Another one bites the dust

[joflasher]

RIP, Enchanted Artists forum. You did some good stuff back in day and you will be missed.

Its rather interesting how these places rise and fall. If I needed another degree, I think I'd write a thesis paper on the common lifespan of internet forums and the standard harbringers of their demise.

*sigh*
So the Epi forum is up and down like a drunken dingo . Even when it is reachable, there's very little traffic there anymore. Trying to actually submit anything to your gallery is like pulling teeth with a dial-up modem.

EA is dead.

The yahoo group is once again emboiled in a DragonCon discussion, which, frankly people, its ONE con out of hundreds. Its not the biggest or the best paying. Every topic doesn't have to meander into a DC discussion even if the forum moderator is DC's art director. I wonder if there's a polite way to request a ban on anything DC related until New Years? Nine months should be more than enough time to work out the details for one con. Maybe ask for warning tags on the titles when a non-DC discussion takes the turn. Its just every thread somehow migrates to become all about DC. I'm DCed out right now and I don't even show that con.

rpg.net is going steady but its always felt more like a "look at my new art and hire me, Mr. Art Director Person" type of place than any sort of community. I go there whenever I want a reminder that doing gaming art just isn't worth it, money wise.

EMG forum is up and running but doesn't seem to be getting a whole lot of traffic yet. I'm hopeful on that one.

I think this is a sign that I should just withdraw from "community" life for a little while to recoup and come back with more patience/less fiestiness. Yeah, like that'll happen...

Comments

[gymnopedie.livejournal.com]

and i think mine's slowly dying too >< but i'm trying to not let it go yet.

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Its always hardest when its your own baby that's dying...

[elfies.livejournal.com]

I think it is one of the big reasons I dont like forum in general. I love LJ though - it is like my diary and btw "waving" welcome to my friends list :)

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

I have my FAE forum now...well it's being maintenanced, but usually it's up and running and full of community spirit and lots of art!!


http://www.faeforum.com/forum/index.php

We'd love to have you Jo!!!

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the invite but, truthfully, I'm leary of the fae forum. I don't think I'd fit in there. Some of the stuff said by various member/founders and that "story" that you guys put up about why it was started ... maybe I'm just being overly sensitive but that "Once upon a time" intro, paired with all that was going down in the other forums at the time just really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm not good at keeping my mouth shut and only saying nice things. I'm pretty harsh about the business side of art and the realities of being a full time artist who has to make a living off of it. I'd rather be whacked with a clue-by-four than a "comfy cushion of understanding". I think I'd just disrupt things there and you guys don't need the aggro any more than I do. I wish you luck, though, but I don't think its a place I should hang out in.

[jenelycam.livejournal.com]

Ok. I understand. I don't really know the whole story behind the story, but I get along with everyone there. And we always have our LJ!!! ^^

[flasher.livejournal.com]

I don't know everything that went down either, I just know a bunch of people got labeled and insulted on both sides of the isle.

Fae has a good stated goal, if it can live up to it, and I hope you guys do well. I just don't think I have the temperment for it, if you know what I mean.

[coldtortuga.livejournal.com]

... like pulling teeth with a dial-up modem.
:)

[starherd.livejournal.com]

Speaking from experience, giving a yourself a rest from online communities can be a very good thing.
(Sometimes I never get back to ones I'm resting from, but...
that just says how importatant they really are, or something.
Except that some I feel really guilty about not getting back to because they're friends' places... *sigh*)