User blog comment:Glflegolas/Why this mod is still relavent to me -- even after SIX years!/@comment-25612015-20190606213632

I fully agreed with you... till the last sentence: I don't know what community you are talking about!

Looking at the front page of this wiki, I see that "This site has 122 users including 14 admins who have helped make 597,496 edits on 1,545 articles.": that's a very successful community of curators, though very small for a 6 years old mod...

After that, each server has gathered communities of players, more or less involved, but they do not form any real global community around the mod.

Probably because being part of a community basically means doing things together. Or at least being able to do things together, which is not really possible as the mod is a single-man effort and building things around (user generated content) is (was?) generally discouraged. IMO, this is the biggest failure of the LOTR mod. It's not inclusive and thus cannot generate any real and large scale community around it.

However, to conclude on a brighter note, I really think the best is yet to come and that this mod could stay relevant for a few additional years. Even with games like Hytale approaching to bury Minecraft.

If users contributions were encouraged and organized, I'm sure that a real community could thrive around the mod.

Else, with Mevans perfectly understandable break and the lack of novelty, the mod would slowly fall into oblivion (the wiki's activity is noticeably slower these days which is already a clear sign).

Blossom or wither; I think that's a choice for you and your fellow admins to make!