My goal was to make this place a lot more friendly to newcoming guests and people willing to give this place a second chance, and I'm glad to see the fruits of my labor worked wonders. My point is, however, that there still is work to be done here. You mention the site activity and lack of general interest, but I think there's more left to improve. And the biggest thing to work on right now is general motivation.
The lack of general motivation is keeping the community from moving forward. This right here is the biggest issue. Nobody really felt compelled to want to do anything to make FEP stand out, nor do they have the opportunity even if they did want to. For example, sirocyl hasn't really done much for the past 3-4 months. The plan was to get FETO off of the previous platform the forums were once on, and since he has a job and an urgency to get out of the hamptons, that's really not going to happen unless someone else steps up. And herein lies the next problem: No one else would step up. We've only had a handful of people who applied to be testers for FETO, and less than half of that were active members of the community. Even lesser had the knowledge or theory to actually make something out of, for example, HTML5. I even brought up the idea that we could seek help from sister sites such as Serene's Forest, but no one really fueled any discussion about it. So really, the motivation just wasn't there.
The site for the past couple of years has grown stagnant because of the unwillingness nor the opportunity to take the site to the next level. I mean, when it's 2014, and we're 3 games behind (at least 5 years behind) in site content, we're not going to attract any people here. And it's going to stay like this until someone steps up and does something. Sirocyl has proven to us that he can't do everything by himself, so he needs the support. Otherwise, we're not going to be here come 2015.
The lack of general motivation is keeping the community from moving forward. This right here is the biggest issue. Nobody really felt compelled to want to do anything to make FEP stand out, nor do they have the opportunity even if they did want to. For example, sirocyl hasn't really done much for the past 3-4 months. The plan was to get FETO off of the previous platform the forums were once on, and since he has a job and an urgency to get out of the hamptons, that's really not going to happen unless someone else steps up. And herein lies the next problem: No one else would step up. We've only had a handful of people who applied to be testers for FETO, and less than half of that were active members of the community. Even lesser had the knowledge or theory to actually make something out of, for example, HTML5. I even brought up the idea that we could seek help from sister sites such as Serene's Forest, but no one really fueled any discussion about it. So really, the motivation just wasn't there.
The site for the past couple of years has grown stagnant because of the unwillingness nor the opportunity to take the site to the next level. I mean, when it's 2014, and we're 3 games behind (at least 5 years behind) in site content, we're not going to attract any people here. And it's going to stay like this until someone steps up and does something. Sirocyl has proven to us that he can't do everything by himself, so he needs the support. Otherwise, we're not going to be here come 2015.
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Formerly known as Magus.