Dead communities you miss

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Compass wrote on 2014-01-17 02:59

Pretty sure at some point we've been apart of some sort of community whether it be it a guild, chat, message board, ect that isn't alive or as lively anymore. Here are some of mine (some names might be edited due to the advertising rule)

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Sparkle (something something)- The community itself had like idk 100+ members, but chat itself only had like 10 - 15 members at most. We all got along great and had frequent voice chats. co-op nights, fun chats . My good PC broke down and that's when stuff went downhill.

I'd go on chat with an old Pentium 4 (Intelnium. This CPU will never overheat) and I'd tell the guys that I'm not sure when I'd be back. This didn't stop certain members asking me the same question, and I'd tell them the same thing that I'm working on it, but no ETA.

And it would only get worse as I continued to join chat and 2 members would constantly harass me about it and I told them to stop which they didn't. Resigned as moderator, left and never went back. Heard it's dead now. Got a few "Compass come back we miss you/ it's not the same without you!" messages, but I just told them to friend me on steam instead.

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Last.FM - I'd hang out with some few broskies at two specific shoutboxes. We'd get banned for trolling. We make alts to avoid bans, but after the recent one it just ain't the same, not dead though.

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VG - Was a great site with a great community (message boards and chat), turned into shit almost a year ago. It was one of the best community I ever participated it. Everyone got along really well for such a big site, and all the mods are incredibly friendly and if you ask them like "Hey wanna co-op a game?" They'd be "Yeah, sure thing bud".

What went wrong? The forums became filled with shitposters, all kinds too. You have the game spoilers, the know-it-alls/entitled users/smartasses, the spammers do post thingslike "okay" in all threads, and the unfunny (half meme) users. I confronted one of the meme users and he said something along the lines of "it's our obligation as gamers to ensure that we persevere comedy in games and gaming communities", but I assure you it was more idiotic than that. And it seems like the mods just stopped caring about the forums and it's now so bad that's normal to be a shitposter

And as you can tell the old members do not get along with the new members . A few days ago I created a topic based on this "controversy" and proceeded to about how easily offended game journalists are and how it's getting harder and harder to take gaming journalism seriously with these type of articles and here come a few new(er) members saying "read the entire article" because I "missed the point".

I responded to them saying that I did and asked them what I missed. Only one responded saying something "I don't see why you're letting some easily offended journalist get to you" even though the point I was making that gaming journalism is becoming a joke with the easily offended writers popping up everywhere.

Chat isn't so bad, there's a few mods who have a "you're not going to shit up chat like you did with the site" frame of mind, but just like the forums chat really dulled out.
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Mabinogi - where are the friendly players at? open beta friendlies r u ded? ;_; holla pls
GODZILLA wrote on 2014-01-17 03:20

I don't remember it's name, but there was this anime site I went to back when I first got into anime. I became a mod of the forum and chat and I ruled with an iron fist. It was awesome. One day the owner of the site just disappeared and anime stopped being uploaded. Eventually the forum and chat died and I lost contact with everyone but a couple people.
Splatulated wrote on 2014-01-17 04:00

habbo and coke studios and runescape
Maenad wrote on 2014-01-17 04:02

Mabination.
Sepia wrote on 2014-01-17 04:04

Quote from Maenad;1188761:
Mabination.

Har har har......
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-01-17 04:15

I miss 12chan IRC. Some great guys there, though one was scary. After the n-th crash it just didn't come back online.

Quote from Sepia;1188762:
Har har har......

Don't see what's funny about it. The face of the community changed drastically, i.e. old people left and new ones came along. Maybe "her" Mabination community isn't there anymore.
kaozking wrote on 2014-01-17 04:39

I miss Kugnae so much
Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-01-17 05:58

I miss Go-Gaia. It started down the steep road to a pile of shit when they changed the name.
Taycat wrote on 2014-01-17 06:18

Quite a few Kingdom Hearts proboards forums I used to frequent. I miss them because the people on them were great. Now we're stuck with nobody. It just really saddens me now.
Also, various forums for games like Garry's Mod. Those are fun.
Maenad wrote on 2014-01-19 06:58

I miss Eclipse.

Eclipse doesn't miss me.
TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-01-19 07:28

There use to be this browser game: macroland I believe. I miss that community. One day I tried to log on and the site is just gone, server got shutdown or something. Oh well.
Cho wrote on 2014-01-19 08:32

I miss a good portion of the community of friends/alliances-ish(?) I met on Aion. We'd always PvP with good sportsmanship and the like. I also miss the guild I was in on Aion as well. We pretty much all grew up together from being little nubs running around everywhere spamming instances all day.
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In addition to that, back then when YouTube had things like bulletins and more customizable features on channels, a lot of the video editing community helped me a lot by inspiring me or teaching me new things. I wouldn't have had any experience on video editing otherwise, and am really thankful for their help.
Taycat wrote on 2014-01-19 09:28

I just remembered.
I miss all those communities of private servers I joined had fun with. It was great getting to talk to some of them, but sometimes I would get really bored and completely forget about them and go on with my life. I eventually remember about them and most of the time, the servers are gone or the people I knew don't play anymore or don't remember me u_u
Compass wrote on 2014-01-19 10:18

Quote from Taycat;1189367:
I just remembered.
I miss all those communities of private servers I joined had fun with. It was great getting to talk to some of them, but sometimes I would get really bored and completely forget about them and go on with my life. I eventually remember about them and most of the time, the servers are gone or the people I knew don't play anymore or don't remember me u_u

Met a really cool girl (on CeresRO I believe_ 5+ years ago named TehDeadlyPillow, she was honestly one of the coolest people I met and always helped me out, and we even had matching usernames for our characters. But suddenly my computer died and I never got a hold of her since ;___;

I miss her so much.