Dear Contax fans,
we have a month full of vacation days - at least in Europe. Traffic is low on all our sites. Although I regret that a few members are temporarly absent, we have to respect that it is their own will and even if we might disagree with their decision, they are entitled to go their own way - will it be only temporarly or forever does not matter.
Anyway, I think a James Bond movie has a title "never say never again"
There have been always been different Contax places on the net. Before we launched Contaxinfo 2 years ago, there have been some sites around already for 4-5 years. Everybody had and has also today the choice to participate on different Contax communities. There is nothing bad about this. The only reason why we grew to the biggest Contax place compared to other places I think is the effort we stressed to achieve more than just to be an internet site. And we will continue to do so. And this is why we will continue to grow.
Postings will pick up over the time again exactly the same way like over the last 2 years. I strongly disagree if some might think a forum is only worth something if there is already content in it. 2 years ago we had zero content. Nevertheless we grew dramatically. So IMO the reason is that people with the same interest/ dedication to a specific hobby have here a home to meet each other. This is the real value added, not whether a G2 question is already answered in the past.
We now go even a step further. In the past, discussions at Contaxinfo have been driven in most cases from the technical side: what kind of gear to buy, how to use it properly or what is wrong with your gear. With the new forum structure we try to shift the weight more towards "photography" and slightly less weight on the "gear talk".
If you look at all the "gear" threads, you will rarely find a subject that has not been discussed yet at Contaxinfo.com in the past (this is by the way also a reason why traffic is not that high currently). So after a kind of "warm up" with the new forum structure, we expect to have a lot more traffic in the "presentation & photo tips" part of the forum, where people can finally ask specific question on the "how to" for certain shooting subjects incl. image-ex&les of how they managed to get this picture.
Also the "off-topic" section will be surely a good place to get in touch with other Contaxians without having a specific question about your gear.
We are working on even more things in the future, so wait and see within the next weeks/ months. We have proven that we go always a step further for our Contax users than anybody else, and we will continue to do so, do not worry about that
