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As a member for 10 years, I too had been wondering about the decline in the number of posts in the last few years. The classifieds I think are a good thing because dealing with people on-line in a special interest group is better than E-bay or Gumtree.
I came back to astronomy after 50 years (the old hand grinding mirrors and paying a week’s wages for an eyepiece days) so had to update a lot for which IIS was a great source of information.
When I started a few threads of my own, I got a very mixed reaction. Some people made helpful comments and suggestions. However, others were patronising - telling me that my DIY observatory is “a nice bush dunny”- to downright rude – “just do it!” - in response to my explanation that their suggestion was based on a misunderstanding about how the processing software works.
There are lots of different reasons why users stop posting, but those are mine.
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