FT in a time of covid

[KingsX]

Social media is suddenly one of the few ways to connect with other people *.  And it becomes a daily habit.  You’d expect communities like Foxes Talk to stay (or become more) active.

 

On the other hand, football is offline and seeming a lot less life-and-death than we thought.  The City forum, like the sports media, has seen more recycling and historic/nostalgia content.  It seems to have slowed down.  I’m on here less (silver linings and all) but is that typical?  So many other topics, not least the virus' impact, to discuss.

 

@Mark, can you share an idea of how visits and posts are going since the league was suspended, compared to normal times?  Curious to know how much General Discussion is up or down, and the City forum.

 

 

* or not so in the UK?

[Mark]

It's much quieter, posts are about the same as international breaks but they are not spread out, it's mainly in the Corona topic.

 

There are less visitors, views etc, I've marked when the league was suspended.

 

[Mark]

Posts in Leicester forum vs general chat

[Jon the Hat]

General chat is where it's at!

[Sir Shep]

I’ve not really gone into the Leicester forum, just gen chat. Seems like I’m not the only one. 

[Mark_w]

Really interesting stuff @Mark, cheers for posting. Is there a similar graph that shows how big any spike in posts/views was in 2016 comparative to the years prior and since?

[z-layrex]

4 hours ago, Mark said:

Posts in Leicester forum vs general chat

God I love a graph.

[FoxesDeb]

3 hours ago, Sir Shep said:

I’ve not really gone into the Leicester forum, just gen chat. Seems like I’m not the only one. 

Me too, really don't see the point in pining after what we can't have. I'm also pretty shocked at how something that is such a massive part of my life, and has been for so much of my life, has almost dropped off my radar atm. 

If you'd told me even maybe 3 weeks ago that I would hardly be thinking about football I would have laughed and said never. 

[KingsX]

6 hours ago, Mark said:

Posts in Leicester forum vs general chat

Thanks for responding.  Interesting that we flipped almost overnight!  But that’s how things have gone lately.

 

Two friends of mine own wine-and-beer bars/carryouts that do good business on-premise.  For both, people coming in to drink stopped on a dime (busy one day, zero the next -- even before the state shut it down).  But it was just as suddenly replaced by massive case sales.  Almost like the locusts stripping the bog-roll aisles.

 

That’s going to have to sustain my friends for a while, and hopefully general chat will sustain FT.

[stripeyfox]

11 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

Me too, really don't see the point in pining after what we can't have. I'm also pretty shocked at how something that is such a massive part of my life, and has been for so much of my life, has almost dropped off my radar atm. 

If you'd told me even maybe 3 weeks ago that I would hardly be thinking about football I would have laughed and said never. 

same. Like all of us, I've got a million things to worry about at the moment. I suppose the fact that there isn't any football or sport happening makes it easier to forget about it.