Even though we're losing, we're looking better than we have been in a long time.

Just waiting for Bergwijn/Kluivert to get gud so we can perm bench the likes of Promes and Babel.

Great start to the Luis Enrique era

Good thing Shaw seems to be alright.

he and spain’s team are a good pairing

This sub is as dead as the nations league

its so boring man, thank god american football is back

If you look on the last thread on the first page, it goes way back to july. Haven't seen the sub this dead in ages.

It has never been this dead afaik. And, unfortunately, don't expect it to get much better. Even during the WC, the place was pretty dead. We didn't even have a thread about the tournaments best XI or anything like that, iirc.

We've never been a huge community, and we're all getting, having to deal with more and newer responsibilities (jobs, gfs, wives, kids, our own homes and the many things you have to put your attention to when you become financially independent, etc)... priorities and the way one organizes free time changes. It's not as easy to procrastinate or spend time on an internet forum as it was before. And lots of people just move on and prefer to spend their narrowing free time on other activities. As soon as 10 regulars stop visiting, the place is dead, and for a while there hasn't been a new generation of posters to fill in the gap.

It's a shame, but this is how it works... people move on and forums die. I feel like the admins of this site really missed a chance to make something big out of jsp. This was such a huge forum back in the day, this could have grown so much if it had shifted its central focus from a dying game like D2 to newer games. I mean, D3 was a fiasco, but they could have expanded to stuff like Fortnite, Overwatch, CS:GO, LoL, PoE, etc... give these kind of games some serious presence on the site instead of some random subforum lost somewhere on the forum index, and change the game's site to something broader than D2. The whole virtual currency thing fg provides would have been a good way to attract the newer generation of gamers, who would be able to raise currency they could use for services and trades on all kinds of games. The site could have been refurbished, but it's too late now, and there is nobody there to take over our generation. Smaller forums I used to visit like FF and Nintendo are dead now. Now forums like our beloved Football forum are next in line. Eventually this sf will die, and only the biggest communities like GC, PaRD, american sports, etc will hang on... but activity there will decrease too. I mean, there are so much better alternatives to jsp, no matter what you're interests are... for example, Reddit. I can't find a single advantage a new user would find this site has over that place, despite them being basically the same thing (a collection of communities).

Personally, I still drop by, and I probably won't stop any time soon, but I'm clearly not on as much as before, and that's unlikely to change for now. Pretty busy, and when I have time to spend here, I often don't feel like I have the energy or motivation to contribute much.

I am still here zarkadon
But I no longer post because now I work for Orian from Lincoln FC and am one of moderators on his fan forums
but really just lost interest in football, new players lack something that players of 1990s-2000s era had idk what it is

This post was edited by Tyxo on Sep 10 2018 05:55pm

Agreed, we only get older. I'm less active aswell, just odd that the change is so big and transparant lately.

I have the same feelings about players.. maybe it's just us that grew older..

This post was edited by DoWN_DeaTH on Sep 11 2018 06:22am