It's a shame really that forums are getting more and more quiet. I just started joining as of summer of 2024. First Wario Forums, then Sonic Stadium and finally this one and though Sonic Stadium have had some luck as it's pretty active, Wario Forums is usually getting very little conversations in them. And it's a real shame seeing how full of life it was a few years ago. It's definetely social media that have hindered forums as a whole and I won't debate that which is sad since forums have a lot of adventages over things like Discord, Twitter or Reddit such as being able to discuss topics in more details, being easily arhcivable, the charm factor and being in a community where everyone knows each other (at least, Internet wise) feels, for a lack of a better term, cozy.
I'm not too familiar with MFGG itself, so I don't really know how to make this website specifically more active but in general maybe having popular content creators
of the community reference it more may help. For example, instead of making a subreddit the main place to ask questions, they may prioritize pointing to forums which may result in more people being aware of forums, especially with the younger generations. I would have joined forums much sooner if more people were to give more attention to them but I never bothered because they never really caught my attention. Heck, me joining Wario Forums (which was the first forum I joined and caused me to join other forums) was originally a coincedence. If someone didn't happen to have a problem signing up to it the same day I would have checked the subreddit, I wouldn't have joined any forum site at all.
What also may save forums is the fact that people are starting to get sick of modern social media. I mean, it's hard to go on YouTube these days and not have someone complain about how awful Twitter, Reddit or even YouTube itself is. And I agree, modern social media seem to non-archivable, unengaging reward low effort content a lot. Things that are just ment to be posted then lost in a mass pool of content. But with forums, it's a lot easier to get noticed and have actually engaging conversation.
Sorry for my little rant but I really wanted to get my thoughts out and this felt like the good time and place.
I'm not too familiar with MFGG itself, so I don't really know how to make this website specifically more active but in general maybe having popular content creators
of the community reference it more may help. For example, instead of making a subreddit the main place to ask questions, they may prioritize pointing to forums which may result in more people being aware of forums, especially with the younger generations. I would have joined forums much sooner if more people were to give more attention to them but I never bothered because they never really caught my attention. Heck, me joining Wario Forums (which was the first forum I joined and caused me to join other forums) was originally a coincedence. If someone didn't happen to have a problem signing up to it the same day I would have checked the subreddit, I wouldn't have joined any forum site at all.
What also may save forums is the fact that people are starting to get sick of modern social media. I mean, it's hard to go on YouTube these days and not have someone complain about how awful Twitter, Reddit or even YouTube itself is. And I agree, modern social media seem to non-archivable, unengaging reward low effort content a lot. Things that are just ment to be posted then lost in a mass pool of content. But with forums, it's a lot easier to get noticed and have actually engaging conversation.
Sorry for my little rant but I really wanted to get my thoughts out and this felt like the good time and place.
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