AuraChannelerChris
Easygoing Luxray.
Oh. I hope! At least my writing gear is on. In fact, as we speak, I'm almost done writing Chapter 17.About 30,000 words in.
Oh. I hope! At least my writing gear is on. In fact, as we speak, I'm almost done writing Chapter 17.About 30,000 words in.
Maybe I should write something as well. I don't think I've written a fanfiction in 11 years or something.Oh. I hope! At least my writing gear is on. In fact, as we speak, I'm almost done writing Chapter 17.
How hard can it be to use forums? I learned how to do that all on my own.
Granted, this was back in a day when they were the main means of communicating on the internet. Nowadays it's Reddit and stuff, which is greatlydumbed-downsimplified compared to a forum. So I guess when that's as much as you usually have to learn, other mediums seem overly complicated instead.
Reddit is getting better with profile pics and pinned profile posts but it still feels like you're another face i guess. But when teh main reason of formus was to meet people, things like discord really do take its place. I mean, it replaced the Serebii chat.I don't like Reddit's form of conversation and it's lack of customizing your own posts. And Discord is just a chat room, so it's just kind of useless for me. I guess because everything is on there people use it out of convenience of needing one or two accounts at most but having everything so centralized and with lack of customizability leaves Reddit lacking.
On the back of what's been happening in America, I just wanted to give a quick shoutout to everybody who used to post regularly in the Debate subforum back in the day. A lot of the opinions and discussions made over there back about 10 years ago helped me form a solid liberal political agenda which has stuck with me today, and probably helped me (and likely others) avoid becoming radicalised in any kind of fashion. If you had posted anything progressive at all over on Debate, there's a good chance that I had read it and been taught critical thinking at still a young age when it had time to sink in.
Basically, you fought the good fight and it has had a positive impact.
I looked at Reddit after not visiting for a while, and it still has the same flaws with its comment system that fragment conversation and lack any proper formatting. And the avatars are small and have that ugly mascot they have.Reddit is getting better with profile pics and pinned profile posts but it still feels like you're another face i guess. But when teh main reason of formus was to meet people, things like discord really do take its place. I mean, it replaced the Serebii chat.
I will admit my attention span for forum replies has greatly lowered. Its way easier to post on reddit, or discord and get a near instant reply since one is community based (so people that want to talk about whatever you posted is there) and discord is instant.
It doesn't help that this site in particually actually killed its own discussion because every time someone made a post, the staff would just close it and direct it to a general topic for a answer, i mean, i get the idea but it didnt really help in the long run.
Right. I remember that ban. It was ridiculous in hindsight. Over-moderation was always an issue here, especially in the guise of doing so for things to have "content."I tried to explain before years ago why generals for everything was bad but everyone was edgy in misc and trying to be funny so they told me to pretty much shut up lol. I mean, I guess I was annoying but the rules didn't help. This very general banned the use of "macros" which are now memes and a mainstay in internet culture but this forum blocked them
I feel like people stopped treating you seriously when you set your xbox on fire or w/e that joke ended up being lmao so that probably had a big part to do with it.I tried to explain before years ago why generals for everything was bad but everyone was edgy in misc and trying to be funny so they told me to pretty much shut up lol. I mean, I guess I was annoying but the rules didn't help. This very general banned the use of "macros" which are now memes and a mainstay in internet culture but this forum blocked them
If you're asking if I Smash, the answer is a resounding "yes". Though tbh I haven't really played it since it came out. idk why, I must have played hundreds of hours of Melee back in the day, but none of the games since have caught me in the same way.who here plays smash ultimate
I did, too. Of course, I understand the desire from mods to not make the thread list look like a trash heap, but I feel like the best forums kind of are like that, and just had enough activity to where it would sort itself out by letting dumb/redundant threads fall off the first page. And having a page full of locked threads does kind of look like a trash heap anyway, imoI tried to explain before years ago why generals for everything was bad but everyone was edgy in misc and trying to be funny so they told me to pretty much shut up lol. I mean, I guess I was annoying but the rules didn't help. This very general banned the use of "macros" which are now memes and a mainstay in internet culture but this forum blocked them
I disagree -- that was probably the most seriously jb was ever taken.I feel like people stopped treating you seriously when you set your xbox on fire or w/e that joke ended up being lmao so that probably had a big part to do with it.
whoops that ended up being snarkier than I meant it to be. Just reminiscing ig.
I tried to explain before years ago why generals for everything was bad but everyone was edgy in misc and trying to be funny so they told me to pretty much shut up lol. I mean, I guess I was annoying but the rules didn't help. This very general banned the use of "macros" which are now memes and a mainstay in internet culture but this forum blocked them