| firebush03 said: As somebody who’s relatively new to this site (I say “relatively” b/c I know there are ppl here who have been active for nearly two decades lol), I am genuinely curious: Why do you say that it is an inevitability the site will be dead soon? The site seems no different from 2023 than today. I haven’t seen many people leaving, though I admittedly also haven’t seen many new faces. And what is this “trajectory” Ryuu96 is talking about? Is this in reference to monthly active users or something else? I, for one, love how niche and tight-knit the community is here. It’s not like Reddit where you have a massive sea of users (most of which you’ll likely only ever see one time). On VGChartz, I can go to any forum or merely look at a profile picture, and I know exactly who I’m talking to. It’s refreshing and very therapeutic for people like me who have…a particular socializing disorder I don’t want to share lol. |
I'm not sure about when "soon" would be, I couldn't put a date on it and I don't think VGChartz is going to die this year, all I'm saying is more that the site on its current course is destined for death so we can spend hours writing about all the issues as we did last year, and the year before, and the year before, but nothing is going to change, Lol. The first thing that needs to happen before anything else is an ownership change and actual investment into the website. If that doesn't happen then there's really no point in even discussing anything else, Imho.
The site being no different from 2023 than today is a bad thing, I'd say the site is no different today than it was even longer than that though, the entire site is stagnant, it's outdated in every single way, it has potentially huge security issues, it is now struggling for a USP, it has a bad reputation and no outreach. Every user we lose at this point is a blow, and them users don't tend to be replaced, sure we do have some new users but it's nowhere near enough and often they don't last long or they're just alts, Lol.
Peoples posting habits also significantly decline even if they don't leave. Not an exaggeration to say Trunks probably contributes a lot to the current activity now too and he isn't appreciated enough, the site shouldn't have to rely on 1-2 people though to keep it alive though, that is a recipe for disaster, once one of those people gets sick of posting or feels it's a waste of effort too.
The trajectory is just all of the above, there's absolutely zero positive development on VGChartz and activity is declining. Everything we've tried in the past has felt like a complete waste of time because we keep ending up back to square one, there's only so much that can be done with unpaid volunteer coders, Lol. And personally, that recent hack which deleted hundreds of thousands of comments pissed me off about the state of the website and the absence of its owner and I'm still not happy about it, Lol.
I'm also aware of certain financial aspects of VGChartz that don't paint a good picture.
I wasn't like this 5 years ago, I was more "Lets save VGChartz and bring back activity!" and there was a time I was posting dozens of threads, I really enjoyed working with Admins into the night helping them to bug test features and fixes and come up with new ideas (even more than I liked being Mod) but those Site Admins vanish because they're unpaid volunteers and we go right back to square one.
I've done the whole everything will be fine approach and happily sit in a stagnant website, trying to give it a temporary boost in activity but it delays the inevitable, now I'm taking a more antagonistic approach, Lol. But I've thought these things for a long time, I just held my tongue and only stated them in StaffChat. If VGChartz is to even have a chance of surviving it needs new ownership.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 03 September 2025
