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the masses: we want to see a [newest media trend] site!
real talk, making a site is no joke especially if you want it to succeed for more than a month or two. by the time you've laid down the groundwork and trying to cobble together the rest of the checklist of things you need to do to make it palatable for people, the community's moved on to the next big trend.
tl;dr: don't let what others want from [sites you want to see] influence your decision, staffers. aGREEGE there are so many layers behind this that never get addressed. idr when exactly but i DEAD ASS remember like a year or two ago someone posted an interest check for something niche. there was a good amount of turnout at first but when the site went up it was dead on arrival. the person posted on PP like ‘i put in all this work and no one showed up. where is everyone that said they wanted to join?’ and it broke my goddamn fucking heart. honestly, most kae shit i ever saw. that being said, i think rp needs to evolve but either people are unaware or don't’ want to take on that change. when u want to rp something niche u need to be realistic and look at the longevity of it. are u planning on it lasting for a while? then lay out the groundwork and shoot out a site. there’s a lot more that goes into this but it’s highly personal, nuanced, and subjective. . I remember this too!! It was so freaking sad, ngl. And I actually remember being really mad at the people that had been hyping and raving about this particular site, only to just.. vanish, man. I learned by doing this very same thing that you cannot make a site to please everyone, and that making a site that seemingly everyone wants is not always what you want. contrarily, sometimes making something that you want can actually garner a lot more interest than you originally anticipated too! the bottom line is make what you have muse for and catapult off that. Ideally, you should shoot for your forum/site/rp to be long-term, because if not, what is the point? It blows my mind when people put so much effort into a site, even bought a skin for it and everything to only shut it down after like two months because they get bored of it. Like, bro, that's something you actually invested so much time and real money into, only to just throw it away. Like things happen. Activity plummets. Drama ensues. I get it. Those things can be really disheartening and are all valid reasons for closure/going offline. But, I'm just saying... be considerate of how much effort and time someone and their community are actually putting into this hobby. We're all here to soar, you know?
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