User blog comment:Thundar Lord/Future for the Wiki/@comment-26865094-20171217084741

The reason for the decline is more because of the fact that the mappers who started the wiki quit and the cycle never properly renewed itself. When we arrived in 2016, everyone knows of the ginormous influx of mappers and the growth of certain mappers like Romanian Mapping, Serbian Mapping, etc. Because Youtube and Google + are built in to each other and every youtube account has a G+ account, most of the new mappers gravitated towars G+ because of mappers like LV who advertised their own communities on G+. With hardly any current mappers and a less "user-friendly" platform, the wiki couldn't keep up and just became a place where new mappers got their maps from. You can still see amoung most mappers on G+ communities like TMC, GOM, etc. that they actually don't know much about the wiki and some don't even know it existed.

Even whilst trying to get some G+ users to come over to the wiki, most don't know how it works and don't know any of the people there. They also don't always find it as user-friendly as G+ and find it harder to post maps and interact with other mappers since they're are far less active ones here. New mappers want a more social-media type platform to go on and unfortunately the wiki doesn't really have that for them. Also, the fact that they have to have their account verified by an admin and wait a certain amount of time before they can get in seems to put off a lot of mappers joining the wiki.