Activity and Styles

[Incognitus]

Why back in my day, I was shaking my TFF moderator cane at all of the young newbies to get off my lawn!

It was really active back in the early-to-mid 2000s. Good times. Forum activity will wax and wane---it's just the nature of things now. You'll see the odd flurry of activity on occasion. But plenty of people who joined these forums over the years have moved on from Final Fantasy, from RPGs... hell, maybe even from gaming. I know I have moved on from RPGs and the FF series, but I came back because I had a few friends who still posted here that requested my presence. Trust me, I have glowing or dissenting opinions on almost every thread topic that pops up, but I don't rush to post in every single one of them. These days I'm as active as I want to be.

The alleged forum demise you all are describing is most likely a combination of social media and games with social functions diverting attention and activity elsewhere. Back in 2001-2003, Twitter didn't exist. Tumblr didn't exist. Facebook was a fledgling, exclusive college-only network. To receive/provide help on FF6, I had to dial up my 56k modem, join a forum like this one and ask questions unless I wanted to call the SquareSoft help line at some ridiculous per-minute charge. Nowadays, broadband is commonplace. And even though they are entirely separate communications platforms, social networks battle with forums for activity because time is precious. These days, people hashtag game-related questions for quick tweetbacks and some prefer the friendly confines of Facebook for questions/camaraderie over a bunch of strangers registered at xyz forums who may or may not answer in time to find out where to steal that missable relic. Sucks.

I still prefer this place over social media, activity be damned.

Im trying to remember the most recently active threads here.
-feminsm thread
-religious thread
-homocide thread
-sex thread
-fart thread
-phone thread
-martial arts thread
-FF14 thread

only a single ff thread in all of that. Also, I started 3 of them.

If you watch the Who's Online as often as I do, you can see what the guests and spiders like to see (hint: they jiggle). More boob threads! The great equation: boobs = activity!

(I'm of course kidding.)