What do you use to check TheFret: desktop, smartphone, tablet, laptop...?

[poodlesrule]

Just curious, what do you usually use to log on and have fun on the Fret?

[poodlesrule]

Mods, please change "heck" to "check"!

See, I am using a laptop on the couch, and I regularly do that kind of typing mistake, and fail to check my title.

[deeaa]

Tapatalk on Android phone.

Which, sadly, also heavily reduces the time spent checking it, as I keep getting so many notifs on Tapatalk from other forums I tend to spend my time on those. Unless there's a response to a subscribed thread, I seldom surf to sites any more. Got half a dozen forums I follow in Tapatalk and the rest is largely very occasional visits at best any more.

[Tig]

Work laptop mostly.

[Jipes]

Only on my laptop during work or Computer during the evening and week-end

[guitarhack]

Home laptop.

[piebaldpython]

Desktop at work and home.

[sunvalleylaw]

laptop, desktop, iPhone.

[riverrick]

desktop for me!!!

[helliott]

generally home desktop and laptop.

[tjcurtin1]

home desktop only

[Retro Hound]

Old-fashioned computer with a mouse and a separate monitor and everything.

[Eric]

Wherever. All of the above. It's pretty dead around here these days, so I there's not much reason to check it now.

[riverrick]

Wherever. All of the above. It's pretty dead around here these days, so I there's not much reason to check it now.

I've noticed that too Eric. Way dead!!! What do you think reason??

[poodlesrule]

I've noticed that too Eric. Way dead!!! What do you think reason??

I found that it is very easy to veer off onto another environment these days, want it or not.

Just the other day (middle of night actually!), using Tapatalk, I ran into a med student forum where high cost of education, surgeons' ethics were discussed, the 14 pages of it....!

[Eric]

I've noticed that too Eric. Way dead!!! What do you think reason??
Things are just very fluid on the internet and the 'scenes' vary quickly. Unless you have a huge user base established like on Reddit or The Gear Page or Talkbass or something, activity can take a major hit when a couple of key personalities leave or get tied up with other parts of life. I think the coziness of The Fret is causing a bit of a lull because it's just not the hangout it used to be for some people.

I know I personally stopped caring about buying gear as much and I feel much more oriented within the guitar and sound universe, so I don't end up asking as many questions. I'm more interested in playing bass and playing with people than I am in buying another pedal I won't use. Some people experiment that way, but I'm more of a simpleton and given that, there will be a definite ebb and flow to my forum usage.

[deeaa]

Yep, that. Me similarly...been selling off more than acquiring. I suppose a forum would need some more variety to always thrive even without huge membership numbers. Like also talk of cars, other hobbies, politics, even the dreaded philosophical or religious issues.

[Tig]

My gear purchasing has pretty much halted. I have all I'll ever need ("want" is a different level!). GAS is limited to just a few items, but it can all wait.

As for forums, I spend most of my time at Mark Wein Guitar Lessons. A few fellow fretters frequent there and the place is very dynamic and fun, without politics and gear cork sniffing. The Fret will always feel like home, of course.

[poodlesrule]

...Like also talk of cars, other hobbies, politics, even the dreaded philosophical or religious issues.

Hey, there's the food sub-forum, how universal is that...!?!?

[deeaa]

Yeah :-) but not that thrilling though...

[tjcurtin1]

Hmmmm... I started wondering why the influx of new members has dried up and I got to thinking - how many of us came to the Fret having found a link to one of Robert's gear demos - Vox amps, inexpensive guitars that Robert made sound great, etc. - ? While many of us seem to have gotten sated with GAS mania, I wonder if the lack of those interesting reviews of up-to-date gear means that new folks don't find their way here.