GreenTongue:
Do people use their phones to log into RPoL? Is typing on a phone a barrier?
Certianly for some, like myself, typing on the small touchpad is a barrier, for others it's intuitive. But this is not the problem.
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Would a good voice to text app make posting here easy?
Unlikely.
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Are there apps like Tic Toc that have swept all the eyes to it and away from this more "black & white" format?
As has been mentioned above, the problem is really two fold. Message boards as a whole have fallen by the wayside as people have turned to other social media connection styles to connect with groups. Why join a 'car guy' message board when there are car guy Facebook pages and you're already on Facebook? Ditto with the other social media platforms, like Discord, thousands of channels, why join a different platform just for "slower than a glacier" gaming when you can already engage happily on Discord?
And with the proliferation of video calling in the last twenty years, even face-t-face gaming has taken hits. One gaming blog I follow went from FtF to using a VTT (I can't remember which they chose) due to COVID, and have stuck with it as it's easier on a few of the group for "showing up" purposes. So they'll probably never go back to FtF gaming, the GMs loads and loads of miniatures will now languish in the closet never to see the light of day again...
So to sum up, message board gaming is "taking hits" from all the easy ways people have to connect virtually now, and the medium's advantages aren't one's most people need or especially tend to desire (longevity of 'notes', slow posting requirements) when they can have the what they do prefer (voice or video chat in real time and better visual representations).
I don't seeing it getting better especially not with the more 'videogamey' VTTs taking off now (like Tale Spire, which looks sooo good it might just overcome my complete dislike for Steam... and thanks for reading this post, it was a paid advertisement from Tale Spire, Tale Spire is a ne- [record scratch] None of that now).
This message was last edited by the user at 15:10, Wed 11 Aug 2021.