The community forums will be closed as of 7/11/2019. However,
this doesn't mean the content will be removed.
WHY?
When Jappleng first released in 2006, it was a blog and forum.
Unfortunately both blogs and forums are dated and hardly anyone
uses them anymore. The reasoning is that there are popular forums
online such as Reddit that fills that void without having to
register to multiple websites.
Additionally, there are just so many different features and
sections prior to making Jappleng popular again. See, Jappleng was
popular and the forum activity was wild back then. Think tens of
thousands of visitors per day. I've already explained the downfall
to the site and what caused it etc... But essentially I had no time
to put into the project at the time (Trying to make ends
meet).
Unfortunately hardly anyone uses forums these days except to
share temporary thoughts on things that are new and memes that are
dead within the week.
BUT THE COMMUNITY!!
Don't worry, I'm changing how Jappleng works so that the
community is a lot better. Think of a pen-pal kind of system, study
groups etc... It'll be better without the forums, trust me
WILL THEY COME BACK?
Maybe... It really depends how people view forums in the
future. For now, people are tired of using them and I can't blame
them. Right now since after I updated to a new version of PHP, I
can't add special style to this message so it just has to show you
that it's not only dead but it's also broken. It would take an hour
to fix but there's no point.
This message will likely not be viewable very soon but I
wanted to just write this as a message to the community and also to
see it in the distant future -- if ever. Good night forums, it took
months to build from scratch but now your watch has ended. Good
night~
