One word: Boolean!
Alot of the big time posters are posting much less then they used to.
The Lounge through the ages
yeah.. a few of the major contributors to the lounge don't post much anymore (if at all).. coming to mind are nes8bit and boolean.. but there are certainly more. i remember when i first joined this place was crazy.. things slowly started dying down with the rating system..
Quote:Original post by load_bitmap_file
I remember the lounge being pretty active before the Great Forum Reset (I don't know about page 3, but certainly page 2 spillover). After that horrible week, it took a while for GameDev in pretty much all its forums to regain momentum. Since then, I'm not sure it's back to that point again.
My theory is that during that week of downtime people realized they actually could live without the lounge (madness!) and other people couldn't be bothered to reactivate their account (or had problems doing so).
I noticed this also, it's probably the sole factor. Really it's surprising how much damage that downtime did to the lounge, but eventually it will regrow. For me also, I'll admit that digg filled the gap left by the lounge and I still don't visit here as often (not that I've ever been a major contributer with my ~200 posts in 3 years...).
Sorry kids, your other theories are just speculation. The rating system has been in place forever. Although finding some colorful posters to provide entertainment would certainly speed things along for us.
Quote:Original post by ealQuote:Original post by load_bitmap_file
I remember the lounge being pretty active before the Great Forum Reset (I don't know about page 3, but certainly page 2 spillover). After that horrible week, it took a while for GameDev in pretty much all its forums to regain momentum. Since then, I'm not sure it's back to that point again.
My theory is that during that week of downtime people realized they actually could live without the lounge (madness!) and other people couldn't be bothered to reactivate their account (or had problems doing so).
I noticed this also, it's probably the sole factor. Really it's surprising how much damage that downtime did to the lounge, but eventually it will regrow. For me also, I'll admit that digg filled the gap left by the lounge and I still don't visit here as often (not that I've ever been a major contributer with my ~200 posts in 3 years...).
Sorry kids, your other theories are just speculation. The rating system has been in place forever. Although finding some colorful posters to provide entertainment would certainly speed things along for us.
No it hasn't. I remember times long before it was around. The past few years things have changed a bunch. Not really sure if its a good thing or a bad one but I will say the Lounge is a lot less interesting than it was once upon a time. And I would also say the lounge had changed a lot long before the down time.
The rating system didn't kill the lounge immediately, but for whatever reason it seems to have slowly weakened it. No one starts interesting discussions anymore.
Quote:Original post by Goober King
No it hasn't. I remember times long before it was around. The past few years things have changed a bunch. Not really sure if its a good thing or a bad one but I will say the Lounge is a lot less interesting than it was once upon a time. And I would also say the lounge had changed a lot long before the down time.
I was thinking mainly of the traffic itself, which has changed drastically since the downtime.
How long has the rating system been in place? I agree that the lounge of late has been less interesting than it was at one time. When I registered three years ago there were ratings and the lounge seemed to be thriving and continued to for a while. I assumed ratings had been around since the near beginning, unless it has been slowly withering over the years since it was introduced. It does makes perfect sense that ratings would have a negative effect on casual discussion.
Quote:Original post by mittens
The lounge obviously died with me.
Erm.
LIES. We all know that the lounge died back when SHilbert hacked it. Proof.
Quote:Original post by Yann LQuote:Original post by mittens
The lounge obviously died with me.
Erm.
LIES. We all know that the lounge died back when SHilbert hacked it. Proof.
You don't know how much it means to me that someone saved a picture of that. I couldn't find the screenshot I had taken at the time.
Quote:Original post by mtw
I'm guessing part of it has to do with big time posters like nes8bit leaving.
Leaving, banned, same thing.
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