The reason this site is dying.

[The Dark Warrior]

I normally don't really be on MFGG as much as I used to because Discord is a thing and my interests lie with SMW hacking but I will say that site mismanagement is actually the #1 reason why MFGG is dying. Its not due to "muh push for Nintendo accuracy saturation" nor DMCA takedowns. People will always make what they want out of the Mario series regardless be it carbon copy official or weird original takes, and MFGG for the longest time has been and still is a testament of that with a variety of games it has in its repository on the mainsite. And for the latter it didn't stop SMWC for SMW, nor anyone involved in the SM64 hacking scene from making mods of those games. Not even anyone who made games using the Hello Engine that saturated the YoYo Games Sandbox till that was shut down.

Mismanagement was because for years MFGG hardly embraced using social media such as Twitter, YouTube, etc. until recently to spread awareness to the world that they exist and to connect to younger Millennials and Gen Z who do use such platforms and towards gaming content creators such as Vinesauce that have more than 100K subs. That should have been done ideally 10 or more years ago when the site had more life to it, and it should have been used to promote not only the best games on the site but also promote their activities such as minigames, drawing, and gaming tourneys, as well as invite other communities from time to time to be in on the action. It's why places such as SMWC, 1-up World, and the Flashback community still thrive to this day.