what happened to the forum? Options

[chi]

where is everyone did they abandon this forum i mean even i left for a while we don't want the forum to be closed down cause of lack of talking TT~TT

[Shiidou Hikaru]

I usually stop by here every few days, but most of the time nothing new has been posted so I don't leave a reply. I'm pretty sure that it's the same for everyone too. It's sort of like a group of old friends or family getting together for a dinner or something like that and we all sort of look at each other uncomfortably waiting for someone else to go first. Maybe I'm off the mark there, but it's a guess that's why forums wither away - there's just nothing new to talk about. v_v

For sure life is full of busy things, so if for whatever reason you stop participating in a certain activity, there are half a dozen others waiting to take its place. So I'm sure that people didn't drift away because there was a problem here. Our attention just strays a little and then something else comes to grab it and drag us away to something new. For me, I spend a lot of my free time online doing mmo games now rather than forum socializing, but now my interest is beginning to wane on online games now too. I'm not sure right now what will come along to replace those.

Initially the forum software cost $70, but after the terrible problems with Ezboard I viewed it and the time I spent converting over to IPB as time and money well spent. There is an annual subscription for IPB if I want technical support and to keep doing upgrades, but I don't pay for it because the upgrades were always a problem for me to do and the forum seems to work fine as it is. Keeping the spambots out has always been the major problem, but that problem is solved for now.