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Why is WFG dying?
Can't fail to notice how fewer and fewer people are returning to WFG. Most Forums are over 2 days old and most are much older. Why? What is missing? Is it the review time, the peer reviews, or that everyone is moving on?
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Posted 3 years ago
It's the holidays. That would be my explanation.
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Posted 3 years ago
Holidays, and maybe people are home from the semester so their internet time is more limited. I know I'm visiting forums less often now because of the holidays (trying to knit as fast as I can).
Posted 3 years ago
I agree. Holidays. This is the time to be with family. I mean, even though I do spend most of my time online, this is probably the only time out of the year that I get to spend with my friends and family. It'll pick up once the New Year rolls around.
Posted 3 years ago
Yeah. Holidays are pretty much it.
I remember that right around the beginning of the school year things were pretty slow too. As someone with access to the site stats, I can tell you that the visits are actually higher than normal these past couple weeks (including this one). Of course that may be potential readers rather than writers.
Not sure why people aren't feeling talkative, but speaking for myself, I've been struggling to have time to write these last few days so that lowers my "reading in the forums" time.
Actually, I should be writing right now...
My Blog (Jim's Brain Online)
Posted 3 years ago
The whole internet usually gets quiet around the holidays. It's nothing to panic about.
With all the stuff I'm dealing with at the moment, I probably won't be able to do much around the place until sometime next year. Will try to keep in touch though.
Regards,
Ryan
STREET: Losing your mind has never been so much fun!
Posted 3 years ago
WFG is dying?
ZOMG! Oh noes! We're doomed! It's the end--
Oh. The holidays.
Cyberpunk action-adventure every Monday.
Posted 3 years ago
Okay, okay @acetachyon... I get it. The title was purposely inflammatory to see if people were still alive. So the holidays it is; And everyone is busy with their own thing, I know I am too.
Sound the bells! The patient is alive! WFG shall live to fight another day. (Probably after the new year.)
Posted 3 years ago
@apocalypse--Just makin' a funny.
It lives! The topic lives! IT LIVES!!!!
(cue lightning, thunder, and diabolical laughter)
Cyberpunk action-adventure every Monday.
Posted 3 years ago
I want it to die. And then be reincarnated. There are too few zombie web-sites on the internet. WFG...the UNDEAD of the NET. Protect your women! Secure your valuables! Arm yourselves! Remain vigilant! It'll be fantastic. :D
Mostly holidays, buddy. And for me, it's shell-shock from the end of a school semester and something like two and a half months constantly sick. I stopped writing for a long spell there, from sickness and family and things, and am trying to get myself back on the horse properly. Whenever that needs to happen, I tend to vanish off the rest of the net.
What irked me was, it happened roughly two days after the very fine editorial review of God in the Machine went up, here, and I thought "Great. Now they'll think I'm being sour grapes and have stormed off." (Which, of course, nobody thought and would think, but there's how my brain works.)
Cripes, this is a blithering message just to say "school, sick, holidays" :)
Posted 3 years ago
Yeah, the holidays do this to everyone on the 'net. I've been waiting to qualify my listing with you fine folk and only just today have 3 chapters up of a weekly posted novel. So I hope the new year sees more of me having time to hang out.
Posted 3 years ago
Dude, this site can't die! I've only just found it!
Perhaps it's because I smell.
:: sniffs armpits ::
Posted 3 years ago
Holidays. Definitely.
Posted 3 years ago
Tell you what I love:
@meilinmiranda's didactic reponse.
@Clare-Dragonfly's apology for everyone else reponse
@SoraKainomori's personalized response
@jzoetewey's procrastinating response
@acetachyon's bitingly funny response
@Peedee's blithering, sour grapes response ;)
@Kristine's passive voice response
@Richard_Peevers's (YES THAT IS CORRECT, 'S after S) Desperately needy response.
and finally, @EJ Spurrell's pithy and slam-down response
Posted 3 years ago
What about my non-response that you've now forced me to break in order to call your attention to it. Damned paradox!
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