I'd like to thank everyone for their replies. I know this may seems sudden for our more active members, but this issue has been brought up before among the staff. We allowed TARP time to pick up in activity, which, unfortunately it hasn't done.

Hanabi, you're saying that we're active, that the 'New Ozai' thread is a "hotspot" of activity - I see three people, roleplaying with each other. It may be a difference of opinion at this point, but that's not exactly what I could call a "hotspot" of activity, nor would I consider that active enough to keep an entire site, with a full staff team open.

Please, everyone, believe me when I say that we do not make this decision lightly. None of us want to shut down the site, but the in-character activity is just too low for our liking. Even out of character, it's too low for our liking, and we've never really put too much emphasis on OOC. For months before we made the decision to switch from three monthly awards to one, we received maybe one or two nominations, RPM only received maybe one to four votes a month, etc. We started having to force members to review the Year-End Awards threads. To us, that's just not active.

There was a point in time where we'd have anywhere from thirty to fifty people online, if not more. The most users we've ever had online in a day was a hundred and thirty eight.

Now, we have maybe a little over a dozen members online in a twenty four hour period, maybe with three of them posting in-character. In comparison, that's just not active at all.

As stated in the opening post, anyone who wishes to continue their RP story is more than welcome to, whether through PM on this forum, our using GoogleDocs or Dropbox. If we decide to reopen for Korra, we'll do our best to integrate storylines from "Original" TARP to "New" TARP.

Again... the entire Staff is truly saddened to make this decision, but it's something that, I feel, is necessary.

edit; I WANT TO EMPHASISE that TARP will not be taken offline. I cannot stress this enough. Current members will still have the ability to login, view everything they can currently view, and communicate using the PM system. This is why I said what I did about it in the opening post. (Especially about modifying your PM preferences so you get an email notification every time you get one) The ONLY abilities that will be removed are the ability to post, and to register new accounts.

Smellerbee, when we decided I honestly thought of you immediately. If you'd like a private RP with me reprising my role as Jet, we can talk about it via PM. :]

Just a reminder, there are FIVE DAYS from this post til TARP's closure.

Please be sure to wrap up your in-thread RPs by then. As stated before, our logins will remain open, all boards will remain visible, and the PM system will be available. We will, however, be turning off the ability to create new accounts & to post on the boards roughly around 12:00 AM CST (-6GMT) on 02.01.2010, give or take.

Once again, we appreciate everyone's participation and loyalty to the site. You guys are all amazing.
Hopefully this is not the end, however, so let's keep our fingers crossed for Korra!