Will it ever live up to totse/zoklet?
My answer is, who cares? You shouldn't. People need to stop thinking about how popular we are, how we rate on the latest internet scale of popularity and just be. You shouldn't come here and post because it's got the most members at the time, you should come here simply because you want to be here. You want to post here. To be a part of this community. To have good times. To learn. To meet new people. To laugh...
Totse was a place where one could truly be themselves. To express their thoughts and to read others' thoughts as well, however good or bad they were. We were spoiled at the time though and we didn't really realize what we had until it went. We've gone through many iterations of it, all of them failed in one way or another. And now we're all here. (most of us, at least) And I know it sucks to see something great keep fading. But perhaps that's one of our problems. We keep trying to hold onto the past dearly and the past is just dust, so sooner or later, it all drains slowly out of your hands no matter how much you try to hold onto it.
I think it's time to finally let go and build something new from everything we've learned and experienced. It's time for us to be our own community instead of the "Zoklet" community or the "totse2" community. This place was built because we were all looking for one thing or another. It was built to be a Sanctuary for all so long as they abide by the scant rules we have. A Sanctuary for the mind. I think when we finally realize how much it doesn't matter if we live up to Zoklet or totse or what have you, we can begin to finally build something new and unique. We can become us, whoever that may be as we go on, as we live our lives, as we post here.
And the new members will come... We may not have any advertising going yet, but that's going to change once we finally get everything ready and streamlined here. So don't worry about it for now. Just relax. Just be.
