User blog comment:Alemas2005/The Wiki is dying. And we are killing it/@comment-13855718-20160620131052/@comment-5625448-20160620164505

Because when users get older, they tend to leave. As the older users who stay try to form the wiki to accomodate their own personal preferences, they create a "mature" enviroment that many of the other users who enjoyed the "innocent" enviroment dislike. As that happens, the older users who prefer the innocent enviroment leave, leaving mainly users who prefer the mature enviroment. The only problem is that now older users who got tired of the wiki and older users who enjoyed it when it was innocent are now gone, and the wiki now has a more "mature" community, meaning it will repel new users from joining. The end result is that far more users leave than join, and thus the wiki starts slowly dying.