Not really a good look considering that there’s been like 10 posts in the last 30 days if you don’t count the journal entries. You’re telling me the only place to go now is a goddamn subreddit? So damn sad if true, but unless there’s another forum really active I don’t see how I can be proven wrong.
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Or we can just make it more active here 
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I’d love to, it’s just that there’s only so much I can do on my own to “revive” a website. Especially because my life is currently busy.
Oh well, I do plan to make my own journal thread after my life gets less busy in a couple weeks, so that should keep me coming back to this site, and hopefully will talk about other things frequently because I’m still sort of new to lucid dreaming.
I could also talk about my off-topic interests like gaming and metal music, but I highly doubt they’re popular here, not to mention I’ve had to put those on hold for a long while as well.
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seems like only 1 person is active at the same time, which is not good grounds for conversation. But who knows who is actually active daily, but never interact with each other? Probably 20 people! Stay motivated and DREAM ON, DREAM ON, DREAM ON, DRE- (so corny)
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Yeah I feel like in a forum, people being active at the same time is nice but is not a requirement. As long as certain people come here almost daily, it’s enough to be active. And I think I interacted with 4 people in the last 2 days so that’s nice. You may be right about the 20 people too cause not everyone who comes to the website actually makes posts, some just come here to read.
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by all means talk about your off topic interests, we have a whole section for that (the lounge). and gaming is actually a common interest here xD
if you want more direct interaction, we also have a discord channel
and yes, forum is more like, post and wait. there are a lot of people who also just read. and there is a lot to read here 
I’m aware of the discord, it’s just that it’d be nice if the forum was active too. Well like I said I’ll do my part when I can.
After all the main reason I despise Reddit is the fact that it killed off so many unique forums and most people use it in the name of convenience. The same could be said about Discord too but at least it’s a different thing(instant messaging). Reddit on the other hand is a weird blend of social media and forums.
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The activeness of a forum or community relies heavily on the interest and relevancy of people in general, which unfortunately is pretty hard to control. Since lucid dreaming in general (aswell as this forum) is a niche corner that doesn’t have much of a spotlight, and doesn’t center around a specific major social platform or medium such a game or otherwise, it’s going to be a struggle.
This forum has been around quite a long time, and the dedication to upkeeping it and maintaining the community despite it’s stagnation is nominal. Anyone who’s interested in lucid dreaming could benefit from the work and dedication from the people of this forum and it’s past (all the research, discussion, documentation, etc that exist here) I think more than any random reddit page could, but I think the dwindling activity is largely just due to the general interest in lucid dreaming overall becoming less of a spotlight these days. General media is quick to wash it out.
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Fair points. The fact that forums have started being abandoned in favour of social media since the late 2010’s makes it even harder to keep them alive, sometimes even if the topic is popular.
You’re also correct about general media washing it out. The popularity of short form content for example shows us how it’s the age of overstimulation, short attention spans and all that. There’s so much stuff to do and barely any time for it. It would be funny if something like lucid dreaming that actually requires dedicated and consistent effort made it into the mainstream in these times.
Not much to add to what is already said. If I compare this forum to 2000ties when I visited it more frequently, then it was certainly many times more active than today. But it’s not dead by any means today. There might be pretty many people who read the topics, but don’t reply (I myself as well when I have nothing to add, or when I don’t have such kind of experiences what are written in a topic).
Before the social media, many young people came here and had discussions. Today those people are grown up with their responsibilities in life, so they don’t have as much time to hang out in forums. And today’s youth probably prefers social media channels for such discussions, not forums.
Even if I take those two examples of your interests (metal music, what I like as well, and gaming, what I do as well, when I have time): Metal music has it ups and downs (for example 90nties with it’s grunge hype, etc, its popularity declined compared to its high popularity in 80ties). I don’t know any online game what has enjoyed the same popularity all the time (10 years, 20 years). All online games that enjoyed their peaks, came to their more moderate user count in some point. There is too much choices, hobbies, games, etc in nowadays world, that to keep up the same level of popularity is just impossible. And the same goes to the forums that are dedicated to certain hobbies.
So, this forum is not dead, but of course the activity might be higher 
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I would agree with you that the forum is barely alive rather than conclusively dead. What I would consider dead is if the forum saw less than a handful of posts per week.
You’re correct about the social media part, I explained in my last post why I think people are much less likely to use forums now. Your comparison with gaming and metal only partially works because you compared it to specific games and specific subgenres, while lucid dreaming is a hobby of its own. I’m pretty sure many non-mainstream metal subgenres still have fairly active communities instead of barely alive ones. But even then, your comparison works, because the fact that lucid dreaming is a hobby by itself doesn’t help its case here.
I believe the way things go these days, you need a basic level of popularity to have regular activity on social media, and a high level of popularity to have regular activity on forums. I feel this way because a big fraction of your community will use social media and a much smaller fraction will use forums. So unless the community is big enough you won’t be seeing a lot of activity on forums. This is why it’s not that rare to see active general gaming and metal forums but rare to see active forums for specific games.
Anyway sorry if this post feels like a word salad to read, I had too many things to say and I couldn’t organise it well, lol.