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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (212921)	7/2/2024 8:39:05 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	5 Recommendations Recommended By Doren NAG1 OldAIMGuy Riskmgmt Stock Puppy Respond to of 213177

Probably many reasons for the slowdown in this thread over the last few years, and SI in general. Here are a few I can think of... – Apple has become "boring" as a tech company since they are so large now and AAPL tends to move less dramatically. It very different when their survival was in question, then later when new and innovative products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. were new and driving sales. – Many SI users have moved on from SI or to the great beyond and new users have not joined to replace them, or don't post if they did. If you go back only 10 years in this thread, most of the people posting then have disappeared from SI or do so very infrequently now. This thread used to garner over 100 posts a day sometimes, and I once counted over 1,000 new posts in a week. It was the #1 thread (ranked by replies) in the Stocktalk group for years. – Relating to the previous point, SI's user base skews much older in age, as this limited poll of participants attests: How old are you as of today, 5/28/24? Only 24 people responded to that post and the poll ran for a month. The previous poll in the same thread undertaken less than 4 years ago had 83 respondents, and it ran for only 11 days. – The Web 1.0 design of SI is a deterrent to prospective younger users who've gravitated to sites like InvestorsHub, SeekingAlpha, and Reddit. I really like that aspect of this site, but I could see where it would turn off younger Millennials and Gen Z kids (Zoomers). – No smartphone/tablet app was ever released for SI after the initial redesign beta was soundly criticized. SI's site design is handled by a single person whereas competing sites have large teams of developers. Most young folks and even many older adults do almost everything on their phones these days, including posting on forums. My 22-year-old niece probably types as fast on her iPhone as fast as I type on a physical keyboard, and she's far faster at navigating its UI. I'm sure there are other reasons I haven't highlighted here. Ah well, safe to say those who invested in AAPL ~25 years ago and stayed the course have done very well.