* Edit: Good Saturday afternoon, East Coast; Saturday morning, West coast.

Well, now it’s 9:21 pm your time 🙂

Thank you, Thomas, for wishing me well and for saying I’m not doing anything to disrupt the forums.

I too hope that Laven is okay 🙏

I too wish more people participated in the forums. I think that what has been happening is that although millions (!) of people are coming across the tiny buddha’s blogs, advertisements, etc. (what you see on the “home page”), hardly ANYONE knows that the forums even exist-

Because the millions read what you see on the home page- not here, on the tb website- but on Facebook, Instagram and other social media outlets (as feeds, pieces of what you see on the home page). These forums don’t appear on the social media feeds.

I think that in the beginning lots of people posted in the forums because they logged into the website like you and I do, but over the years, hardly anyone does.

So the forums are in reality, tiny buddha’s tiny secret 😔

So, old participants in the forums stop posting over time (that’s normal), but unlike in the past, new people don’t join us because they don’t even know about the forums, and they’re busy communicating with each other- not on any particular website’s forums, but on social media.

Websites’ forum participation is a thing of the past 😔

At this point, I am bringing up really old threads so to learn from them, to see how I used to reply to members and why, it’s about my desire to learn about how I changed and am changing since I first participated here in May 2015.

I thought of sharing all the above because it may interest you, or explain things. Does it?

✨️🌿✨️ Anita