Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Column 686
The Darts Discussion Group is Dead. What Happened?
It’s a mystery…
From January 1 to May 13, 2025, the once-thriving Darts Discussion Group (DDG) has recorded just 99 unique posts and a paltry 61 comments.
It wasn’t always this way.
In its heyday – especially in the early years after Phil Fried launched it – the DDG was one of the liveliest forums for darts chatter anywhere. Arguably, it was the place to be.
For comparison: during the same stretch in 2014, the group saw nearly 1,000 posts. Comments came in so fast and thick it was hard to keep up. Sixty to eighty per post was not uncommon. Some threads topped 300.
[For reference: the Darts Advice, Tips and Discussion group, formed at approximately the same time as the DDG and with which the DDG used to keep pace, now has more than 150,000 members and often records near 100 posts a day.]
And it wasn’t just idle banter at the DDG. Veterans, pros, newcomers, team captains, league directors, and promoters all joined the DDG fray daily. There were serious discussions, silly ones, the occasional spat – and plenty of laughs. It was a true community.
Today? Crickets (no pun intended – but yeah, pun intended).
So, what happened? Is this just a sign of the times – another casualty of shifting digital habits and vanishing attention spans?
More to the point: does anyone have an idea for bringing it back to life? Because a reawakened DDG could only be good for the sport.
Let’s talk about it – somewhere.
From the Field,
Dartoid
