User blog:Opheuchus/It's time to fix what's broken

'''Note that this is not a returning note. I just feel like this is the best place to unravel no matter how bad my history.''

Disclaimer: I know that I have claimed that the wiki was not a good place because of its politics and social divisions, but the truth is that I care about most of the people here, and I want to have the truth brought out to as many of them before they inevitably leave.

For the past few months, the entire community has gone stale for everyone. People have become less active, nothing remotely interesting has been going on, and it's just a gray area; a period of time that has been longer than any gray area we've ever encountered. While activity seems normal, let's remember that we are in quarantine.

I've tried to help by inviting people to my Minecraft server, but that eventually died. I started the BNCS Unification Project, but that also eventually became history.

I always thought that the community had to be introduced to new platforms such as a Minecraft server, since I thought a simple wiki wasn't enough, but I realize that that wasn't the case. Besides Big Nate, people have different interests in general. I could not unify everyone with a specific platform.

The only reason why we even talked to one another was because we liked to read Big Nate, and the one thing that kept people from all over the world together is becoming boring.

Let's face it. The Big Nate arcs are stale, there are very few interesting things going on in the comments section; it's just bad. Everything about this community goes too stale too fast. During a drought on the wiki, we have always expected it to bounce back, and it always has… until this time.

While this seems to be a hopeless spiral for everyone, this could be fixed. I suggest we have a free-to-attend Discussions thread on Discord like a Virtual Coffee Shop, where we could share our thoughts about what we could do to help this. Let's face it. We've distanced ourselves from this much too long.

Final words: Although I may have left the wiki, and although I may have gotten pissed off at some of you beyond repair, the truth is, almost all of you are very special to me. You all share an interest with me and almost all of you were people that I was comfortable sharing my feelings with. I've never had that in my life before.

I was never able to find anyone quite like this community and if for any reason this community falls apart, I will never be able to find anyone quite like you all. While I am not in this wiki anymore, no community will ever make me feel more safe than this one.