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[thirdtime's . . .]

Can we take the temperature of the supposedly burgeoning world of women’s hockey via the fan forum? There are maybe a half-dozen active threads, another half-dozen semi-active threads, and the occasional half-dozen ad hoc curiosities, like this one. Even the WCHA has surprising gaps, while the Ivies' perennially dominant Cornell has had only one steady watcher for years, an exciting Yale team didn’t exist until BWW, and a currently emergent Brown is nowheresville online . . . and where was it exactly that Hobey Baker and Patty Kaz played? (Harvard itself is hanging by a thread lol) Online fan enthusiasm in the hinterlands is effectively lower-case nil, not even on double-runners. LIU (Brooklyn!) surely has a story to tell. Sacred Heart? Stonehill? Post? Delaware, for Pete’s sake, must have at least a little story to tell. And where are the budding Timothy As of Franklin Pierce?! It can’t be that everybody else has a life.

 

[LongGame]

The message board had its highwater mark back around 2004 or so, but since has died out, losing its place to Twitter, Tik Tok, IG, and other forms of media. As with any other form of technology, some people hang onto to a form that they like, and I believe message boards are mostly populated by 50 and 60 year-old guys who did not embrace newer forms of media. It is what it is.

So, good luck with founding a Delaware women’s hockey thread in 2025.

 

[Timothy A]

The message board had its highwater mark back around 2004 or so, but since has died out, losing its place to Twitter, Tik Tok, IG, and other forms of media. As with any other form of technology, some people hang onto to a form that they like, and I believe message boards are mostly populated by 50 and 60 year-old guys who did not embrace newer forms of media. It is what it is.

Hey, I might be in that age range, and I'm on Instagram and Facebook, but I really don't do anything with it. I'm too busy to give those much attention. My social media activities are on this site 80%, a racing site 15% and fishing site 5%. I do spend a lot of time on the Tweeder, but that is for info gathering. I'm not looking to make my self a bigger social media star than I am on here already.

 

[thirdtime's . . .]

The message board had its highwater mark back around 2004 or so, but since has died out, losing its place to Twitter, Tik Tok, IG, and other forms of media. As with any other form of technology, some people hang onto to a form that they like, and I believe message boards are mostly populated by 50 and 60 year-old guys who did not embrace newer forms of media. It is what it is.

So, good luck with founding a Delaware women’s hockey thread in 2025.

Ask a silly question . . . and get a compelling answer! Thanks. We're sitting here in our buggies (some, like Timothy A's, flashier than others) while the rest of the world has moved on to self-driving cars. Got it.

 

[Timothy A]

Ask a silly question . . . and get a compelling answer! Thanks. We're sitting here in our buggies (some, like Timothy A's, flashier than others) while the rest of the world has moved on to self-driving cars. Got it.

My horses are white.

 

[TonyTheTiger20]

The message board had its highwater mark back around 2004 or so, but since has died out, losing its place to Twitter, Tik Tok, IG, and other forms of media. As with any other form of technology, some people hang onto to a form that they like, and I believe message boards are mostly populated by 50 and 60 year-old guys who did not embrace newer forms of media. It is what it is.

So, good luck with founding a Delaware women’s hockey thread in 2025.

Yeah this is the answer. Message boards are dying media.

Reddit r/collegehockey is mildly active though of course mostly men's. There's r/womenshockey but it's not really taken off yet.

 

[Windchill22]

Volleytalk is thriving, what's the secret sauce there I wonder?

*Edit fixed erroneous auto correction

 

[Scott_TG]

There's a Women's Hockey Discord that's fairly active, though it leans PWHL and European pro hockey

 

[ARM]

The message board had its highwater mark back around 2004 or so, but since has died out, losing its place to Twitter, Tik Tok, IG, and other forms of media. As with any other form of technology, some people hang onto to a form that they like, and I believe message boards are mostly populated by 50 and 60 year-old guys who did not embrace newer forms of media. It is what it is.

Prior to the time that NCAA women's hockey became an NCAA sport, there was very little reporting available on it. This forum served as an informal news outlet. Each form of social media seems to be tailored toward a different purpose. You can find a lot more video of games/players on YouTube, but the organization is such that you won't find everything unless you know exactly what it is that you're seeking. If you hunt for highlights by team, you'll find a lot of games are missing, and those that exist typically show only goals by the team that posted the highlights. Twitter, IG ... I'm not looking to stalk players, and a scoreboard still works better for finding a lot of current scores at the same time. Though I'm old, I'm not here because I resist change, but rather that I haven't found a news source for women's hockey that has replaced this. Even if it's only 17 people, this is a larger cluster than I've found elsewhere.