She didn't last very long, 82 posts.
Shouldn't be continuing this derailment but I felt the need to clear this up: posts in GenDisc don't count towards post count, so be careful when using that to judge how "long someone lasted".
Picking a random example, iaz has 211 pages worth of posts under "show posts", you have 44 pages, so she has about five times as many posts as you do in total (most of which are in gen disc). Of course, this can be skewed by posts in private forums not showing up in that count, while appearing in the overall post count displayed on the forum, but assuming no posts in private forums (no badges), the most accurate count of posts is the "Show Posts" page.
The aside aside,
So, what happened in 2012? Has HLP experienced any repeated blackouts which have reduced activity? How many campaigns and mods have been released? And yeah, before you ask, I noticed that many modders decided to stop working on their projects and reported it to the public. I don't see it as a bad sign, because IMHO there's really no difference between a dead mod supposedly being active and an actual dead and archived mod. It becomes a problem, however, when there are fewer and fewer new releases making up for it, but I hope this is not the case.
HLP had a few issues with the forums being down, but never more than a few days at a time.
For every mod that's packed up and declared themselves dead another has put out a release, and I think there's actually been an increased in releases compared to 2011 (?) don't quote me on that, though. I really haven't felt a noticable lull in releases at all, in fact there's been quite a few big ones (WCS, Diaspora, BP etc...)
(Judging by the knee-jerk responses in this thread, I'd say "Is the community dying?" is the new "When is FS3 coming out?")
As it should be.
Please...
