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
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”?
Something Awful is still around. Most others I frequented are long gone.
Does gamefaqs count?
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.
