Tilemap Town is really dead nowadays, and I don't know how to fix that, since the main problem is most of the people who are interested in it are too busy. I don't know how to help less busy people find it (because I don't know where people are trying to find sfw furry roleplay, so I don't know where to advertise), though everyone being too busy to spend time together has been a really big problem in my life in general that I don't know how to solve.
It does seem like most of (or a lot of) the communities I know about that are "successful" were successors to places that either died or stopped serving their purposes, or were the result of people in a related community meeting each other and realizing they share some interest they can focus on in a new place they kick off together. Maybe that's me overly generalizing based on too few examples, I'm not sure.
But I'm convinced that "make it, people will show up despite your lack of connections" is wrong, especially in today's Internet where search engines have gotten really bad.
@NovaSquirrel Yeah, back in the day Clever Pun didn't pop off until some of my old friends got in touch and brought folks in from dead communities. "If you build it they will come" is a failed notion nowadays.
Unfortunately I don't have much community that'd go for TT that you aren't already in touch with, but maybe it'd be worth asking other friends to get the word out
@elfi I have tried to get people to get the word out, as in https://chitter.xyz/@NovaSquirrel/112497791618687330 though even though that got 74 shares it didn't change anything. So that suggests to me that I need the help of a circle that's far outside any I know of.
Frustratingly it seems like maybe the audience most strongly being served here is "people who tried MUCKs and like the idea but not the execution or the culture that's currently in them" (like me) and you can't really search for people on the basis of something not working out for them.