George Dawes wrote:Don't think this site is that user friendly for people who just access the Internet with smart phones and tablets.
...on Facebook you also get all the latest goals, highlights, news, interviews at the click of a button, without login going onto shrimps player, it's more convenient, and updated quicker than the official website in most cases.
We did try to look at a more 'smart phone' friendly forum but it either cost money or wasn't that good.
Facebook has all those advantages but the thing I dislike is that following a thread is difficult because too many notifications come through, so only something that is very active remains 'readable'. Once something is a couple of days old, or even hours old, it stops being 'current'.
The problem for Shrimpsvoices is the same as watching Morecambe itself, once it stops being 'habit' it becomes very difficult to turn it around. People who would have had SV as their home page and visited a couple of times a day now pop in once or twice a week and rarely get involved. There are still lots of 'lurkers', but it is difficult to get them posting once more. Also, I think I'm in a minority of my dislike for Facebook in terms of this type of discussion, many people who used to post here appear happy posting there, so they either work around the problem I find, or simply don't see it as an issue?
I'm sure Neil will be enjoying reading his obituary!