User blog comment:Owenandheatherfan//cry/@comment-1874924-20120706034020

I think the biggest problem is the inevitable one: the kids who were the wiki's driving force in past years are getting older; and as kids get older, they tend to have more demands on their time and acquire more competing interests, whether or not they remain interested in TD in general and TD fanfiction in particular. A lot of the wiki's veterans are now in (or even out of) high school, and so are more likely than before to have full-time jobs during the summer. This is also a big reason why the older vets tend to become less active or even leave the wiki entirely. In the past, we've gotten new people to pick the activity level back up, but that tends to come in waves.