I’m not sure it was ever “active” in a sense of these kind of journal-site or Facebook-like status-updatey things. That’s a feature that came with this WordPress backend (vs. Malcolm’s old homegrown setup) that I personally find slightly strange. 15 years ago the directory used to be a great help for webweaving, but other than that I thought of OKN as a resource site with the personal communication taking place mostly elsewhere — although that other half of the equation is pretty much a void now that there are no active lists and few or no active boards (other than a couple predominantly for therians, which while I understand some kinds of otherkin may find that fine, seems not really suited for folk in the elven-faery area, or angels, nature spirits, all that kind of stuff). But as far as posting articles, which is where OKN used to be fairly active, it just seems none of us oldtimers have anything new to say anymore (some of us are not even alive anymore to say it), and the newer crops don’t seem to engage with this whole phenomenon in the same way. Sooo. yeah.
I’m not sure it was ever “active” in a sense of these kind of journal-site or Facebook-like status-updatey things. That’s a feature that came with this WordPress backend (vs. Malcolm’s old homegrown setup) that I personally find slightly strange. 15 years ago the directory used to be a great help for webweaving, but other than that I thought of OKN as a resource site with the personal communication taking place mostly elsewhere — although that other half of the equation is pretty much a void now that there are no active lists and few or no active boards (other than a couple predominantly for therians, which while I understand some kinds of otherkin may find that fine, seems not really suited for folk in the elven-faery area, or angels, nature spirits, all that kind of stuff). But as far as posting articles, which is where OKN used to be fairly active, it just seems none of us oldtimers have anything new to say anymore (some of us are not even alive anymore to say it), and the newer crops don’t seem to engage with this whole phenomenon in the same way. Sooo. yeah.