[quote]Perhaps that is just my imagination. But, I also partially think the lack of progress with the website is a part of the problem. I mean no ill will towards Mahz - I respect what he does, I respect that he puts himself before RPG, I respect above all that he makes a financial sacrifice to provide this for us. I'd like to repeat what I have always said.. this is a free service offered to us by Mahz that he may terminate at any given time without notification or reason. I don't want to criticize him - because he is already doing more than he has to do for us. 

But. The website has fallen still - key features that were promised months ago have not appeared, and while the key components of the forum (i.e. layout, color schemes, and the ability to post, BB codes etc) are all in place some of the nicer side-components are broken. Arena system. Why? Nobody plays in arena anymore. RPG Chat - great idea! Lack of progress made it obsolete and now we have a discord. I'm not going to voice what I think about that, but I think it's sad that an official RPG function has become obsolete because people consider that function to be .. well, worthless. VM system was a great incentive but shitty implementation, as characterizes the most of the issues here. It's broken, doesn't work well, notifications are borked.. I have sent moderators messages offering some insights and critiques and they mostly went ignored or were met with a 'I agree, but I can't do anything about that, because we need Mahz'..

all these things I feel like negatively impacted the traffic from old-time roleplayers. And have in turn created the community we have now.[/quote]
	I agree that this site hasn't move forward at all. I was not on during the Old Guild so I can't relate to that period. However, there is a lack of progress made on here. Our Private Message systems needs a major update for example, the notifications need improving, and so on. Mahz, of course, is a great dude with a life that is more important than this site. But, he should get people who can help while he's away. Mahz has been gone for awhile and this site has not changed at all since he left. Again, I mean no ill towards him. In fact, I am grateful for this site because it has improved my writing so much. But at the same time, the Guild needs be updated so we can get new members and stop the old ones for leaving.

In short, Mahz (when he gets back on) should look into getting someone that he can trust to run this site, fix anything issues, and update while he's away at work.