Palamon
Silence is Purple
I don't know how many people that still come here were around in the 2000s Serebii or 2010s Serebii, but I wanted to ask how different things were back when you first joined?
I joined around 2008, was 11 then. I'm a completely different person now than I was then. Here are some things I remember from back when I was active in ~2008-2009 and occasionally in the early 2010s and late 2010s.
Let's see... back in 2008, this forum was on forum software known as vBulletin. If I recall correctly, the forum was on Vbulletin 3 for a really long time until it upgraded to 4 back in...2012? I don't know, I left this place for years, if I'm being honest. From what I can tell, this forum no longer uses Vbulletin. I encourage anyone who was not here on this forum before the upgrade in 2017...2018? To go on the wayback machine to see what old Serebii looked like.
Custom avatars weren't a thing at all. For everyone except staff members, that is. You had to use avatars that were in a gallery. There were thousands of preset avatars to choose from, though. I don't fully remember why it was like this, though, beyond something along the lines of: "the servers can't handle it."
We had these things called social groups which were some sort of plugin where you'd make a group and people would join it, or get invited to it. From a lot of what I remember about these, most of the clubs/groups were about various different hobbies and subjects. But, if you created a social group to discuss a singular Pokemon, the moderators would delete it because it was against the rules. Social groups were not a very long lasting feature and definitely disappeared before the end of 2010.
Most of the staff members from when I was most active are definitely no longer on staff. Prominent staff members I can remember are Erik Destler, Razor Leaf, Chelc, Tiffany(?), Kirby and Profesco, also some person named Big Nutter. There's hundreds of others I no longer remember off the top of my head, but those names stick out to me the most. Around the time I was here, I'd say a lot of staff were very strict. I'm not sure how it is nowadays, since I only come here maybe once to twice a year to see how my old friends are doing.
Member base was a lot different, and I'd say there was maybe around 1,000 to over 5,000 active people on this website throughout the 2000s and maybe the 2010s. Nowadays, I assume most people are probably active on the discord server instead of here. Just from looking, some sections here haven't had any posts made on them in years. The atmosphere of this place was different, too, but that definitely because the userbase was much larger than it is now.
Let's see... what else?
We were in generation 4 when I first joined. Pokemon Platinum was the newest Pokemon game that was coming out at the time. More than half of the Pokemon we have now didn't exist yet.
The last thing I can remember is that when you reached certain postcounts on here is that you'd have a small banner under your user title. Like, if you reached 1,000 posts you were the indigo league champion, or something, and a had a small banner that showed up in all your posts. I cannot, for the life of me, remember what those were called, though. There was about 40 of them? I don't really remember anymore, but that's a complete relic of the past now since Serebii definitely does not have those anymore.
That's all I remember back when I first joined and the entire time I was active. I do hope other people have interesting things to say, too.
I joined around 2008, was 11 then. I'm a completely different person now than I was then. Here are some things I remember from back when I was active in ~2008-2009 and occasionally in the early 2010s and late 2010s.
Let's see... back in 2008, this forum was on forum software known as vBulletin. If I recall correctly, the forum was on Vbulletin 3 for a really long time until it upgraded to 4 back in...2012? I don't know, I left this place for years, if I'm being honest. From what I can tell, this forum no longer uses Vbulletin. I encourage anyone who was not here on this forum before the upgrade in 2017...2018? To go on the wayback machine to see what old Serebii looked like.
Custom avatars weren't a thing at all. For everyone except staff members, that is. You had to use avatars that were in a gallery. There were thousands of preset avatars to choose from, though. I don't fully remember why it was like this, though, beyond something along the lines of: "the servers can't handle it."
We had these things called social groups which were some sort of plugin where you'd make a group and people would join it, or get invited to it. From a lot of what I remember about these, most of the clubs/groups were about various different hobbies and subjects. But, if you created a social group to discuss a singular Pokemon, the moderators would delete it because it was against the rules. Social groups were not a very long lasting feature and definitely disappeared before the end of 2010.
Most of the staff members from when I was most active are definitely no longer on staff. Prominent staff members I can remember are Erik Destler, Razor Leaf, Chelc, Tiffany(?), Kirby and Profesco, also some person named Big Nutter. There's hundreds of others I no longer remember off the top of my head, but those names stick out to me the most. Around the time I was here, I'd say a lot of staff were very strict. I'm not sure how it is nowadays, since I only come here maybe once to twice a year to see how my old friends are doing.
Member base was a lot different, and I'd say there was maybe around 1,000 to over 5,000 active people on this website throughout the 2000s and maybe the 2010s. Nowadays, I assume most people are probably active on the discord server instead of here. Just from looking, some sections here haven't had any posts made on them in years. The atmosphere of this place was different, too, but that definitely because the userbase was much larger than it is now.
Let's see... what else?
We were in generation 4 when I first joined. Pokemon Platinum was the newest Pokemon game that was coming out at the time. More than half of the Pokemon we have now didn't exist yet.
The last thing I can remember is that when you reached certain postcounts on here is that you'd have a small banner under your user title. Like, if you reached 1,000 posts you were the indigo league champion, or something, and a had a small banner that showed up in all your posts. I cannot, for the life of me, remember what those were called, though. There was about 40 of them? I don't really remember anymore, but that's a complete relic of the past now since Serebii definitely does not have those anymore.
That's all I remember back when I first joined and the entire time I was active. I do hope other people have interesting things to say, too.