It's depressing to me... I have been a regular visitor and poster to these boards since a few weeks after the game was released, and never have things seemed as grim as they do here today.
I work in a job that lets me take frequent "mini-breaks" a couple minutes here or there while I wait for a process to run... and this affords me the opportunity to check the boards frequently throughout each day.
But lately, there is almost nothing to read or respond to. The traffic here at Alla's has dwindled down to a post or two a day. Not even a thread or two... I'm saying one or two posts a day!!!
I posted once yesterday and once the day before and as of log-off last night at around midnight, both of my responses were still at the top of the thread list. This morning there was a question from a new poster and I ansewered that one too so now I hold most recent post in the top three slots. That's just sad!
I never thought I would see these boards become my own personal monologue!
We have never seen the fabulous upgrades that were to rennovate the database and the quest guides, beastiary, zone info etc are in such abisymal disrepair that there is no point in even clicking there!
This leaves us with the forums as the only "active" spot on the site and now these fallen into dis-use.
Will things improve with the release of EoF next week? Yeah, there will probably be an upswing in the number of posts... "Isn't this zone or that one pretty"... "Where is this NPC or that quest starter"... that sort of thing...
But overall, these boards are dying and that growth spurt will be temporary at best so...
How can we fix this? How can we save these boards? Or do we even care?