another forum gone

[Digitalwave]

This has gone off the rails, and I do agree that the vitriol is kind of proving AlexJ's point (and I think he has some valid ones).

[ForcedFirebird]

Oh, that's dirty!

[decay]

My horse is amazing. Just give it a lick.

i'm a top, i'll take her for a ride tho.

[ForcedFirebird]

you're still younger than my r3v account is. bet.

My horse is amazing. Just give it a lick.

[ForcedFirebird]

I do not put real info on the internet. My name isn't even Alex.

That's a broad statement. The internet is quite vast.

My name isn't ForcedFirebird, also have nothing to hide, pretty sure you can click links in my signature and find me.

Wouldn't it just be easier to not display an age, or maybe make it ridiculous, like max old man status?

You remind me of Blip.

[decay]

I do not put real info on the internet. My name isn't even Alex.

you're still younger than my r3v account is. bet.

[AlexJ]

I do not put real info on the internet. My name isn't even Alex.

[ForcedFirebird]

I remember chatting with people halfway across the country on our Minitel, and keeping up with my Starsiege pals on BBS and my Warcraft friends on mIRC. I alpha tested RogerWilco, and felt up Mallory Crunig in my Mercury Cougar before seeing The Faculty in theaters.

I bought my first PC when you were 6.

varg lol. I knew kinda your age, and looked at both. I thought you were closer to my oldest, but you're dead in the middle of her and I.

[e30austin]

If you knew so much about using the internet, you'd have taken your genius ass to my profile to see my age. Instead you proved that you're just the type who belongs on reddit...

this made me chuckle.

[roguetoaster]

HMMMMMMMMMMM.

Maybe we should pioneer the way for other forums, by entirely deleting sub-forums, creating one page which you can infinitely scroll down and find people asking what kind of oil they should use in their M20 mixed in with people looking for MegaSquirt base maps for their high displacement ITB build and cats in the form of 10 second short videos?

*Triggered* Then people can tag stuff and other people can guess what tag they might have used in order to search in a clump of posts. Then to know your post is special and to validate your own existence people can like your post, unless not enough people like your post, in which case it gets buried, forever lost to time.

[decay]

You guys really hate Reddit around here.

I remember chatting with people halfway across the country on our Minitel, and keeping up with my Starsiege pals on BBS and my Warcraft friends on mIRC. I alpha tested RogerWilco, and felt up Mallory Crunig in my Mercury Cougar before seeing The Faculty in theaters.

At any rate, I haven't been here long, but I don't think that matters too much. I've restored a 91 318i over the last few years, and lurked here the entire time. I've also read this whole thread, and there's talk of growing the userbase, so that this doesn't become another forum gone. Beyond any doubt, that's going to require the guy who runs the joint to do some things that are going to hurt your butt. Doesn't have to be Reddit (which you guys have fixated on but that I mentioned once, however many pages ago) but, at the very least, it will require something modern, maybe even something from this decade. So get ready for it, and maybe get on onboard. He'll need all the help he can get, and being hostile to people from social media sites is the wrong kind of help. It's literally being hostile to 100% of potential new members. They're not going to come from anywhere else.

Also, if you think Reddit is bad, then holy shit! Wait until you see the rest! And why can't I quote Star Wars? It's the best.

dude, we don't want that. that's what people are telling you; this is a library that you're going to have to learn how to use.

if you can't get onboard with that, then:

i find your lack of faith disturbing.

[AlexJ]

You guys really hate Reddit around here.

I remember chatting with people halfway across the country on our Minitel, and keeping up with my Starsiege pals on BBS and my Warcraft friends on mIRC. I alpha tested RogerWilco, and felt up Mallory Crunig in my Mercury Cougar before seeing The Faculty in theaters.

At any rate, I haven't been here long, but I don't think that matters too much. I've restored a 91 318i over the last few years, and lurked here the entire time. I've also read this whole thread, and there's talk of growing the userbase, so that this doesn't become another forum gone. Beyond any doubt, that's going to require the guy who runs the joint to do some things that are going to hurt your butt. Doesn't have to be Reddit (which you guys have fixated on but that I mentioned once, however many pages ago) but, at the very least, it will require something modern, maybe even something from this decade. So get ready for it, and maybe get on onboard. He'll need all the help he can get, and being hostile to people from social media sites is the wrong kind of help. It's literally being hostile to 100% of potential new members. They're not going to come from anywhere else.

Also, if you think Reddit is bad, then holy shit! Wait until you see the rest! And why can't I quote Star Wars? It's the best.

[decay]

Dude a captcha... IDK what it has not been implemented yet..

i knew we were going to agree on something eventually. :P

as to why, memories of when i was a mod on e30tech and Chris just straight-up ghosted all of us without handing anyone else the reins. i still miss my fellow mod inkk, that dude was fucking hilarious.

i hope r3v doesn't suffer a similar fate. as others have said, a wiki-style library can be a lot more useful and easy to use than a social media feed that has to be doomscrolled through to find anything relevant.

[MrBurgundy]

Integrate the new. Or be crotchety car guys that can't stop taking about how great everything used to be. Everyone loves those guys.

Leave us alone while we jerk off to the memories of the early 2000s

but you got me thinking

HMMMMMMMMMMM.

Maybe we should pioneer the way for other forums, by entirely deleting sub-forums, creating one page which you can infinitely scroll downand find people asking what kind of oil they should use in their M20 mixed in with people looking for MegaSquirt base maps for their high displacement ITB build and cats in the form of 10 second short videos?

[rturbo 930]

We're not crotchety. You've barely been here a month, you come on here telling us how much the format sucks and how awesome reddit is, and you want what? Resounding agreement and a pat on the back? You think we don't know about reddit? If we wanted the forum to be like reddit we'd just go over there. But we don't. So the forum is how it is, and it's over here.

Also I'm now wondering if it's the smart phone that destroyed web pages. On a desktop, it's no problem to navigate a site like R3V, or any traditional website, but on a phone, where everything is smaller, and you have to click on tiny links with your fingers, suddenly a typical web page becomes a bit of a chore to navigate. Enter the endless scroll, since one thing you can do very easily on a phone is scroll. So now websites are all designed to be smartphone friendly at the cost of organization and function.

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

Try to make it a little less obvious you're from reddit.