Post by me on Nov 16, 2009 16:48:00 GMT -5
Hi guys. I may have to close down this site.
As you probably know, we've been having a big problem with inactivity lately... a big problem.
There's not enough active people on here to play the characters for the plot, participate in clan challenges or sitewide challenges, etc.
I've been trying to play all the characters for the plot that haven't been claimed by anyone yet, but that, on top of general management of the website (correcting people who misunderstand or break the rules, adding new features like chocolate bars, advertising, etc.), on top of homework for two college classes, on top of a disability (nerve damage) in my hands, well, I can't handle it all.
I can get my homework and some role-playing done because of a program I have on my computer. I talk into a microphone that is plugged in to the back of the computer and the words appear on the screen. But it's not perfect, and I still have to click on stuff a lot. By the time I'm done with my homework, I can MAYBE get some role-playing done. My hands are usually starting to hurt too bad by then to do anything else.
The site has too many features for too small of a community, and I can't keep everything going! There are three options I can think of.
-- close it down
-- give it to someone else to run
-- massive downsizing
I really don't want to close it down or give it away, so I'm kind of leaning toward the downsizing. If the downsizing happens, most of the extra features would be gone. No more chocolate bars, sitewide plots (mini plots would still be allowed) clan challenges... there would just be a place to post announcements and talk, a place for general information, a place to advertise, a place to put all the completed threads, a place to post your characters, and a place or two to role-play. It would be pretty different from how it is now.
But we would still be able to role-play on it, and it would be much more manageable. And maybe later, as my hands heal and as more people join, we would be able to bring it back to something like it is now, but more active.
Questions? Suggestions? Ideas? Comments?
As you probably know, we've been having a big problem with inactivity lately... a big problem.
There's not enough active people on here to play the characters for the plot, participate in clan challenges or sitewide challenges, etc.
I've been trying to play all the characters for the plot that haven't been claimed by anyone yet, but that, on top of general management of the website (correcting people who misunderstand or break the rules, adding new features like chocolate bars, advertising, etc.), on top of homework for two college classes, on top of a disability (nerve damage) in my hands, well, I can't handle it all.
I can get my homework and some role-playing done because of a program I have on my computer. I talk into a microphone that is plugged in to the back of the computer and the words appear on the screen. But it's not perfect, and I still have to click on stuff a lot. By the time I'm done with my homework, I can MAYBE get some role-playing done. My hands are usually starting to hurt too bad by then to do anything else.
The site has too many features for too small of a community, and I can't keep everything going! There are three options I can think of.
-- close it down
-- give it to someone else to run
-- massive downsizing
I really don't want to close it down or give it away, so I'm kind of leaning toward the downsizing. If the downsizing happens, most of the extra features would be gone. No more chocolate bars, sitewide plots (mini plots would still be allowed) clan challenges... there would just be a place to post announcements and talk, a place for general information, a place to advertise, a place to put all the completed threads, a place to post your characters, and a place or two to role-play. It would be pretty different from how it is now.
But we would still be able to role-play on it, and it would be much more manageable. And maybe later, as my hands heal and as more people join, we would be able to bring it back to something like it is now, but more active.
Questions? Suggestions? Ideas? Comments?