Okay, I'm not sure if this is the place to do this, and I hope I'm not interrupting anything big, but I just wanna say this somewhere to somebody.
I'm just kinda bummed out rn. Two fansites for my favorite videogame series - Starmen.net and MotherForever.net - are kinda…. dying, idk. Starmen's been around for 17 years and Mother Forever just popped up six months ago. But because the "forum" format or whatever is not the most popular social platform, the two sites decided to make Discord servers. I made an account and joined them thinking "there's more activity on here probably, and some cool things going on", right?
I was absolutely wrong. I'm sorry for who uses Discord, but I don't really like it. And now I'm at a total loss as to what to do. Every topic (like general chat, fan works, etc) has one single chat, and it sorta sucks instead of having the topic and then separate threads for your own things.
I want to stay active on those forums and keep releasing my fanfic there, but it's so hard when there's like one post a day, and it's not even something I can talk about (that may be exaggerated in some cases, but also I'm not at the same time.)
It all just really sucks and I don't like where things are going, but I can't control them. I'm just super sad about it, and if it keeps up I'll have to pull my fanfic from the entire internet if no one expresses any kind of motivation or interest to read it, and it's the one thing that makes me super happy. But lately, I don't know anymore. Half the time it's just me saying "hey, it's another chapter, another one is in the works." But other than that? Nothing.
Maybe I should just can it and start with something else. But I don't know. I'm super lost and anxious about what's going to happen right now. It may just be a straight downward spiral to shutting the sites down because of how inactive they're becoming.
I can't believe I'm getting scared over two friccin websites, but here I am.