Pen & Paper?

[Mouseferatu]

Okay, random question.

Is it just my imagination, or has www.pen-paper.net not been updating its entries much these days?

 

[Turanil]

Most websites are doomed to disappear sooner or later, and usually sooner than later. ENworld itself will someday decline and then disappear. I give it a maximum of 10 years of life.

On the other hand, I love being the second person to post in a thread

 

[IronWolf]

Most websites are doomed to disappear sooner or later, and usually sooner than later. ENworld itself will someday decline and then disappear. I give it a maximum of 10 years of life.

Yep, many a website appears, does well only to disappear later. It is still a tricky thing to pay for the resources a website needs (hardware, bandwidth) while remaining free for the most part to people. I think a lot has to do with the motivation of the website owner. Are they trying to make money, just sustain the site or a little of both. And from there its a matter of how successful they are at that balancing act.

Some sites will survive though. I am not so sure I would give En World only ten years of life. The community is pretty active and the site keeps pretty darn fresh each day. Only time will tell (which is true of many, many sites).

 

[Crothian]

ENworld itself will someday decline and then disappear. I give it a maximum of 10 years of life.

10 years from when Eric started the site or 10 years from whewn Morrus took it over or 10 years from now?

 

[Aeson]

10 years from when Eric started the site or 10 years from whewn Morrus took it over or 10 years from now?

10 years from when it started I think. How long ago was that?

 

[Crothian]

10 years from when it started I think. How long ago was that?

At least 99 I think

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I'll give ENWorld the amount of time between now and when 5th edition is released. I'm pretty sure that when 4th edition rolls around DnD will still be based on the D20 system. WotC has said that they have no plans to abandon the D20 system when the next edition comes along.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

Is it just my imagination, or has www.pen-paper.net not been updating its entries much these days?

Yeah. I was there just yesterday and noticed that it appears to be dead in the water.

There seems to be a trend towards increasing popularity of EN World which is causing a decrease in popularity of other DnD sites. I can remember a few years ago when mortality and the WotC boards were both more active than thye are now. Meanwhile EN World continues to gain members.

 

[Jonny Nexus]

I was initially pretty keen on www.pen-paper.net, but got disillusioned when I entered in a whole load of updates for magazines I'd had pieces in (I did the entire of each magazine, not just my bit) waited several months for them to appear and then, when just one of them did, found out that the guy who runs it had ignored/lost my update, had done it himself, and had put an entry for every article in that issue *except* mine - because in his opinion my article wasn't about roleplaying.

He was very nice about it when I emailed him to complain, put my article in, and encouraged me to keep entering in details. But my feeling was that until he processed the other five magazine entries I'd already put in (which I suspected had been lost), I wasn't particularly inclined to spend a lot more time entering information into what might be a queue to nowhere.