Is it just me or does it seem very quiet on here at the moment?

That is not an “or”.
If it is only you then it’s really quiet!
But to be honest I think you’re right. There are more comments on the main page than posts in the forum.
Logboy and Kurt were always major contributors, but now Logboy has gone and Kurt is very busy.
I mean look at my lead in postcount! We three used to keep up with eachother…
In total contrast the news site is busier than ever, we’re breaking records.

I’ve really been slacking in the forums.  We have some great regulars here, too.  I tend to troll more than post.  Shameful!

I’ve been slacking because I’ve had to focus on school work and my family and I have less free time than ever.

Ardvark - February 21, 2008, 3:26am

That is not an “or”.
If it is only you then it’s really quiet!
But to be honest I think you’re right. There are more comments on the main page than posts in the forum.
Logboy and Kurt were always major contributors, but now Logboy has gone and Kurt is very busy.
I mean look at my lead in postcount! We three used to keep up with eachother…
In total contrast the news site is busier than ever, we’re breaking records.

I’ve been nurturing another web site (]http://www.rowthree.com] and podcasting (at rowthree and The MovieClub) which is much less news item based and much more discussion based.  I’d be lying if I didn’t say that this was cutting into my Twitch forum (and masthead-uploading and web-news-trawling time).  Family life has been quite busy too.  I need to clone myself a few times to keep up.

Actually I post less on most forums these days because I’m actually trying to get a life

a what?

Where did Logboy get himself to? Gone as in busy or gone as in gone gone?

I recently started a wee film blog just to try and comment at least a touch on everything I’m watching…so I guess that’d be my excuse eventhough it doesn’t really clash at all with my time on here.

BtoFu - February 26, 2008, 11:26pm

Where did Logboy get himself to? Gone as in busy or gone as in gone gone?

As a writer/contributor Logboy is gone gone, or rather he left left (he wasn’t kicked out or anything).
He wanted to do something else and I know how difficult it is to keep working on a site once you lose your enthusiasm. I mean this IS a hobby for all of us and Logboy had been putting a lot of time in the site for the past few years. I understand how you can grow an aversion when that happens, as it may start to look too much like a job.
Hopefully he won’t become a total stranger, but for now we’ve lost his distinct voice.

Ah that’s a shame, I always enjoyed his banter. X is sorely missed and Logs will be another!

it’s a shame… it used to be buzzing all day long with new posts a few years ago…

anyone know a good forum to join… key word being a good one like twitch? i’ll always be here, this is by far my favorite site for years but i get bored at work and wouldn’t mind somewhere else to copy and paste my posts too, heh.

Twitch has become a lot less interesting in the last year.
There is hardly any discussion in the discussion forum. For me this is a reason to post far less then I used too. The main site is still a favourite ofcourse but even there I see discussion of mainstream hollywood dvd’s and Todd liking every movie he sees, which suggest that with the growth of the site the contributers have gotten themselfs a bit got up in the mainstream film journalism machine…
these days you’ll find me mostly at the Cinehoud forum. Older movies are the main topic of interest there, but of the exotic and wild variety that Twitch readers should like.

I rarely visit here now either to be honest (though I wasn’t admittedly a big contributor in the first place) but that goes for most sites these days. I rarely watch films in the evenings and I’m buying less and less….

Sleaze - March 28, 2008, 6:02am

I rarely visit here now either to be honest (though I wasn’t admittedly a big contributor in the first place) but that goes for most sites these days. I rarely watch films in the evenings and I’m buying less and less….

Well, if memory serves in your case it was pretty hard to buy “more and more”...

petcor80 - March 20, 2008, 1:50am

Twitch has become a lot less interesting in the last year.
There is hardly any discussion in the discussion forum. For me this is a reason to post far less then I used too. The main site is still a favourite ofcourse but even there I see discussion of mainstream hollywood dvd’s and Todd liking every movie he sees, which suggest that with the growth of the site the contributers have gotten themselfs a bit got up in the mainstream film journalism machine…

Hey Peter ... sorry to see you feel that way.  Can’t speak for others but my own lack of involvement in the forum these days is purely a matter of time.  If I go through all of my regular news sources in a day I’ve got about two hundred sites that I scan for news, plus a hundred or hundred and fifty emails or so to sort through every day, plus my day job, plus the festival work I do.  I generally don’t even check the writers-only part of the forum more than a couple times a week.

As for diversity on the main site, I think if you go back to the early days in the archive you’ll see we’re more diverse than we’ve ever been, covering more films from more genres from more parts of the world.  The sheer volume of stuff that we cover is way, way up.

Do I like every film I see?  Not by a long shot but unless I’m doing festival coverage, when I try to review everything I see as a matter of principle, I generally don’t bother to write negative reviews.  It’s too much of a time investment when there are things out there that I DO like that I’d rather cover and give the attention to.  Twitch isn’t one of those sites like Pitchfork that enjoys pissing on everything we see, we’re enthusiasts who would much rather promote the stuff we like while ignoring the stuff we don’t and just letting it fade off into the distance.

It’s funny, I actually do a bit more mainstream film journalism these days because the guys at Showcase are paying me to but I generally keep that stuff confined to my column there and I’m a LOT more critical of things in that forum ... I think I’ve only written two purely positive reviews since I started there, and those were for There Will Be Blood and Rambo.  Everything else I’ve poked with sharp sticks.  No, that’s not true ... Doomsday was positive, too ...

hey thanks for the reply Todd.
first off I think it’s a good point to only give attention to movies you like and ignore the rest. obscure movies have got a hard enough time getting some notice so it’s not to be wasted on mediocre stuff.
I think there were three thinks that made me get a little bit more critical than usual. 1st there really is disappointingly little discussion in this forum. Your reply might be the first reply i’ve had to any of my posts in I don’t know, a year or so, it feels like an eternity anyway. 2nd I thought a little bit of agitation would provoke a reply (worked! ) and 3rd I still think you’re a bit over enthusiastic at times declaring something almost a masterpiece on the basis of a single image or trailer. For me personally this makes it… a bit harder to judge your more in depth review work. but that’s a discussion for another thread. don’t let me get you down though, keep up the good work! ... a little bit of (self)criticism sometimes is a healthy thing. And my point about mainstream dvd discussion on the main site is also still valid. If you want to shine light on obscure movies you’ve got to make sure that they don’t get lost in that growing feed of information that now also includes discussion of Hollywood dvd releases.