I am trans, and I found that place disgusting
As we should because it ain't a place for Trans people as far as I'm concerned.
Decided to check GAF again because ResetEra looks like trash now only to find out this site looks different now too. lol
This one here looks better though.
There is a thread for suggestions, and feed back for the themes, you can also have the original GAF themes back if you don't like 2.0.
There's a *giant* gross banner across the bottom of "new" ERA, even when you're scrubbing almost everything with adblockers, asking for money for adblocking.
Was that the secret plan of concocting a reason to migrate the NeoGAF population all along? Monitization?
I when I was a part of the team pushed it fucking hard to make sure that wasn't the case and even went far enough to mock up a donation bar for the server, and milestones for fundraising and to keep it all transparent on where the money is going and what it was being applied to.
I had suggested to keep it to the server bill only and a additional donation link to help build more things for the site/maintenance, but to be quite honest yes it was entirely monetary. They wanted to get as many large "GAF-Celebs" on ERA to move everyone over. They got Shinobi, and Zhuge and that brought a bunch of people over, but they really wanted Wario64 on their site, and frankly I'm stupid happy he refused to join it and exclusively post his deals there alone.
All they give a shit about is numbers, and how much money they can make now. I mean for fuck sakes their yearly membership is more then giantbombs by $10 and they cannot keep their site up properly. since they've not upgraded since the original purchase of the servers. The only reason they seem to survive and exist. Is because they pay others to do their work. They are really inexperienced. They bought their new theme because they kicked every designer off the team. Only people left are "Celeb-Admins", and people who do a little server maintenance. I mean Giantbomb runs everything off of that subscription, and their site is running just fine, they stream, they do the whole shebang but ERA can barely stay up.
Why do you think Cerium founded an LLC the day of the name was solidified. He found a perfect opportunity to make money with no work at all. He's cheaping out just like Sony cheaped out on the PS Classic.
I went over in the mass exodus because the communities I was following here all immediately jumped ship to Era - the irony being that they've all pretty much died off by now, or I've stopped following at this point.
Although it's a very active/fast moving forum so much of it is just noise. The World Cup threads were absolutely hilarious for this kind of light and shite post content.
Yikes.
Like Evilore said a while back about how he wanted GAF to continue one he just didn't want people padding their post count with the usual. (wow, okay, lmao)
Which ERA is full of.
I'm looking to buy a Resetera account to bypass teh restriction
Nah, I was just kidding. I don't think I own a account there. But that site is definitely toxic and annoying. They even got famous members like Serebii, a certain Skydim(? IDK) development, and even Andre of Gamexplain to join that forum.
What the hell?! Ngh, that site is making me crazy. It's like they are bullying us.
Im visiting gaf back a bit since atm reset2.0 is really slow and error prone on my phone; I gotta say the moderation here seems way better albeit a tiny bit too lenient, just a bit tho. Unfortunately I dont plan on coming back as long as the big contributors and overall activity is on reset.
Yeah that's their draw, that's all they get those users on their site to do. Draw more people in.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/off-...ep-it-in-here.1462647/page-127#post-253599352
I do suggest all of you users to check out a little more about how the site was started, and really just how poorly it's being managed and was managed.
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Redneckerz
you've infected me with these long ass posts.)