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lol5 Newb
Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 5
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 12:57 pm Post subject: So this place is still alive... |
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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 Has No Life
Joined: 13 Feb 2012 Posts: 620
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:11 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, we're still hanging in here, with some spurts of decent activity, in spite of all morbid proclamations about Deadness.
You've been around before, then? Chances are you were before my time. |
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lol5 Newb
Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 5
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:41 am Post subject: |
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[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 Elder Than Dirt
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 13710 Location: Moo
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:08 am Post subject: |
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[quote="lol5"]the poor quality art in the "Recent Pictures" feed[/quote]
Some things never change, and Sturgeon's Law is one of them. _________________ Strata here: [url=http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/242293]Nanowrimo[/url] - [url=www.fanart-central.net/user-Stratadrake.php]FAC[/url] - [url=http://stratadrake.deviantart.com]dA[/url] - [url=www.furaffinity.net/user/Stratadrake/]FA[/url]
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lol5 Newb
Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 5
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 8:24 am Post subject: |
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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 Very bored
Joined: 08 Jul 2011 Posts: 156 Location: Here
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:51 am Post subject: |
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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 Has No Life
Joined: 13 Feb 2012 Posts: 620
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 12:02 am Post subject: |
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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? |
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lol5 Newb
Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:10 am Post subject: |
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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 Still very bored
Joined: 08 Dec 2014 Posts: 337
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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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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Stratadrake Elder Than Dirt
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 13710 Location: Moo
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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[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?) _________________ Strata here: [url=http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/242293]Nanowrimo[/url] - [url=www.fanart-central.net/user-Stratadrake.php]FAC[/url] - [url=http://stratadrake.deviantart.com]dA[/url] - [url=www.furaffinity.net/user/Stratadrake/]FA[/url]
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Kitzy Super Moderator
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 6523 Location: Winnipeg
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