# Forums vs. Social Media/Reddit **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [August 29, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/forums-vs-social-media-reddit/84707 "2017-08-29T23:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/forums-vs-social-media-reddit/84707/20 "2018-07-14T05:15:26Z")
> [@jrodriguez](#): > > The topic, in a nutshell, is the shift in the yoyo community from being centered around forums/message board to being more organized around Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, etc. Of course, the YYE forum is still going strong, but much of the action is happening on social media these days. One of the reasons I took the initiative to ping André about updating the forum is because the old forum software was… er… how do I put this… 🤮. Like, even by forum software standards, which are low, it was _not good_. And I believe that is reflected in the old forum stats: ![old yye forum stats](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/4/2/54291614262d6dac05e487c8fea487e96c12374c.png) As you can plainly see, _these are dire numbers!_ I told André that if they didn’t want to reboot the forum, frankly they might as well end the suffering and shut it down. Luckily of course they did not choose that path because YYE is awesome. 🙏 It is my hope that **the forum reboot can turn this around and make those numbers go ↑ UP again!** (I think even _with_ awesome forum software 😊 you have a hard fight against losing people to Facebook + Reddit and other large centralized social media sites.) But never fear, there is still more to come… we’re not done … reinforcements are on the way! 💪 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/forums-vs-social-media-reddit/84707)._