Are things slower around here?

[Lexou Duck]

i think sevenstitch (or someone else idk) said something along the lines of what about to say before but yeah

i think the frequency of new arrivals is never gonna skyrocket no matter what community changes are made, said community changes will just play a part in keeping people active

the big factor here is that most people who'll like to come look at the site and furthermore the forum are people with a passion for sprites/pixelart
and that's gonna keep on getting rarer and rarer since fewer and fewer games are made with sprites, so kids won't be reeled in the same way
i mean of course there are plenty of retro fanatics, even among the younger people who grew up with the wii and such, but naturally not as much as among people who grew up in the SNES era or anything (i myself am a pretty rare case seeing as i grew up with the Gamecube more than anything, though i had the GBA and DS to get to see sprites)
the more we advance through time, the more the median age of the forum is growing older and older and since older people tend to leave for a wide variety of reasons i think the site is pretty much doomed to undergo a progressive decrease in activity

after that's been said, the important thing is to reflect upon what changes in mentality we as a userbase can adopt to entice people into staying