Leave NFG alone :P

I stopped being active because the site, and more specifically, the forums take forever to load. The navigation isn't the best either so it becomes a task to be active, and a very annoying task at that. I only look at the top threads to the right of the home page and if none of the thread titles interest me, I leave. This thread happen to be on that list right now so I clicked it.

Well it was a lot more interesting back then. PSP was the new kid on the block and was the first real battle for nintendo on the handheld front. Eventually though, the DS killed it, but everyone's eyes were on the psp vs DS war. So when the vita is getting its butt kicked by the 3DS, no one really cares because people kinda expect it.

Also, this home console gen WAS the most interesting gen we've ever had, but it's run it's course and is getting boring(sales prove it too). We've seen everything it has to offer. We've seen cod, zelda, Mario, Halo, Bioshock, Mass effect, Super smash brothers, Batman, wii sports etc.. Releasing sequels to those games on these current consoles will not interest people anymore. They want new consoles, they want new experiences. That buzz is gone and I hope microsoft and Sony realize this and dont get their heads to stuck up in the clouds from the positive hardware sales, because they will die fast just like it did this December.

Hmm- maxwell made an appearance? I think I'm gonna go post on his wall. 

I've been yelling at noname2200 on my 3DS friends list

Lol sry for the misunderstanding... I was speaking in a general manner, not necessarily directing the "you" at the OP or anyone on here in particular.  Just saying that back when I first joined the site a little over 4 years ago it had a smaller but pretty involved and dedicated community of members that would be on here constanly posting pretty much all the time.  Not that I was that active myself, usually I'd post here and there on topics that caught my attention, pretty much like I do now since I began visiting the site regularly again over the past year.

I hope so. The sites been really slow for a really long time now. I think it has more to do with all the advertisements on the forums. But hopefully the new server helps. It literally takes about 30 seconds to a minute before I can scroll down a thread smoothly without it jumping in sections. And sometimes no matter how long I let it load it never scrolls smoothly. And regardless it takes 30 seconds to load a page completely. Reminds me of the internet 10 years ago. 

The biggest issue? People continuously posting threads like 'Top 100 games!' or 'Top 100 films!' or 'Best 100 video games characters!' or 'best user tournament- Round 1 Match 27!'

There's plenty of people posting, but ever since you got points for having people post in your thread, a badge for 1,000 posts and Seece and Machina doing it, everyone else is.

This, in my opinion, is more offensive and more likely to drive people away than a lack of sales figures. I left a few months ago because of this, and the situation has only got worse.

There's plenty of stuff going on in the gaming world (CES, SOPA, game releases in a few weeks etc.), but much of this doesn't get through because it's 'easier' to post threads like the one above.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for originality, but it's getting ridiculous now. So my hope is people will return to the figures and gaming news and stop posting in such unnecessary threads...

Well you've now got 9 pages of posts about a thread about lack of posts, so I think the forum is doing ok.

that covers a lot of it for me. The forums are a pin to navigate, and there are so many. We have a hot topics and recent threads, but they dont seem to update right or i dont know what requiers a thread to be recent/hot. But going into subforums is a pain i dont bother with it any more. General talk is too broken up, i dont think anyone goes to some of the sub forums any more.