• What were the old forums like?
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Where things removed like subforums, what are big changes that happened to facepunch forums life?
we used to find rage face comics funny
We used to make headlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiJrgfKbQrs
I was head moderator
The Sandwich Incident
I sniggered.
the old forums had straight up porn threads right in the middle of the Fast Threads sub, including a thread specifically for really weird porn. Every few months some controversy inevitably popped up where somebody posted anime gore or a 17 year old posted a picture of their dick or the furries broke containment, and there was inevitably a big stink where all the porn threads got locked. Then a few months later a mod would allow porn again only for the whole thing to start up again.
"And then one day you wake up and realise you've just been pissing in a sea of piss..." -Mikfoz (December 19, 2008)
Check waybackmachine
We had a place called General Disruption, and it was beautiful
There used to be a massive Lifestyles and Hobbies section with subforums on cooking, sports and athletics, automobiles, drugs, roleplaying, and furry porn. Big chunks of users who in some cases didn't even play videogames. Wild stuff.
and then that branched off into its own forum ran by cowabanga
There's been a lot of things that have changed over the years. At one time we had instaban, which would ban you for using certain words or phrases. We also had a smartness system that would give you 2 points if your whole post was spelled correctly or drop you 3 if there was a misspelled word. For a good while we had user created subsections, so you could make your own sub form for things like tf2 or cats. Gold mamber was something you had to buy, then after the whole monkey incident you could only get it from the mod team, then you got it from being here for so long and having so many posts. The post count for all members was wiped at sometime between 10'-12', which I remember I had 15k at the time. The design for the most part stayed the same, although the layout went through numerous changes. Then there was the fappening event, which drove a lot of traffic here for whatever reason. Its hard for me to say all the things that have changed in the last 14 years.
So many Ainsleys and Hide-the-pain Harolds.
I figure the Fappening was a fairly big thing that was discussed on several message boards/sites like Reddit, so I'm curious what drove so much traffic towards FP in particular. Was the forum, like, one of the first places to discuss it or something?
screenshot of the old forums thanks @Smoke ManMuscle you damn fool now that you banned him we'll never get the old forums back, who the hell else can recreate them? You've fucked everything up!
We got C&D'd once for a certain cooking instrument and it was great.
It was a real wok on the wildside.
You used to get permad for posting this image https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/238785/21c1a174-d541-4366-91a6-7590c00c3a36/image.png
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/439893/e988d39b-aaec-4a87-8081-17d9d24c1805/meloncat.jpg
is still an official forum emoticon
We also still had emoticons built into the forum. :c
People used to make things in Garry's Mod and post them! MOPs were the thing when I joined.
The young Bieber avatar and this https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58145/19905b7e-8741-429b-b213-435cb0f4f28c/46256456.png
i miss th89
I still can't believe how long I legit thought he was black
dan was boobies
Everbody went to Hell for laughing https://youtu.be/9Yw5jkAHgME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJrGLXafl3s
Remember the Hoff Takeover?
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