Had to take a break from this forum, but I decided to add my words to this; starting with:

Sierradane wrote:

With all the rumors about the stability of this game, it would be nice to know something if there was something to know.  If I had knowledge that this game was going to end on December 31 2019, I'd still log in daily (if able) right up until the end.  But at least I would have known it was coming.  Instead of the shock like with MDD.

I feel the same way. With everything going on, I have already assumed the game will go extinct by the end of 2019; but a good, solid reply from the developers would be greatly appreciated. It's getting downright rude and stupid for them to keep us in the dark like this. And regardless of the answer, I would log on every day (minus the crazy, 'normal' days that I can't.) I would be more adamant about decorating all my dolls' rooms, because the one thing that got me when MDD closed was that I never got to play with some of the rooms I got from a quest, I just assumed I would have plenty of time to get to it. I barely got to take any screenshots, either; so now I'm trying to take as many screenshots as possible of my dolls and their rooms.

Now for some angry talk: I created the thread The Lost News because the Mods were not updating the News section. It was a kind of 'mod thing' and I worried I would get in trouble. I didn't. One of the Mods was happy and didn't mind. It was a place to find any current news that was not placed in the official News section, where players could see and comment about them. About a year later (spring 2019) I felt like I was being yelled at for putting the news in the thread because it wasn't considered 'lost news'. Suddenly no one knew what it was meant for even though I explained it in the first post. I had at one point felt I was a kind of weekend mod, as I would answer questions asked on Saturdays and Sundays as Mods, I noticed, weren't active on those days. I'm not saying I want to be a Mod, but I have tried to help where I could and yet  it seems all my efforts were for nothing. No one seemed to care or notice. That hurts.

So I've been quietly enjoying OMD and not posting. Only checking to see if Sarah finally has lived up to her promise to update us about the game. I'm starting to think she either has already left the game; is wallowing in some kind of depression for personal reasons; or she has actually passed away unexpectedly. Or, on a happier note, she's so busy trying to get the game out of Flash that all her work hours are taken up and she doesn't have any 'on the clock' time to give us that promised update - the French are very serious about not doing any work when they are off the clock.

There seems to be a common theme here for all of us, we're frustrated. 
For all different reasons based on our experiences here. 

As a mod over the years, I've had to deal with a lot of rudeness from people.  Griped at for things that are out of my control, or things we've tried to work on behind the scenes & just wouldn't get fixed, things aren't good enough (after spending hours working on the forums..)
Its just been years of a very thankless job.  Then you add on top all of the things that has happened with the game over this past year,  it is very frustrating & that's going to show up in my responses here.  I don't want to speak for Willow, but she would probably agree.. if we've been a bit defensive, we do have our reasons.  :(   I am still here though, never completely left & will probably be here until the end of it all.

I can also understand your frustration at us for not being as active as we used to be.  I know not all of it is directly aimed at us & I'm trying not to take it personally, because i'm sure you all are just as annoyed/worried/frustrated..etc about the game as we are/have been.

I do want to say thank you.  So many of you have been very helpful over the years, answering questions, creating guides & useful posts.  We've been able to count on you & it shows you don't need to be a mod to help out & it is appreciated!

As far as questions/interest in adding in another moderator,  I don't have much to say on that matter at the moment.  We have been in contact with the French GM, i'm just going to cross my fingers & hope they will be helpful over here!  :)

In the meantime, I will try and do better!