Ten years of running this site
Today it is on the day ten years since the forum came back up with me running it.
A lot of plans of what to do with the site have not been completed. The "new" website is still down as it can't show the template we had, or any of the ones I've tried. The activity have slowly dwindled, and I guess not having a new Trek series and no one publishing any RPG isn't helping. The Lord of the Ring forums feels a bit hidden on the site. As it look, for the foreseeable future when I play or run again, it won't be Trek or LotR; and my mind is currently on other RPGs, so when I post it is more in response to other posts.
But I love this site. Back when I Don ran this place, it was a green garden on the Internet for me. Well, it still is; but I tend to be a bit too busy watering, replant and weed it. It is the closest thing I have to a home on the net. I'm a member on a couple of other niche sites, where I have posted once in a while. But beside a Swedish roleplaying forum, I haven't found any general roleplaying site I like; beside one post one one of them, the "Other Roleplaying Games" part of this site is where I post about other games in English.
I have been thinking about the future for the site. One thought has been to let someone else carry the torch for a while. But I've seen too many sites getting into problems when there isn't enough technical knowhow. I would most likely just end up keeping the workload, and just lose control of where we are heading. While I want to not having "Other Roleplaying Games" to be a hidden forum, I don't want it to take over the forum. When someone comes here, I want them to see posts about Star Trek gaming; not a lot of new posts about other games, drowning out any posts about Trek. One idea I have been playing around with in my mind is to break out "Other Roleplaying Games", and possible the Lord of the Rings forums, to seemingly another site; but sharing the userbase and forums like "General Chat". Sort of a "One building, two entrances" kind of thing. After logging in, one would be able to join any part of the other site if one want to. But I have no clue if it is even feasible from a maintainable point of view.
So... Toward the next decade, warp five. Engage. :)