This is the full text of the post. I don’t take it to mean “dead”, as that isn’t the opposite of growing. Despite what venture capitalists want people to think.

It is interesting to see that Deimos thinks the failed. I think that speaks more to his aspirations of what tildes could be, not a disparagement of the current community.

I will always remember tildes as the first reddit alternative I actually liked; that wasn’t an alt-right clone. Deimos showed it was possible, and the threadiverse picked up the baton and is still running further.

I’ve been assuming that this is fairly apparent since nothing significant has changed here in years now, but I suppose it’s best to be explicit.

There is no intention to do anything like:

• Actively attempt to attract more users
• Implement new functionality or change existing functionality
• Change the site’s structure
• Give any other people access to moderation/admin abilities or control of the site

Or anything else of a similar level. The site has basically been in “minimum maintenance mode” for a long time, and I do not plan to start investing more time in it or otherwise trying to reinvigorate or reinvent it. I recognize that a lot of information and documentation on the site does not reflect this, but almost all of it was written aspirationally nearly 10 years ago, and those aspirations failed. To be clear, I definitely don’t consider Tildes a failure—I’m proud and happy that we were able to create a small community that people (mostly) like being a part of. I enjoyed building it, and it’s great that the community has managed to sustain itself for so long, but it’s not the same as the goal that most of that writing had in mind. I should remove or update a lot of it, but there are very few new users and almost everyone here already knows how things work.

I’m certainly happy to continue keeping Tildes running while people want to keep hanging out here, but you should only do that if you are satisfied with the state of the site. If you are unhappy with Tildes’ current functionality, structure, design, userbase, culture, or any other major aspect, you should probably look for a different community (or start one, anyone can!). You should not pin your hopes on any major changes happening here.