We need to talk 🤔

[Different]

Sit down and have a beer with me or something. I need to get something off my chest that I’ve wanted to say to you guys for a long time now. I tried to be nice, but I can’t take it anymore.

Ok, what the hell happened to you guys?? No one is active on JV as much as they used to be. Has the energy died down nowadays, or do you guys just don’t give a damn anymore? I’ve noticed that a lot of you haven’t posted a thread in years; now you’ve just reduced yourselves to being lurkers. I don’t know about you all, but I would get sick to death of lurking around and not posting or making threads.

This site would be a lot more popular if people grew comfortable expressing themselves and opening up more (publicly) about what’s happening in their lives. You don’t have to disclose any personal details if you don’t want to. Just let me know how you all are doing. When you all introduce yourselves in the welcome gates, no one really cares for some strange reason. Most admins don’t give a damn to go out of their way to post anything interesting because they don’t give a shit, either.

Accid Forums had all the magic - They made you believe that they were the jack of all trades, the daily news, and the source of a “MUST READ”, thread. I’d say after 2022, you guys have really slowed down and reduced yourselves to lurkers. You don’t see anything wrong with it because you perceive it as normal. Make a thread, post something interesting, tell me what’s going on in your life, do something! Why post on these dumbass threads like “a thread where you can only say same”, I don’t get it?

This has nothing to do with my threads; I’m just wondering why you guys don’t give a shit anymore in general. It’s like a vampire sucked the life out of you and now you guys are just spreading cog webs around this place. Places like Quora and Reddit would kick our asses if we competed against them. So tell me… what is going on with you guys, seriously? Are you depressed or something?

[Addy]

ah so a thread about how the internet has evolved and people move on from old things.

about the discussion hall and your threads: i don't like typing and writing as much as i used to. creating topics to talk discuss about on here isnt my expertise and i dont want to be criticized for being wrong about simple things or topics that i dont know about. so i simply stopped posting or trying to reply if my reply isnt looked at or acknowledged even if im confident about what the post is about.

as more and more time goes by the internet evolves quickly but sadly the old media such as forums doesn't. people want quick scrolling media such as tik tok.

This site is a v2 of jiggmin's flash games. the longer time goes by the less and less people will know who jiggmin is or was, if pr4 was released when it was scheduled and was successful, we could have this website popular as it once was. this place would also thrive with active management, we lost the creator of the site, jiggmin a decade ago, and now bls about 1 year ago? eternal gave up on cotm which was the only active contest/event around here, even if it was pretty much dead for the last 2 or so years.

if we were getting things from here like a monthly jiggmin post or video, a spicy new game update with qol features and community votes for what to add to the game, people posting interesting food recipes that you can only find here. but as of now, this place used to be the place to hang with platform racing2 friends and the contests gave it some spice to be more active.

[Master Raiden]

Maybe people aren't that interested in threads about hypothetical scenarios that will probably never happen, especially if they can't really relate to what you are writing about.

If people can't relate to your content or don't have strong opinions on the topic, they probably won't bother writing a response.

You've made many threads in the past that have sparked some good conversations, so maybe you should try writing about something different instead of those "what would you do if someone was ______" scenarios.

[TRUC]

Totally agree that it's been kinda dead around here for a while, compared to what it used to be. We're pretty much all guilty of lurking more or less instead of genuinely trying to use the forums as we used to back then. As it's been said already, it's partly due to the lack of new stuff going on, and also people have moved on from this niche form of media.

On the brighter side, there's always a handful of quick discussions and random slice of life sparks on the Discord, plus the occasional posts on different specifici channels. We could it complements the forum, as people are more likely to scroll through the Discord for those type of interactions, instead of looking for posts in Blogs. But the bigger discussions and game related topics such as suggestions always feel more relevant on here.