08-16-2025, 10:05 PM
I believe two major shifts contributed to the decrease in MFGG community activity:
1. The rise of commercial social media - especially Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. This didn't have much of an effect on MFGG as a fangaming resource, but it made it much harder to make MFGG a hangout.
2. The release of Mario Maker in 2015. Having a high-quality official level editor diverted a lot of interest from making fangames, and after that point, the rate of new members decreased. (Mario Maker also killed off the Hello Engine scene, which had both pros and cons.)
MFGG is still active, and I'm hopeful that people will grow tired of social media and decide that nonprofit forums are still really cool! Especially since every major social network delivers a worse user experience every year.
And yeah, feel free to post cool things from MFGG's past that you'd like to share! I always enjoy seeing that kind of thing.
1. The rise of commercial social media - especially Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. This didn't have much of an effect on MFGG as a fangaming resource, but it made it much harder to make MFGG a hangout.
2. The release of Mario Maker in 2015. Having a high-quality official level editor diverted a lot of interest from making fangames, and after that point, the rate of new members decreased. (Mario Maker also killed off the Hello Engine scene, which had both pros and cons.)
MFGG is still active, and I'm hopeful that people will grow tired of social media and decide that nonprofit forums are still really cool! Especially since every major social network delivers a worse user experience every year.
And yeah, feel free to post cool things from MFGG's past that you'd like to share! I always enjoy seeing that kind of thing.
Course clear! You got a card.
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