I... I think i follow everyone

Dont worry thats okay

 

no need to thank me for that^^

 

Really though, just shows a vast array of interest. x3

 

I think I stopped following anyone after the old core crowd left in...I wanna say about 2010? Maybe a little earlier, even.

 

Yeah, I was on my original account then, that one doesn't even exist anymore. There was a lot more activity and a lot more chat back then

 

I know the feeling. It never seemed to matter who tried to restart it, the whole place completely changed back then, and short of a few people who stick around, it's just not the same anymore.

 

Honestly? A big part was the silly chatbox thing that used to exist and you could get to from all the games. There was a decent core of people on it, and a load more just sort of around the edges - and this was back before the huge spam posts
(that said, the thing that finally stopped me visiting the forums was that it was mostly those, and the staff seem to have cleared that up, so props for that)

 

I *think* they finally took it away. Where the comments under games are (and in one place on the homepage), there was a link to this chatbox thing. It didn't update live, you had to keep refreshing it, but it had a specific one for each game (which is where game comments came from), and a site-wide one. You could still access it for a while by shenanigans, but nobody used it and I guess it's genuinely gone by now.

 

It was pretty solid originally. There were a couple of bad actors on it, for sure, but that'll always happen; it was honestly a pretty wholesome and well-moderated chat, just people laughing, joking, having a good time.

 

For sure. There was a lot more activity on the forums then, too; but this was also back when the forums had a tiny area (I think one thread) for adult stuff, and it was all kept moderated down apart from that. Correlation is not causation, but there's definite correlation between the original decline and the rise of adult stuff here, which is honestly not what I would have expected.