So it obviously has to happen, this place is going to shut down, but I can’t help but feel like a lot of our options so far lack one key thing: Visibility.
I know Oppo’s schtick has always been it’s like the super secret Jalopnik hideout and the community here tries to keep it on the downlow to keep the “normies” or whatever out, but at the same time the Jalopnik front page is what gets people to come here in the first place. I’ve been here about 8 years now and there’s hardly any people from back then who are still here. Life gets in the way, things happen, and you stop visiting Oppo every day. It’s just how it goes. But the occasional mention on the FP and the users who comment in both places brings enough curious new users over to keep it alive. It’s basically free advertising. If we move to somewhere like Reddit or Discord or a dedicated site then there’s really no way of bringing in those new people and slowly the community will wither away to nothing. It might take a year or two, but eventually it’ll die. I don’t know how to avoid that, but I’m afraid these new options are only going to delay the inevitable.
Anyone here old enough to remember Oppo+?