L Admin
Sup.
Everything's okay.
I just miss you, y'know.
And it's been a while since we talked.
Okay, comically "oh god something's wrong" ambiguous phone text opening out of the way, what's actually up. I've been quiet, I know. Famously aggressive loudmouth site owner actually didn't speak for a few months, so something's gotta be wrong. Uh, the answer for those who made it this far without drama stirring on discord - everything's actually awesome. Development on the website has drastically slowed down, I've been busy with other things like life and such, but yeah - outside of that, like, StarwarsRP.NET is doing just fine. We don't even have like, any faction issues I know of to complain about. None of the backroom's are lit with drama, there's simply nothing going on but your roleplay.
Which, looking back to when you first hit "register account", it's kinda what you wanted and thought of, right? Just a corner of the internet to roleplay at.
No crazy drama, no culture wars stirring, no pandemics to speak of, no spinoff sites mass DMing people "we're gonna take them down once and for all", no mass cases of harassment or people spamming Russian propaganda, literally nothing. The Staff room, the Major Faction rooms, the Discords, nothing. So if you're like me, you're like, damn, that's boring. C'mon, where's my culture war at, where's my ragebait, where's my OOC drama. If there's none of that, surely the site must be slowing down.
Again, as the numbers guy, I gotta tell you. No, forum RP isn't dying, we're not some ancient format of entertainment, we're literally pushing the same numbers we've been pushing since like, 2018. If you're incredibly interested, or if you're a competing RP website, or just looking to gauge - we push about 200-400 posts a day, on average. Link here for the visual graph Xenforo gives you of our last month. This is slow season, too, so keep in account the majority of people are either working more or spending more time on holiday during this time of year. This happens across all avenues, all forums, nobody is safe from these slow periods. I've stared at these numbers so much over the years, and talked about them so much with other forum owners (like our friends at "thestarwarsrp.com", good people over there), I'm practically an expert. Yes, I've worried about them in the past. Yes, I've obsessed about Chaos's success in the past. No, I haven't been worried for a very long time.
So like, okay. We experienced success. We know, and have known, what that looks like. Okay, we survived drama. Some bad stuff, too. The covid years were particularly bad with all the hyperbole. I once got pulled into a voice call with like, 10+ people over being upset that I banned specific slurs, or got hatemail because I added "russian iconography" to our banlists, lol. Just silly, ridiculous stuff that the adults in the room all kinda knew as basic knowledge, but unfortunately we had to swing the hammer on these "MY LIFE IS DISCORD TEFKA YOU'RE RUINING MY FRIENDS LIVES" types of visitors we've occasionally gotten.
So yeah, we've known success. We've known drama, good and bad. And we got like, 10+ years in the bag. Coming up on 13, bro.
Where do we go from here?
Bro.
I dunno, lmao.
Wherever you guys wanna go. I don't really control this community, man, I never had. It's the same vibe as a parent and a child. Sure, you made it, but after a few years it develops its own voice, starts laughing at its own jokes, and starts locking you out of the house once it can reach the doorknob. I just occasionally guide, give the best advice I can, and yeah, once in a while, tell it to go to its room, no ipad for 2 hours.
I started working on Chaos when I was like, 21, dude. I'm now like, mid 30's. So, if there's anything you want from Chaos, just know... ya got a quiet internet corner to writer your heart out at. And we're gonna keep going. For years, maybe add some more decades. My health is amazing, my finances great. I'll be the last one out, my dreams of retirement are over, I'll be the one to say "last call" and turn the lights out. The place doesn't really need me developing a new feature every few months. That's not what keeps people coming back. But, if we get a good suggestion, or if I see a new need for something cool, maybe. But for the most part, if you get nothing else from this rambling, just understand that like... we're here. Nothing's changing. Everything's actually very chill, I think today's iteration of Chaos is my very, very, beyond very actually, very favorite.
It's quiet. It's focused. It's RP centric. It's what we all wanted when we started here, even me.
Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. Merry other holidays I'm not cultured enough to know enough about to mention. And uh, stay safe out there.
free my boy luigi
Everything's okay.
I just miss you, y'know.
And it's been a while since we talked.
Okay, comically "oh god something's wrong" ambiguous phone text opening out of the way, what's actually up. I've been quiet, I know. Famously aggressive loudmouth site owner actually didn't speak for a few months, so something's gotta be wrong. Uh, the answer for those who made it this far without drama stirring on discord - everything's actually awesome. Development on the website has drastically slowed down, I've been busy with other things like life and such, but yeah - outside of that, like, StarwarsRP.NET is doing just fine. We don't even have like, any faction issues I know of to complain about. None of the backroom's are lit with drama, there's simply nothing going on but your roleplay.
Which, looking back to when you first hit "register account", it's kinda what you wanted and thought of, right? Just a corner of the internet to roleplay at.
No crazy drama, no culture wars stirring, no pandemics to speak of, no spinoff sites mass DMing people "we're gonna take them down once and for all", no mass cases of harassment or people spamming Russian propaganda, literally nothing. The Staff room, the Major Faction rooms, the Discords, nothing. So if you're like me, you're like, damn, that's boring. C'mon, where's my culture war at, where's my ragebait, where's my OOC drama. If there's none of that, surely the site must be slowing down.
Again, as the numbers guy, I gotta tell you. No, forum RP isn't dying, we're not some ancient format of entertainment, we're literally pushing the same numbers we've been pushing since like, 2018. If you're incredibly interested, or if you're a competing RP website, or just looking to gauge - we push about 200-400 posts a day, on average. Link here for the visual graph Xenforo gives you of our last month. This is slow season, too, so keep in account the majority of people are either working more or spending more time on holiday during this time of year. This happens across all avenues, all forums, nobody is safe from these slow periods. I've stared at these numbers so much over the years, and talked about them so much with other forum owners (like our friends at "thestarwarsrp.com", good people over there), I'm practically an expert. Yes, I've worried about them in the past. Yes, I've obsessed about Chaos's success in the past. No, I haven't been worried for a very long time.
So like, okay. We experienced success. We know, and have known, what that looks like. Okay, we survived drama. Some bad stuff, too. The covid years were particularly bad with all the hyperbole. I once got pulled into a voice call with like, 10+ people over being upset that I banned specific slurs, or got hatemail because I added "russian iconography" to our banlists, lol. Just silly, ridiculous stuff that the adults in the room all kinda knew as basic knowledge, but unfortunately we had to swing the hammer on these "MY LIFE IS DISCORD TEFKA YOU'RE RUINING MY FRIENDS LIVES" types of visitors we've occasionally gotten.
So yeah, we've known success. We've known drama, good and bad. And we got like, 10+ years in the bag. Coming up on 13, bro.
Where do we go from here?
Bro.
I dunno, lmao.
Wherever you guys wanna go. I don't really control this community, man, I never had. It's the same vibe as a parent and a child. Sure, you made it, but after a few years it develops its own voice, starts laughing at its own jokes, and starts locking you out of the house once it can reach the doorknob. I just occasionally guide, give the best advice I can, and yeah, once in a while, tell it to go to its room, no ipad for 2 hours.
I started working on Chaos when I was like, 21, dude. I'm now like, mid 30's. So, if there's anything you want from Chaos, just know... ya got a quiet internet corner to writer your heart out at. And we're gonna keep going. For years, maybe add some more decades. My health is amazing, my finances great. I'll be the last one out, my dreams of retirement are over, I'll be the one to say "last call" and turn the lights out. The place doesn't really need me developing a new feature every few months. That's not what keeps people coming back. But, if we get a good suggestion, or if I see a new need for something cool, maybe. But for the most part, if you get nothing else from this rambling, just understand that like... we're here. Nothing's changing. Everything's actually very chill, I think today's iteration of Chaos is my very, very, beyond very actually, very favorite.
It's quiet. It's focused. It's RP centric. It's what we all wanted when we started here, even me.
Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. Merry other holidays I'm not cultured enough to know enough about to mention. And uh, stay safe out there.
free my boy luigi
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