Not here to advertise ourselves, we’re an SPO run by two women for a clear cause. However, as everyone has been struggling - higher requirements, lower value of ADA etc. Noticing the silence here and in other places we (try) track, can’t help but feel things are quite dire.
Keen to hear if it’s only us? 
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Yeah, it is concerning, difficult times. Especially the fact that K or aO parameters haven’t changed in 4 or 5 years. Requirements & costs of running servers are increasing but rewards and price are decreasing. Running a small stake pool isn’t financially sustainable.
I’m considering retiring my stake pool.
I still have hope in Cardano but it is frustrating, without stablecoins, liquidity, integrations & lack of adoption.
The forum has been a bit quieter, and delegations have been stale. I still have hope for the system overall, but I agree it is hard as a small SPO. There is an SPO incentives working group that is trying to tackle some of these things, but it all moves slowly…
The forum is surely not the central communication hub for Cardano that it could be and silence here is, hence, not an indication of silence in the wider Cardano community.
A lot of people seem to prefer the short-lived communication of X and Discord over long-form discussions.
A lot more folks are on X. Although this forum could be better for long form communication if more community members came across…
Here you go WOMEN Keep up the good work
https://cardanoscan.io/stakekey/e13da28d565a86d2a2cb6c77ae1011dc76d1a796b372d13550f123c0b8
The market is generally low.
So when the market is low, people tend to stay quiet, but that’s time to build intentionally!!!
And I love how you women are pulling in weight in Cardano
Big ups to you
Check in with Cerkoryn(Ryan) from the newly elected Intersect TSC. Him and Earn Coin Pool are working on parameter change working group from the community
I agree it’s quiet here. Not much delegation moving around is the bigger concern imo tho.
Blessed to be here
This is the one the CF actually uses if that matters.
Any cip proposals kinda gotta be discussed here first before moving thru CIP working group
“Socialization”
FYI this is not really a requirement (only a GitHub post is required to create discussion by CIP reviewers & editors)… although it’s nice to see Forum discussion before posting a CIP when it does happen. 
There were a couple vibrant years, early on, when there were more new CIPs being generated from the community, and the quality of the submission was always better when debated on the Forum beforehand (we also better directed some good ideas that weren’t CIPs).
The Forum media is much better than X for that because it allows expression & consideration of deeper ideas. Lots of short reactions to a longer post (like on X) may be good for politics & marketing but not for technical debate: where different opinions should be followed side-by-side with details and references. That was a real strength of the Cardano Forum in general: until a couple years ago when the level of that kind of participation went dramatically down.