Tahl wrote:
the reality is that the hobby is dying [GW killed it]
I'm not so sure Tahl. 9th Age seems to be doing fine as does AoS, at least in the UK. Kings of War has only benefitted from the release of AoS. Quite a few of us are still playing 8th Edition. Definitely things are more fractured now. In particular race-specific forums have struggled because of this. But 9th Age has a huge and very active forum, AoS has a big presence on social media.
Tahl wrote:
this site will also wither unless it evolves and adapts.
Various race-specific sites have each reacted differently.The Stronghold has gone all-in on AoS. CDO was always hobby-first. Some sites are not just quiet like us but effectively dead. We are pretty much in the same position as we were a year ago. What we as mods did was restructure to provide equal space to the different systems. In practice most of our gaming content continues to be 8th Edition with a little AoS and 9th Age now and then. We have some P&M and a few other things.
Over the past five years Eldacar, Ricold and Daeron have handled the tech side. The basics of moderating have been mostly done by Rod and myself. Other mods have contributed a lot in other areas but they are much less active now, so we've lost some of those other areas. Rod handles the Loremaster stuff and answers a lot of posts. I do the Herald stuff and run blogs, largely for the benefit of the site. We both have very busy real lives and don't have the capacity to do much more. The site does of course have several other excellent blogs/plogs and very valued posters.
As Rod often says, it pretty much boils down to content. The site needs members posting pictures of their projects and discussing their games. Plus other things like OT of course and posters chipping in to comment on everything. So please guys, any and all contributions you make are very welcome. How to stimulate more of this is another issue. Ideas on this also welcome.
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