LogFAQs > #976771456

As for the argument, this forum is "dying" because every forum is dying. I'm tired of having to say this to crowds of people who think their forum is a special case of death unlike any others because of X, Y and Z. No man, text got replaced by images, eventually by videos, and then by short videos and the age audience everyone is pursuing is at least 20 years older than the one who cares about a site like this. Allen could have done this and that but the only way to save this site from decay would have been to turn it into something completely different, like a social media app, and maybe that would have sucked (I mean all social media apps suck rn). The things we like simply don't match with the things that attract gen alpha.

If anything, I feel like even the idea that forums are dying is starting to feel dated, because it's been a while people started complaining about it, and the reality is most forums did not die. They stabilized and became niche, and this seems to be one of such cases. Some communities I knew got nuked out of orbit, usually without no warning, either because if drama the admin didn't want to deal with, server costs that no longer could be paid, or because some idiot blew a fortune on a site and then learned it wasn't that profitable. Those things are always a risk (heck, the last one recently happened to freaking Twitter), but as long as they don't, I feel like this place will just keep limping until its userbase dies of old age. And honestly, that's not that bad.