User blog comment:Senshi-chan/Believing in the Ship of Fools/@comment-3387274-20150508205800

Well, I'd kinda see where you're coming from, but there's a whole host of reasons why I'd have to disagree quite strongly

Firstly, the place is far from sinking. We've hit the exam season depression, which is why it's quiet right now. A month or two and it'll pick up again. Often we get new users showing up then as well, and incidentally some of said new users are already here (Welcome aboard, by the way, Marknuttseviltwin and Sentinel Blue)



Secondly, Da wasn't really made with that in mind. it's at it's best with art, and doesen't have quite the same provissions for dealing with written fanon like ours; Organising and searching through pages would be tougher. Creative formatting, templates, and many of the things that make pages cool would be lost, and collabing on anything would be basicaly impossible. And the writting interface over there just gives me a major headache. It's clunky to work with, not very flexible, and lacks so many things we make a lot of use of here. That's the main reason I'm predominantly innactive on DA: it's just so hard to get anything done.

And thirdly, this wiki is already established, and about as public as we can get a place. searching for a One Piece fanon via google gives this place as it's fourth result, and all of the others are part of the far less successful One Piece Fanon wiki. We have links to the main OP wiki, where a lot of the old users know us and have been part of this place in the past, and all the old users of this place check back here every so often as it is, in order to catch up. Relocating would be a start over; we might get new people, but we'd have to contend with any existing or established groups, on a much bigger site where we don't yet have established conections. It's a step backwards at first, without that big a payoff if it catches on.

So while I can't object to the group, I have to say, fairly emphatically, I'm not moving on, and I don't think there's any good reason to. This wiki is not stopping any time soon, and even if it did I don't think DA is the logical next step.

On a personal note, I've invested too much here to consider stopping now, and, like Zeon, it's easily my favourite place on the internet. It seems to me to be more like the Sunny than the Merry, and I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.