It's me or the activity has decreased?

[idruinn]

Activity has been decreased even more now due to the removal of the emotional threads. No, i'm not complaining.

Yep, this has been a mistake in my opinion because we need to express our feelings here too. We are not robots, we are humans.

[Sonya Sanchez]

All good things die sometime, no forum is eternal.

[TheNightingale]

This is sure disappointing, I thought activity would increase a lot with beta 4's arrival. Well at least I came back

Activity has been decreased even more now due to the removal of the emotional threads. No, i'm not complaining.

Yep, this has been a mistake in my opinion because we need to express our feelings here too. We are not robots, we are humans.

I agree with this post, but why would activity decrease beacause of emotional threads being removed?

[Ness-Wednesday]

Just because a forum isn't as active as you once remembered, it doesn't mean the community has died. Though, I feel the whole wave of return to activity during the 1st-2nd quarter was mostly because of two things: 1.AVLC 2.The global lockdowns due to the pandemic keeping most of us indoors for months. Even if there hasn't been much activity recently, there's always the discord server. :3

[Cedur]

Frankly the pandemic didn't boost community activity as much as, say, the chess scene across the world

[Raymunator]

As a relatively new member I think it's simply the fact that SMBX doesn't have that big of a community. Most people congregate around YouTube videos, and when it comes to the overall Mario fanbase and the world as a whole most people prefer Mario Maker over SMBX simply because that is the official tool for level creation.

[rixithechao]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: low forum activity is not a sign of the community dying as much as it is a sign of forums losing their place as the community's dominant communication platform. The subforum/thread structure and asynchronous mode of discussion that forums offer do still have their advantages over more real-time environments like Discord servers -- publishing levels and episodes, making big announcements, hosting events, etc -- and there's always going to be people that just plain prefer the former over the latter. But for the majority of people, the latter ends up being better for a lot of the smaller activity like casual conversation, troubleshooting, and getting feedback on WIP creations.

[AirSeus]

As a relatively new member I think it's simply the fact that SMBX doesn't have that big of a community. Most people congregate around YouTube videos, and when it comes to the overall Mario fanbase and the world as a whole most people prefer Mario Maker over SMBX simply because that is the official tool for level creation.

SMBX has quite a large community compared to most SMB fangames, just simply that most reside on Youtube/Discord or have moved on.

[Valentine]

anyone who says smbx activity hasn't decreased is in some deep denial.

It's obvious, contests nowadays can get barely over 30 entries when before they'd get 80+. Which is just the simplest and most obvious way to look at this but there are more examples which I don't feel like listing

[Cedur]

btw my own activity is decreasing too, I haven't touched the game in a good while and barely spent attention to discord, and there are just things that are more fun for me and I'm also focusing on shifts in real life ...