Anyone notice the # of members is down by 1/3? About a year ago I noticed we hit 300,000, and now it stands at about 213,000. Maybe dormant or robot/spam accounts?
I have the best memory for absolute useless miscellany. If only I could monetize that 🤣
Could be they closed severely dormant accounts combined with people just leaving.I've noticed several folks who used to be on daily, but haven't been on much at all in quite a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@JoeRockhead totally agree. I just got over a 2 month accidental hiatus myself... not on purpose either, just got busy as hell, not to mention worn out. And that was after going hard at it for 3 years straight. Never had a streak like that but... Pandemic had me on here like a kindergarten schoolgirl.
Not surprised at members going dark tho... its getting rough out there.
@805orbust wrote:@JoeRockhead totally agree. I just got over a 2 month accidental hiatus myself... not on purpose either, just got busy as hell, not to mention worn out. And that was after going hard at it for 3 years straight. Never had a streak like that but... Pandemic had me on here like a kindergarten schoolgirl.
Not surprised at members going dark tho... its getting rough out there.
@805orbust I have many friends who retired and went back to work. I wanted to retire this year. Had it all planned out. Dont know now.
@FireMedic1 wrote:
@805orbust wrote:@JoeRockhead totally agree. I just got over a 2 month accidental hiatus myself... not on purpose either, just got busy as hell, not to mention worn out. And that was after going hard at it for 3 years straight. Never had a streak like that but... Pandemic had me on here like a kindergarten schoolgirl.
Not surprised at members going dark tho... its getting rough out there.
@805orbust I have many friends who retired and went back to work. I wanted to retire this year. Had it all planned out. Dont know now.
LOL, we had it all planned out as well, then the recession hit in 2008-2009, and then "life" happened and we lost our retirement, our jobs, our businesses, and our home. We ended up separating, filing independently for bankruptcy (her a Chapter 7, me a Chapter 13) when we were 56 and 57 respectively, and then ulitmately getting back together. My wife is no longer working and it remains to be seen if she will ever work again; I figure I'll work until I'm in my early 70s before we are comfortable enough to retire.
The good news? I like what I do and the pay is more than adequate. 
@Kforce wrote:Have been thinking about taking a vacation from the forum my self.
My view of a simple few cards, not chasing high CL's, not doing AZEO monthly, not chasing SUBs, no BT's,
not rotating and playing with 25+ cards. etc. I am about 180 degrees from the forum's norm.
Can't fully contribute to the majority of the forum questions, because my view is usually the exact opposite.
One persons view of you should wait for about 6 months, gets lost with 10-12, you only have 3 new cards this year and 4 inq's, you are good to go!, better get the Chase because you are at 4/24.
I'm the same way. I don't chase 5 figure CLs/6 figure TCLs. I have a whopping 4 cards (and that's more than I ever used to have) and a 26+K TCL (also more than I ever had). I'm like MyFICO Lite. I don't need any more CLIs, or new cards/trade lines. I can just garden indefinitely, but the Garden Club is gone too. There's just fewer reasons for me to be here.
Going into the approvals forum and replying "Congratulations on your CLI!" over and over gets old. I have nothing special to contribute in terms of helping people with their credit... nothing that the other 200K+ members could say just as well if not better.
And I get tired of having to log in every day. Persistent logins aren't a bad thing on forums.
Ok so it's real then... we're all getting a little lethargic. Honestly, we've all been thru alot in the last 4 years. The good thing is, think of how much fun it's going to be here in a couple of years when the dollar is worthless and we'll all have to chase after $200,000 CLI's, or Crypto cards, or whatever way it's ultimately heading 🤣
Aaaaaand, it's down to 205,000. And I looked thru old posts and there are a TON of accounts that are titled "Anonymous". Several I know because I remember the topics they started/commented on... again my great memory for useless things. 🤣