But PureZC, while slightly slow at times,
is a much more active ZC community than AGN. Look at their
front page updates for stuff that's been added to the database and updates on quest projects; contrast ZeldaClassic.com's cobweb-filled database. Look at youtube let's plays (MeleeWizard, TeamUDF, Pixcalibur123, SCKnuckles, and the list goes on)... which community is more likely to get mentioned, and where more LPers are
announcing their videos/streams. Look at the fact that mere
unfinished projects can get a lot of comments and followers. Just a couple of months ago they had a successful
expo, and I heard the previous year had a bigger one.
This stuff just doesn't happen at AGN; comparatively there's very little for ZC users to
do here besides trying to talk to the staff. There's some posts, but look how many of them are either the same very few people, or extremely old threads... the Quest Developers Excahnge subforum, with the mission statement "Trade tiles, midis, maps, palettes, anything related to quest building in ZC"- it hasn't had a post in over a year, almost a year and a half. PureZC's database has had tile submissions and stuff like that
in the past few days, and they keep coming.
It's not about 'the communities fighting'; from what I can see those fights are old, dusty, and, I suspect, mostly over. The aftermath is that AGN retains the actual staff and ownership, but PureZC retains the actual majority of the userbase, and that's just how it works these days. If you want to get the userbase's opinion, you have to seek them out where they actually go, not discard the majority userbase as "secondhand" for going to the more active community instead of the ghost town. That's just... marketing.