Whooshy whooshy... lmao, my new word for the day. Thank you
IDK, I'm 40s, been vaping since my 30s, 90% of the time I'm at 8-15watts, and I prefer RDL, with some MTL being okay (I love the K5, like the mini v3, but going back to Kayfun Lite+ is just... nah, not doing this, I do not miss the whole sucking golf balls through a straw, Boge cartos airflow). I like whooshy-whooshy, even without 1.2gigawatts on a .01Ω build.
The new "LOOK" is not inviting at all...just cold and stark. The old view was inviting and warm though....but the reason I don't come back much is the 'new look'....just not attractive at all.
Well, the site was running vBulletin software which kinda became a trainwreck and running unsupported software for years of time isn't the greatest idea with a site this large, so they switched the software to
XenoForo and have been gradually and slowly adjusting the theme. It may be possible to adjust/change the theme here, I haven't ever actually looked, but often forums let individual users decide on their display prefs/themes.
With, "this forum has slowed down!" well, when I started reading this site in 2009 and then finally logged in an account and started participating in 2010, e-cigs were very new and it was a very small subculture and niche. In the beginning, all roads led here.
Vaping has gained relatively mainstream status, I understand why this site is the way it is with enforcement of rules/etc, because the owner(s) have begun monetizing everything with vaping.com and all the ads here (not a dis, yay capitalism, they should do that, it takes a lot of time/money/effort to keep this place running), but there are many, many, many other places to go at this point; without naming other similar forums, with more lenient rules, there's also very large social media platforms like Reddit, and Facebook has roughly 10 million vape-related groups, many of which are quite active. Want to learn how to use some new thing you got? Well, youTube... ECF just isn't as necessary as it was a decade ago.
2009: this was the epicenter of online vaping information (if there was something else bigger/better, I didn't find it, just similar and smaller forums).
2017: the center is everywhere, type vaping or electronic cigarettes into any search engine and ECF isn't even in the first 5 pages of results. Just based on what I see when cruising through the site, the attrition rate of people leaving/becoming inactive on ECF is probably higher than the incoming rate of new user accounts. I'm guessing most of the new users arrive when they have a specific problem or question, because usually it's been answered 250 times in one of the near-endless threads here, which index out to search engines.