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lol5
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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2016 12:57 pm    Post subject: So this place is still alive... Reply with quote

Well, isn't that a surprise. I didn't think a site like FAC would survive the Web 2.0 era, but here it is still, defying all odds.

Good job.
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Firiel
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, we're still hanging in here, with some spurts of decent activity, in spite of all morbid proclamations about Deadness. Wink

You've been around before, then? Chances are you were before my time.
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lol5
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Firiel"]You've been around before, then? Chances are you were before my time.[/quote]

I joined in the early 2000s and by 2005 I was a regular (this is a throwaway account I made and abandoned in 2009, hence the uninspired name). I'm feeling nostalgic just looking at the site's overall layout―the oldschool PHPBB forum, the main page designed for 1024x768 displays, the poor quality art in the "Recent Pictures" feed and so on.

I see that pretty much everyone from that era, except for the admins and a few moderators, has left. Oh well.
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Stratadrake
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="lol5"]the poor quality art in the "Recent Pictures" feed[/quote]
Some things never change, and Sturgeon's Law is one of them.
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lol5
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah yeah, the 90-10 rule and all that.

So, how have things been around here in recent years?
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K_Pepper
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alive-ish, anyway. I wander back here for awhile, wonder why I did, wander away, then wander back again... lol. You were way before my time, anyway, and I'm more of a DA-er.
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Firiel
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They've been alright, at least by a (4-year) newbie's standards. We seemed to drag a bit when Lucky left, but we're starting to pick up again, I think. Still not the busiest site on the planet, but there's life in it yet.

And as for the art not always being tops... well, everybody's gotta start learning somewhere, yeah? Smile
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lol5
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's good to know that that the big corporate sites haven't completely killed smaller communities like this.

Honestly I wish the internet in general hadn't taken into the direction that it did, but I guess it can't be helped.
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Jadis
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree. it's good that small sites like this still exist. I hope we will go on still existing.
[ I've only been here a year or so, since Storm-artists.net went down.]
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Jadis"][...since Storm-artists.net went down.][/quote]
I heard about that. It seemed a nice place they had, was thinking of signing up at the time. Though I am already spread pretty thin over the sites I'm already on.... (let's see: dA, here, FA, Nano, Bulbagarden, FT, YT, a little Facebook lurking here and there ... how many is that by now, 7?)
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