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It's honestly quite melancholic to be getting to know a forum properly at the same time as various key members on it are drifting away. Seeing discussions about folk slowly growing apart from the forum, when it's still relatively new and exciting to you is…well, yeah, I know life is change, and creation is mirrored by destruction and so forth, but it's still kind of sad.
So long as One Piece doesn't end and we keep getting quality posters like you (and everyone else nominated for best new member. Lots of great people this year), then this place will be just as lively and close, whether or not us old folk are involved.
Plus, it can't be as sad as Facebook, a service that lets you watch your former friends eventually die in the best case scenario.