Are you still part of a classic message board? If so what is it?
Btw in case anyone wants to smile, Newgrounds.com is still kicking. Same owner, same purpose, still no ads.
It’s kind of beautiful. I feel the need to protect it in this current internet hellscape. Like some rare specimen of near extinct species, this one must survive
Wow! That’s a beautiful butterfly in today’s internet. Thanks for letting me know, time to kill an afternoon.
There was a celebrity nudity message board I was a member of that had been running since the mid 90’s that shut down late last year.
There’s also a harm reduction message board that I joined in 2000. It was the center of my existence for years. I traveled all over the country hanging out with people I met on the board. Had a ton of fun, did a bunch of stupid things, ran from the cops a few times, almost died a few times… I even ended up shacking up with a girl I met on the board for a few years. This board helped me turn my 20’s into a vague blur of gonzo madness… And it’s still running. I’ll pop in from time to time to see how it’s going but it’ll never be like it was back in the heyday. That’s probably for the best though, since I’m too old for that life now.
Reddit mostly replaced a lot of the places I used to go. Now that I’m off Reddit I’m trying to find ways to get back into decentralized communities like those.
ran from the cops a few times, almost died a few times
You say it was about “harm reduction”?
Shifting harm. From one thing to another 😅
That was the premise, yes.
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Something Awful is still around. Most others I frequented are long gone.
I miss the heyday of Something Awful. It was an experience that was great while it happened and should never come back given current sensibilities.
TVTome was my very first. Such a fun site. Basically a proto-wikia from the early 2000s. You managed a page for individual TV shows and filled it with info, and every show had it’s own forum attached, that you moderated.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040727075622/http://www.tvtome.com/ (19 years and 3 days ago)
And then, as a sign of things to come over the next 20 years, the onwer of that site sold it off, along with all the community created works, and the community forums that went with them, to some trash company whose name I can’t even remember anymore, and it doesn’t matter because they probably got bought at some point too.
TVTome became TV.com, over the massive protests of its community. And it went to shit immediately.
Now tv.com is…shit, it isn’t even around anymore? Wikipedia and Wikia destroyed that niche, and then Fandom enshitifed Wikia.
I miss TVTome!!
I had a lot of good years on Fark.
it’s still there
I’m on a very active PHPBB forum for 2 stroke motorcycle enthusiasts, mainly RD350LCs. The amount of collective knowledge is insane. Between the members, they know EVERYTHING.
Forum for 82-92 Camaro and Firebirds, decades of information.
Yeah, Miata.net is still the Miata resource
Kuro5hin.
Old school forum from '99. Was a bit of a home for slashdot refugees.
Most notable memory:
One of the MIT students that was in the group that card counted in Vegas, which became the 2008 movie 21 posted a long form story about the incident. It was the first public announcement of the story and much of the detail was in the movie.
Badger and Blade
Anything phpbb still makes me smile.
I have some good news for you then.
The Eurogamer forum was my place in the early noughties. The forum was suddenly shut down in late 2021, removing about 20 years of discussions.
Paradox Plaza. I haven’t posted there in ages, though.
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The Penny-Arcade forums, specifically the Social Entropy uh… I forgot what the various “room/categories” used to be called back then. I don’t remember why I stopped going there or what my username was or anything, though it might have to do with my first BF. Met him through the forum and he dumped me outta nowhere and broke my heart.
Even just the name Penny Arcade had me in flashbacks!
sciencemadness.org is a fantastic resource for home chemistry. I love that necroing is encouraged, and never understood why so many other forums forbid it.
I can see rules against necroing being needed for some communities.
For example, a guide written at the release of an MMO would be pretty useless when you have games like Everquest running for 25+ years.
Telling some to “just camp” an item (for example, the Circlet of Shadows) is useless because the version they’re talking about no longer drops. The info is no longer valid, because the pre-nerf version was super useful, the current version has some use at super low levels (too low to solo camp the item) but with the way the game has grown and expanded, its not even necessary. You can unlock an ability that does the same, eventually.
Bumping that post would at best be a massive waste of time or currency to acquire.
