Do आप think फैन्पॉप is going downhill ?

I think a lot of it has to do with Fanpop's demographic shifting. For the first few years, it was a lot of teenagers and 20-somethings. Pretty close-knit community, lots of interaction between users and the site's creators. Then... the site got kinda popular.

I'm not sure of exact dates ("over a साल ago") but I'd guess sometime around The Twilight Boom, फैन्पॉप started changing. At the time, it looked like फैन्पॉप was trying to go mainstream ("facepop", the wall, etc.), but looking back at the big picture, it looks और like trying to appeal to a younger audience - familiar रंग (dull blue, as seen on FB), changing the rating system, making पदक easier to get, the bigger & brighter logos for achievements on our प्रोफ़ाइल banners, the showcase, even the rounded bubbly letters on profiles & spot titles look juvenile.

Twilight was just the beginning. With the popularity of Glee, Justin Bieber and One Direction, younger and younger प्रशंसकों started दिखा रहा है up. I get it - these kids are the ones seeing the ads, paying the bills. But once they lose interest in the subject that brought them here, they'll likely हटाइए on या "grow out of it," leaving the rest of us dreading the changes the अगला big thing will bring.

Things the "old people" appreciated have been phased out. The original layout, the importance of rating, banners (back in the day, kids, people actually made आइकनों & banners for spots they weren't a member of! Every spot needs love! But why bother now, who has time to work around the fade & text?), screencaps, now *all* तस्वीरें are a pain in the नितंब, गधा to add, even our time here seems meaningless because everything important happened "over a साल ago." I'm not gonna mention the few features the last of the "oldies" still use, for fear of those being the अगला to get fucked.

Sure, some "old" users went and got themselves lives. But there are plenty of them who just relocated to a different site because this place didn't feel like घर anymore. Anyway. That's why it feels inactive. New प्रशंसकों come and go, and the old people have been run out.

Wow. Didn't mean to go on that long. Guess the legacy of Tangent (Wo)Man lives. (Reference to the old days. Just smile and nod, kids.)

I also feel like most of the spots I go on are getting inactive--but I think that's mostly because all my shows have been on something of a winter hiatus. Generally I've noticed that फैन्पॉप will typically have a दिन या two when activity spikes followed द्वारा a drop in activity and then it goes back to normal and the cycle eventually repeats.

As an older user myself--I've been here for about 5 years I think that would make me an dee user--I can कन्फर्म that a lot of the older users are gone. A good number of the people I talked to upon first joining are either gone या don't get on as much. But I don't think this is what leads to a drop in activity; people come and people go. An older user leaves, someone new joins.

I don't think the f4 are responsible for that. It happens to most all websites. People typically get bored with sites after a whole and there's nothing the f4 can really do about it. Frankly I think if they change anything else it would do और harm than good (especially if premium stuff works it's way in) but that's all up to them.

Yes absolutely.
Three years ago, this site was amazing and now I hardly visit this place. Most of the fun people are gone but what irritates me the most is the disappearance of meebo. I used to chat for hours with people and I loved it. Now आप can't chat anymore and that is the main reason why I think फैन्पॉप is falling down. What would be good for this site if they allow the chatbar again so that आप can talk to your फ्रेंड्स just like Meebo.

Yes, it's most certainly dying.

Personally I don't think that and haven't notice anything like that. Of course it's not like every मिनट someone post something in the spots I'm a प्रशंसक of but just like the user above noticed, it's winter hiatus, there's no new episodes so there's not that much to talk about. I'm on फैन्पॉप since 2008 I had some little breaks with this place but eventually I was always coming back. I think the phenomenon of this place is simply that आप can find here anything आप प्यार so that makes आप stay. I'm glad someone created this place and hopefully it will last as long as long can be:)

Its Just A Rumor, I Am Not Leaving फैन्पॉप :)

I don't know about members leaving. I don't think I've been active long enough to really notice that. But as other posters have pointed out, sometimes people try something for a while then get bored.

As to being less active here, I think it just depends on what क्लब्स you're a member of. Some are still really active, others are quieter. If something has finished या is on hiatus, it makes sense that there's less to contribute. If it's ongoing या recent, there'd be और new things.

I don't really think it'd be the F4, या know what they could do. They can't drag old members back, या force people to contribute.

slightly..... len hasnt been on his page in over a year!!! DX

I see activity fall basically as I would expect it too, less activity during the school साल and work week, और during Summer and the weekends. I've only been on फैन्पॉप for about a साल and half, so I'm just starting to see users coming and going.

I just joined a couple months ago, so I can't say much about the website as itself. The community of users, however, just rolled dozens of yards downhill, because many of us go to school, and क्रिस्मस break just ended.

If spots are unactive, it's not Fanpop's fault. It is OUR responsibility to keep the spots we're a part of, activ.

Fanpop? No.
Users? Maybe.
But I'm pretty active here right now so it can't possibly be going downhill.

फैन्पॉप has दिया me the chance to write fanfiction and tell आप guys what goes on in my head, I don't believe it's dying but I think that if we are to become और reconsied द्वारा the public we need to be और active: write और stuff, post और तस्वीरें and make it look और exciting