The reason this site is dying.

[TonyBalonneViper]

i don't think the site is dead mate.

         

[friendlinzh]

MFGG has a lot of members who have been part of the community for a long time.

[Sleep Adams]

Regardless of if people think it's dead, dying, slow, a bit active, etc., in my eyes its still great to see this place still up and running. It use to come here during my spare time back when I was 15 (I'm 29 now.) Unfortunately, as I became more of an adult I became more and more inactive. However, there have been many times I've remembered this place fondly! I truly am happy, even if it's not majorly active, that it all still exist

[King Piranha Plant]

I disagree with Kritter ( though super happy to see you logged in friend :3 ) that the site is "broken" or "clunky".

That old Earthbound fan community Starmen.net recently had a thread like this -- https://forum.starmen.net/forum/Site/Dis...t-Happened

And honestly, I see people log in there on and off to re-connect from time to time. I think a lot of people are really happy that the Starmen site remains nostalgic, stays online, looks the way they remember it, and that they can still find each other on there and catch up.

I would NEVER want to see the MFGG forums disappear. And they don't need to be severely updated or modernized. It's still a community with memories, and members of that community do come back to check in and catch up with each other. We don't have to abandon our love for this fun little world we created and the memories we have just because our adult lives are full of very different things. I mean me for example... when I do have free time, I tend to spend it more trying to hike outdoors, hang with friends, or go to local music shows than I do being online or playing Nintendo + indie games. But does that mean the fangamer part of me is dead? No. I have spurts almost twice a year if not more where I get really geeky and play weird indie games, even Mario fangames, and reach out to people here.

Even if MFGG never gets a resurgence of activity (which seriously, lighten up guys -- even the Starmen thread was more optimistic about future activity than this. They even had a convention with fangamer.net recently, where a lot of them met up irl. And think of how niche Earthbound is compared to Mario!), it would still be awesome to come back here and reminisce, or hit up old internet friends to check in or even still be occasionally creative (eg. that ye' old fangame comp we had last year) + geek out about things. I'm only 27 but it'd still be dope to log in at age 37 in ten years -- you're never too old for friends, never too old for the things you love, and you never know what kinds of weird fun moments might occur.

[Vitiman]

I disagree with Kritter ( though super happy to see you logged in friend :3 ) that the site is "broken" or "clunky".

That old Earthbound fan community Starmen.net recently had a thread like this -- https://forum.starmen.net/forum/Site/Dis...t-Happened

And honestly, I see people log in there on and off to re-connect from time to time. I think a lot of people are really happy that the Starmen site remains nostalgic, stays online, looks the way they remember it, and that they can still find each other on there and catch up.

I would NEVER want to see the MFGG forums disappear. And they don't need to be severely updated or modernized. It's still a community with memories, and members of that community do come back to check in and catch up with each other. We don't have to abandon our love for this fun little world we created and the memories we have just because our adult lives are full of very different things. I mean me for example... when I do have free time, I tend to spend it more trying to hike outdoors, hang with friends, or go to local music shows than I do being online or playing Nintendo + indie games. But does that mean the fangamer part of me is dead? No. I have spurts almost twice a year if not more where I get really geeky and play weird indie games, even Mario fangames, and reach out to people here.

Even if MFGG never gets a resurgence of activity (which seriously, lighten up guys -- even the Starmen thread was more optimistic about future activity than this. They even had a convention with fangamer.net recently, where a lot of them met up irl. And think of how niche Earthbound is compared to Mario!), it would still be awesome to come back here and reminisce, or hit up old internet friends to check in or even still be occasionally creative (eg. that ye' old fangame comp we had last year) + geek out about things. I'm only 27 but it'd still be dope to log in at age 37 in ten years -- you're never too old for friends, never too old for the things you love, and you never know what kinds of weird fun moments might occur.

Word up. This site isn't dying, it's just in a different phase of its existence. The internet has a lot of waxing and waning, and MFGG's ebb and flow isn't unique.

MFGG is something a lot of people remember quite fondly - I think that it's rather telling you've had many oldbies show up and persistently show up in the last couple of years, they willingly wanted to reminisce. I think MFGG can grow and evolve like a lot of communities can, but it's also very important and powerful to recognize its heritage. Hell, I'm pretty sure the absolute only reason I'm here is because, like many others here, I'm probably never going to stop posting on this god forsaken site. I may not check it regularly at all, but I still pop in once in a while to say some words and then disappear.

I do try to keep in touch, but MFGG also isn't quite the same as it was when I was 12, and I'm also... not 12 anymore. I'm 24, I live with my girlfriend several thousand miles away from my childhood home and I worry about adult things and bills and stuff. MFGG changed, but so did I. I think, then, that it's quite remarkable and almost comforting that I can still come to this stupid site and see it still kicking.

I dunno, I also like that the forums are still a thing. It'd be a damn shame to see them be deprecated, I think they still serve a very useful and legitimate purpose.

[fireball3k]

edit: this post was just me being a douche