Anyria discussion

[Alexander Trafford]

I was filtering through the Anyria forums at the airport today and, slowly, I started thinking about possible characters and writing in that little world. So, if anyone is interested in doing a little slow-paced writing over there, feel free to PM me. I'd prefer someone who won't get discouraged by a slow-pace and drop out, also. I find that when writing with other people at a slow-pace, it's easy for one party to get bored and discouraged and lose interest, and then the other party is stuck writing their own business and wrapping up the others, and then that's too much and they, too, lose interest. So, yeah.

Also, whoever wrote that the site's stagnation was and is being caused by the member base maturing is absolutely correct. The different stat systems and worlds and too much or too little staff control over those worlds is ultimately irrelevant. We're not teenagers without anything to do anymore. We can't just come home from high school or college and sit around, play video games, check Chubbs and write anymore. We have jobs, or are in college, or are in grad school, or have some other serious responsibility (looking at you military folks), and we also have friends and girlfriends and all that other business. The problem with Chubbs, i think, is that everyone looks at this place remembering and wanting what it used to be, when we were younger, but at the same time knows that they can't do that anymore. If we want Chubbs to be moderately successful as a writing site, we need to create a system that caters to our busier schedules and more current mentalities, not a system that would have worked five, six years ago. How we do that, I have no idea.