kostyabud2009 on 8/3/2021 at 08:34
This forum is pretty unactive nowadays.
Thor on 8/3/2021 at 09:04
Could be that some of the dinosaur douchebags drove the rest away and even got tired of their own bullshit. Or maybe they moved onto fecesbook or some garbage place like that. Dunno.
Edit: Haha, looks like the biggest douchebag that I identified has even been banned. Nice. Better late than never is what I say.
Nameless Voice on 8/3/2021 at 11:13
Now that we've stopped incessantly arguing around in circles, I suspect no one knows what to do next.
kostyabud2009 on 8/3/2021 at 13:40
Its pretty interesting to see anyone alive on the forums
PigLick on 8/3/2021 at 14:17
I'm alive![video=youtube;0x6vG1E9skw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x6vG1E9skw[/video]
heres me being alive and playing some guit
Dia on 8/3/2021 at 14:20
Quote Posted by Thor
Or maybe they moved onto fecesbook or some garbage place like that. Dunno.
Say what you'd like about Facebook but imo it's been fun as well as enlightening to meet up with a lot of TTLG members on that site. For me, FB has provided a means to really get to know some of my fellow members and keep in touch in a way that was never possible here, thought not always for the best since some members, old or new, can be downright asshats in general regardless of which site they're posting on. Just about the time a lot of us were beginning to miss the 'dinosaur douchebags' who once made ComChat lively, entertaining and even informative and who were more or less leaving TTLG behind, we discovered that many of us had started our own pages on FB and started joining each other there. It's been great putting faces and names to nicknames and
really getting to know each other, especially having a chance to get to know some of those TTLG'ers on a more personal level before they passed away (in the last several years).
Face it, it's always been quite common for CC threads to go off the rails and for the most part that could be fun, albeit sometimes frustrating. Though I don't believe the majority of posts were ever as mean-spirited or snarky as they seem to have become in recent years and in all honesty I don't blame the 'dinosaurs' solely for that. I do miss seeing posts from Scots, GBM, Shug, RBJ and so many other old 'dinosaurs' and the wonderfully silly things that ensued when any of them got involved in some of the threads here. Maybe it's for the best that ComChat is slowly fizzling out. Guess it's going the way of the old 'douchebag dinosaurs'. All things must change. ;)
Nameless Voice on 8/3/2021 at 14:42
A bunch of us also moved to Discord, though that's also been fairly quiet recently.
We mostly complain about the state of the world and occasionally have small discussions about game design.
PigLick on 8/3/2021 at 15:20
I see no one commented on my hat. And also you really only mentioned 4 people there, probably the most prominent posters from the "golden era" of comm chat, except for shug cos he is a real dick. But lets save a soft spot for others, like ARmaster, Monkeysee(wtf happened to him?) Stitch666(natch), and of course Nighthawk, and the evervescant Warm Jazz.
Kolya on 8/3/2021 at 15:51
Quote Posted by Dia
Say what you'd like about Facebook but imo it's been fun as well as enlightening to meet up with a lot of TTLG members on that site. For me, FB has provided a means to really get to know some of my fellow members and keep in touch in a way that was never possible here, [...] It's been great putting faces and names to nicknames and
really getting to know each other, especially having a chance to get to know some of those TTLG'ers on a more personal level before they passed away (in the last several years).
I understand that it's nice that you saw pictures of people and their families there and had more personal contact. But considering that Facebook has a large responsibility for the polarized mess the US (and the world) are in and that these "dinosaurs" had their own independent corner of the internet with thousands of users, which they would have been free to make more personal, I couldn't understand their move to FB then and in retrospect it is an obvious mistake.
I suspect the main reason that very few ever returned is that TTLG never changed. At this point I would archive the whole forum and replace it with an open source Slack/Discord-clone. Maybe something completely decentralized, to which TTLG would just be the entry point. Something like (
https://element.io/) Element or (
https://zulip.com/) Zulip.
Nameless Voice on 8/3/2021 at 16:08
A forum is a very different format to real-time chat, though?