#charatrp

Now, I may be wrong on a few points, I was there when it happened but it was chaos and there’s a lot that was said.

As far as my knowledge goes, CharatRP was shut down because of massive backlash over its owner, Sho, pressuring minors for pictures/ERP and generally just. Basically being a pedophile. It came to light, a lot of things got shut down, and the entire site went down for several months. Most RPers have now moved to MSParp, which has had its own issues but is starting to look up again.

As for Charat’s fate, it actually came back for a little while, but was borderline unusable. The ability to see searched tags was gone, so no one could see what anyone was searching and you basically had to pray. No surprise that pretty much no one used it. Last I had looked before I got this ask, it was still up, just pretty much no one using it, but now it looks like it’s well and truly gone for good.

I will admit, I hadn’t even known the development blog EXISTED prior to this ask. It’s not linked on the site and I literally had to search “MSParp development blog” to find it at all, so thank you for letting me know that exists.

That said, I’m not seeing much about implementing Panfandom things. This blog has nothing so far and I’ve gotten to posts from over a year ago, and so far this is all I can find on any sort of potential Panfandom things, and no Panfandom plans are listed in their Planned Features section. After that previously linked post, the next time there’s any word is Aug 16 2016.

I have absolutely no problem with the prospect of MSParp including Panfandom potential, I would be absolutely fucking ecstatic if they did. However, with the information I have so far, I’m not really optimistic about it. I understand they’ve been having other issues with the site, namely the Ghost User issue, but if there’s any word that they’re still working on or planning to work on Panfandom potential, I can’t find it.

It’s been a while since CharatRP shut down and came back as... Well, utter shit. And let’s face it, as fantastic as MSParp is, if they haven’t implemented something for their Non-HS userbase by now, they’re probably not planning on it.

I’m not exaggerating when I say CharatRP changed my life. The kind of place it was, I’d love to get that back. Many times, I’ve considered making a site like it myself. I have more than six years of RP experience and several years of experience Modding and Co-modding chats, and it seems to me that it wouldn’t be terribly different, or at least, I would be able to learn what needs to be done to moderate a RP site relatively quickly. However, I have two main problems.

1) Coding

I don’t know much about code, both in general and when it comes to making a website. Now there are a couple ways around this: I could teach myself, through online tutorials, asking other people, etc, or I could bring someone else on board to do it. Which brings me to my other problem-

2) Money

Owning a site of course costs money. Now I’m not sure how much it would be, since I haven’t looked into it yet, but at this point in time, I really don’t have any money that I could put towards this. The (debatably) best solution would be to set up a sort of crowdfunding/patreon thing, with the money entirely going to keeping the site up and running. The problem with this is I’m not entirely sure we could bring in enough money to actually keep the site up, as I’m not sure how much money it takes to buy/maintain a site like CharatRP or MSParp.

I understand why the site went down, I totally agree. But when they put it back up, under new ownership if I’m right, they changed everything. And while some changes made sense, like having people make accounts, most didn’t, and I don’t know of a single person who actually liked those changes. It shows in how there’s maybe five people who still use it.

There was no reason to change it all, it worked fine as it was and really only needed minor adjustments. And when people voiced their displeasure about the changes... No one did a thing. Charat is still as bad as it was when it came back. Which basically tells me that they didn’t care, and that just makes me wonder why they brought it back in the first place if that was the case.