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Originally Posted by Mike K.
But what came first? SSP or CUI? SSP or C2E? They were born out of SSP, but took on a different life because they offered more to people than just discussions strictly on skyscrapers and development. People live in cities and have more to say than comments on development. CUI and C2E have proven that much. Being against something that users obviously want, judging by their support of C2E and CUI, is not conducive to growing a forum and over the last while we've lost enough traffic to C2E and CUI that we want to improve this forum to bring people back who would otherwise be posting here.
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True, CUI grew out of SSP, but CUI is focused first of all on developments and topics on urbanism. It's not a stretch to say that we could steal a significant portion of SSP's Calgary forum away. The SSP forum here could very much turn out to be like the Prairie Provinces forum on SSC as a result.
What Calgary forumers want, and what the current format provides, is a one-stop shop for all updates and development info. I've kept updates going on the basis that the community is still strong and it doesn't make sense for there to be a redundant source of info. I'm fully prepared to provide that one-stop shop elsewhere, if the advantage to staying here goes away.
Another thing I would note is that on the behalf of CUI members, SSP has made it into the Calgary news more than a few times, mostly for the information our subforum provides. Calgarians definately aren't visiting SSP to see the pretty diagrams, or rather, the lack of diagrams for Calgary developments...