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There were as many, or more, people that didn't go to TMP as did. There were already a lot of other forums that existed in blissful ignorance of TMP :-)
There were and there are now, but none of those other forums generate anywhere near the volume of traffic to a blog that TMP did and to be honest still does.
I am not arguing that they don't generate a lot of outbound traffic. Just that the impact of it shedding users isn't necessarily as big as you think. It has always been a divisive site. Not only because of the message board there but also because of its focus. What TMP, and LAF, has is a longstanding and loyal audience that have let it ride out the impact of Facebook. I am not sure what other people's local online communities were like but every single non-Facebook group that existed here four years ago is gone and has moved to Facebook. So, in my locality at least, trying to maintain a blog and bring traffic involves having to engage with people on Facebook.
"I am just starting a new project...click here to read more"......That kind of "clickbait" post really annoys me and I fully support the attempts of other forums to stop people posting them by making a minimum number of images and explanation a requirement.
Maybe the authors of these types of posts don't want to retype 200-1000 words for people that are too lazy to open another browser window?
Err, at the risk of sounding like a smart-ass (which, for the record, I am not trying to do), a simple ctrl-c & ctrl-v should generally sort the retyping issue out.
Seven turn of amazing Warhammer!You won't believe what happens in turn four!Wargames clickbait.
Maybe the authors of these types of posts don't want to retype 200-1000 words for people that are too lazy to open another browser window?And you have a very odd idea of what 'clickbait' is.