[quote=@Dion]I agree, good points: what makes you optimistic for the medium though? The idea that people will come back 'as they always do' or that after this wave of IM/Discord RP people will return to 'retro' roleplaying?
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Nothing concrete in terms of metrics, more of a gut instinct due to how trends fluctuate. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd like not to be.