We had forums!?
- Thread starter Parismio
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I'm pretty excited honestly. Love the fact it's built similarly to Resetera, which in my opinion has one of the best forum designs.
I liked posting on Resetera, NeoGAF (before The Great Purge), and other video game forums now and again, but I always found I kinda got lost in shuffle. It never really felt like I was becoming a more recognized member of the community.
I've been browsing Destructoid since 2010 and made an account in 2012. In that time I've made hundreds of comments, been featured comment multiple times, made over 200 quickposts, a few blogs, and even got front paged once. Oh, and was in the old Dtoid Discord. RIP Communicord. (Edit: Communicord is still up. I just confused it with another Quasi-Dtoid Server Which Shall Not Be Named)
So it'll be nice to finally be part of a video game forum with a community of people I recognize and who likely recognize me. For once I'm not starting from scratch and getting nowhere.
I liked posting on Resetera, NeoGAF (before The Great Purge), and other video game forums now and again, but I always found I kinda got lost in shuffle. It never really felt like I was becoming a more recognized member of the community.
I've been browsing Destructoid since 2010 and made an account in 2012. In that time I've made hundreds of comments, been featured comment multiple times, made over 200 quickposts, a few blogs, and even got front paged once. Oh, and was in the old Dtoid Discord. RIP Communicord. (Edit: Communicord is still up. I just confused it with another Quasi-Dtoid Server Which Shall Not Be Named)
So it'll be nice to finally be part of a video game forum with a community of people I recognize and who likely recognize me. For once I'm not starting from scratch and getting nowhere.
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Aww man whatever happened to the running joke about our forums. I didnt want genuine excitement. Booo. I wanted to make fun of it!
I'm pretty excited for the #cursedmas threads to start. Can you imagine?
Yeah, no one can bitch about it, if it's in a thread that's clearly marked. Fucking cowards...
Threads of ALL the #____Toid stuff!
(Just cause its hard to refind that stuff years later)
It's complicated, but it boils down to it becoming unwelcoming toward new members, hurling shit at staff, admins modding the forum software such that they carelessly opened security exploits and becoming a hotbed for GG conspiracy theories.
There was an intervention by Niero, they freaked the hell out and doubled down. Then the worst elements left, made their own "newer and better" forum and it collapsed for its own yet similar reasons.
Moral of the story: Don't use a forum as your exclusive personal playground to be miserable
wow. such a rich and vibrant history. thanks for the info! maybe it'll burn down again but for something harmless, like bunny girls or too much siege.
It’s a bit more complicated than that but essentially yeah. There was toxic bullshit, Niero tried to deal with it, nothing good came of that so he deployed the nuclear option. That was years ago and now we have new forums wooo.
I think the strategy with the slow rollout is a solid one. Obviously we won't really know how things are going to go until an offical link and advertising are on the front page and the floodgates open, but so far so good. Easy does it!