Quote from: E on October 03, 2020, 10:26:44 PM

I think part of the problem with any community that's been around for long enough is that topics dry up because everybody knows everybody. It doesn't really matter what the topic is after a while, you get a feel for who's going to respond and why they're going to respond. The talking point issue can be circumvented in physical presence aka people hanging out and doing shit together but not neccessarily talking. With the shiternet being what it is, it'll always burn out like this. I've seen it happen on many smaller sites over time unless there was some bigger binding force at large.

Plus nobody has done anything with their lives the past six years so nothing has entered the ecosystem

We're like a time capsule

tbh I've just stopped posting about that stuff. I've never been comfortable with providing details about myself that would make it easier to dox, but eventually I realized that I don't see much of a point in really bringing up anything about myself unless it actually adds to a discussion in some way. While I don't see anybody using that stuff maliciously anyway, this forum has a weird way of turning events/issues in peoples lives into centerpiece discussions that never really die. Like Nuka said, there isn't a good history there and it's not surprising that that was the first of the last three pillars to die (the other two being megathreads and "sep7agon is dying/dead" threads).

Quote from: 🍁 Aria 🔮 on October 05, 2020, 11:41:21 PM

Quote from: Coomer on October 03, 2020, 10:46:01 PM

Quote from: E on October 03, 2020, 10:26:44 PM

I think part of the problem with any community that's been around for long enough is that topics dry up because everybody knows everybody. It doesn't really matter what the topic is after a while, you get a feel for who's going to respond and why they're going to respond. The talking point issue can be circumvented in physical presence aka people hanging out and doing shit together but not neccessarily talking. With the shiternet being what it is, it'll always burn out like this. I've seen it happen on many smaller sites over time unless there was some bigger binding force at large.

Plus nobody has done anything with their lives the past six years so nothing has entered the ecosystem

We're like a time capsule

tbh I've just stopped posting about that stuff. I've never been comfortable with providing details about myself that would make it easier to dox, but eventually I realized that I don't see much of a point in really bringing up anything about myself unless it actually adds to a discussion in some way. While I don't see anybody using that stuff maliciously anyway, this forum has a weird way of turning events/issues in peoples lives into centerpiece discussions that never really die. Like Nuka said, there isn't a good history there and it's not surprising that that was the first of the last three pillars to die (the other two being megathreads and "sep7agon is dying/dead" threads).

Seems like we're just hanging on to the memories we've made here for the sake of nostalgia

When a group starts running out of new material to talk about, nostalgic discussion becomes de facto conversation; and when people stop visiting (or banned, when that mattered) new material comes much more rarely. It's a sad, vicious, decrementing cycle.

I'm not really sure why at this point, it's like a leftover stubborn hangup from when I and this forum were still active. I didn't like seeing threads that never died in my Updated Topics list or something, since it was basically my default landing page.

LUIS

Whenever I swing by here I find I typically either don’t find anything interesting, or someone’s already said more or less what I had to say, or type out some agrammatic, rambling screed that I just delete anyway. If I’m here for longer than ten minutes, the third option is probably in play.

I think part of the problem with any community that's been around for long enough is that topics dry up because everybody knows everybody. It doesn't really matter what the topic is after a while, you get a feel for who's going to respond and why they're going to respond. The talking point issue can be circumvented in physical presence aka people hanging out and doing shit together but not neccessarily talking. With the shiternet being what it is, it'll always burn out like this. I've seen it happen on many smaller sites over time unless there was some bigger binding force at large.

In other words we should less talk and more make Sep7agon babies.

LUIS