[quote=@Vilageidiotx]
I haven't read the entire thread, mostly just skimmed it, so somebody might have mentioned this before...

...how much of this decay is because of changing culture? I know some younger people use Twitter to RP, for instance. Maybe decay is sort of natural for forums at this point, since those who are attached to forums grow older and get busy, and younger RPers end up embracing other methods of RPing in enough numbers to cause forums to wane.  
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To back this up: I just got Discord and one of the Discord chatrooms, thingies there's a whole section dedicated to basically IRC role-play. The RPG also has to contend with services like [url=https://roll20.net/]Roll20[/url] for traditional pen and paper format RP'ing.

From a branding perspective almost I feel like the question has to be asked: is the Guild for RP'ing broadly, or is it for the niche audience who wants to RP in a way that's like writing cooperative multi-person novels?