so right now this thread is pretty moot. there is plenty of activity and some new users

Well, we DID say that we had stuff coming up. ;)

It's sad that this place is so dead..
This site seems so cool.

"Tempus umbrareum nigarum" *Draws a circle with an oak branch*
"Potestas obscuritatis" *Crushes white sage*
"In exercitu umbrarum" *Walks around circle, dropping bits of sage*
"Imperirum tempestatis" *Walks into circle*
"Universorum dominus" *Scatters remaining leaved in the form of a runic symbol*
"Tonitrua et fulgura" *lights a lavender candle*
"Imperator sempiternus" *Places candle in the center*
"Loca inferna obscura" *Looks up at the full moon*

*clouds converge*

There. Everyone has to come back to Tris now XD

(As a note, not a real pagan ritual, and I apologize to any offended by me creating a fictional ritual for the purpose of humor)

actually right now it isn't that dead XD

It is for me..

well i am not sure you will be so happy after the fifteenth, that is when the event ends

I've hardly been active during this event, it's kind of embarrassing.... I personally think it's the timing, that and I don't feel obligated to post anywhere. (Also I do feel motivated to get any of the event items...) I feel like such a hypocrite that I constantly argue about site activity, and the need for events, but when a event happens I don't even participate much.

Hi! I don't think we've met.

We so met.. You are.... Umm.. That one forest fairy nymph thing from the party.. You know, that one time... I was shadowing in the darkness, so you probably couldn't see me. I was eating all the tortilla dip.

I think you have me confused with some other forest fairy. I'm a shapeshifter. And I haven't been to a party in a loooong time.

Well there are only soo many forest fairy's....

You have a very narrow mind, then.
Every blade of grass, every lake, every tree and fern, every deer and wolf, every flame and cloud, has fae. Why else do you think things go so wonky at times? We're having fun!

I just need to be curious, though...

... why a purification ritual?

...because that is the only real life experience I've had there...

*Shrugs*
When I figure it out myself, I'll tell ya.:p-cute:

It feels very empty to me, but am not giving up, some people will eventually get used to me or talk to me :P

*runs around Tris*

I admit it has died out a great deal after Nox...
*shrugs* We newbies just have to breathe what life we can back in :-)

Yeah, haven't gotten that in a bit o.o; It's usually "oh hey, this place is quiet, might as well leave."

I love the avatars, the items are nice even the commons, the people are friendly enough when they are on: let's do our best to keep Trisphee alive and running :D

*High five's silverygit*

Wait we are quiet? Espy I have never gotten that impression...

^I've thought that about myself for a long time now. ; )

....What? I'm not weird at all. That'd be all you fellows.

I feel like I come off as Hyper sexual or WAY to dickish. Which isn't me IRL at all.

*Shrugs* I'm just a sad clever person running.
Weirdness is what makes people interesting...unless they are aloof/busy/close themselves off. That is when people pass you by as "just weird."

which is me IRL. > x >

*Hugs Hiei*

+A+ hopefully soon, i could return to bother you all more often

I don't think it's really going downhill. I feel like it is just frozen, if you're know what I mean. It's like coming to the same stuff every time I log in and I'm no where interested. One in a while, I come here to check on stuff and maybe make a couple posts. I don't really care much anymore, to be honest. It would be nice to see some big changes though, like re-design of the forum, or just something fancy and different.

Edit* We can't blame anyone, because I'm sure everyone are busy now with real life. Even me, I'm always working and going to school. When I get home, I'm too tired to even come online anymore.

So far from what I'm noticing, the store updates, yearlies aren't working.
No one feels inclined to post, when there is an event I don't feel like that items are worth posting for anymore, and when there is a contest I brush it off because it's not interesting and or it needed a better incentive.

I really don't want to bother to suggest anything because I'll feel like a broken record. I know the staff has some event in the works, but 1 event won't cut it unless there are multiple parts to that event that keeps on adding and building up. (1st Wave of Event items, then second part of an event happens the week after with NPC + User Roleplay, 3rd Wave more items, blah blah something)

Basically any kind of hype helps, the goal right now is to maintain interest and keep people intertwined with their curiosity. Not lavish them with millions of items left and right without reason or just cause.
People like discussing/spectating, while other people simply enjoy the communication/role-playing, ultimately avatar's are truly secondary to the site as the main heart of any avatar community is the community itself. Items are there to motivate us, or to interest us enough to keep talking to each other with the incentive of having shiny pixels to show off and talk about as well adding to a discussion.

Oh and one small thing, I really do think that ever since all Announcements in the announcement forums have been locked that it SERIOUSLY decreased posts/discussions despite there being a thread dedicated to discussion in this forum. Sometimes I see a announcement and no discussion to it here, and I feel lazy to make one let alone post in one if there was one because by the time I see it I don't want to post/say anything anymore.
... Just something small to think about....

Whoa! I didn't think I'd ever see you here again. Even if it's only for 1 post, it's good to see you. C: And, I know what you mean, I came back here to try to help fix the "dead-ness" but sometimes I worry the site is just too far gone.

:-(
*Dances like a loon*
I have a link to Trisphee in my signatures on forums...

In my opinion, the Yearlies were actually a decent success in rates of the donations that the site received from them so far.

As for everything else you posted, I agree. When I first volunteered to run things in Fenris' absence I thought all the site needed was a dedicated leader and a pixelist to help it go in the right direction. After a couple of months I now am pretty sure that I was wrong. Even if people liked the items that I made, I could make a million of them every month and that would not fix anything. Like you said, there needs to be hype and speculation, not just tons of items just thrown in the users' faces. What the site needs is a dedicated coder who would be willing to redo the layout and fix all the bugs. And most importantly create new and exciting features and events. What good are items if people have problems equipping them or trading them? But at this point the coder would have to work for free with I highly doubt will happen.

As a note: Trisphee is not as dead as it was post-Nox Nocturnis 2013.