The important thing is not how long you live... It's what you accomplish with your life. While I live, I want to shine. I want to prove that I exist. If I could do something really important... That would definitely carry on into the future. My spirit will always live on. And so if I were to disappear... I think that all I have accomplished will go on. That would mean that it's living. Right?- Grovyle
"Although man kind will always look onward, yearning for more, searching for new boundries, only to break through them, With the understanding that this world is one in which we all share, comes the responsibility of knowing the decisions we make today will have a lasting impact on the generations of tommorow." - Civ 5 BNW opening cinematic
To say that the forums are dead is the understatement of the century; this post is only the fifth one in the past day in General Off Topic - a forum with nearly 1.3 million posts over about 8 years - quick math says that there should be close to 100 times more activity - and those 8 years include a significant decline that has been ongoing for several years so it used to be even higher. Other once-popular subforums (Discussion, Survival Mode, Suggestions) are not much better off - you'd think that Minecraft was a long-dead game, not one that supposedly has 55 million unique players per month. (most of which are on non-Java editions, yet those subforums are not very active either, so it is not like nobody plays Java anymore. The Java server forums also still seem to be pretty active with 2 1/2 pages of active threads in the past day in PC Servers). I've also seen many long-term users stop posting/visiting the forums, especially over the past year.
Yeah, the two above me have it right. Heck, in the past 2 years alone I've noticed a significant change. PC community has taken a huge hit to its population. Take a look a few years back, and see the difference. Suggestions is one of the more active areas nowadays but that area is not only pointless, but the best thing that's been accomplished there is the beating of horses to beyond a skeletal state. There's a reason I don't touch that place with a 10 ft pole.
The issue may not have to do with the community as much as general trends; a quick search seems to suggests that forums everywhere are dying out; Google returned 4.58 million results for "forums dying out" with this being the first page of results:
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Internet forums are indeed dying, and there's not much we can do. I remember the large amounts of activity that would grace the forum scene back in 2011. As a matter of fact, most of the forums I joined in 2011 are now completely dead or in the process of dying.
Plus, I don't exactly enjoy platforms like reddit, Discord, Facebook, etcetera, so that kinda sucks for me. The best you could do nowadays is find a place you like and try to keep the the forum dream alive.
It's interesting for an internet old timer how discord is just chat rooms from the 90's and seems to be the new thing for interacting outside of sites considered "social media". It is indeed sad that forums are dying. It's a format I enjoy participating in. But over the years, even as far back as 4 years ago or so, I've seen forums I was a member of shut down, reboot, or just left to limbo. I have only 4 message boards out of a dozen left that are in the category of "active", that I still post in.
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Bettie Mae Page "Queen of Pinups" April 22, 1923 - Dec. 11, 2008
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ” -- Charles Bukowski
It's interesting for an internet old timer how discord is just chat rooms from the 90's and seems to be the new thing for interacting outside of sites considered "social media". It is indeed sad that forums are dying. It's a format I enjoy participating in. But over the years, even as far back as 4 years ago or so, I've seen forums I was a member of shut down, reboot, or just left to limbo. I have only 4 message boards out of a dozen left that are in the category of "active", that I still post in.
When I first joined in 2011, the forums were always flooded with people. I returned to these forums a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed a dramatic change in user count. Some people still make accounts to use the forums, so you can say that its like a 1:2 ratio of users who still use the forums (in general if you count other sites). Discord gives you more capabilities than any other instant chat room site I have ever seen, being the modern version of AOL Instant Messaging.
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Are there other (active) forums for Minecraft, and no, I do not mean chat sites or places like Reddit; for example, all the submissions on Reddit seem to only be active for a day or two and I've never seen anything like a long-term Survival journal there. I've never used the chat feature on these forums either and even private messages do not have the feel that forum posts do. I also do not count off-topic because I'm mainly interested in the game; I have surely not made more than a couple dozen posts outside of the "main" forums and mainly prefer Survival mode stuff. Or server-specific forums, as I mostly get when I search for "minecraft" and "forum" with this site and Curse excluded (otherwise, that is about all I get results for); I have literally never played multiplayer nor do I ever intend to (my playstyle has not changed much in 4+ years so it is unlikely to change and it does not fit well with multiplayer).
Too true! MineCraft in it's infancy years were the golden days. Anyways; yes this forum is less active than it was before. The modding communities are fairly active though, along with the other minecraft platforms like technic, bukkit, spigot, glowstone, sponge, etc.
Are there other (active) forums for Minecraft, and no, I do not mean chat sites or places like Reddit; for example, all the submissions on Reddit seem to only be active for a day or two and I've never seen anything like a long-term Survival journal there. I've never used the chat feature on these forums either and even private messages do not have the feel that forum posts do. I also do not count off-topic because I'm mainly interested in the game; I have surely not made more than a couple dozen posts outside of the "main" forums and mainly prefer Survival mode stuff. Or server-specific forums, as I mostly get when I search for "minecraft" and "forum" with this site and Curse excluded (otherwise, that is about all I get results for); I have literally never played multiplayer nor do I ever intend to (my playstyle has not changed much in 4+ years so it is unlikely to change and it does not fit well with multiplayer).
It seems to be all about multiplayer nowadays, and there's a big market/member base for multiplayer & MineCraft Development (plugins, hosting servers, etc). Some of those forums are still fairly active (like bukkit/spigot)
It seems to be all about multiplayer nowadays, and there's a big market/member base for multiplayer & MineCraft Development (plugins, hosting servers, etc). Some of those forums are still fairly active (like bukkit/spigot)
This does not jibe with the following results, though you are correct about the earlier years being the golden age:
I used the Wayback Machine to look at the post counts in Survival Mode for each year back to 2011, the earliest year they had data available; all dates are the closest I could find to October 12. The numbers in parentheses are the number of new posts since the previous year and posts per day (since June 2009 for 2011 as there was no data for earlier years; the oldest snapshot I could find was from August 2011):
The golden age appears to have been 2009-2012, with a major decline in 2013 followed by a temporary recovery in 2014 then it is free-fall from there with the figures for 2017 being absolutely dismal and reflecting a 97% decline in activity - all the while the game has sold more copies and has more players than ever before (122 million copies and 55 million players per month as of early this year) - surely some of those players want to talk about what they have done in Survival, never mind about the game in general (as the same decline has occurred in Discussion as well as Suggestions).
Also, multiplayer (servers) has always had far more activity than any other section; it already had more posts in August 2011 than Survival Mode currently has. However, in early 2015 (when activity on the forums was crashing) Dinnerbone uploaded a chart that showed that more people played singleplayer than multiplayer (or "other", so not all of that is necessarily multiplayer) and based on the activity in Creative vs Survival the majority of those play Survival. While there has been relatively more growth in servers the difference is not so great as to suggest that people only play multiplayer these days.
When I first joined in 2011, the forums were always flooded with people. I returned to these forums a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed a dramatic change in user count. Some people still make accounts to use the forums, so you can say that its like a 1:2 ratio of users who still use the forums (in general if you count other sites). Discord gives you more capabilities than any other instant chat room site I have ever seen, being the modern version of AOL Instant Messaging.
Well tbf to discord I only use it to chat. I've got three out of the four channels I go to from members of other sites online that started a channel of their own. I don't really use it in the capacity it's meant for because I don't PC game. I have consoles to play games on. I just noticed the similarity to chat rooms of old when I was first invited to a discord channel the first time.
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Bettie Mae Page "Queen of Pinups" April 22, 1923 - Dec. 11, 2008
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ” -- Charles Bukowski
Saw cerroz he's the only guy i recognize though.
The important thing is not how long you live... It's what you accomplish with your life. While I live, I want to shine. I want to prove that I exist. If I could do something really important... That would definitely carry on into the future. My spirit will always live on. And so if I were to disappear... I think that all I have accomplished will go on. That would mean that it's living. Right?- Grovyle
"Although man kind will always look onward, yearning for more, searching for new boundries, only to break through them, With the understanding that this world is one in which we all share, comes the responsibility of knowing the decisions we make today will have a lasting impact on the generations of tommorow." - Civ 5 BNW opening cinematic
Victory Yell
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Other Stuff
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It's kind of dead here tbh
- C.C.
To say that the forums are dead is the understatement of the century; this post is only the fifth one in the past day in General Off Topic - a forum with nearly 1.3 million posts over about 8 years - quick math says that there should be close to 100 times more activity - and those 8 years include a significant decline that has been ongoing for several years so it used to be even higher. Other once-popular subforums (Discussion, Survival Mode, Suggestions) are not much better off - you'd think that Minecraft was a long-dead game, not one that supposedly has 55 million unique players per month. (most of which are on non-Java editions, yet those subforums are not very active either, so it is not like nobody plays Java anymore. The Java server forums also still seem to be pretty active with 2 1/2 pages of active threads in the past day in PC Servers). I've also seen many long-term users stop posting/visiting the forums, especially over the past year.
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Yeah, the two above me have it right. Heck, in the past 2 years alone I've noticed a significant change. PC community has taken a huge hit to its population. Take a look a few years back, and see the difference. Suggestions is one of the more active areas nowadays but that area is not only pointless, but the best thing that's been accomplished there is the beating of horses to beyond a skeletal state. There's a reason I don't touch that place with a 10 ft pole.
Figured it was time for a change.
The issue may not have to do with the community as much as general trends; a quick search seems to suggests that forums everywhere are dying out; Google returned 4.58 million results for "forums dying out" with this being the first page of results:
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Internet forums are indeed dying, and there's not much we can do. I remember the large amounts of activity that would grace the forum scene back in 2011. As a matter of fact, most of the forums I joined in 2011 are now completely dead or in the process of dying.
Plus, I don't exactly enjoy platforms like reddit, Discord, Facebook, etcetera, so that kinda sucks for me. The best you could do nowadays is find a place you like and try to keep the the forum dream alive.
Everything has its season... others just move in cycles. Down for the count or merely a recession?
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/survival-mode/2372609-journal-the-ballad-of-dirtdog
It's interesting for an internet old timer how discord is just chat rooms from the 90's and seems to be the new thing for interacting outside of sites considered "social media". It is indeed sad that forums are dying. It's a format I enjoy participating in. But over the years, even as far back as 4 years ago or so, I've seen forums I was a member of shut down, reboot, or just left to limbo. I have only 4 message boards out of a dozen left that are in the category of "active", that I still post in.
Bettie Mae Page "Queen of Pinups" April 22, 1923 - Dec. 11, 2008
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ” -- Charles Bukowski
This forum's pretty good (at least, when we get some activity), but lately, it's been as dead as a dinosaur.
I'm dreadfully afraid it's going to stay that way.
I've nearly lost my taste for Minecraft Discussion, seeing that it has become almost a "debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks"
Mapping and Modding is still going strong, however.
When I first joined in 2011, the forums were always flooded with people. I returned to these forums a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed a dramatic change in user count. Some people still make accounts to use the forums, so you can say that its like a 1:2 ratio of users who still use the forums (in general if you count other sites). Discord gives you more capabilities than any other instant chat room site I have ever seen, being the modern version of AOL Instant Messaging.
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzamiya Sweatband
NBA Spalding Glow in the Dark Basketball
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Wolfmother Cosmic Egg Album
10$ iTunes Gift Card (Digital)
If you have any questions, feel free to message me.
Are there other (active) forums for Minecraft, and no, I do not mean chat sites or places like Reddit; for example, all the submissions on Reddit seem to only be active for a day or two and I've never seen anything like a long-term Survival journal there. I've never used the chat feature on these forums either and even private messages do not have the feel that forum posts do. I also do not count off-topic because I'm mainly interested in the game; I have surely not made more than a couple dozen posts outside of the "main" forums and mainly prefer Survival mode stuff. Or server-specific forums, as I mostly get when I search for "minecraft" and "forum" with this site and Curse excluded (otherwise, that is about all I get results for); I have literally never played multiplayer nor do I ever intend to (my playstyle has not changed much in 4+ years so it is unlikely to change and it does not fit well with multiplayer).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Too true! MineCraft in it's infancy years were the golden days. Anyways; yes this forum is less active than it was before. The modding communities are fairly active though, along with the other minecraft platforms like technic, bukkit, spigot, glowstone, sponge, etc.
It seems to be all about multiplayer nowadays, and there's a big market/member base for multiplayer & MineCraft Development (plugins, hosting servers, etc). Some of those forums are still fairly active (like bukkit/spigot)
MineCraft Server Recruiting IRC Channel
| minecrafting since 2010 | system admin | programmer | forum lurker
This does not jibe with the following results, though you are correct about the earlier years being the golden age:
I used the Wayback Machine to look at the post counts in Survival Mode for each year back to 2011, the earliest year they had data available; all dates are the closest I could find to October 12. The numbers in parentheses are the number of new posts since the previous year and posts per day (since June 2009 for 2011 as there was no data for earlier years; the oldest snapshot I could find was from August 2011):
2011: 598122 (259898/year, 712/day)
2012: 889659 (291537/year, 799/day)
2013: 993015 (103356/year, 283/day)
2014: 1138817 (145802/year, 399/day)
2015: 1177298 (38481/year, 105/day)
2016: 1196886 (19588/year, 53.7/day)
2017: 1205090 (8204/year, 22.5/day)
The golden age appears to have been 2009-2012, with a major decline in 2013 followed by a temporary recovery in 2014 then it is free-fall from there with the figures for 2017 being absolutely dismal and reflecting a 97% decline in activity - all the while the game has sold more copies and has more players than ever before (122 million copies and 55 million players per month as of early this year) - surely some of those players want to talk about what they have done in Survival, never mind about the game in general (as the same decline has occurred in Discussion as well as Suggestions).
Also, multiplayer (servers) has always had far more activity than any other section; it already had more posts in August 2011 than Survival Mode currently has. However, in early 2015 (when activity on the forums was crashing) Dinnerbone uploaded a chart that showed that more people played singleplayer than multiplayer (or "other", so not all of that is necessarily multiplayer) and based on the activity in Creative vs Survival the majority of those play Survival. While there has been relatively more growth in servers the difference is not so great as to suggest that people only play multiplayer these days.
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Well tbf to discord I only use it to chat. I've got three out of the four channels I go to from members of other sites online that started a channel of their own. I don't really use it in the capacity it's meant for because I don't PC game. I have consoles to play games on. I just noticed the similarity to chat rooms of old when I was first invited to a discord channel the first time.
Bettie Mae Page "Queen of Pinups" April 22, 1923 - Dec. 11, 2008
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ” -- Charles Bukowski