Not sure if this is the best place for this, if it isn't, honestly, idc, but I have some thoughts I wanted to share about this place, as a very recent member.
This site gives me a strong "Ruined City" vibe. Every time I go here, I feel like I'm wandering through a maze of remnants of buildings, all the things I come across would have been beautiful, and I'm sure they were, but now they're just rotting, there are no more roofs, the walls are all crumbled down, even the grandest places here smell of dust. Sometimes, I do come across some pockets of a few tents, often led by the ancients who helped build the city, and they feel like either the last pockets of resistance of the sorry place or attempts to reclaim what was lost. I do believe this place is either at the end of its downfall or just starting its upstroke, either way, it is the moment when, due to the chaotic nature of time, a clear direction is the most needed if anyone wants this place to find glory (not its former glory, that would be a tragic thing to happen).
In my opinion, this "ruin" vibe is the reason why it feels so different for many people, and why there's not much activity. Who wants to live in a ruin except people who can't live anywhere else, ruin-enjoyers and the people who knew the place before it fell ? I don't think we should slow down the fall, it's already happened, but instead prepare the climb, be like critters on a rotting corpse, and eat detrimental elements of the old site to poop, (i guess ?) new things that ought to be tried, until a place that can last (somewhat) is created.
But that might also just be my over-dramatic mind, idk.
"Do not sneer at the mad, their madness lasts longer than ours, that is all the difference."