What's happening in here?

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Originally Posted by Synthlight

Good point. I am kind of here to discuss it and help lend a hand in figuring that out. I am providing what I know based on what has worked in the past but I also want input from others. I think it's important to discuss this all as openly as possible. So to answer your question: I have ideas bouncing around in my head but I want to figure this out as a group because it's important that everyone is on board.

I can tell you, right now, that this issue is what is going to make or break the site. "Hoping for the right people to volunteer" is no longer effective.

I have talked with OWA and bmah. They are leaving the site soon.

bmah said it very elegantly: "like I feel bad that there's less people to look after the site but the amount of time and energy required to pass on the torch is just not worth my time"
For what it's worth, I am in the same position. (I don't think I was the "right people" for some of the things I've wound up doing in the first place)
God bless the work ethic of people such as Dossar, Silvuh, and everyone else who has stuck it out. But the community is shrinking and chances of the right person just happening to volunteer is diminishing.

I have the past year+ of the site slowly collapsing (if you want a metric, go by concurrent users) and countless threads complaining about the site's administration to back my point of view up.

I've seen what it looks like when web communities die. This community is dying. Someone needs to be appointed to step in and forcibly MANAGE the site.

I proposed doing this with money; if you have some other way of doing it, do it fast. Good luck.