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artfulkindoforder · 10 months

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reddit people maybe the solution is to make your own AO3

a non-profit message board site

It could be just to replace your specific subreddit or go all the way and make it for everything like AO3 is

it was your posts and your moderation that was Reddit's product anyway. Just take your free labor to your own place

I bet you already have lawyers and programmers in your community

#ao3 #reddit blackout #reddit #internet forums #archive of our own #twitterpocalypse

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zanreosauce · 1 year

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curious about something so I'm making a poll:

(please reblog and share!)

#poll #tumblr poll #forums #internet forums

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arconinternet · 9 months

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Something Is Awful (Website/Hoax, Richard Kyanka/Dr. David Thorpe/Kevin Pereira/Chris Putnam, 2005)

When a writer for notorious comedy website Something Awful got a TV interview on G4's Attack of the Show, the website's owner instructed him to prevent people joining the site as a result by making it seem terrible... and to give the wrong URL, which led to a phony site, which you can view on the Wayback Machine here.

You can watch the interview here, and read a little about its history in a contemporary NeoGAF forum thread here.

You can learn a LOT more about Something Awful from the podcast I'm From the Internet.

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implausiblyjosh · 10 months

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Kimplausible - The Message Boards You Help Make

Hello! If you're unfamiliar with Kimplausible, this is the last post I made about it. The gimmick is simple, I can't add anything to this message board unless YOU tell me to. I can post, others can post, but I can't make any administrative changes unless YOU tell me to. No new categories, no new boards, no new changes unless YOU suggest it.

We started from a blank forum name, and now we're here:

(See for yourself here)

So now I ask you, what more should we add to these message boards?

Last time I asked about Ranks, a little title that changes the more posts you make. Our last non-serious suggestion was from @starzoomies who said we should make the ranks Jerma1 through Jerma985. A fun idea!

What do you think? What should we add to the messages boards? Lemme know, and we'll make those changes!

#message board #internet forums #user participation #audience participation #choose your own adventure

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soapdispensersalesman · 1 year

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My Webcore/NEO Y2K album MessageBoard2000 is now available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms!

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phantom-of-the-north · 13 days

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Flashback builds gingerbread houses!

Since 2011, Flashback arranges a competition in December for building the best gingerbread house. Users gather all their creativity and assemble their masterpieces, they post images of their contributions and other users then vote for their favorite! It’s a pleasant and festive tradition on Flashback and it's endorsed by admin himself

Translation of the last paragraph:

"Many thanks to all who participate. Funniest gingerbread house competition ever. I'm indeed biased, but I can promise that I would've held the same opinion if I weren't biased. Last year's contributions were spread on forums overseas and in social media, where people amusedly wondered what we were up to in Sweden. There's a reason for this. Christmas baking is supposed to be fun. Thank you, all you Flashbackers who make Christmas a lot more fun.

admin"

Unfortunately, the interest for the competition has been pretty low throughout the years, in 2019 it was cancelled because there were too few participants. But it was back again in 2020! Here are the competition rules:

The gingerbread house shall have the participator's name and year visible.

The gingerbread house shall have a name.

The gingerbread house shall have an explanation of the contribution.

The gingerbread house is expected to be designed as a building.

The gingerbread house shall be designed by the person who builds it/competes with it.

The gingerbread house shall only be built of edible parts (not including lighting and cotton).

The gingerbread house shall contain "gingerbread".

The gingerbread house shall be documented with stills.

Here are some of the previous years' winners:

2021: “The storming of The Capitol” by user Stegosaurusen

2011: “Taj Mahal” also by user Stegosaurusen

“The three wise men turned out good… but the stall itself imploded.” By user Moramannen

“Snow dreams” by user duckling

Some other contributions throughout the years:

2022: “Saddam Hussein’s secret bunker!” by user Hivmannen

2021: “An ode to Flashback” by user Luismi

“Christmas cosiness outside the crack house.”

“During Christmas, peace reigns among political opponents. Completely impossible to photograph the political corner from a fair angle. The whole phone is full of icing after several failed attempts.”

“Blurry Nazis.”

“Equally blurry anarchists and militant feminists.”

2014: “Kiruna Church” by user NordSvitjod

The winner of 2023’s competition:

“The Burrow” by user lucky-luci

Two of the competitors from 2023:

“The snow lies white..” by user Jultrollet

”Christmas coziness in the Dekorima corner” by user Messi2022

“Olof Palme’s last breath in a Christmas guise.”

#flashback #flashback forum #forum websites #discussion forums #internet forums #internet culture #internet history #swedish internet culture #sweden #sverige #sa du sten #all makt åt tengil vår befriare #svea rike

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catshinji · 6 months

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hmm.

#STOP WITH THE GREENDAY JOKES IVE HAD ENOUGH #internet #old web #old internet #was thinking about how 'lurk more' used to be a common phrase so people would learn forum etiquette before posting #but now..#the fact that the phrase 'netiquette' has died out entirely says a lot i feel

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aquillis-main · 4 months

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RIP internet forums. They will sorely be missed⚰️🪦

I remember spending hours on forums as a teen. Really enjoyed the unique culture. Plus creators would occasionally engage with their fans there and provide answers/lore/interviews that couldn't be found anywhere else . I remember so many forums providing unique programming information and walkthroughs for various software or games.

Nowadays So much precious information being irreversibly lost to the sands of time. Sometimes before they get a chance to be archived . It's even worse when it happens without warning(like most of my favorite childhood forums. They just suddenly died)

Doesn't help that I feel that modern replacements(Facebook/twitter/Reddit) for forums lack a certain je ne sais quois compared to forums.

Wah! ;_;

They do, don't they?

#Aquillis Answers #Shady Guy #Internet forums

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gab-has-adhd · 11 months

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June 6, 2023 (1)

I was hanging out on an old Pokemon Gijinka RP server I used to be on back in high school. I was logged as my old Quilava OC, Machiko, and I wad reading many private messages I haven't read yet. I think I hadn't logged in for a while. While I was doing that, sometimes I was seeing images of a kid playing a video game and singing, but at se poimts he looked disturbed and shocked as if he was watching some kind of shock video on Youtube.

Later on in that dream I was remembering a time in the past where I went to a Madagascar (the animated movie) themed water park.

AI dream interpretation

This dream symbolizes nostalgia and the contrast between childhood innocence and the sometimes disturbing realities of the world. The Pokemon Gijinka RP server is representative of the dreamer's childhood. Quilava OC, Machiko, is likely a character the dreamer created while playing on the server, and the private messages may represent unresolved issues from the past. The images of a kid playing a video game and singing could symbolize the dreamer's own innocence and naivety from that time in their life. The shock video he is watching is likely symbolic of the dreamer's recognition of the harsher realities of the world that they have been exposed to since they left the server. The Madagascar-themed water park is likely a representation of the dreamer's fond memories of the past, before they had to grapple with the realities of the world.

#gab talks #dream journal #internet forums #RP #pokemon #pokemon gijinka #OC #quilava #Machiko Aoi #video games #water park #madagascar movie

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tinkerbelldetective · 11 months

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#Kh13 #KH13 forum games I miss you #Internet forums #Old internet #Fandom #Polls #Kingdom Hearts #Code Lyoko #Vaguely remember a code lyoko forum so I'm tagging it #Nostalgia #2010s #2000s

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prokopetz · 11 months

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A lot of folks are responding to the whole Reddit situation by calling for the return of decentralised forums, and I think it's important to remember that, contrary to certain popular narratives, the reason early 2000s forum culture has fallen by the wayside is not because people are Just Lazy. Certainly, ease of use is part of it, but a much larger part of it is how vulnerable self-hosted forums are.

Basically, the problem is that even the largest and most carefully managed self-hosted forums can be rendered unusable more or less indefinitely by a single sufficiently determined hostile actor. This can take the form of both attacks on the forum's social infrastructure (i.e., via sock-puppet accounts, botting, organised "raids", etc.) and attacks on its technical infrastructure (i.e., via hacking, DDoS, etc.). In either case, a self-hosted forum has no real defence, and the majority of decentralised forum communities survive only by virtue of their relative obscurity; once a self-hosted forum manages to attract the attention of That One Guy who's willing to devote his life to shitting the place up over some microscopic slight, it's effectively game over.

Right now, there are essentially only two mitigation strategies:

Gathering huge numbers of communities under a single, massively centralised technical infrastructure that's simply too large and robust for any one hostile actor to bring down; and

Hardening the community's social infrastructure either by going private and invite only (i.e., the Discord approach), or by making use of a vast centralised pool of volunteer labour to aggressively enforce community standards (i.e., the Reddit approach).

To be clear, these are not intractable problems; other solutions may well exist. However, any proposed plan for bringing decentralised public forums back needs to address them. If you're going in operating under the assumption that forums have become marginalised simply because corporations are evil and people are lazy, you're setting yourself up to learn the hard way why self-hosted forums no longer seem to be capable of growing beyond a certain point.

#computers #internet #technology #current events #reddit #forums #internet governance #swearing

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bestgacktinista · 1 year

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Dude I miss forums, like, having a nice pfp and a nice tiny 8px bar as a signature, and then creating threads as well as topics in different sections. I miss the good ol' fashioned Internet

#forum #internet forums #2000s nostalgia

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gaysexunfortunately · 2 months

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userbars for forum signatures from userbars.org (RIP)

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noelle-holi-gay · 2 years

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im sure other people have been posting these but YALL. THE NEW LORE they just dropped. noelle my beloved

#those comments on her blog. kris is totally the one prank calling berdly 100%#and baby noelle sending in creepypasta sightings to internet forums... i love her so much #and DESS! we got additional dess lines!! ARSON!!!!#this was so goooood #deltarune

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implausiblyjosh · 10 months

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If you still need ranks. Nice guy funny guy silly guy little guy wise guy

HELL YES I LOVE THIS

The Kimplausible ranks are:

Nice guy

Funny guy

Silly guy

Little guy

Wise guy

#message board #internet forums #audience participation #Kimplausible Message Boards #ask Josh

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soapdispensersalesman · 1 year

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9:25 am - MessageBoard2000

I'm dropping a webcore/NEO Y2K album called MessageBoard2000, a musical love letter to internet forums, a forgotten communication medium from the pre-social media era. Presave it here (link) Bandcamp (link) Album art by me.

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