A bit of a morbid question, perhaps - details inside
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:44 am
How long until these sites die? What are their total lifespans? SDN, SB.com, even this one?
Some personal assessments:
- First of all, every website will die eventually. As they say on the image boards, NO EXCEPTIONS! Yes, that even goes for said image boards.
- SDN: On the plus side, they have a tightly knit community dedicated to keeping it alive. On the minus side, they're a very closed community, both by the nature of the members and the fact that it now institutes the "donation" policy due to troll attack, presumably by said image board. So SDN will probably be around for a while, but it's a slow death, until enough members either just leave or even die off that the remainder just decide to hold informal chats, or themselves die off. But given how young these members are (even Wong), this is still a long while away.
- SB.com: A much more open site, just from what I've seen, so entry isn't as high a barrier, but looking at the registration numbers on the front page, they don't seem very great. Plus, being a large community, they don't have the tight-knit closeness of SDN. Might die off within a decade.
- Now onto this site, and I'm sad to say we kinda have the worst of both worlds. We have a rather high barrier to entry just because of our anonymity, but we don't seem to be as tightly knit as SDN. So, ummm...sorry, but it doesn't look good for us.
Some personal assessments:
- First of all, every website will die eventually. As they say on the image boards, NO EXCEPTIONS! Yes, that even goes for said image boards.
- SDN: On the plus side, they have a tightly knit community dedicated to keeping it alive. On the minus side, they're a very closed community, both by the nature of the members and the fact that it now institutes the "donation" policy due to troll attack, presumably by said image board. So SDN will probably be around for a while, but it's a slow death, until enough members either just leave or even die off that the remainder just decide to hold informal chats, or themselves die off. But given how young these members are (even Wong), this is still a long while away.
- SB.com: A much more open site, just from what I've seen, so entry isn't as high a barrier, but looking at the registration numbers on the front page, they don't seem very great. Plus, being a large community, they don't have the tight-knit closeness of SDN. Might die off within a decade.
- Now onto this site, and I'm sad to say we kinda have the worst of both worlds. We have a rather high barrier to entry just because of our anonymity, but we don't seem to be as tightly knit as SDN. So, ummm...sorry, but it doesn't look good for us.