It's been a... Wild... few months. (lets get the bad puns out of the way.)
Wilds came out, and it's been (everything we've waited for | a complete disaster). As a result, our subreddit has grown tremendously. A little too fast. We've almost doubled in subscribers since I joined the team back in September 2023, and most of that has been in the last 3 months.
In March of last year, we had a total of 300,000 visits from 50,000 users. Just last month, we had a whopping 6,000,000 visits from 600,000 users. 20 times the traffic from 12 times the user base, and for most of that, it was still only three of us to moderate it all. It was stressful for us, and more than once the idea of shuttering/privating the subreddit was discussed.
Thankfully, it didn't have to come to that. I'm happy to announce that we've recruited 6 new moderators to the team, tripling our manpower. While getting the new members up to speed and prepared to handle the task will take some time, I don't think it'll be long before we can start truly moderating this subreddit, instead of only putting out fires. Also, I've been working to get Automod properly set up so that it can catch some of the lower hanging fruit (and I'm sorry if you get caught in the crossfire, I'm working to fix that!)
So what does that mean for you, the users? We're hoping to be able to foster a better environment and experience. While this has always been a place where tempers are allowed to flare a little higher (MH Rage, not MH Sad) the amount of toxicity in here has been reaching Nerscylla levels. We'll be working to curb that back some, and let this once again be a forum to vent about that Diablos that creamed you, without having everyone who thinks themselves a god gamer give you grief about it.
Thanks for the time if you've read this far, and hope to see you out in the hunting grounds!