5,772,575
Debbie,
I also think that there are less posts. I think all the changes and confusion around them, has made many of us nuts. I still can't find people I follow, and I have to search for them most of the time. LOL A
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Paul Durry
Lawton, OK
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Jan Green - Scottsdale...
Scottsdale, AZ
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque, NM
5,583,278
the energy that once was so plentiful is now missing on this platform.... the changes and screw ups are uncalled for....everything was working... everything made sense....now we don't have the people visible who we want to leave comments for...only those they select.... I subscribe to over 300 people.... I spend time commenting...no longer....
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Tom Bailey
Oak Island, NC
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Carla Muss-Jacobs, RET...
Portland, OR
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Debbie Gartner
White Plains, NY
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
1,452,819
I've found that many people are commenting on Facebook instead. If I post my blog to FB, it cuts down on my AR comments immensely! Also, with the introduction of the Q & A section, I get many more comments here these days.
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Brigita McKelvie, Asso...
Lehigh Valley, PA
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Carla Muss-Jacobs, RET...
Portland, OR
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Susan Emo
Kingston, ON
1,661,936
Yes. I miss many of the favorites.
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Chris and Dick Dovorany
Naples, FL
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Carla Muss-Jacobs, RET...
Portland, OR
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque, NM
2,817,671
Yes!
Some of it is that participation is way down - blogging and commenting - as people are so busy.
Part of it all the changes they've made w/ home page and follow list (so we miss a lot of bloggers and features get less attention). Now in turn, there may be a redistribution of some of the comments.
And, some of it is the Q&A section which diverts comments and time there.
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Carla Muss-Jacobs, RET...
Portland, OR
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Susan Emo
Kingston, ON
7,836,134
Many of the people we were seeing a year ago are no longer active. ActiveRain has a serious membership retention issue.
The low number of comments is discouraging and many of us are planning to reduce our blogging and our commenting.
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Frank Rubi
Metairie, LA
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Noah Seidenberg
Evanston, IL
4,434,127
Yes. the market has improved and there is not much time.
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Brigita McKelvie, Asso...
Lehigh Valley, PA
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Susan Emo
Kingston, ON
979,496
Debbie - Well I wasn't actively on AR a year ago so I wouldn't know. What I have seen since coming back to AR, after being gone for several years, is that a lot of the original leaders of this community are gone. With that said, there still are amazing people here who post and comment on a very consistent basis.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Susan Emo
Kingston, ON
4,319,419
Debbie Reynolds - you are so right. I used to get about many comments on my posts - and now it is down to half of it only!
May be it's the season of selling?
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Frank Rubi
Metairie, LA
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
1,771,867
Yes it's sad but I will always look for Debbie Reynolds blogs and comment on them
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque, NM
519,139
Do you think Debbie Reynolds it may be some from the 'buyouts' where AR is owned by the big Z? another may be that the market has picked up so much that people do not have time to blog or comment?
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Carla Muss-Jacobs, RET...
Portland, OR
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
116,459
Yes. I have noticed this. I think the changes have turned people away.
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Frank Rubi
Metairie, LA
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
4,572,183
Hi Debbie -- Endre Barath, Jr., Ron and Alexandra Seigel and I had this conversation yesterday at our MeetUp. Some of the AR changes that have taken place as well as business are certainly having an impact on comments and general interaction.
Of course, I understand that things change but the social aspect that combined with the obvious business advantages of this forum made it unique -- I think some of that is gone -- at least for now -- I do hope it returns -- and better than ever.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque, NM
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
5,005,642
Yes commenting is down but the market has picked up in many markets and agents are busy with selling or listing Real Estate. All the changes are confusing and frustrating..don't have a lot of time to post and comment so not the best change to change something that wasn't broken!!
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
1,466,207
Debbie Reynolds I usually follow the featured posts and noticed the number of them is way down.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
4,333,761
Yes!
On Friday I received an email from someone who used to comment all the time and she said she can only find me when she sees me commenting on someone else's blog!
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
2,538,633
Good morning Debbie. I should pay more attention to the numbers, but I don't. I look forward to commenting on those that I follow on a regular basis.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
2,224,473
Yes. I have noticed this. I think the changes have turned people away.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
3,986,258
OH YEA...and several more that are talking about just stopping by once in a while...there goes more commenters.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
3,164,294
If you read Bill Spear's post that is featured today on "where did my bloggers go" it explains a lot. Much more difficult to find people you follow and some are not going to the trouble. Hopefully AR will get the issue fixed.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
1,064,623
Aloha Debbie,
Yes, this week comments dropped to almost nothing.
a hui hou,
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Frank Rubi
Metairie, LA
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
3,626,530
I don't get a lot of comments so I really haven't noticed. I do know by reading some posts a lot of people are not happy. Wish I knew of another venue to check out like the Rain.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
2,759,812
Yes. I have seen even more of a reduction since AR changed to the new platform.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
2,443,250
Yes I have, way down as in W A Y down!
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Bruce Hicks
Honolulu, HI
1,683,912
I think it has dropped from what I see...about 60%
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
629,608
There is an old saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Someone should have reminded the AR powers that be of this.
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Chris and Dick Dovorany
Naples, FL
734,952
Debbie Reynolds I just think that like Network news vs Cable TV or going to a movie theater vs renting it on Apple TV and watching it in your own home theater so goes it on social media, blogging, websites, etc.
There's just so many options and choices nowadays for folks to choose from and platforms like FB, Twitter, Instagram and even You Tube to make it much more challenging for sites like AR to stay ahead of the game.
Frankly I've always thought of AR as more of a RE social media NETWORKING site than a general open to the public forum. But this is really a good thing I think. This intimate group of folks have established years of cyber friendships and have developed a loyalty and trust rarely seen on most social media sites..................just sayin.
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Chris and Dick Dovorany
Naples, FL
3,988,007
Yes you Debbie Gartner and the others have nailed it. These are busy times but frankly there have been busy times before. I think in many ways it has been difficult to navigate the site and people just don't enjoy it like they used to. There is much less emphasis on blogs and more on Q&A.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
938,537
Debbie, I don't think I have noticed any difference. The people who always reciprocate comments still do so and those who never did continue not to comment back on your blog.
I have noticed a big change in the increased number of people subscribing to blogs since last summer-perhaps that is the result of AR making a permanent change of allowing 20 comments as bloggers are looking for more people to comment on?
It just seems like there are endless robo posts and fewer posts to comment on with content-that difference I have noticed.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
900,128
I think the Q&A sections attracts more comments now because the questions are so much shorter than blogs and most readers find that more appealing than reading through longer postings.
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 P...
Clarksville, TN
4,800,082
699,277
Debbie as you know we stopped commenting and changed our blog to disabled comments because of time restraints and also saying the same thing about everyone's blog. Some were great and others were just ok but commented pretty much the same.
764,882
I find that I spend a lot more time answering and asking Questions in the Q&A forum, and not nearly as much time as I used to on posts or commenting or even reading them, however when I do post I still seem to get a good number of clicks, and I know people are reading, so I am not too concerned with comments left
5,828,832
Debbie- I've noticed fewer posts, and fewer comments and because of the new format, it's harder to find the people you do follow.
750,057
A lot of it is too to messing with a system that worked and the "likes" is a lazy way to comment. Thus no comments. I have slowed way of my participation here and a lot of my favorites are gone.
3,271,433
I think certain blogs are hard to find with the new format and I have also noticed that things have been down as far as the numbers go. I also think we should go back to 10 comments per day instead of 20. 20 is too many.
1,257,045
To me, it's very sad. Making friends across the country, reading other market reports and learning about other areas has been very rewarding. It is difficult to find new posts.
2,577,471
Yes, I deafinitely have noticed less comments and less posts here in the Rain. Busy and family needs, etc.
1,562,386
Yes I've noticed and I'm part of the problem! Not all enthusiastic with the direction.