when over 90% of the posts are in " everything else" and " off topic" and ED doesnt post anything it is hard to think it is not dead. i hope for those still waiting that there will be a product for them.
Talk of a new SOC didnt even garner much interest and just petered out. personally i stopped checking this forum daily to once a fortnight and still there are barely 5 posts to read...
While I'm not holding my breath, I do hope to get one eventually still, although the deafening silence we've had, especially in the last year or so is somewhat perturbing to say the least.
Certainly partly may be due to the plethora of recent, cheap retro hand-held devices which in my opinion has saturated the market, partly due to
@EvilDragon 's (update please ED, nudge nudge, wink wink) lack of active involvement in the forum, and most sadly for me the shift of users from the forum here to other media like Discord.
At the very least, I'd like to see more users active here, even if it's chatting about the latest Ambernic, Hackberry, grumbing about not having a Pyra, etc... (I don't mind the off-topic stuff here, but it's not exactly community-rousing).
While other media are convenient (Discord, Mastodon, and other more unseemly variants), I feel they lack the same community warmth - Discord to me is well titled, as it seems pretty much a cacophany of bots, random comments, rather than well organised threads and topics of the forums here - it's pretty shit if you want to find any relevant updates... so, yes, I miss the community here - but perhaps it's a sign of the times and the first death-rattles of the forum, but I really hope not. A future of streams of random consciousness, bots, ads and AI BS in modern "social media" is not how I want to spend my time, now or never.
/rant