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ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-06-05 11:39 Link \| ID: 2
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	Huzzah, it's the first thread. Think of this as a general thread, say hi or something profound. (Actually thread ID 2 because announcements are their own thread internally. Blarg.)

Danil_2461	Danil_2461	Posted on 2022-06-09 12:00 (edited 2022-06-09 12:01) Link \| ID: 8
Posts: 68 Joined: 2022-06-09	insert here a image of balrog from cave story

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-06-09 12:06 Link \| ID: 9
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	balrog looking at tf you just posted

Danil_2461	Danil_2461	Posted on 2022-06-09 12:21 Link \| ID: 10
Posts: 68 Joined: 2022-06-09	O_O oh god no not the balrog staring

Existing_Player	Existing_Player	Posted on 2022-06-12 18:36 Link \| ID: 14
Posts: 2 Joined: 2022-06-10	hello hi, i don't usually post on forums, so don't expect much posts from me ~~i like to lurk though~~

Heredos	Heredos	Posted on 2022-06-16 22:54 Link \| ID: 20
Posts: 46 Joined: 2022-06-16	I've seen a few of these "old vibes forums" and i really like them.

Xrdr	Xrdr	Posted on 2022-06-21 21:16 Link \| ID: 39
Posts: 4 Joined: 2022-06-21	Yeah this place is quite cosy and has a nice old internet vibe to it. Stopping by to say hi

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-06-21 23:06 Link \| ID: 40
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	Indeed very cosy. As the "powered by Voxelmanip" badge in the footer captions, it's like a warm hug from someone you love. Hello everyone who's joined by the way! I feel this forum has been a pretty decent success so far.

foodyummy	foodyummy	Posted on 2022-06-27 23:23 Link \| ID: 47
Posts: 17 Joined: 2022-06-27	Whoopsie, forgot I was supposed to introduce myself here, I did it in the Minetest thread instead XD

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-06-28 15:31 Link \| ID: 54
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	It's fine, no big deal. It's a suggestion to introduce yourself in this thread, not a rule

Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2022-06-28 23:38 Link \| ID: 60
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	Posted by Heredos I've seen a few of these "old vibes forums" and i really like them. It's just a shame that they often tend to fall into only allowing you to have one political opinion, either far-left or far-right. I blame Discord's rise to fame (and consequently everyone not only sharing a singular account for everything, but forums migrating over there, after holding out on their own against social media for so long since the decline in 2012 or so), Twitter's 'who to follow' and emphasis on popularity between users and 'having to be funny/current' and whatnot (Discord and Twitter go hand in hand), the Tumblr spillout in late 2018, the Nintendo Switch's release and success outside its usual spaces pipelining a lot of 'ordinary' people into learning about anime culture and whatnot via curiosity due to having seeing a lot of it all over Twitter and YouTube trending tabs (prior to 2017 many things like gender ideology and anime were seen as weird by a vast majority of both internet people and ordinary people)... ... in other words, commercialism, certain things becoming popular and propelling things that were once seen as weird into being less weird now, and certain platforms finally managing to destroy independent communities is what led to the mess of the last six years or so. I feel particularly sorry for those few people born circa 2000-2002 who liked these things before they were considered cool and then felt alienated from both sides of the seemingly binary-minded ways these days, which is ironic considering the push for 'gender equality', that there's actually more people who feel out of place now than ever before so I have found out... Sorry if this is really, really rambling, but I'm glad we have our cute owner ROllerozxa actually providing somewhere for this seemingly 'lost' middle ground.

Coromax	Coromax	Posted on 2022-06-29 00:07 Link \| ID: 67
Posts: 8 Joined: 2022-06-28	Hi, I'm Coromax! I'm not a frequent forum user, though I do consider myself an expert in lurking on forums. I may spend some time here, since this seems like a nice laid-back place to post on. As for me, I'm a person who yearns for simpler more laid back internet stuff that reigned supreme many years ago and is tired of the monochromatic, real-life reflected stuff, and the endless advertising that's all over the internet today. I hope that this place will be a nice retreat from this, and look forward to getting to know you people!

Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2022-06-29 00:14 Link \| ID: 70
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	It sure should be. ROllerozxa is a pretty competent admin from what I've seen, and a damn good PHP coder too. Hell, I'm glad this place exists, I'm going to refer everyone who I'd normally bring to my shitboards here and see what they do, you're just the start of this. I should probably introduce myself too, I used to run a board similar to this albeit with much less of a real purpose to it and with much less work done to it. (That said, the mobile layout code from one iteration did become implemented in this board, so I guess something good came out of it.) I like Neps, console games, and currently running a combo of MacOSX 10.9.5 and Windows 8.1 on 2 different PCs, honestly I'm probably a normie compared to the rest of the people here, but whatever, I hope we get on fine.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-06-29 19:33 Link \| ID: 79
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	but I'm glad we have our cute owner ROllerozxa actually providing somewhere for this seemingly 'lost' middle ground. Am I really that cute... But yeah, this forum is kind of unique in that regard nowadays, even when not considering the community aspect of it. Modern forums (shudders Discourse...) act more like social media or instant messaging with things like post reactions and likes, some kind of reputation or score system to go along with that, and even shit like typing notifications whenever you're about to make a post (who thought that was a good idea??). Here there's... well none of that other than maybe your postcount but whether that is such a big deal I don't know.

Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2022-06-30 00:18 (edited 2022-06-30 00:22) Link \| ID: 89
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	These ill-fated attempts at modernising a leftover of Web 1.0 fail to account for the fact that most people these days would rather have a single roof for all the places they signed up to, under one account, and divided into separate rooms (a la Discord), and that nowadays everything is a subset of one of the major platforms - including 'independent' circles, which often rely on Discord or 4chan or something in some way or another to keep going these days. There's a reason most alt-chans failed, they're effectively just branches from the 'main' one, rather than their own distinct thing with a dedicated userbase. Discord caused the exact same thing but also managed to affect other kinds of web platform, too, such as spinoffs of itself or web forums. Literally the only way going forward for message boards to return to their glory is for them to pitch themselves as perhaps being the most 'reliable' sources for community support, rather than 'active'/'friendly' or whatever. Emphasising ease of accessibility in virtually any situation whatsoever and the fact that one can actually take a break from it without feeling the need to keep up, in other words, exploiting the negative attitudes of social media's infinite stream of bullshit and applying it, could also help.

luatic	luatic	Posted on 2022-07-01 13:10 Link \| ID: 107
Posts: 43 Joined: 2022-06-16	Posted by akijei It sure should be. ROllerozxa is a pretty competent admin from what I've seen, and a damn good PHP coder too. Hell, I'm glad this place exists, I'm going to refer everyone who I'd normally bring to my shitboards here and see what they do, you're just the start of this. Did I read PHP!? Gotta rewrite this in Lua or Go.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-07-01 14:10 Link \| ID: 109
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	PHP my precious... Just skip the fact this forum's codebase originates from what is probably the worst PHP codebase known to man. Okay, it's actually based off of a fork that's of significantly better quality but it's still not up to the quality that principia-web is. It doesn't use any kind of templating but... it's so no-frills and compact, there's just something fun about having such a small (<4KLOC) self-contained codebase.

WonderWeeaboo	WonderWeeaboo	Posted on 2022-07-01 20:16 Link \| ID: 115
Posts: 8 Joined: 2022-07-01	Hello there everyone, this seems like a nice place (and it doesn't kill my browser unlike some other forums I've been to). Mostly a lurker so I wont post much at all, I just exist outside of the current approved and sanitized Internet zeitgeist. I'm too autistic to have irl friends and not autistic enough to jump into random discord servers, one could say I barely exist in both reality and fiction, and they would be absolutely correct. Hope y'all having a real nice day!

Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2022-07-02 10:25 (edited 2022-07-02 10:25) Link \| ID: 122
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	I love your bio. Welcome, glad to meet you! /me wonders if ROller-chan will eventually set up an IRC channel for this on some obscure network...

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-07-02 11:06 (edited 2022-07-02 11:07) Link \| ID: 126
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	/me wonders if ROller-chan will eventually set up an IRC channel for this on some obscure network... Hmm good idea, an IRC channel for this place would be cool.

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