw the same happening to many other ant forums too, bleeding out of members. I found a discussion there like on this thread. Same problems, just the words uni and ant are swapped. It is not the forum’s fault, ant, uni or whatever. It is just the time that changed people’s behaviour.
Summary (AI generated):
This German ant-keeping forum thread discusses the declining activity and uncertain future of “Ameisenforum,” which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year. Members attribute the decline to several factors: the shift from traditional forums to faster platforms like Discord and WhatsApp, the ability to obtain information and order ants anonymously online without community interaction, and interpersonal conflicts that have damaged the community over time. Some forum veterans feel that everything has already been documented repeatedly, making new contributions seem redundant, while others argue that active reports and human exchange still have value that AI cannot replace. Despite acknowledging these challenges as part of a natural evolution affecting hobby communities across various topics, participants hope the forum can continue serving as a quality resource with helpful information for interested ant keepers.
The only difference between our forum and the ants forum is that we respect each other and really enjoy the fun of conversation here (uni or off topic). Hey, thanks to all that we have so much fun here right now, you’re all awesome 
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Is this summary, that you just posted, written by you or by an LLM AI tool?!
The summary has been written by a LLM, sure I use exactly that what is claimed to destroy forums.
I think that’s really sad. Any hobby thrives on an accessible and active community. It bridges the gap from i have/can do thing to pushing yourself or others further as part of a community. There is a validation of having a problem and finding multiple people have had the same one and have advice how to get through it. There’s always more to learn, do or document. The day that everything about unicycling becomes “solved” is the day the last unicycle has been scrapped.
Forums are easy to find, search within and join while Discord and especially Whatsapp are exclusive for those that are already included or know where to look. This doesn’t help new people coming into the hobby.
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I think migrating from a forum format to a social media format would be the way to attract new Users/riders and others who may only be Uni-curious. Create a unicycle based Maston instance?
Yeah, that’s ironic. Thanks for clarifying though.
I don’t come here to read AI-generated texts/comments. This isn’t about any specific person, but in general: I’d appreciate if people were to clearly mark text generated by AI – in case they even feel that it’s a good idea to post AI-generated texts.
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Totally right. I corrected the post
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I have a long record of being wrong about things, but, I haven’t seen that “new” things like Facebook, etc., offer more to a potential reader/user than something like this forum offers them. I found this place by searching for answers using Google, realized that I had wound up here a few times, and decided to make an account.
The biggest draw for me is the searchable content, and the interesting collection of other people here. And it seems to me that the right people to answer questions frequent this site, huge draw, IMHO.
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Same with me
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This is the only place I know to visit other unicyclist. Good job.
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I think most of us can relate to that 
As far as the rest of your post goes, I can pretty much 100% agree. Plus, I‘m not on so called social media.
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