by Vidan » October 17th, 2018, 4:30 am
@DGFone If MLK had shut down I'm sure LH could have accommodated you guys. Yes, LH is a fairly close-knit community, but there's overlap in the memberships between the two forums, as well as others like TLKGO and Lilymud, so some "cross-pollination" is welcome and inevitable. But, I'm not here to sell you guys on it. Actually, if it had happened several months ago, we would have been in the midst of our transfer to a new server, during which there was a several week downtime, so that would have potentially affected a lot of people.
It might just be that forums aren't the ideal way for people to connect around a fandom anymore. It feels like it's mostly social media these days -- Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. There's something very satisfying about a forum, though. Things just feel more ... organized, perhaps.
@Azdgari I'd say the friendships forged through LH are as strong as ever, but the forum is as dead as a doornail. The previous host decided, amicably, not to continue hosting the site and seeing as I was the only other admin with the technical know-how to migrate it to another server, I sort of inherited it by attrition. (I feel kind of like J. Michael Strackzynski's technician in the Babylon 5 series finale, just waiting for the right moment to turn off the space station lights for the last time.)