TwoSix
Magic 8-ball says "Not Encouraging"
I don't think it's weird. I do know we had a poll here a few months back that indicated that the majority of the poll voters were in at least one consistent group that have been together for 5+ years.Is it really that weird? People put up postings looking for players or games all the time. Are they really shouting into the void so much? It just seems very strange to me that we have not just one website, but many websites (and forums, and Discord servers, and...) where people look for players and/or game-runners and seem to actually succeed a fair amount of the time. Almost all of those games are going to be ones where you know at best one or two people at the table beyond "I read their posts on a forum" level. (Which is part of what I mean by "loose acquaintances.")
Doesn't tell you anything about the wider world, of course, but it does mean in the context of the people you talk to here on ENWorld it isn't the norm.