As far as things being better in the glory days. I don't know man. I've been here for a long ass time lol. The quality of news, media, and content is way beyond what it ever used to be in the past. Yeah, I believe that there was a much better sense of 'community' back in the day and threads may have been more active.. But it was a completely different time back then. When I started freeskiing, there were only 2 other skiers on the whole mountain with twin-tips (and I lived outside of Tahoe) So we were rebels, man lol. It was a whole different era. We all had a shared love for skiing and it was a damn small circle, so we all became good friends.
And I think NS was exactly like that for a lot of people. Back then, there was NO other place to go for skiing. Got a question about gear? You're shit out of luck. Want to see dope new ski pics? Not going to happen, unless you want to wait a month for the next issue of Freeze Magazine to drop.
So when you found NS, it was like finding freaking Shangri La. People were on here 24/7 and there was a super tight bond because everyone was family (and because there was NO other place to go lol) But yeah, things change. These days, people got Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, or Grindr (if that's how you get down lol).. They can follow their favorite riders there, and use other social platforms to keep in touch. So what used to all take place on 1 forum, now got spread out across FB, instagram, etc.
But times change, it's cool. NS is still going strong and kicking ass which is amazing to me.
**This post was edited on Feb 22nd 2018 at 12:46:12am