Community blues

[IndieBoy]

You got to remember it is a lot to do with people's free time at the end of the day. I think we have a strong community and our hearts in the right place, but we aren't the most productive with our aspirations on the forum/website side of things. These kind of threads pop up every year and we have a little burst of energy when they do, but the problem is keeping that momentum going.

[miguel]

I agree there,

this happens on all forums all over the internet, if some people do have the time to maintain and moderate it then things go smooth. The opposite situation is quite obvious.

But I do believe that ours/yours doesn't have that kind of problems, at least not a serious one.
All this years I've been coming here and I haven't seen this place stagnant, there's always a bunch of people really active and the mods are always present as well (some I've never read anything from but that's part of the experience ).

The rating panel isn't a big deal for me as well, when I want to download a new game I just read everything related to it like the people that joined the project, pass projects, critiques and so on...

And I also think that the standard quality of new games only tend to improve, there always will be some new kid with his first game full of bugs and bad gaming choices, but this forum isn't afraid of telling people what they're doing wrong, so the next game will get better eventually.

I also feel that what maintained the forum quality is what some people consider as elitist, but that is the soul of the forums. It's not easy to get a thumbs up if you don't actually contribute to AGS or don't have the proper manners around the forum, and that's good.

So, like I said before, don't worry to much about the future, If you have something to improve and have the time for it just do it. If you don't have the time or aren't capable of improving it then just don't complain.

I haven't produce anything worth showing recently so I opted not to critique anybody's work or praise,  because I don't want to waist your time and bandwidth.
But seeing this kind of questions coming up again made me want to write this words.

Take care, and C64 rules!