Is this site dying?

He's back! He's back! Hello puppet, it's been awhile. ;)

squeaky Sally Field voice

You like me! You really like me!

I've just been busy with real life the past week, haven't been able to jump in as much as usual. Y'all can't get rid of me that easily! ;)

Thankfully, my apnea’s under control. Someone recently introduced me to the heavy breathing-right strip; She stripped...and we breathed heavily for a good portion of the night ;-)

Now, I have to go back to work on that Weird Al-esque Queen parody. I was hoping that Puppet Man would jump in... He’s wicked smaaht.

BT

Side note:

Sorillo, if you ever make it to Louisville (yes, that’s an open invitation), keep those puppets on a leash. We don’t tolerate wandering digits. Wife’s ass is exit only.

Damn puppet is over rated. Puppets are all “A” type personalities. They eventually try to take over.

I say, keep that puppet in the box, until it’s time to do some serious finger banging.

Whew! Hadn’t seen a Sorillo post for days. Got nervous. Thought the world was truly coming to an end this time.

ps- BT, please don’t die. There might be tears.

I know CPR, so I'm willing to do some site saving by engaging in a little mouth-to-mouth, not to mention chest massage....

At least with some folks. BT, the doctor says yer gonna die.

#just the punchline

No, it isn’t dying, but at times, it appears to have pretty bad sleep apnea, which I understand, can lead to death.

BT

SLS destroyed itself when they removed mail. People are leaving.

Yeaokay, I shot you a message :)

folks mention other sites..I have tried AFF ..(Yuck 'talking penises pics) what are other viable options? I have found nothing comparable to SLS

Two things hit the site pretty hard. The biggest was FOSTA. SLS went much further in attempting to protect itself than other sites have. Single males and many couples left in droves because the free account became useless. Many migrated to other sites without all the restrictions. The second was SLS changed some of their policies on groups and events being posted on the site. They added restrictions and policies that angered many long time users who had large to small social networks. Many of them left and took some of their people with them to other sites. While the site has taken a hit and they struggle trying to make an app and website play nice SLS still has a pretty good reach compared to many other sites. It is still a good option when traveling.

RandT----->It's either people that really don't want to ever meet or single males acting as a couple and waste your time. Pictures are a whole other issue on so many levels.

We'd generally agree with that statement. Once you've been swinging for a number of years you generally develop a sense of who is real and who fancies the idea of swinging but doesn't really participate. We'd guess that more on the husbands of the pair than the wives. We participate in a regular meet and greet in our town. It's always interesting to see the couples that sign up with zero pictures and a scant write up in their profile. Do they actually come to the meet and greet just to observe? You'd never know since they have no pictures. That's is probably an extreme view of voyeurism. More power to them, once they see swingers are real people with real lives maybe they will wade into the shallow end of the pool versus watching through the fence.

That's why we'd continue to assert the site is not dying. If you think about it the cost of entry ($) is pretty low to feed a fantasy. The downside? That tends to clog up the site with wanna be's and makes it harder for those of us who really want to meet, to actually meet. :(

We think the biggest problem with this site is all the profiles that seem to be full of crap. It's either people that really don't want to ever meet or single males acting as a couple and waste your time. Pictures are a whole other issue on so many levels.

The rumors of the site’s death have been greatly exaggerated.

The site is alive and kicking despite some serious recent gaffes, and despite threats by many to leave in protest. This site still has one of the largest and strongest networks. When looking for sexual hookups, size matters.

@ WEAREFUN - No, we don't think the site is dying but it does have a unique personality. Like you two we are on other swinging sites and it's different. Our experience here versus there comes down to a few things.

Engagement is the first. Yes the crazy IM only format has a negative impact on engagement but it goes deeper in our opinion. Here is the best example we can provide, and the experience is not isolated. A few months ago we reached out to a couple and agreed to meet for dinner and drinks. Everyone has busy lives so the actual dinner was two weeks out. We provided out cell #s in case he/ she wanted to text. Net net, during the two weeks we rarely to never heard from them on anything more than confirmation of time and place. No flirting. No what is she going to wear. Etc. Nothing. It felt like we were meeting a couple from our softball league for dinner (yawn). Again, this is one example but not unusual. Seems to the the SLS norm. YMMV.

Pictures is the second. I think we'd all agree this all starts from a visual perspective. LOL and no this is not about the lack of pictures of the man. We only engage with couples who initially have pictures of both. It's more about current pictures. We've been on this site for a number of years and there are people / couples who have never updated their photos. On other sites, pictures are more current and regularly old pictures are rotated out and replaced by...here is what we look like today versus we took some good pictures five years ago and we are sticking with them.

Ghosting is the third personality quirk of our SLS experience. Get an IM from a couple wanting to meet. We typically respond with a list of our available dates and tell them to pick one that works or provide some alternatives. Then they are gone, poof, never to be heard from again. It's almost like they were surprised that someone actually responded and was willing to meet. Perhaps the potential of meeting is more exciting than actually meeting?

So no, not dying in our opinion. But, there are definitely some people/personality quirks we don't find on other sites we belong to. We've enjoyed some great SLS couple experiences, but you gotta work pretty damn hard to achieve them around these parts :)

Hey, Fun805,

I can't see you, dammit!! :-)

Seriously, (I'm north ~90 miles) I've been away from the site (I am a Life-member) for a very long time, and upon return about 6-8wks ago or so, I find it's certainly "not the same". It's not something to discuss here, since "they" would eventually lock the (boring) conversation.

There's really no way to effectively communicate. The SLS messaging "app," which replaced SLS email, is clumsy and weak, in my opinion. There is no easy way I know of to use regular email addresses to communicate, since the site rules and programming mostly stops communication of email addresses from being exchanged.

Best wishes......great summer weather in AG, btw. :-)
SLO

The community here seems to be dying. We have the same profile on other sites and have quite a lot of traffic and fun. Here I see a general lack of trust level. Folks are removing their profile picks and leaving just 1. There seems to be plenty of communication between existing friends but little to no new traffic. Or am I paranoid....nope cant be paranoid when they are actually trying to get you. Haha