Today I was possessed by an urge to graph episode count per month. I started at November 2002, because there's some wonkiness going on with the dates for the month or two before.
![[Image: 6bPLPZr.png]](http://i.imgur.com/6bPLPZr.png)
Let's zoom in on the right side:
![[Image: OjsmEFD.png]](http://i.imgur.com/OjsmEFD.png)
And again:
![[Image: JRgVNm5.png]](http://i.imgur.com/JRgVNm5.png)
That cliff on the right there is Kestral's departure.
This has never been what I would call a healthy site. I don't think it ever had the content to draw in substantial numbers of new readers, nor was it well-suited to the creation of such content. Even in 2003, there wasn't that much demand for Ranma porn. And once it became That Kind Of Site, its appeal was always going to be limited beyond the initial community.
At least one story that started there has gone legit, though. Luke "Thrythlind" Green's Divine Blood has been turned into an original story and self-published. (I think it's noteworthy that most of the actual quality-ish storytelling on the site has been from one or two people following a linear thread -- in other words, little that really capitalized on the format. Dungeon Keeper Ami at least started with a choose-your-crossover-character prompt. No Tendo was a linear two-person round robin. A Rose at Hogwarts was mostly Skysaber, though the beginning was mostly Thrythlind. And, OK, it had more sprawl. But mostly it was Skysaber following, like, two paths.)
Someday I really need to scrape the site and set up my own visualizer.
Pronounced "shy guy."
Let's zoom in on the right side:
And again:
That cliff on the right there is Kestral's departure.
This has never been what I would call a healthy site. I don't think it ever had the content to draw in substantial numbers of new readers, nor was it well-suited to the creation of such content. Even in 2003, there wasn't that much demand for Ranma porn. And once it became That Kind Of Site, its appeal was always going to be limited beyond the initial community.
At least one story that started there has gone legit, though. Luke "Thrythlind" Green's Divine Blood has been turned into an original story and self-published. (I think it's noteworthy that most of the actual quality-ish storytelling on the site has been from one or two people following a linear thread -- in other words, little that really capitalized on the format. Dungeon Keeper Ami at least started with a choose-your-crossover-character prompt. No Tendo was a linear two-person round robin. A Rose at Hogwarts was mostly Skysaber, though the beginning was mostly Thrythlind. And, OK, it had more sprawl. But mostly it was Skysaber following, like, two paths.)
Someday I really need to scrape the site and set up my own visualizer.
Pronounced "shy guy."