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The critical thing is COMMUNICATION. The radio silence following the re-activation of this board and dreamscom is particularly disturbing. It felt like Mm were winding up for big changes, but then we get... deafening silence.

We all appreciated that Mm is a smaller developer, and it's clear that the community here appreciates that. We all also appreciate that COVID was a body-blow and anyone reasonable knows this means delays.

But the truth of the matter is that the number of active users is unsustainably tiny, and we have no idea if anything will change in the future to pull more users in. Dreamscom got next to no mention in the gaming press (I saw one lonely post on PushSquare), and the vast majority of the wider gaming community have completely forgotten/written off Dreams as a failed experiment (look at any comments board on any article on Dreams in the past 12 months and try to find any positive comments).

Nothing is pulling in new users, and the community is bleeding quality creators at an unsustainable rate. Of the creators I follow, <20% have posted anything in the past 6 months. And I'm constantly searching for new creators to follow.

Dreams needs reasons for new users to buy-in or re-engage. There is now a huge body of brilliant content out there, but unless the wider gaming community learns that (and can access it without wading through oceans of zero-effort garbage), nothing will change.

To me, the most immediate solution to some of these problems is overhaling search functions and activity feeds;

- Improve the order of search results - 'trending' and 'most likes' is basically a random number generator and drowns your results in junk. Search results by date alone would be a HUGE improvement.

- Let creators manage their own files so the best content can be more easily spotlighted. Filtering by date, trending, most liked etc just doesn't work.

- Search term/tag blacklists - let us filter out the garbage (I'd give my right arm to never see another FNAF/FNF creation)!

- Do a better job of spotlighting quality curators an letting them show the community the good stuff - let curators with the chops publish activity feeds on the dream surfing homepage.

We raise these concerns because we want Dreams to succeed. There is enormous unrealised potential here - Dreams could be 'Roblox but not hideous'. But ~1000 daily users, most of whom are the toxic FNAF/FNF drama community who clog messages with 'tell X I'm sorry unblock me', is not sustainable.

Please, Mm, tell your community what's in the pipeline. We can tell you what is likely to work and what is not worth you time. This board alone has been a stream of great ideas. I can't comment on how technically feasible they are, but almost all of the contributions would be drastic improvements.

We all want this project to succeed, but Dreams needs an massive overhaul to reach its full potential.