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There's hope beyond this lone abyss.
I was recently thinking about why I don't get drawn to RP sites easily from ads/interest checks and talked to a few friends about it. Image-only ads have been around for long time, admittedly, but I always preferred ones that had at least some text. I like to know some information about a site before clicking a link, and sometimes interest checks for sites can serve as that, but sometimes not. I can't really get that hyped over images, especially as I'm feeling more iffy about the lack of credit. It does take effort to make graphics looks good, I can understand that since I've been there, but it says little to me if there's not much else accompanying it.
Which is why I'm fond of site searches/wanted ads/stuff like that. When I post a site search, I can get a staff member or a member who will tell me information about a site related to what I'm actively seeking. Sometimes I just directly ask someone about their site if I have a decent rapport about them; I generally don't mind it when someone I know introduces me to their site either. Discord forum advertisements tend to have more information but I generally just don't join hub servers, and compared to forum directories, said ads can get buried and unsearchable very quickly due to the nature of those channels. The downside of site searches are that I always know I'm missing out on sites by relying on them alone, so I do lurk around sometimes. And I do understand many of the whys staff may not want to even bother with responding to wanted site searches. It gets demoralizing almost-directly trying to get someone to join with no reassurance that it would actually happen, and no feedback, and so on. And it's tiring running a site and then posting ads and then there's life too... so on and on, as I said.
I was looking at some of my old skins and one I worked on for fun back in 2021, and it's satisfying making something nice that suits my preferences. I don't think every RP forum admin/designer/etc. should suddenly bend to my preferences, nor would I want that to ever happen. There's a place for everything, I just wish there were more places sometimes. I'm happy with the RP forums I've found, and I can compromise on a few things. If all of those places close, I would probably just open up one of my old projects, but I'm in no rush to RP more, especially with what I have going on. x.x
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