Swimmer9800
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Absolutepunk.net
Sputnikmusic.com
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www.ocremix.org 
I had over 10000 posts there.
They were all shitty posts because I was a young little shit.
I love GAF and its level of activity. Just being able to refresh a hot thread and keep seeing new posts every time is great, and why I am so addicted to GAF.
I had over 10000 posts there.
They were all shitty posts because I was a young little shit.
I love GAF and its level of activity. Just being able to refresh a hot thread and keep seeing new posts every time is great, and why I am so addicted to GAF.
The PC PowerPlay forums are rather quiet these days -- only around half of the sub-forums have been active this month, and even those only slightly. Some time ago I contacted the "side administrator" in hope of having the password reset on my account as I've long forgotten what it is and no longer have access to the e-mail address I used to register, but never received a response. I wasn't expecting the request to be obliged as I've no way of proving that the account is mine, however as it's been dormant for over a decade now, I figured there was a slim possibility of success.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
Mangastream used to have some great forums for a lot of different series, but they got shut down when one of their employees got super pissed about something and literally destroyed the servers. After firing the guy, they could have re-opened the forum, but everything was gone including account info and whatnot. They didn't really want to start from scratch, so now there's no forum there.
The veterans moved over to some other forum they started and that lasted a few years, but they didn't get enough traffic to keep it going.
The veterans moved over to some other forum they started and that lasted a few years, but they didn't get enough traffic to keep it going.
Zeyphersan
Banned
I used to be a part of a Nintendo DS online clan, Shadow Stars it was called. Played Metroid Prime: Hunters and Mario Kart DS online a lot, made some friends there. Some I chatted with on AIM
The only name I remember from there is killa4life. Either that or killa21
I also used I post sprite comics on the official Nintendo forums. Now those were embarrassing
Edit: I found the clan, it's still around holy shit. They must have rebooted because the oldest Join Date is 2008 and I was around in 2007
The only name I remember from there is killa4life. Either that or killa21
I also used I post sprite comics on the official Nintendo forums. Now those were embarrassing
Edit: I found the clan, it's still around holy shit. They must have rebooted because the oldest Join Date is 2008 and I was around in 2007
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I forgot i also kinda frequented the ign boards and what not but that was back when i would be considered a fanboy
superdeluxe
Member
Television Without Pity. RIP.
OS is great,though Twitter kind of killed the OT forum.
Oh, shit man, back when I was 12, I was a frequent poster on a GameFAQs subforum called Life, the Universe, and Everything (yes it's a Hitchhikers reference) or LUE. See, LUE was a special shithole. We raided sites in the same way old /b/ did. Shit, it was a proto-4chan. Eventually, CJayC cordoned us off from the rest of the site and made it impossible for new members to access or view it.
Eventually, a spinoff site called LUELinks (Now called End of the Internet) was created and most of the userbase flocked there. It was a huge repository of MEGAupload links and had a thriving number of message boards as well. Since MU was raided by the FBI a few years ago, the userbase has largely left for other forums (this one included), but it's still somewhat active.
Eventually, a spinoff site called LUELinks (Now called End of the Internet) was created and most of the userbase flocked there. It was a huge repository of MEGAupload links and had a thriving number of message boards as well. Since MU was raided by the FBI a few years ago, the userbase has largely left for other forums (this one included), but it's still somewhat active.
DukeLongfellow
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Anyone remember the old Gametalk forum?
It was amazing because of the ease of registration and having each game have its own private forum space. It's sort of been resurrected but it's a far cry from what it was.
It was amazing because of the ease of registration and having each game have its own private forum space. It's sort of been resurrected but it's a far cry from what it was.
AlimNassor
Banned
Sleepywood and Southperry the de facto maplestory community boards. Sleepywood went kaboom after drama tore the site apart and Southperry died a slow death. Nowadays it's just a hangout for a few people. Replaced with /r/Maplestory as the de facto community site.
To a lesser extent Basilmarket. The go-to trading site for Maple. I guess after Nexon released ways of searching shops it kinda killed Basil. That and the fact the site was horribly run with terrible mods and 4chan style shit posts.
battleground Halo. Used to be the go to place for Halo but, when they merged with Gamespy the site died and now gamespy is gone.
really? SBAllen has turned the site around greatly. Greater interaction with the community and more communication. The community remains shit just as it always has
To a lesser extent Basilmarket. The go-to trading site for Maple. I guess after Nexon released ways of searching shops it kinda killed Basil. That and the fact the site was horribly run with terrible mods and 4chan style shit posts.
battleground Halo. Used to be the go to place for Halo but, when they merged with Gamespy the site died and now gamespy is gone.
really? SBAllen has turned the site around greatly. Greater interaction with the community and more communication. The community remains shit just as it always has
SamuelSupreme
Banned
It's a banned site but I used to be a frequent Forum go-er of a site that likes to release inaccurate Sales data for games. I was there for 3 years before I found Gaf.
Genuine question, is there a list of banned sites anywhere?
I used to go on Nintendo forums, I think it was the American one back around the time wifi connection became a thing so I could find people to play with. I think they closed down, because I can't find them anymore.
Before GAF it was def gamefaqs, especially the sports boards, which were actually pretty good. I still stop by every once in a while, but it's nowhere close to what it was at its peak in the mid-2000s.
Most other boards I've been on since the early 2000s like RealGM or Operation Sports are still going strong. Others like SOHH, completely died out and grew into TheColi.
Most other boards I've been on since the early 2000s like RealGM or Operation Sports are still going strong. Others like SOHH, completely died out and grew into TheColi.
lunchtoast
Member
Used to be active on least i could do forums (a webcomic) back in 04/05. Checked yesterday, comic is still going, now under Blind Ferret studios. Forum is no longer there.
Thriftweed
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MXtabs/Sputnikmusic regularly from 2003 until 2008, then irregularly until sometime in 2010/2011. Last time I checked in there it was really sparsely populated.
Tale of The Cave (and the same guys previous site, Final Fantasy Q).
Fun sprite comic sites based on Cave Story and Final Fantasy VI respectively, with a really nice community who helped me learn how to make sprite comics and improve my writing skills (i was in my early teens at the time and everything i made was trash but those guys were very constructive in their criticisms.)
I still speak to a couple of people from there now and again.
Fun sprite comic sites based on Cave Story and Final Fantasy VI respectively, with a really nice community who helped me learn how to make sprite comics and improve my writing skills (i was in my early teens at the time and everything i made was trash but those guys were very constructive in their criticisms.)
I still speak to a couple of people from there now and again.
RustyNails
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HLFallout.net
Sammo_1987
Member
Final Fantasy Insider followed by Final Fantasy Extreme. Both were my online 'livelihoods' probably between 2000 and 2005, thereabouts. Seems like such a long time ago now...
BlueScrote
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Man, CAG has gone so downhill. I used to visit it daily, but the complete lack of moderation has turned it into an abomination like slick deals. All the non-deals forums are ghost towns. I just follow their twitter feed for deals now rather than delving into the cesspool that is the deals forum.
Banjotanooki
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Cubed3
Found out about it through the Zelda 2004 trailer reveal and it was my first forum ever. Checked back on it and there's barely anyone I remember still there..
Found out about it through the Zelda 2004 trailer reveal and it was my first forum ever. Checked back on it and there's barely anyone I remember still there..
SamuelSupreme
Banned
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
TekkenZaibatsu.com
I don't know how quiet it is now but the last few times I've checked, it wasn't nearly as busy as it used to be. I blame that on the changing of the industry, social hubs, and tekken in general.
I don't know how quiet it is now but the last few times I've checked, it wasn't nearly as busy as it used to be. I blame that on the changing of the industry, social hubs, and tekken in general.
Sputnik music is still pretty active. I still pop in there sometimes.
PaleFolklore
Member
Illidrama - I loved that place but Illidan-US has been dead for years and the forum died along with it
PastorOfMuppets
Banned
Any former poker players here? I was a 2+2 regular during the heyday of the online poker boom. After Black Friday, 2+2 went on a slow and gradual decline. It's still quite busy but the tone of posts have changed. A lot of the posts there are either about how to bring online poker back to its heyday in the mid 2000s or lamenting the slow decline of online poker.
Yeah, Gamespot was at one time actually as busy as GAF. Even outside their main forums, they had user created boards, which were little communities in and of themselves with plenty of traffic. Then Gamespot got rid of those, and created unions which were essentially the same thing but killed off the established UCBs, so those communities had to start from scratch, and many just didn't bother to again. Now, unions are completely scrapped, and the main forum boards are a graveyard. It also didn't help (even though the forums were already on life support) that during the redesign a few years ago they managed to make such a barebones alternative for "security reasons", where a lot of the functionality of the previous version was gone.
Coreda
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Opera.com was the first forum I frequented as a poster and contributor until it was deleted, and all the community blogs along with it, to start again 'fresh' for the Blink version. A whole decade+ of community, help, and useful information destroyed just like that.
Most other forums until that point were merely throwaway accounts.
Most other forums until that point were merely throwaway accounts.
Transistor
Banned
I used to be on XDA all the time, but since flagships are getting harder and harder to root, the site is becoming more and more useless
Pretty much this. Don't even want to think about System wars TBH, my early teen years... my god I am actually so embarrassed of myself from those days lol, spending hours debating pointless topics, the fanboys.... that place was a cesspool. Didn't know it wasn't as popular anymore though?
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
Oh yeah, and the official AFI forums until they moved to a pay only fanclub site. Well technically it stagnated before then between the ever increasing downtime between album releases and their sound turning people off (or people moving on from their sound).
Professor Renegade
Banned
Real7alk
It was a Halo community forum that was relatively small, but at the height of its popularity it had more posts than any other Halo community site iirc.
It was a Halo community forum that was relatively small, but at the height of its popularity it had more posts than any other Halo community site iirc.
littlebigman
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Atari Age forums were my first real exposure to the internet gamer subculture. I got into retro gaming at a pretty young age and at the time, AA was the biggest and most active community for that scene. It was fun for a while, and I learned a crapton of interesting things about gaming history and the industry from my time there, but eventually I began to notice that most of the users there were very bitter, misanthropic middle-aged men who thought all youth were worthless scum who had destroyed everything they held dear. I recall countless threads about how kids these days just didn't get it and everything was so much better back in the good old days etc.
What drove me away was an incident where a user revealed that he was only 12 years old and people began to systematically bully and harass him until he left. The kid literally could not make a post without a dozen assholes popping up to put him on blast. Even the forum staff were joining in. It was thoroughly disgusting.
I still check in there from time to time, but I think I'm not the only one who was driven away by that shit because the place is much slower these days than it used to be, and it's mostly a core group of people replying to each other. I wouldn't be surprised if the site shuts down sometime in the next five years.
What drove me away was an incident where a user revealed that he was only 12 years old and people began to systematically bully and harass him until he left. The kid literally could not make a post without a dozen assholes popping up to put him on blast. Even the forum staff were joining in. It was thoroughly disgusting.
I still check in there from time to time, but I think I'm not the only one who was driven away by that shit because the place is much slower these days than it used to be, and it's mostly a core group of people replying to each other. I wouldn't be surprised if the site shuts down sometime in the next five years.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
Royal_Phalanx
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The A Path Beyond forums. It is a Red Alert mod for C&C Renegade that's still being developed but it's community is much, much less active than it used to be. There used to be full servers for it pretty often at its peak.
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