What the hell is or isn't going on here? What can I do to contribute to help get things back to a fully operational status. I had a much older account that had way more posts from when I was a kid but I see this lack of activity and I want to help restore things, and possibly keep the up to date if possible. Is anyone of any of the site administrators or website operators still active and if so to what extent? Because these post dates are a mess and things seem really messed up.

I get the sense that there are still members of the community who check in occasionally, but there just isn't any new content being added. Not only that, but despite Psypokes having a legacy of it's own, it just hasn't aged as well as other communities like Smogon or Serebii, in terms of its community.

I really do wish that Psypokes would see a revival, but unless something is done by its members to breed life and discussion, and frankly attention, back into the forums and content, Psypokes is just going to remain as it is now.

Maybe the best thing for now is to start relevant, substantive discussion, and to keep at it until more people come. I have no idea about any of the administrators, but what we need now is activity over organization.

Well alright then. I would be willing to write up a ORAS Walkthrough and give Psypoke permission to post it in their Walkthrough section. If the Admins are willing to take that offer then I'll do it. But not till I hear from them first
(Hopefully this post will grab some attention) There is also the buzz about Sun and Moon coming out as well. I also think that the lack of new content is what's stopping people from wanting to join more because we are behind.

Psypokes was one of the original online Pokémon communities, and actually hosted Serebii for a time. It started in 1999, in fact, but these forums weren't formed until August of 2004. I remember Psypokes being quite popular when I was younger, with regular trivia competitions and games, and what was a fairly comprehensive resource site and a good community, but since then it's lost it's niche. Serebii and Bulbapedia became more commonly used as news sites and information resources, and Smogon started dominating as a competitive and online community. As these sites drew people in and became more popular, Psypokes' community started to wither and fall away, until it's reached the state that it's in now.

I would still like to see a revival for Psypokes, but until some kind of niche can be found, I don't see it happening.

I do understand that life comes first, but the answer probably would have been to find people who could take on the roles that were being left behind. Of course, I assume that you and the others who might be involved have considered this far more than I have, but I do think sizable issue is that people just didn't stay and post with any regularity, or in any meaningful way. There can only be so many variations on "Dream Teams" and "What Pokémon should I use?" before the reason to join such discussions disappears, and people look elsewhere for more interesting topics. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to adopt some discussion starters from other communities? Such as starting our own version of in-game tiers for games? We need people to discuss topics, and topics to draw people, so it feels very much like a Chicken vs Egg situation.

About Serebii, I don't actually know much about the early days of online Pokémon communities. Psypokes was the first community that I joined, back in 2004, but I was a little brat back then and ended up embarassing myself into leaving. So perhaps it was bias on my part that Psypokes was more popular then, but I don't know.

I can say that I do feel slightly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of dead discussion topics, and sometimes it feels like it may help to start from scratch, and to lock the older threads away in a 'vault' forum not unlike Lintaro's Lair. I would like to help if I could in any way, but I feel at a loss about what I could actually do.

This, what's here should be locked away and reboot the forums to a much smaller format, not to say this hasn't already been happening with some but all the old post clutter in the condensed subs keeping anything fresh from standing out, at least remove the 11 stickies in the main pokemon game sub.



The main site needs some love as well, just archiving some of the old or dead(Psypoke idol) and updating the quicklinks to the Dex, CardDex, Psylab, events etc.

I still solely use Psypokes on my side. It has the best layout, I can actually find what I want to find, and it has the best pokedex in my opinion. As for Serebii, whenever I went here it was for the events, but now I only play Mystery Dungeon 1 and 2 until Sun & Moon comes out.

Btw, have you seen Serebii's updated forum rules? It's a **** mess; the first time I posted there I got two infractions lmao. I don't know why those forums are still working they are the worst. And the layout is so bad I can't find anything.

But I think for the activity to come back on our forums you need to simplify it a bit... there are too many sections and I don't feel like searching them to find new posts. I have a bunch of exciting new things to share but I feel like no one will find my posts. And yea, let us make new threads the other ones are too old, fresh stuff is neat. Also grab some new meat to moderate and write stuff around your website, the old ones probably won't ever come back.