(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Am I the only one getting this feeling that the forum has been feeling somewhat dead in the last couple of months, it has those days where a lot of people are on and then its having those periods of time where there is, what it seems, no real activity....

(Also, to kinda prove my point, I doubt that by Friday this thread will have 30+ comments from different individuals telling me I am right or wrong).

Unique Users:

1. Alpha's Ho's Ho
   
2. offroad511
   
3. Coke_Can_
   
4. Ameht!
   
5. ClutchNastii671
   
6. Hazel
   
7. The Open Minded
   
8. Lito
   
9. Vince
   
10. Aiiden
    
11. Just4Hax
    
12. Ninja
    
13. Lux_R
    
14. scr1-8-9-9
    
15. iDelete
    
16. Omniplasma
    
17. King Jamie
    
18. iLikeTrophies
    
19. EvilRip
    
20. Gambler
    

I won't include myself. This is pretty good but I can tell you, about half the people here are people who are constantly on and I only set the bar 1/3 higher than the amount shown here. This is just a little test myself and for everyone else. I don't want to see another forum die, honestly I like NGU too much, although I don't agree with everything it does, it's a great forum. The moment a forum shows that it is dying, the chances of a full recovery is left up to chance, as time passes and new games are released, if people notice that the activity on a forum is decreasing, their incentive to join or remain active is less.

That is bad...

I'm not trying to be mean but, we have Media Team and yet I don't really see a whole lot of "Media" being passed on through the site, hell the video on the forum has remained the same for some time. I thought we were going to have videos every week, even one video a week shows life. The news, I hate to say it but "Link -> Find it here" and then lead us away from the thread is something I hate. I thought that Outsider had given the ability to link that thread with the CMS News Page so we can comment here and it shows up there?

It doesn't look too great when we do that.

Programming tutorial and Gaming tutorials:

I see some life in the gaming tutorials, I think if there was a submission feature for users to submit where the Media Team who specializes in gaming tutorials can look and review would be fantastic.

Programming Tutorial = Blow. Just admit it, no new content is really ever posted, not even snippets.

Yea, I've added to this but it is how I feel...

It is feeling dead

There are several reasons why the forum doesn't seem active anymore. In general, modding games haven't been really big that much now that there is no new CFW or great new hack that people will join the forum for. Plus, there has been a lot of down time, I don't know why but some people just thought, oh NGU is dead, cool.

No I think it feels fine mind you I only come here for the general discussion section some of the other sections seem pretty lifeless especially the Black Ops sub forum.

yes I agree, since the domain issue ngu goes down

NGU is dying. They always say that once a new game comes out, then they forum will come back to life, but it hasn't happened for BF3, or MW3, so whats make them think that it'll still happen?

Right now is a crucial time for high school and college students. Most are focused on finals and things along that line to finish up the year, and I think that explains part of it.

Another part of it is that of course its warm outside, and most people are spending more time outside than on the forums (excluding the hermits).

And of course the lack of releases does some impact as well, but we shouldn't be depending on releases to get us to come on the site, people should come here for the community. I mean, life is what you make it, and this website is exactly what you make of it.

I see a lot of members say they're 'OG' and have been around since the 'good' days, well if you're a part of this community then you should step up to the plate, make some good threads, do some general posting around the forum, and do your part to keep this community alive. Threads saying the site is dead is doing nothing but give one person the satisfaction in deeming the site dead, and they get the satisfaction of everyone hopping on the bandwagon and saying its dead because its what everyone else is doing. This is why the site goes up and down so much. And ex-staff bashing the site and staff left and right doesn't help either.

From a moderators standpoint, I do see the decrease in activity but I see a lot of effort from the staff trying to make it more active, but the members are dragging their feet and not trying to help solve the problem.

Members make the forum.

You can get the content on this site elsewhere earlier... If you want game news people can go to sites like IGN or wait for it to pasted over here... Some premium content can be found fairly easily in open sections of other websites too.

I'm new hear so i don't know how it was a fee months ago

Pretty much what Jamie said, but also because a lot of the members with personalities don't come on here anymore. NGU has begun to take itself too seriously as have it's members.