Dear Wacky users,
Times are tough right now. We’re all feeling it. Being a part of the Wacky community has been a beautiful and bittersweet experience, especially following the closure of the Wattpad forums in 2020. At the end of last year, I told the team I would be taking a step back from my involvement on the forum, both to focus on my own writing career and to manage things in real life. However, I’ve been continuing to fund the forum and writing site from my own pocket.
We make no money here. We try to limit the amount of advertisements so as not to inhibit the community experience, so our ad revenue doesn’t even hit double digits most months. We do our best not to “beg” for donations, because as a user of other forums, I know how obnoxious that can be.
However:
We are at a crossroads. Personal circumstances have hobbled my ability to single handedly fund the resources needed to keep the site and forum running. I have been unable to work on the main writing website for months, and being the only person managing/updating that side, if you’ve been over there lately, you’ll notice parts of it are broken as a result. The site was a great experiment, and I think it has potential, but the online posting space is very crowded and I can’t justify continuing to fund it.
Therefore, as of March 1st, the writing site at wackywriters.com will be closed.
If you have posted anything there, please accept my sincerest thanks for giving it a try. If nothing else, it was lovely to see some people taking a chance on the project. If you have posted work there that exists nowhere else, please be sure to copy your content somewhere else. I will try to find a way to allow you to export your work easily, but I cannot guarantee it will be possible. I will, however, be taking a backup of the entire site as it exists to maintain for archival purposes for one year. It will just take extra time to retrieve any content if you don’t copy your work now.
As for the forum, we are quickly approaching a similar deadline in terms of revenue. The site only takes up a small percentage of the overall operating costs, whereas the forum is significantly more expensive due to the amount of space (and usable server speeds) we need to maintain. I cannot continue funding the forum out of pocket by myself.
If we do not manage to raise enough money to fund us through the summer, the forum will need to close.
This will be determined by the end of March. If you have enjoyed using Wacky Writers and have a few dollars to spare, you can donate here. This is through Paypal and goes into the account funding the forums directly.
The wonderful mod team is entirely volunteers, most of whom have been here from the very beginning. They have dedicated time and stress and love to this forum in a way that not a lot of people would be capable of, and I cannot thank them enough for their support and hard work to keep this place running. It would have been impossible to do this without them. By all rights, we should not have survived for 2.5 years.
I wish things could be different, and I am sorry it’s come to this. Please know we will be keeping our Discord server and our Wattpad page online, regardless of the outcome. The mods are currently brainstorming ways to keep the community engaged, and still want to maintain our running lists of “team picks” on our Wattpad page. We have planned to consolidate all our writing prompts into a book on the same profile.
Please know it has been an honor and a pleasure to provide this space for so many, and even if we have to bring this era to an end, none of it would have been possible without our user base. So from the bottom of my heart, sincerely, truly, thank you for going on this journey with us. Wherever we end up, I hope to see you all on the other side.
All my love,
CJ
UPDATE: A Gofundme was requested to make donations easier, so you can see that here!
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Sorry about that).
I’m sure I’ve been a pain in the ass somewhere too at some point.