quote:Originally posted by domitilo: Here goes my opinion. I have beeen posting on this forum for some time now. Really enjoy reading commentary on my personal pics. However, over the last couple of years, I have noticed fewer and fewer comments and posts from husbands and boy friends of their female partner. Think this has led to a decline in the interest of the usual frequent picture posters. I know it has made me want to post less. Anyway, I noticed that Wu himself made some posts recently and that the commentary on his posts were equally very few to non existent. Think that Wu himself has become disillusioned with this whole thing. Just saying my opinion.
Honestly, I think things began to decline due to social media. With every site and couple/person into the fetish able to set up a page on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc... - maintain, run, and post to it and call it yours, I think messageboards/forums as a whole have been on the decline.
Patrick
It's definitely a lot less work than going through a hub site like Wu's or MousePad to get the word out there. This site has been very Web 1.0 for a while now, and has been using the same conventions for well over a decade.
It's just a hell of a lot easier to get your own space on the internet now.
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I seriously do not think it has anything to do with social media or the advancements there of. This site is still up and running, only thing missing is Wu's contribution updates every mon, wed, and Fridays. It has been a staple for over 10 years, and has been a great promotion/advertisement venue for all of you guy's and your websites. Maybe Wu is taking a little break or maybe something has happened to him? Let's wait and see if we hear from the man himself, hopefully soon. Until then, let's hope all is OK with him.
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quote:Originally posted by 426 HEMI: I seriously do not think it has anything to do with social media or the advancements there of. This site is still up and running, only thing missing is Wu's contribution updates every mon, wed, and Fridays. It has been a staple for over 10 years, and has been a great promotion/advertisement venue for all of you guy's and your websites. Maybe Wu is taking a little break or maybe something has happened to him? Let's wait and see if we hear from the man himself, hopefully soon. Until then, let's hope all is OK with him.
My statement had nothing to do with Wu isn't updating. It was about how message boards and forums are not what they used to be. I fully stand by that idea as you can easily see someone say, like Barbie Gurl just to name someone off the top of my head, gets 100s of interactions on EVERY photo she posts on Instagram and maybe a dozen here. I know a lot more saw the post and didn't say anything, but it's a heck of a lot simpler to post to social media outlets and see results for most people now. I think most site analytics will show that a half way successful social media page is the rage these days.
quote:Originally posted by 426 HEMI: I seriously do not think it has anything to do with social media or the advancements there of. This site is still up and running, only thing missing is Wu's contribution updates every mon, wed, and Fridays. It has been a staple for over 10 years, and has been a great promotion/advertisement venue for all of you guy's and your websites. Maybe Wu is taking a little break or maybe something has happened to him? Let's wait and see if we hear from the man himself, hopefully soon. Until then, let's hope all is OK with him.
My statement had nothing to do with Wu isn't updating. It was about how message boards and forums are not what they used to be. I fully stand by that idea as you can easily see someone say, like Barbie Gurl just to name someone off the top of my head, gets 100s of interactions on EVERY photo she posts on Instagram and maybe a dozen here. I know a lot more saw the post and didn't say anything, but it's a heck of a lot simpler to post to social media outlets and see results for most people now. I think most site analytics will show that a half way successful social media page is the rage these days.
Patrick
We agree 100% with you Patrick. That's the reason why we stopped posting so much.
Wifey & Russell
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quote:Originally posted by 426 HEMI: I seriously do not think it has anything to do with social media or the advancements there of. This site is still up and running, only thing missing is Wu's contribution updates every mon, wed, and Fridays. It has been a staple for over 10 years, and has been a great promotion/advertisement venue for all of you guy's and your websites. Maybe Wu is taking a little break or maybe something has happened to him? Let's wait and see if we hear from the man himself, hopefully soon. Until then, let's hope all is OK with him.
My statement had nothing to do with Wu isn't updating. It was about how message boards and forums are not what they used to be. I fully stand by that idea as you can easily see someone say, like Barbie Gurl just to name someone off the top of my head, gets 100s of interactions on EVERY photo she posts on Instagram and maybe a dozen here. I know a lot more saw the post and didn't say anything, but it's a heck of a lot simpler to post to social media outlets and see results for most people now. I think most site analytics will show that a half way successful social media page is the rage these days.
Patrick
Agreed. I forsee a decline in the centralization of the foot community, gone are the days when photographers had the monopoly on foot fetish material. There are 1 million + foot fetish pics on Instagram alone. I wonder how our forum stacks up to that?
While photographers are geniuses at what they do, a pretty foot is a pretty foot! My favorite foot models all took selfies when it came to their sites.
I always wondered about the women out there that had the most beautiful feet, but were totally oblivious to it. With social media a woman with beautiful feet that nonchalantly posts a pic of her pedicure can suddenly gain 1000+ followers in a week. And those followers and directly interact with them. Most foot fetishist couldn't care less about the camaraderie of hanging with other foot lovers....they want access. Social media gives them that.
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I'll use myself as an example....I started on here when I first discovered Wus. And now it's rare that I ever get on here. I simply found more venues online. This fetish scene has simply exploded from when I even first started back before the Internet when the only venue that was available was Leg Show magazine plus a few quarterly and semi - annual newspaper type publications like Fetish Times and Foot Fetish News. Think about how many internet forums have come and gone,and you still have a few original forums like this one left. It's a testament to the fetish scene that Wu's is still busy,Hawks Feet Links and Aragorns Feet Links is barely alive compared to Wus. But it's gotten from where it was mostly amateur stuff on here to more of the website guys and the folks who support them (not that there anything wrong with that;LOL!!!) Personally for me,it's incredible on how much foot fetishism has grown. It's just that there are many many venues on the Internet that a foot fetishist can enjoy as far as videoclips and photos. It went from Yahoo groups(Yahoo Flicker is still pretty active) to other social sites like MySpace,Facebook YouTube and Instagram besides all the adult forums and porn tubes that now have a foot fetish section available besides the other foot fetishism forums available like the Mousepad,Shoesession,Hotshoeshots,Feetunderthetable and Feetcore. There's more amateur women who are kind of open to showing off their feet because simply this fetish really doesn't have to involve any type of nudity,all she has to do is literally remove her shoes to draw men's attention versus having to show off the usual T/A/P. Just showing off your feet is relatively tame these days and like GQGuy said it's a more rapid response. Plus now you have various subcultures going on as well besides other amateurs that create their own photos and videos as well. It's EVERYWHERE on the Net. So it does dilute participation here as well. This whole scene has just evolved both amateur and professional wise.
quote: While photographers are geniuses at what they do, a pretty foot is a pretty foot! My favorite foot models all took selfies when it came to their sites.
Well hell, I will just sell all my photographic equipment tomorrow and start using an iPhone camera for everything on Norcalfeet since no one cares about the quality anymore. Why didn't I think of that..
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I have to say Norcal, Californiabeachfeet, feetfair, and coedfeet have some of the best quality photography on the net. I do like amateur and selfies, but it is like comparing apples to oranges. Some people do not realize what actually goes into operating one of these top notch sites. ex: The equipment $$$, the facility $$$, the models $$$, the photographers skill to get the right angles and lighting. It is a full-time job. I give them all the credit deserved.
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Here's my two cents....Ive been a lurker since well god I don't even know. Easily before 1999. Anyway, this site is was one of the very 1st foot sites I began to visit on a regular basis. For all the same reasons everyone else did. I would buy Leg Sex, Leg Action mags as well, but the internet was where i ended up going and Wu's was always my 1st stop. Time is a fickled mistress, it can change things we don't want to change in the blink of an eye and prolong the efforts of things we work on everyday. I sincerely hope Wu is OK and will return soon. I feel like I know the regulars here by reading the posts in the forum and would think someone would help keep the place up. All this talk made me want to post my support for the site and come out of the shadows. No matter what happens. I hope to be an "active" member from Here on out. Thanks guys.
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quote: While photographers are geniuses at what they do, a pretty foot is a pretty foot! My favorite foot models all took selfies when it came to their sites.
Well hell, I will just sell all my photographic equipment tomorrow and start using an iPhone camera for everything on Norcalfeet since no one cares about the quality anymore. Why didn't I think of that..
It's really true that you never stop learning in life, mate! I'm gonna do the same! And we should put maximum attention in screwing the focus, badly over or underexpose the pics, do everything that we can to blur them and also clumsily cut random body parts (including toes & heels!) out of the pics! I am sure that this will add that genuine, real-life, "random dude with an i-phone shooting the postman's daughter's peds" flavor to our boring, pretentious stuff! People will flock and pay big bucks to enjoy our new crap! We're gonna get rich at last, mate!
quote: While photographers are geniuses at what they do, a pretty foot is a pretty foot! My favorite foot models all took selfies when it came to their sites.
Well hell, I will just sell all my photographic equipment tomorrow and start using an iPhone camera for everything on Norcalfeet since no one cares about the quality anymore. Why didn't I think of that..
It's really true that you never stop learning in life, mate! I'm gonna do the same! And we should put maximum attention in screwing the focus, badly over or underexpose the pics, do everything that we can to blur them and also clumsily cut random body parts (including toes & heels!) out of the pics! I am sure that this will add that genuine, real-life, "random dude with an i-phone shooting the postman's daughter's peds" flavor to our boring, pretentious stuff! People will flock and pay big bucks to enjoy our new crap! We're gonna get rich at last, mate!
Dude, you just made my day, that's so funny. But seriously, I wish I could bring myself to take all my pics with my phone, and the hell with all that fancy lighting, wardrobe and studio crap, who needs it, right?
If I had no standards, maybe I'd have some money in the bank or something(sigh).
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Just some random thoughts from my side.. 1) I wish Wu all the best.. irrespective of him getting the contributions section started again, or not. 2) For what concerns my site - I've posted stuff from BAREFOOT NUDITY only - the promotional impact of a feature in the contribs section of Wu's Feet Links is MUCH bigger than the one of a post in this forum (let's say 100 hits from a post in the contribs page for every hit from a post in the forum). 3) It is very difficult for a cult vendor/photographer like me to get much visibility and positive feedback in the forum.. my posts about the updates and/or model debuts at BAREFOOT NUDITY and BAREFOOT URBAN GIRLS are always made with a "well, you never know" attitude.. and also to show my (scarce but super-cool! ) followers here in the forum that I care about them and that I love them! Many of my posts get no comment at all, and last in the main page for one day or so... 4) In a nutshell.. if I had to choose which one between Wu's contribs page and this forum can go bust.. sorry guys & gals, but it's deffo the latter.. now it seems that exactly the opposite is happening.. but again.. "well, you never know"..
quote: While photographers are geniuses at what they do, a pretty foot is a pretty foot! My favorite foot models all took selfies when it came to their sites.
Well hell, I will just sell all my photographic equipment tomorrow and start using an iPhone camera for everything on Norcalfeet since no one cares about the quality anymore. Why didn't I think of that..
It's really true that you never stop learning in life, mate! I'm gonna do the same! And we should put maximum attention in screwing the focus, badly over or underexpose the pics, do everything that we can to blur them and also clumsily cut random body parts (including toes & heels!) out of the pics! I am sure that this will add that genuine, real-life, "random dude with an i-phone shooting the postman's daughter's peds" flavor to our boring, pretentious stuff! People will flock and pay big bucks to enjoy our new crap! We're gonna get rich at last, mate!
Dude, you just made my day, that's so funny. But seriously, I wish I could bring myself to take all my pics with my phone, and the hell with all that fancy lighting, wardrobe and studio crap, who needs it, right?
If I had no standards, maybe I'd have some money in the bank or something(sigh).
Great to know that (if not as a successful vendor) at least I have a future as a jester, Adam!
I sometimes make the very reasoning you have written about.. but I always end up telling myself that if I started taking crappy "Facebook style" pics, MAYBE I will end up with some more bucks in my wallet.. but SURE I will never be able to look at my face in the mirror anymore without saying "you sold out, beggar"..
So please keep up your SUPERB job, Adam (OK, not my cup of tea, but as an experienced shooter I can see TRUE quality stuff).. I am sure that there will always be people educated and smart enough to reward our efforts.. all the best from Italy!
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