I’ve noticed a massive drop in traffic since the forum policy changes (including the .com/.org forced split) although can fully understand why people like T. and N. (Edit!) do not post much.
T. is dependent for freelance work in a Middle East country where being on .org could get him in deep shit (including being blackllisted), N. now works for a tech company that is a major supplier of comms and surveillance equipment to the emergency services and military worlwide; I guess everyone else has “grown up and calmed down” to the point where minimum effort required facebook “banter” satisfies them.
Those “supercookies” Google Ads or whoever used around 2012 that matched up everyone from here with their linkedin, soundcloud etc even if they used adblockers and privacy software spooked a shit ton of people as there is still a lot of stereotyping associated with EDM especially faster genres – even in NL, I was reading about this comedy series called “New Kids” where the characters are all young adults who are into hardstyle etc but are depicted as klompenboeren with mullets who still drive 1990s cars :laugh_at:
I can’t help though but think its a sad reflection on modern society (rather than a fault of this site / the decisions made about content) that people aren’t even prepared to genuinely take part in the community bit to get at the drugs info – after all one part of harm reduction is impulse control and deferred gratification!
One thing that is impressive is in spite of global clampdowns on drugs culture and balkanisation of EDM into poor areas of countries (even USA is clamping down now because all the now illegal NPS is mixed in with the “molly” and is killing kids stateside) is that Partyvibe remains standing alongside the big corporate brands and the religious groups who are currently “winning the Internet” whilst so many alternative lifestyle sites crumble or are a shadow of their former selves..
