Morten Brattbakk wrote:
> For those of you who may know this: Is the lack of activity here
> solely becuase of the fall of usenet, or has the DL fanbase really
> become significantly smaller in the last few years?
Usenet is still around, and DL fandom is still around, but perhaps the
generation and/or
demographic that would tend to use (and even know about) Usenet no longer
intersects very
much with the people who are currently excited about DL.
The current direction of DL very much promotes a kind of fanboyism that
hangs on every
word of the authors and eagerly awaits their next novel. The authors are
in control and
all's well in the world.
In AFDL's heydey, it was a more chaotic time of wildly varying opinions.
DL publication
was constantly in many different hands, and the future of the storyline
was ever hazy. But
that meant that the AFDL discussion group was the Arena, not the spectator
stands. And
that's more exciting.
Anyway, I tried to read Niles's latest book and couldn't for the life of
me finish it.
It's just such a sleeper. Plus, Niles's history as a renegade from canon
doesn't make it
easy to forgive and overlook his continued, flagrant violations. And while
I'm in bitter
mode, what's up with Chris Pierson? The Kingpriest Trilogy brilliantly
tied in all known
Ansalonian lore, but the Taladas Trilogy rips TotD to shreds? Regards.
--
Michael Falconer - http://www.afdl.org/
....also, not one person has commented on the new FAQ...
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