LogFAQs > #963800310

Judgmenl posted...

The death of PotD has been greatly exaggerated

Exaggerated, but not mistaken.

The site as a whole, and PotD in specific, has been slowly dying for almost a decade. Every year a few more posters drift away, everyone gets older and more bitter, and anything resembling worthwhile social interaction dies a little more. It's the frog in the pot of boiling water metaphor - you might not notice because the change is gradual, slow, and minor, but one day you wake up and realize the number of active topics on PotD is 1/10th what it used to be and half the accounts are just people's shitty alts.

Even on the business end, the site's slow decay led the old owners to sell it off because they couldn't monetize it efficiently anymore, and the new owners are only making it work because they have smaller overhead. But eventually the site will wither too small for even them, and they'll either have to sell it off to someone else, or just let it die.

The grand irony would be if this entire thing just ends eventually getting sold off to a single owner, exactly the way it was when it started. Even more ironic if the final owner winds up being CJayC, who buys it back once no one else wants it.

But yeah, PotD (and GameFAQs) is definitely dying. The mistake is when people assume that dying means it'll be a quick death.