[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Ross

cheweh xD

Wossy!

[arsenalforever]

preferred it when it was old but we always need change

[Ramsay]

Prefer it now

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by Chewy

I prefer the forum how it is now

Same.
I heard there was hardly any members during 2008

[MrGaryy]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Same.
I heard there was hardly any members during 2008

:S I don't know where you've heard that but it's completely inaccurate. There was just as many active regulars if not more.

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by MrGaryy

:S I don't know where you've heard that but it's completely inaccurate. There was just as many active regulars if not more.

I asked people what it was like during BB9 on here and alot of people said it was dead and there wasnt as much active members as there is today.

[MrGaryy]

Originally Posted by Patrick

I asked people what it was like during BB9 on here and alot of people said it was dead and there wasnt as much active members as there is today.

Well as someone who was here during BB9, I can verify that wasnt the case. it was VERY active, site crashed the whole time.

[King Gizzard]

was best for me in the weeks following the end of big brother august/start of september

[arsenalforever]

Originally Posted by Nathan

was best for me in the weeks following the end of big brother august/start of september

i prefered it during BB myself

[Jayson]

Originally Posted by Nathan

was best for me in the weeks following the end of big brother august/start of september

Completely agree.

[30stone]

For me its a forum i never get to attached..

It had good and bad points then it has good and bad points now.

[Scarlett.]

Some people have really good memories because they was involved in certain groups, and now they arent they think the forum is crap where as I am enjoying the forum as much as I was in 2007

[Princess]

It does actually seem like last year there was more newbies than ever,maybe I'm just imagining it though. I do miss some of the older members but not everyone is going to stick around.

[arsenalforever]

Originally Posted by Princess

It does actually seem like last year there was more newbies than ever,maybe I'm just imagining it though. I do miss some of the older members but not everyone is going to stick around.

sometimes you do need a rest from the forum and probably some people have new reltionships or jobs that keeps 'em away

[bbfan1991]

Don't know what it was like before it must have been good but I like it the way it is now... i've only joined this year so for now my opinion is void.

More people should join and it's a shame when people leave but hopefully they come back.

[Patrick]

I knew someone was missing!

Tom!
He'll be gone for weeks, seems weird without him.

[arsenalforever]

Originally Posted by Patrick

I knew someone was missing!

Tom!
He'll be gone for weeks, seems weird without him.

a few big names have gone over the months

[Ramsay]

yeaaah

[Sticks]

Although my join date does not say it, (The date is wrong!!!) I have been here since even before XMB, well I vaguely remember there was a re-XMB age, Mark and James will correct me if I mis-remembered this.

A number of the old guard who have gone were middle aged ladies, one of whom was Romantic Old Bird who died of cancer. They had a certain fixation with a certain couple from Big Brother 2, and it was sad when that romance ended after five years.

During that time the board was declared as the friendly board, but it has become nastier as some of the new crowd have come in. In the old days we hardly had any Ad Hominems, but in one thread, the one about the pilot in Texas who crashed into a federal building, I have seen a lot of insults flying around.

There is no call for that.

We have got a younger mix of people here, and that has lead to a decline in decorum I have noticed in recent times.

When we had the old guard some of the best times was off season, but now it seems as soon as a BB finishes, the newbies depart almost immediately, some never to return. And here I would like to mention something about the IDs people adopt. In recent years they seemed specific to particular series of Big Brother. That did not happen I recall in my day nearly a decade ago.

As for the forum software XMB to VBulletin, well there was not much choice after the hacking last year. It is not the forum software that makes the board but the contributors, and with the loss of the old guard and the quality of some of the newbies, TIBB has really changed in temprement in recent times, and not always for the better.