That's what it feels like when I look at the crypto market right now and when I look at HIVE.
I have been on HIVE as 
I've also been dabbling for crypto for even longer since I mined my first Monero coin on my cellphone way back in 2014. Started mining Ethereum a little while later when an AMD RX480 was a cutting edge card. That's not nearly as long as some but well over a decade ago.
At that time there was a considerable amount of energy in the Crypto community. However, perhaps I'm just getting old, but it feels like Crypto has had its day and AI has taken its place as the new and shiny toy.
I've always seen HIVE as a way for anyone to make and grow a little investment fund and that was much of the reason for the old Earn, Spend, Give community. As that faded I thought perhaps making a digital world layered on top of HIVE to make money on HIVE while playing a game would be much more fun. So the name changed and I worked in the background trying to figure out how to put all the pieces together.
Unfortunately things have not gone the way I hoped.
A computer crash caused me to lose the keys to the GLD community account. HELIOS shuttered and changed it's mission. HIVE price has tanked so badly that rewards from curation are tiny at best. I read the news on Bitcoin and it seems pretty bleak moving forward. Then I was stress testing the GLS coin and found that the redemption bot works for some accounts and not for others. Spent many hours trying to figure what was wrong only to fail.
....And I asked myself.
Why am I doing this?? How many hours will I continue to burn for no visible return.
It just stopped being fun
I'll be decreasing the amount of time I spend writing articles and checking messages on HIVE.
With my 
I'm expecting to keep on posting Actifit reports because I like keeping a journal and a private little photo log of how things have gone day by day. I'll keep an eye on the Hive Learners prompts and write an article from time to time on the most interesting prompts. However, writing on every prompt? Writing updates in the community here? Well, this community has felt more like an obligation than a fun hobby. I'll keep tinkering but updates and new posts may become sparse at best.
In that regard I'm closing things down from a HIVE community point of view and transitioning it to my own personal sandbox. I still enjoy tinkering with HIVE and seeing what it can do. The blockchain is fascinating that way. I'm still going to tinker on making a game world with a real economy, bots running things, and a gaming feel to it. However, it will primarily just be for fun and private research.
If it ever fully runs and is profitable for others to play I may turn the lights back on again on the idea of a community project. For right now though? It will be my own little workspace on HIVE where I hope to tinker quietly.
I will continue supporting the GLD and GLS coins for anyone who holds them. The GLS coin will have buy orders placed regularly so users can redeem them 1:1 for HIVE at least for the short to medium term.
I will keep the GLD buy and sell bot running so that anyone who holds GLD will be able to liquidate them at 100GLD : 1 HBD
And for the forseeable future I'll be keeping the tipping bot operational giving out rewards to those people holding the coin and staying active on HIVE.
I may be turning off the lights but I have no desire to pull the rug out from anyone.
I don't really know if anyone is looking or if anyone cares but I just thought anyone dropping by should know what's going on. In that regard I'll probably keep on posting little "Dead community, don't post here" posts every now and then, probably with proof that I'm still honoring the coins that I created long ago.
It has been fun
.... but its time for things to come to and end.
