Luna is doing this as an experiment.There is no island...
I'm not really the kind of person to leave a story I've invested myself into unfinished, so I'll be sticking around regardless of if it's quality.
It's not the first dry spell this place has had, even if this one appears deadlier. There was a time that all this place was was mostly just cybering between Damaged, thesugargirl, and Alterego, there were multiple times where the only real posts might as well have been tumbleweeds from how uncommon they were, and there were times where people'd leave en masse over bans that followed phases of the moon so to speak. This place has a history of it's own nature that's highly subject to change, highly inconsistent based purely on who is and isn't present, and watching it unfold is always what has kept me here. Believe it or not, there's ways to narrate this place's history that make for fun conversation with those who haven't witnessed it themselves.
The future I want here is one where people are interacting more, closer to how it used to be, since from that the stories that come from it carry more entertainment value. For that, we'll need bait of some kind to draw genuinely new people in, but I'm not really sure how to go about that. While before shitposting was easy enough to ignore from the presence of genuine content, no longer being connected to the SW blog in an obvious way has seriously harmed this place far more than any shitposter. If a way to draw in new people can be established, the problems we're facing now will be just a phase like other phases that have been pushed or weathered past. For every time this place has been pronounced "dead", it's found ways to bounce back.
What's really changed here is more of a matter of numbers. Ideally the solution lies in fixing that more than anything. Beyond that, the unstructured feel of the place is what appeals to me about it, and I want it to be as close to how it was during the Nabble times as possible in a natural fashion instead of forcing it. Rules have a way of shaping how people post, so having as few as possible is interesting for watching bandwagon patterns and an increased amount of unique behaviors. What made Nabble and certain phases of this place strong was it's sense of community, a factor that'll need some work if it's ever to be rebuilt. Without fresh blood, this place stagnates, as it has every other time that the user base's numbers have suffered.