Mr_pink said
It's not that I want the site to die really I'd just like it to go back the way it was. The worst part about the sort of 'unrestricted' sections is that I've seen many 1x1's in free and casual.
I personally have never seen it happen, but if I ever do see 1x1s in the Free or Casual Sections, I can guarantee that I will just be sat there, with my face repeatedly hitting my keyboard like "Why."
Anywaaaay...On topic, A friend of mine showed me the old guild site quite some time ago and I never used it. I was too apprehensive to post and well, y'know, this lead to me never being active. And then say, about a month a go or so, she's like "Oh hey, Kyri, let's do an RP" and she linked me to here, the new site. Now honestly? I didn't think I'd ever start posting, making interest checks and having more RP partners than just her. But now here I am with at least seven roleplays going on, one which I'm the GM of, the other six being 1x1's, on this site. Those are just the seven that are solid stories, with interesting plots and the roleplay partners I'm with are writing at level that I'm comfortable with. I've had to wade through several roleplays where people were just writing too little, with bad grammar or they just upped and vanish.
It can hardly be called dead if I'm getting at least a post a day for all six of my 1x1's. And in response to "Everyone in the 1x1 section wants to do a porno" ...Yeah, well that's a lie since my golden rule of thumb with an RP is "It can have romance but don't shoehorn it in just cause 'Liek omg true wuv'". Will I do romance? Yes. Will I write Mature Themes/18+? Yes but in PM only and most smut will go to tasteful fade to black.
EDIT: I also failed to mention the point that I do think the guild needs updates, what with all the white screens, the guild going down at times and upgrades to the coding but I can work with what we have right now which is a fairly functional system. the IC/OOC for threads is a great idea, and in the future I'd love to see that sort of feature implemented for those who RP in Private Messages like myself. As an idea, I'd like to see a delete button for posts, as well as a better notification system for Subscribed RPs (I hardly notice). If IC/OOC for PMs isn't going to be a thing at some point, perhaps giving us an option to sort our "messages" into different sections, like how Subs divides the "Roleplay" and "Non Roleplay" boards that you've subscribed to, but instead, for PM it can be divided into "IC" PMs and "OOC" PMs, but of course we'd have to just judge it and add it to these sections ourselves.
Also, I understand Mahz is busy. This ain't me pressuring, just me saying that even though I am a relatively new member, I see the flaws and will hope for fixes, but for now, the site works for me, and many others as well, so it isn't dying or dead.