This place (Lemmy) reminds me a lot of when I used to post on SA back before Reddit was popular. I wouldn’t call it “small” per se, but you actually knew who the moderators were. And since there was no upvote/downvote system, it was a lot more casual and people didn’t feel the need to try to tailor their posts to get upvoted.
Of course, it was also a dumpster fire sometimes too, and just like Reddit, the guy running it was a jerk. But I do miss it sometimes.
I never joined somethingawful but I spent a good chunk of my middleschool and high school years posting on small message boards and some bigger ones. It was always a fun experience and there was a semblance of community. Honestly even reddit in the earlier days had a huge sense of community and in the smaller subreddits you would recognize some names.
SA was a huge part of my adolescence. It still wasn’t great but it was probably the only system i know that had a true community feel to it
It appears to still be around. I have just now heard about it. Are you still active there?
Not in a long time. I wound up drifting away for a multitude of reasons
When I first heard about it I was in high school, and even though $10 is nothing for the return in value, I had never paid for anything online at that point and was apprehensive about it.
GameFAQs was my jam. As good as any forum that ever existed. In my limited view, it was the best.
My husband is pretty active there still.
Wow, I honestly didn’t even know it was still around! Maybe I’ll poke my head back in. I used to play Eve back when SA had a big presence on there. It has been over a decade.
Do you have stairs in your house?
I’m protected
I was active in FYAD back in the day when moot was just another shitposter and hadnt invented 4chan yet 👴
I wasn’t a poster, but I will never forget the terrible secret of space. I remember lying in bed trying to read that to my partner through tears of laughter.
Pak chooie unf.
Only lurk there for Goonswarm thing back in the day when I was playing on Eve Online.
There’s dozens of us that are (or were) protected, it seems! Seriously, it was a great forum and it’s still pretty good. It was legendary for the memes before they were called that, and the Photoshop Phridays were hilarious. I don’t post much but you can still find some good discussions there, some of the subforums are still pretty big and active.
I miss it to, SA was the precurser of internet culture and was a fun place to post. I feel like the modern internet has been a bit sanded down.