Full disclosure: I apologize if this thread is in the wrong section, I didn't know where to put it. I also mean no harm for the things I'm about to say,I just wanted to encourage discussion on the matter and get more info.
Ok so I haven't really been active on OSRS or this website (used to be srl-forums.com) in about 8+ years. I was a junior member / ridiculously hardcore leecher, although I did make a few baby scripts in my time and actually learned quite a bit of pascal. Way back when you guys used to have the top botting scores on the forum I believe I made it to the #1 spot for botting hours as I had a 16 man mining group all with 60+ mining. I also ran Harry's fight cave runner like nobody's business. Thanks Harry, you got my pker acc to 99 str and 99 range!
But I digress, I'm really making this thread to figure out what in the heck happened to this place. I understand the REAL RS (osrs now) is not what it used to be, and RS3 obviously is the main attraction now (which is sad) but these forums seem absolutely DEAD when it comes to new scripts on osrs and activity level in general (at least compared to what I remember). Now, I didn't come here to bash the site, I absolutely considered srl-forums (and now villavu) to be perhaps the greatest community I've ever been a part of. It's so great to see some of the old names still here as well like Wizzup? and Nelsie95 and Harry (I'm sure there are many others I'm missing). BTW is WT-Fakawi still here? He was like a legend to me....
Anyways, I noticed some of the osrs scripting forums only have 3-6 scripts available for use per skill. Is this because the forum is hoarding the best scripts in private sections to avoid leechers or because SCAR/SRL (now SMART?) itself has become inadequate in today's environment? Are there better alternatives for botting now? For me, back in the old days, I would never even begin to consider another scripting site because this one was unbelievably professional and always did things the right way. In fact, at times I didn't even consider what we did as "cheating" but rather just a friendly competition between Jagex and ourselves to see who could push the other side to be better. Jagex would implement new anti-ban features, and we would respond and in some cases make the programming software even more efficient.
I hope nobody interprets this thread as bashing or insulting. I truly love this place for how great the community is and how unbelievably professional the people are. Perhaps I'm exaggerating and it's simply due to the fact that RS3 is the priority now, and perhaps it's just the outdated OSRS that is struggling. Hopefully we can have a good discussion about it. Thanks all!