Same thing with me. I was trawling through QQ when i saw "I get to conquer the Federation" mentioned and checked out the site.
I figured The story was abandoned and moved on with my life. Then I saw the thread on QV and I'm like wwhhaaatt. This site gets mentioned in the thread, I get curious and what do I see but 9 more chapters than I remember before the story got thread locked on SB.
Welcome to the site both of you! Anyone is welcome! Feel free to post anywhere if you have any general questions about us, comments or concerns feel free to make them known to the staff or even general members.
I just wish this site could grow a bit more. Looking at the 'number of users' stat makes the sadface. Where even are the other sane forum users from the other places? The ones who don't bother with anything outside creative writing anymore?
While I won't get into the specifics as I don't want to turn this into another complaining about other forums thread, (We have that in NSFW Polics for those who are interested) I will say that we don't draw as many apolitical writer's due to a number of factors.
The first and biggest one is that this forum was founded in no small part due to political drama on SB centered around the Whitehall area that most apolitical already wanted nothing to do with and thus when we were founded few of them caught onto our existence.
The second is that any mentions of us especially on our larger sister sites SB or SV are faced with immediate suppression or social isolation.
The third is that people smear us when we are bought up to make us seem more irrelevant and a worse of a place than we actually are. (We are admittedly rougher around the edges than out sister sites, but we are nowhere near as radical as some would suggest there are far,
far, worse on the internet.)
The fourth is we are often too political in areas we shouldn't be which is why our owner
@LordSunhawk is making an initiative to grow our non-politics subforums and rearrange our forum's structure to better facilitate keeping politics separate from places like Vs. political WI's or keeping culture war discussion in fandom separate from general fandom discussion where it has no general business being.
We are growing, though our rate isn't fantastic it's nothing to scoff at either and for a forum of our size we are moderately healthy in growth.
Do you know how long it's been since I've used this meme? Far too long!
Fun fact! I once saw someone on another forum necro a thread that was over twenty years old the mods' reaction was hilarious.