Let's try and liven up the MegaMan Matrix

[Slugkid]

Dudes, MMM is slowly dying...
Just look at this
12-2007: 9903 posts
 01-2008: 6843
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11-2009: 710
12-2009: 603
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05-2010: 508.
06-2010: 418.
07-2010: 329.
08-2010: 101...

I know this is noticeable enough without me pointing it out. But still.
Maybe we should lure new blood into the forum, somehow? Making it a gaming in general forum? Adding H? Advertising it? Adding H?

I seriously don't want MMM to be dead. Or to be as inactive as it is nowadays, anyway...

[Johncarllos]

I love this place too, but until Legends 3 or MMX9 comes out, it'll keep getting more dead.

[Slugkid]

I know. That's why I made the thread.
And, what when they come out? It'll get a bunch more posts for a while then slowly die again. Not cool.

[Chron]

Dying?

You suggest it's still in the process.
This place is dead. It has been for a while.
It is a corpse and we are the maggots stripping it to the bone.

[Snare]

It wouldn't be so dead if you louts would just REPLY TO MY GODDAMN POSTS.

[NovaMan XP]

Hey guys, let's not reply to Snare's posts, he's a jerk!

[Snare]

Never believe Novaman he's a clod.

[Fatso]

I have to say, out of the dead forums I've happened to infest, this one is still the most lively by far, so I wouldn't particularly worry about it.

[Slugkid]

Still, it used to be much more active. Or much less dead.

@Chron: I thought dying was only used for the verb dye, but I wasn't sure.
DHURR ARGENTINIAN KID IS ARGENTINIAN
Ahem.

[Abominator]

I blame all the Battle Network, Zero, Star Force and ZX games for killing interest in MegaMan, to the point that even MegaMan 9 and 10 haven't resurrected it.

Also the fact that it was costing me a fortune to run the Radio and MChat for a handful of people didn't help, nor did the fact that I just don't have time to make content for the site anymore.

I really love all the people here, but as every aspect of life gets gradually worse, there's less good stuff to talk about!

And finally, the fact that "the internet" has pretty much become "YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia" means sites like this are all doomed.

I think that if I ever get my act together and get the old MM guides back up, we should all club in and make guides for MM8, 9 and 10, which would be a decent little project for us.

[Chron]

MM8 I could probably help make a guide for.

You're right, though, the current internet is mostly large, synonymous sites like Facebook or larger pseudonymous sites that have been around for a while.  I chalk it up to the internet itself being more accessible to idiots and people who aren't actually into computers that much.  Small fansites like this are almost a thing of the past... and generally the more obscure something is, the less a chance of the forum still being around.

For instance, there are no dedicated Grandia fan forums any more, and all of the sites are quite very dead.  I would know.  I was an admin at the last one.

Still, it used to be much more active. Or much less dead.

@Chron: I thought dying was only used for the verb dye, but I wasn't sure.
DHURR ARGENTINIAN KID IS ARGENTINIAN
Ahem.

You're right.  It should be dieing.  That's a stupid looking word.
OH NO I MADE A GRAMMATICAL MISTAKE
HEAVEN FORBID NOBODY FREAK OUT ABOUT IT
This is why I don't stay here all the time.

[Johncarllos]

Oh Chorn, you silly dude.

Yeah, no new people really want to join forums any more because they seem clunky and pointless.
Why bother trying to fit in with a new crowd online when you already have all your friends on facebook?

I'm glad I'm here. I remember how excited I was to find such a cool board with such cool and fun people who use it.
It's still a fun place, and I check it every time I check facebook.

[ChaosVortex]

I check it out too. This place might come back, but who knows.

And finally, the fact that "the internet" has pretty much become "YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia" means sites like this are all doomed.

I know what you mean. I've always had this small dream to eventually build a website of my own, and maybe make it almost like a social network dedicated to gaming. But I'm constantly thinking at the same time, "Why bother? Everybody goes on Facebook for their news feed nowadays. Making a website would be pointless."

Unless you're trying to make money.

In fact, every time I say something along the lines of "Yeah, I saw it on Facebook" on this board, it saddens me.

[Vinchenz Rock]

I honestly only still come here because I've known you guys for such a long time and this is pretty much the only place where I can see you guys (screw facebook and other social networks, plus AIM sucks).

However, I'm all up for contributing to whatever for this site, Abe. I'm still a gamer and a MegaMan fan and reviving this website would be in my interest.

[ASR]

Let's all take this moment to thank Abe for paying to keep this site online out of his own pocket to essentially allow us to just talk with one another about inconsequential bull##### that no longer has any real relevance to the fandom of MegaMan.

If I ever find myself with some loose cash to throw around, I'll definitely send some in the way of MMM as a show of thanks and support for keeping the site alive all these years even as activity has been dwindling.

You guys are all pretty great, I guess.

[Majikn]

I like to archive my favourite conversations. It's a very time-consuming hobby. I should probably do that here soon.

[Johncarllos]

Hey Abe, how do I send you money?

[Abominator]

Thanks for the offer but it's really not that much now that we're not on a dedicated server.

I should send you a bill for the last 6 years though, ha ha!

(seriously, it's ok)

[Johncarllos]

Alright then.

Is there really anything we can do to liven this place up though?

Maybe if we made a cool Megaman flash game and put it on the homepage people would come to the forums to tell us how #####ty and glitchy the game is, then we flame them and they stick around because nobody wants to lose a fight on the internet.

[Chron]

If only I still had Flash.

... or, well, even if I did still have it I'd need a version that would work with the new viewers.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

I got bored of this place after Sano left.

[ChaosVortex]

You can stay Sano. I think a good lot of us have actually grown out of picking on you.

(I actually have no proof of that, I'd just like to believe it)

[Majikn]

Some of us never picked on you but just outright hated your personality, but it's all good!

[TheRedPriest]

I like the H idea.  We can have the best of both worlds and be the Mega Man MatriXXX!  Just imagine, game guides with H in them!  Where can I find Cut Man's weakness AND a picture of Roll taking "input" from all 3 access points?

But yeah... I know how it is.  I don't have the time to keep my place up either, which is also pretty dead and the only thing it DOES have is porn.

...#####ing Zero/ZX/Starforce #####.

[preventerWIND]

Let's all create twitter pages and twitter each other! Hurdurdurdurdurrr!

[Snare]

Let's all kill ourselves instead.

[ChaosVortex]

I farted.

[NovaMan XP]

i second snares suggestion

[Chron]

Can I eat Snare's dead body?

[White Shadow]

I bothered with Trillian again yesterday, might aswell post again!

[TheRedPriest]

Ugh, I had to upgrade it when AIM and MSN stopped working on it.  I DETEST 4.x intensely.  3 was infinitely more streamlined and less bloated.

[Panda]

I think this marks the decline of Megaman more than anything else.

Also, I second the idea of an H section!

[TheRedPriest]

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN MEGA MAN MATRIXXX 4 LIFE!

[NovaMan XP]

i third the idea

[ChaosVortex]

I hate all of you.

[TheOnly]

Hate is a strong word.

[White Shadow]

Ugh, I had to upgrade it when AIM and MSN stopped working on it.  I DETEST 4.x intensely.  3 was infinitely more streamlined and less bloated.

I'm still using 3...

[NovaMan XP]

I updated to .15 or whatever it was called and AIM and MSN work fine on it now.

[TheOnly]

I feel this site has been a liiiiiittle for active since this topic. XD

[Slugkid]

Yeah, I noticed, too.
Partial Success!

[DeMatador]

New posts
-July 2010: 329
-August 2010: 398
-September 2010 (3 days so far): 73

Success indeed!

[Zenaku]

Hail. Allow me to throw my hat into the ring of activity.



Delta smells irl.

srs folks. srs.

[Edgecrusher]

It's awfully quiet in here.

[Majikn]

We're so bored that Chaos is playing MegaMan X7.

[Edgecrusher]

Now /that's/ boredom.

[Johncarllos]

I'm so friggin busy with school I can't contribute too much.

[Edgecrusher]

Amen.

[Slugkid]

I don't post because I usually think my posts, if I come up with any, are kind of useless, as in, they don't contribute at all with anything, or maybe while I'm typing it I realize it's too stupid, so I just stop typing.

[ChaosVortex]

We're so bored that Chaos is playing MegaMan X7.

Actually, I'm just too impatient to wait to buy a camera and editing equipment that I'll probably never get around to so I can implement my review idea. Plus this game is just sitting there, uncompleted, calling my name every day like a curse. This has to be done...

But that works too, lol.

[orclev]

I'm so friggin busy with school I can't contribute too much.

This, plus work for me.  Plus what slugkid said.  Plus there's not much activity around here for me to contribute to?  So then there is even less activity... It's kind of a vicious circle I guess.