Mass exodus?

[gr82bart]

Is it just me or does there not seem to be all the traffic that this place was hyped to have? A lot of discussion seems to be around making digital negatives - which - let's face it, is a niche within a niche. The rest can be found elsewhere on 'digital' sites or APUG.

Sounding like rain on a parade here. Sorry.

Regards, Art.

[Bob01721]

Is it just me or does there not seem to be all the traffic that this place was hyped to have? A lot of discussion seems to be around making digital negatives - which - let's face it, is a niche within a niche. The rest can be found elsewhere on 'digital' sites or APUG.

Sounding like rain on a parade here. Sorry.

Regards, Art.

I know what you mean, but it's getting hard for some of us to find a home. Speaking for myself, most of the all-digital sites are "too" digital for my needs. But APUG is entirely "wet" and won't tolerate discussions about negative scanning or inkjet printing. The Large Format Photography Forum is more inclusive re digital topics, but I also shoot 35mm.

As the "dedicated" sites continue to tighten up their focus (heh heh) and become more exclusive, it makes it tougher for those of us who like to bridge both worlds without living entirely in either.

[SanFranciscoNudes]

I think as time goes on there will be more and more people who have some kind of "hybrid" workflow -certain combinations just make a lot of sense - and yes, you can kind of piece together most of what you need to know from either extreme but it's not always a comfortable thing to participate on a group like APUG where fundamentally they don't want you there.

[Baxter Bradford]

I had hoped for more traffic too, other than that for digital negs. Whilst I am happy enough to be able to find answers where needed, I thought that the helpful and friendly nature of the APUG crowd who like me covertly dabble in the D' domain would make this a lively community.

Have just been struggling with some Epson 7800 printer control issues and sought help from the Yahoo Wideformat group.

No harm in monitoring periodically.

[Don Bryant]

Is it just me or does there not seem to be all the traffic that this place was hyped to have? A lot of discussion seems to be around making digital negatives - which - let's face it, is a niche within a niche. The rest can be found elsewhere on 'digital' sites or APUG.

Sounding like rain on a parade here. Sorry.

Regards, Art.

Be patient Art. It takes some time to build a signifigant churn rate. Hardly anyone talks about ink jet prints - yet. Perhaps an A3 (13x19) ink jet print exchange would stir the pot. And there seems to be a fair amount of activity for digital negatives which was what the old Gray Area forum was about.

And who knows perhaps discussion of digital capture will take off.

Don Bryant

[jd callow]

The growth of the site has slowed, but according to Sean it is not dissimilar to the initial growth of APUG.

There are a couple things that have stymied the growth of the site, not the least of which has been the holidays. There has also been the lack of promotion. Later today I will be making requests for feedback. The feedback will, hopefully, help us prepare the site to be moved from beta to release candidate.


Once there we'll start advertising. Although i have 400.00 in ads setup (they need the keywords changed to become effective) the real promotion needs to be done by the membership. If the members are happy with the site they will tell there friends.

Some of the things needed to make the site ready for prime time...

1. I would like to reorganize the forums so that they embrace a larger audience and will better accommodate growth.
2. I have begun asking members if they would like to write articles.
3. Along with articles the site needs other assets, such as pages of pertinent links (SW, HW, tutorials, etc)
4. These new areas as well as the gallery will need to be integrated in to a usable flow.
5. When the integration is complete we need to build our visual identity
6. Finally we will need to use the site, find what is broken and prepare for version 2.

In the long term I'd like to see this place become attractive and valued by those who just wish to have their snaps of Aunt Rose look good when printed from CD on a frontier to those who are doing colour carbons.

[Joe Lipka]

It will take quite a while for those who need or want to participate in this site to find this site. That's part of the way of the world. I am not worried about this slow start.

[Tom Kershaw]

I have already got something meaningful from this site due to the very helpful responses to a few questions I asked. IMO hybridphoto.com has great potential even if it is destined to be a relatively niche off-shoot of APUG in the near future.

Tom.

[Greg_E]

Have just been struggling with some Epson 7800 printer control issues and sought help from the Yahoo Wideformat group.

You probably should have tried asking here if you were concerned about acceptance... You never know what might have turned up. I hope you get an answer at that group, I kind of gave up on them more than a year ago...

[Jeremy]

Hardly anyone talks about ink jet prints - yet. Perhaps an A3 (13x19) ink jet print exchange would stir the pot.

Don Bryant

I'd be interested in an ink jet print exchange, but maybe not 13x19 as I don't print to that size digitally. I do have 50 sheets of the new Museo Silver Rag in 8.5x11, though....