Forum Consolidation Announcement

I think it looks good.....but I think the classifieds will be missed as a service.

I didn't see a request for feedback - where was that?  I check in on TriTalk occasionally, but not focusing on pinned posts. I look at active questions from users.  Th rest of my time I spent in my state forum and I use BT blogger (PLEASE DON"T GET RID OF THAT!!!).   I had an RSS feed for my state forum so that I was notified of new posts, so I could make sure to respond to anyone who brought something up.  Our state forum was very useful for specific location questions (best sprint for a newbie, where to OWS, recommended bike shops). I am VERY VERY bummed.  

I know there was a time when our forum was very active and I still have friendships from that period.  But even now there was a utility in having this set aside for quick exposure to local issues.   This will not have the desired effect.   Is there a cost in having these separate forums?  I was moderating it, so it's not a personnel investment.

Edited to add: I can see this for subject forums, like Peleton, but I am specifically frustrated by the state forums.  That was a different.

Alice - I didn't follow the thread about "It's time to do away with TriTalk" because I disagreed and have other things to do with my life, so I'm sorry I missed that part of the discussion.   It did encourage me to try to make an effort to read and respond to forum posts more often.  After reading through it now, and your explanation here, I see that the consensus was there was no need for the state forums... according to a small handful of people.   My argument would have been "What's the harm?".  If there was a thread called "Survey about Forum Consolidation" I would have noticed.    The other statistic that bothered me was someone noticed there was no state forum activity for several state so far in 2017... on a date in March.  The Minnesota forum always died in the winter.  There's a reason for that - it's winter here.    My point being that the State forums were individual things that had an individual purpose.

I also don't read the articles very often nor do I subscribe to the newsletter.   I know you put a lot of time into the articles and I am sorry about that.  In the spirit of feedback, I should have mentioned this long ago - I think the posting of several articles in one batch is really overwhelming.    I noticed that happens most often - I will log in and find there are 12 new articles. 

So, I do think this makes sense for the other miscellaneous forums which were topical.   Just not for the states.