Does RPGuild Need More People?

[Cyndyr]

Somewhat irrelevant, but maybe not: what sites are being compared to rpguild here?

i ask because when i go on iwaku they have less than rpguild usually, and the only other place i know of is rpnation, which has a larger average active population, but also has an irritating method of organizing RPs that kind of hinders cross-genre improvisation which I like a lot

200 might not seem like a lot, but it seems fairly constant between 150-200 people most days

what other sites have a larger population that makes this site seem like it isn't big enough? I know guildfall had the guild take a big hit, and the slow redevelopment of the site is another reason for slow growth

@Mercenary Lord

Iwaku has about 300+ users on average from what I've seen. RPNation is definitely the most active of the three, but I'm still not convinced that not everyone on there is a sockpuppet.

[ML]

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Iwaku has about 300+ users on average from what I've seen. RPNation is definitely the most active of the three, but I'm still not convinced that not everyone on there is a sockpuppet.

@Cynder

Really...huh. It always seems like whenever I go on Iwaku their active online count is always lower than RPguild. Unless both sites count guests as part of their total count. I just checked Iwaku a few minutes ago, and it said their active count was 245, except about a third of those were guests. If RPG functions the same way, that's one thing, but otherwise I think it's in the middle of the 3

also i tried to do rpnation for a little bit and was plagued with the same issues mentioned in this thread, including disappearing GMs, but also very pretty threads with no substance to them

[Cyndyr]

Really...huh. It always seems like whenever I go on Iwaku their active online count is always lower than RPguild. Unless both sites count guests as part of their total count. I just checked Iwaku a few minutes ago, and it said their active count was 245, except about a third of those were guests. If RPG functions the same way, that's one thing, but otherwise I think it's in the middle of the 3

also i tried to do rpnation for a little bit and was plagued with the same issues mentioned in this thread, including disappearing GMs, but also very pretty threads with no substance to them

@Mercenary Lord

RPG does count guests, but it should be noted that people who are marked as "Guests" may actually have their online/offline status hidden (for example, I'm "invisible" so I appear as a "Guest" instead of as a user). I'm not actually sure if Iwaku works in a similar fashion as I was only briefly on there for a few days. As for RPNation, I found it to be bland and got bored on those forums rather quickly, haha.

[mickilennial]

Somewhat irrelevant, but maybe not: what sites are being compared to rpguild here?

@Mercenary Lord

The big three are Roleplay Adventures, RP Nation, and Iwaku Roleplay.

[ML]

If I'm being honest, those websites seemed almost too excessive for me. So many different options and worlds and clans and shit people could join, when really i just wanted a place i could put down some writing like I had in the past. and as I said before, I like mixing and matching genres a lot so when you have Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Modern sections all separate it really kills the vibe for me

i'd much rather prefer a more cohesive set of tags

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The big three are Roleplay Adventures, RP Nation, and Iwaku Roleplay.

@Inkarnate

Hey, thanks for the clarification. I've alway kind of just been on RPguild, and I heard about Iwaku a while back as well

[mickilennial]

Iwaku has been the largest and most dynamic of the “circle of play-by-post sites”, though it has a much different community and different administrative beliefs. Problem is, their administration is large and is more active with the site at large thus people automatically resonate to it being a better site when in reality it is just a different one.

RPN and RPA don’t get mentioned often in the conversation of sites because they aren’t as accessible or appealing. RPA’s site layout is over ten years old; harkening back to the days of proboards and ezboards. RPN has nice aesthetics, but also describes itself as a “family friendly” site. So it comes to no surprise why people gravitate towards either Iwaku (who sorts by genre) or RPG (who sorts by ability).

[ML]

Is it also possible that Roleplaying as a pastime is fading somewhat in today's day and age? I don't really know how you'd measure that, but if it was a really popular thing to do several years back, and then a series of unfortunate catastrophes shut down a lot of roleplaying options at once, people just decided to find other things to do with their lives?

Or am I wrong, and the RP crowd has just moved away from RPguild to other places?

[Cyndyr]

Is it also possible that Roleplaying as a pastime is fading somewhat in today's day and age? I don't really know how you'd measure that, but if it was a really popular thing to do several years back, and then a series of unfortunate catastrophes shut down a lot of roleplaying options at once, people just decided to find other things to do with their lives?

Or am I wrong, and the RP crowd has just moved away from RPguild to other places?

@Mercenary Lord

There's really no way to be sure, so it's definitely a possibility. I don't see Roleplaying dying as a hobby anytime soon though. Even outside of the main three (four?), people still Roleplay on Twitter, Tumblr, Discord, Facebook, VK, Skype, and various other social media platforms.

[ML]

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There's really no way to be sure, so it's definitely a possibility. I don't see Roleplaying dying as a hobby anytime soon though. Even outside of the main three (four?), people still Roleplay on Twitter, Tumblr, Discord, Facebook, VK, Skype, and various other social media platforms.

@Cynder

Yeah I was just thinking about tumblr: if you google RPing a lot of tumblr blogs will show up in a mix with the PBP websites. So it could possibly be that people are just moving away from these places to go to other methods of RPing.

Separately from that point above, there are a few things about RPguild that I really really like, which keeps me pretty comfortable here. I'm not sure if this would be the place to put that though

[Cyndyr]

Yeah I was just thinking about tumblr: if you google RPing a lot of tumblr blogs will show up in a mix with the PBP websites. So it could possibly be that people are just moving away from these places to go to other methods of RPing.

Separately from that point above, there are a few things about RPguild that I really really like, which keeps me pretty comfortable here. I'm not sure if this would be the place to put that though

@Mercenary Lord

Tumblr is very PC (politically correct) in terms of speech, so I would not recommend it unless you belong to that crowd yourself. If you want to share what you think about the Guild or what it could improve upon, that's an ongoing discussion in this thread.

All civil input is welcomed and appreciated!

[Mixtape Ghost N]

No.

The RPG needs people who can do more.

[Iuniper]

Which of you guys posted the guild link to RPG's Discord Server to Omegle?

[skidcrow]

Which of you guys posted the guild link to RPG's Discord Server to Omegle?

@Iuniper

what?