I'm glad you all like it the way it is. I'll try not to change the next design too drastically then. Maybe I could share some things that I think could be improved? It would be helpful if you'd let me know what you think...

Here are some interesting statistics about why people left PaperDemon

• 77% of surveyed users who've closed their account say they didn't use their account much.
• 19% of surveyed users said PaperDemon wasn't active enough.

Based on this information and on my own personal experience with PaperDemon, things are really dead here right now. And that sucks. It used to be way more active and users were far more engaged. And a lot of that is my fault. I haven't been interacting with it much and keeping it going. The moderators who used to be active here, have other things going on in their lives. So the big thing I want to fix is getting people to post, comment, and discuss a lot more. So to sum it up, I need to get users more engaged.

As a start, I'm making an active effort to comment on submissions more and I'm spending some money on advertising to drive in new members. If you have any ideas on how I might improve engagement, that would be super helpful. I would like to start doing contests/collaborations again but I'm not sure the activity is high enough yet to do that. Another coloring book collaboration would be awesome.

Aside from all of that, I'm working on a new code base for PaperDemon. The code is old, colossal, and hard to maintain and improve. It's also suffering from some code rot. So I'm rewriting it and writing tests for it to keep it more stable and less buggy. I'm also making some improvements to make it more secure.

As far as visual design goes, the current design is fairly simple because i wanted something that could scale across browser sizes and is easy to maintain. But in doing so, I feel we lost some of the brand uniqueness and personality of the site. The older designs had a paper demon illustration in them. I'd like to bring that back.