@Ganymede said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:
What do you mean by "sustain"?
@reimesu said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:
Which means there are more out there that we just don't know about. Which means the MU community very much IS able to sustain two separate discussion forums and possibly more.
I obviously can't speak about other hypothetical communities I just don't know about.
My personal experience is that a discussion board, like a MUSH itself, requires a certain amount of critical mass to keep afloat. Without sufficient activity to maintain interest, people stop checking in. When they stop checking in, the activity drops even further. Eventually you end up with something like the Ares forums, which yes technically still exists, but sees maybe 1 or 2 posts per month.
Aside from that, diversity of viewpoints is important to any vibrant discussion. If you've just got the same 5 people talking about the same topics over and over again, it gets old.
A forum existing is not sufficient for my definition of "being sustained". YMMV.
To be clear, I'm not proposing shutting down any of the sites in question. I'm just sad.