I check the led section about twice a week without loging in. There is not a lot of change on it at all and what there is is the same old surefire/what light gubbins.
I use adblocker plus in firefox, so I havnt noticed any changes in their banner ads since I dont see them, anyone else noticed? (I once had a post deleted on cpf because I told someone how to get adblock to stop the banner ads, pffft)
Last year, I had about a quarter of all posts here, now it is down to around an eighth - and i don't think I'm posting a lot less than I have. In 15 months I have had around 4000 posts or around 250/month. So in January I had around 3000 of about 15000 posts. Now there are 31,000 posts so I think there have been around 4000 posts a month here since BLF's first birthday in January. I have commented on this before but am too bored with my own writing :) to go and check my posts on the post count topic. These numbers are from memory so could be far out - though the current counts as as of 5 minutes ago with rounding to make the sums easier.
Not even looked at the other place lately so no idea of recent post volume there. 5 years ago the posts there accumulated faster than I could read them even with a very long ignore list and completely passing over some topics.
Well, if my experience is common, they probably have lost a lot of traffic. I used to go there every single day. Now, I go there a couple of times a week. I guess if I just started hanging out in their budget forum it might be okay but it just seems like a lot of folks on CPF have a lot more money than I do. Go to their Marketplace and see how many modders are selling $250 flashlights; some cheaper and many a whole lot more and they instantly sell out. It is incredible to me that somebody can list a $900 Spy over there and it sells in minutes.
AWWW DAMN I just missed out on buying a $470+ shipping AAA torch...........................
It was listed at 12:18pm (my time), sold by 12.19pm.... Need to count that in seconds, considering that it takes a whole minute to load/read/decide/load page/reply/post.
Was a really good looking AAA torch though..... Id Love to have one....
Could also get 2x TK35 and 2x TK41 shipped to my door.... with another hundred left over for a V10R Ti ;)
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Traffic there may be down, but when you are on the site there is typically about 300-600 people currently online there.
So traffic at CPF is still higher than BLF by what, about a factor of 20? As I write this there are 612 folks viewing at CPF and19 here at BLF. Personally, I like it here a lot better, but then I like cheap lights!
True but since BLF has only been around for a little over a year--BLF is doing pretty darn good IMO. Give BLF time and there will be more traffic and people here at any given time compared to the other place.
I bet people are afraid to sign up over there because they are afraid of how they will be treated. People sign up here quicker because of the awesome information, great atmosphere and all the nice members (there are a handful of buttheads here too--we know and you know who you are ) and how people are treated here.
I think people don't like to log in over at CPF because of the huge scary red message they get until they have 3 authorized posts (only in subforums that count).
It's sort of interesting that BLF deals with a retail market that most people do not even know exists: cheap, bright Chinese flashlights.
A rather specialized marketplace, but pretty fascinating. I had never met anyone who had a collection of Chinese-built flashlights until I visited this place.