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[Andrew]

Spectral Paladin, on 03 February 2012 - 04:39 PM, said:

I don't believe I ever counted as a regular poster, I still visit the forums frequently out of habit though.

I still got it on my firefox bookmarks toolbar (first one on left!). Daily habit.

[That Guy]

I've started visiting this site again occasionally, as some may have noticed. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that there's enough people to properly chat with.

[Dante]

Fed2k is still my homepage. Dealing with eracist was a lot of work, however, and rather tainted the website for me. Am beginning to get over that, but it seems that little has changed since I was last active.

[Edric O]

Ah, but Dante, if you survived Emprworm and Navaros, you can survive anything!

Anyway, it seems a good part of the old team still checks FED2k regularly. Excellent! So, let's change things up a bit. Maybe we can start with some interesting discussions in PRP... hmmm, I'll have to think of topics...

[That Guy]

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hmmm, I'll have to think of topics...

So... how's that going?

[X3M]

From time to time I stop by to see if something new is in. But frankly, the forum 'seems' dead. And most of the new topics don't really get my interest.

To be honest, I stopped posting myself since no one really replied to my posts. They showed no interest, or at least, they didn't make it visible. So I thought, I am a nuisance to them. Bothering other people is not my hobby. My hobby is working on my board game. Whereas the progress is kept to myself these days.

I remember one topic where someone posted some hospital humor. I replied, but was the only one. I am sure more people liked this humor, but never took the time to show it to that person. And that person will doubtingly start more topics since no one will reply to them. It's like making a good joke, but no one laughs... They... just... watch.

And that's the main problem, people don't reply when they should. Agreeing and/or building forward on someone's topic is a reply as well you know.

[Gobalopper]

I'm still here, someone has to pay to keep this thing open.

[MrFlibble]

X3M, on 05 February 2012 - 06:31 PM, said:

To be honest, I stopped posting myself since no one really replied to my posts. They showed no interest, or at least, they didn't make it visible. So I thought, I am a nuisance to them. Bothering other people is not my hobby. My hobby is working on my board game. Whereas the progress is kept to myself these days.

I remember one topic where someone posted some hospital humor. I replied, but was the only one. I am sure more people liked this humor, but never took the time to show it to that person. And that person will doubtingly start more topics since no one will reply to them. It's like making a good joke, but no one laughs... They... just... watch.

And that's the main problem, people don't reply when they should. Agreeing and/or building forward on someone's topic is a reply as well you know.

While the reasoning that no replies indicates a lack of interest from the members has merit, I'd say that posting updates on some topic (like your boardgame project) even if there are no replies is still viable since there are guests who will read your posts while being unable to answer. If you don't have a personal blog or a specialized forum for your project, I see no harm in posting news and updates about it on various forums you visit. After all, unless a user's post explicitly violates forum rules, no one can really accuse you of "bothering" other people.

[X3M]

MrFlibble, on 06 February 2012 - 12:43 PM, said:

While the reasoning that no replies indicates a lack of interest from the members has merit, I'd say that posting updates on some topic (like your boardgame project) even if there are no replies is still viable since there are guests who will read your posts while being unable to answer. If you don't have a personal blog or a specialized forum for your project, I see no harm in posting news and updates about it on various forums you visit. After all, unless a user's post explicitly violates forum rules, no one can really accuse you of "bothering" other people.

True, no one replied negatively. So no harm there, if i "reopend" my progress.

[Edric O]

A call to all PRP-ers: Let's get some more political (or religious) discussions going! I will do my part and start a couple of threads, beginning with this one.

[exatreide]

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the homepage hasn't been updated in over a year (nearly two!) People go to dune2k.com and see old news, and they assume that the sites dead.

Post new news! I know Dunenewet did it for awhile, but the excuse that he hasn't been around much doesn't really justify over two years of nothing happening on the front page.

Like..Here's some news there is an Active Dune Sub Reddit going with around 575 subs. http://www.reddit.com/r/dune/

[MrFlibble]

exatreide, on 17 May 2012 - 02:02 AM, said:

Post new news! I know Dunenewet did it for awhile, but the excuse that he hasn't been around much doesn't really justify over two years of nothing happening on the front page.

Um... What Dune-related news exactly do you suggest to post? AFAIK nothing of real importance has been happening over the past couple of years.

[exatreide]

Something, anything so it doesn't look like this site is dead.

[exatreide]

Here's some new. The actress that played alila is doing an AMA on reddit about her career, dune being one. http://www.reddit.co...l_friday_night/