I have noticed a lot of people left the forum. It is a pity, especially for many of the historical followers of the development blog.
What happened? Did you simply lose interest? Your life is much more busy? Or simply you’re just annoyed by the off-topics, you’re afraid this once-forum will be colonized in a few weeks by kitties, and you think that everything that is not directly related to adventure gaming or at least geekish things doesn’t suit The Real Nerd™?
This is an interesting topic, now that it’s a year since the creation of these forums. Maybe there are other good ideas for topics that can bring the site in new interesting directions.
It would be also useful to know what the developers and the moderators think about it.
Thank you @Gffp ! I’d welcome any post linking intersting projects/threads (but be selective, please) and tagging people I forgot to tag
(Actually discourse has a maximum of ten tags per post)
I think off topics have a main role, too, but I think that sometimes there’s an over-reaction about that.
I didn’t forget@seguso. I mentioned ita”, but I thought he is anyway more active than many others, so I decided to make room for another name
And since we’Re waiting for an important dub by him, I like to think that seguso is still present
I understand your suggestion. I thought about it, but I also thought it was nice that everyone could add his/her own contributions, and to avoid to make a veeery long post which basically would have been a boring list of users and links. If the list of lins is too long, much better to navigate the forum categories… that’s why I asked “be selective”
From the slice of cake everybody has beside their name, I guess today it’s the first Forum Birthday!
It seems I’ve accidentally chosen a very meaningful date for this rebirth thread for the forum…
Oh, yes, there’s plenty of historical users who seldom post, like Carlo, or like @Nor_Treblig, to mention just one more. But I don’t wanna go off topic: this was a call for people who don’t post anymore…
@LowLevel was long prophesising that the forum will die sooner or later once the rate of active users has gone downhill too much. I guess he wanted to leave the sinking ship ahead of the event.
It happens for ANY internet community. The continuous turnover/refresh could help, but the peculiar theme of this forum doesn’t allow for it more than to a certain extent. Every single user, sooner or later abandons, and if they’re not replaced by new users, the forum dies. It’s normal. I think we are doing quite a good job: if we sticked to the game itself and its development, the forum would have been dead months ago.
But we are beyond that: so many projects are keeping the forum alive, and -I hope- help to keep the attention on the game high. After all nobody, neither the devs, would have suspected that the idea of a fan dub would have gone so far.
And if this project will come to life (and it WILL), that would be a son of this forum. And maybe some german friend could copy the idea, and keep the stuff hot for another year…
But I am active in my mission to talk about interfaces. It’s just that there isn’t any right now.
And my secondary mission (following Ron Gilbert’s development) is also frustrated because he is developing under secrecy. If at all. The cuplrit is probably that GF of his (I understand that to mean “godfather” presumably).
Well, when the project started, we were just three Italians I mean, not on the forum, but on the project. It just needed a demo video to get the interest going, then we got a bit of advertisement from a Lucas-oriented blog, but if I think of the actors involved, probably less than a third are forumers
I mean, not on the forum, but on the project. It just needed a demo video to get the interest going, then we got a bit of advertisement from a Lucas-oriented blog, but if I think of the actors involved, probably less than a third are forumers 