Online Communities

I only came back to this site because my old forum community died.

Yes, I've been part of a site or two that ended up like that, but mainly it was on WoW Roleplaying Communities. I'd meet a bunch of people, we'd RP, have loads of fun, and then non-Rpers would come into the server and ruin RPing, and everyone started to slowly leave, till it was just me and maybe one or two others.

;-; Memories man, memories.

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Originally Posted by Jster

...and the only members left were Natsume and Clirkus.

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i need a drink

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Originally Posted by Jster

Do you find it sad when they die off?

I used to be a member of an old bustling website that was based around playing games made specifically for the community and the community made levels for the games.


I just logged back on the site today after 2 years of absence and the place is a wasteland. Like five members still log on and not a single administrator only two of the mods.


It's like if I were to log on to RPG tommorow and Mahz and Contra had disappeared taking all the mods with them but Kad and the only members left were Natsume and Clirkus.

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Mmm. =/

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Originally Posted by Jster

It's like if I were to log on to RPG tommorow and Mahz and Contra had disappeared taking all the mods with them but Kad and the only members left were Natsume and Clirkus.

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Lol, that's kinda fucked up.

On another note, still waiting on Spam to die.

Unfortunate all these new people are spicing it up.

This actually happened to my original RPing site. I was extremely active and even had a bunch of interesting RPs but then the site got shut down. That is actually partially what caused me to leave RPing altogether for a few years before finding this place.

I messed around on proboards and neopets and stuff for a while, but for a large-scale roleplay site, I only used one for about 5 years.

And now that I think about it....

This one site that I went to kinda died. Bea and I had an interesting RP going on there....

<.< of course, there's the deal with it having been a cyber RP forum filled with smut, and they got shut down because some kids had stumbled upon it.

But yeah, slightly relevant.

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Originally Posted by Jster

Do you find it sad when they die off?

I used to be a member of an old bustling website that was based around playing games made specifically for the community and the community made levels for the games.


I just logged back on the site today after 2 years of absence and the place is a wasteland. Like five members still log on and not a single administrator only two of the mods.


It's like if I were to log on to RPG tommorow and Mahz and Contra had disappeared taking all the mods with them but Kad and the only members left were Natsume and Clirkus.

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Yeah, but i've seen it so often I'm used to it now. I forget who, but someone told me RPG has been on the way out for the last yearish. So I guess that will be RPG in the not-too-distant future. It's weird, I almost always seem to miss the 'golden age' of communities, which people always talk about. I'm always there for the decline tho. :cool:

Usually right after the decline begins, before I get any outrageous accusations. :rolleyes:

It's interesting how the shifts happen tho. And it is exacerbated by social networking. Myspace caused a decline in forum-based communities, Facebook hastened the decline, and Twitter has relegated forums to being more or less specialized, like this one. It's like how desktop computers are only used for certain things, and no longer mainstream.

You could argue RPG hasn't suffered at all since it began well after Myspace and FB, and has been going strong since Twitter exploded (in 2009 iirc). But even tho it's specialized, I do know a good chunk of roleplayers who don't use forums anymore. One of the best RPers I know migrated to FB RPing, which is super weird to me. :ezlol:

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Originally Posted by TripMyHop

One of the best RPers I know migrated to FB RPing, which is super weird to me. :ezlol:

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This is a thing? How odd.

I personally still prefer Chat RP, if only I could find old school rpers who weren't a bunch of god modding unoriginal douchebags.