• In case you're wondering what the fuck is going on with facepunch (recap thread)
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Facepunch is my home page In the past 8 years since I joined, I've signed up for, and deactivated my reddit Made a, now defunct, twitter account Got a facebook account that lies unused Rarely, if ever, go on 4chan Never engage in youtube discussion Never use, or saw the appeal, of discord The reason I come back here is because it is unique. @garry might think it's outdated to have a forum such as this, but in a sea of """online communities""" where no one feels like a member of a real community and you're shouting into an abyss of opinions and upvotes, Facepunch was the only place where discussion, and thus a sense of belonging, could foster. The anonymity of 4chan makes it completely toxic The voting system of reddit makes it an echo chamber The fast pace of discord makes it, essentially, a live chat room The only place that ever got everything RIGHT, was Facepunch. It's not too fast, it's not too slow. Its rating system highlighted bad posts without burying them Toxicity was banned on sight and never encouraged It really is the best online community I know of, and if it died, then that would be a massive loss.
Its been a good run folks I guess I can go shitpost on reddit more, but it feels hard to have a decent conversation with the size and up vote whoring.
Unless I am mistaken there is a link at the top right of the page that will take you to it, I don't use Discord so I don't know if that is how it works!
while i haven't been as active lately, being more in favor of something like reddit due to it being easy to use on the go, this place really played a big role in my life through my late middle school days to well out of high school. i'm certain i wouldn't be nearly as interested in the games I like, or computer hardware if not for getting to browse these forums when I was younger. even if i don't use it as much nowadays, it still does feel like something of a internet home to me, and i always feel comfortable and nostalgic when i browse around. it'd definitely feel like a part of my formative years died if I ever go to this site only to hit a dead end. someone make a facepunch archive so we don't lose black-out drunk oblivion or "and dan was boobies" plz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIscL-Bjsq4
Reddit and Discord are pretty shitty replacements for traditional forums, imo.
Discord will be our best alternative until a suitable replacement can be found I guess.
I've been on this stupid site for years now, first and only forum I ever really stuck with. I don't know, Facepunch is special to me. I'd hate to see it go.
shiiiet, would be a shame, this is the best place to talk about video games, /v/ is fun and all to shitpost in but it doesn't go past that and reddit is just fuckin autistic
Why not just sell the forum off? No need to shut it down
Facepunch feels so special. It's hard to fathom that Garry is so myopic that he can't recognize the wonderful thing standing right in front of him.
Sometimes I go on reddit or Discord and I see some people from around here. It's like seeing your friend on the way to work. But what's home if that is work?
I find it genuinely baffling that Garry thinks he could've felt anything other than out of touch when his only interactions with the forum have been to ram unwanted changes down the pipeline. Couple that with Hezzy's disempowered handwaving and the "round-filing-bin" method of complaint reception, it's just frankly absurd, like watching a man slowly break his own fingers with a hammer while begging the hammer to stop. Honestly the forum's feedback and response has looked like an abusive relationship since the move to newpunch. "Why don't we change things a little? How about we bring back that old private messaging system?" asks the userbase. "Sorry, it's not happening babe," says Facepunch, before making some more undocumented changes. "Why don't you listen to me?" Facepunch draws in a breath. Short, sharp. The userbase clutches her skirt. She knows he's in one of his moods. "Look babe, I know what I'm doing alright? Besides, I've got a life outside of all of this. You can't expect more from me," Facepunch says. "Right honey, and our time together has been wonderful, it's just, ever since you tore the phone line out so I couldn't report trolls..." Facepunch has drawn his knife, and carefully polishes it, watching the userbase. "I've got a real job you know." The userbase careful weighs her options. This could be bad. But he's doing something again. This could be like the time when the userbase woke up and all the forums in the living room had been separated in to smaller sections to make the house more orderly. Again. "I know, and I appreciate that, but it's been almost a year and..." "I could delete this all, right now." The userbase is still. Quiet. Facepunch's knife catches some gritty secondhand light coming in off of Reddit's windows reflecting across the street. He keeps saying that but... "Alright you asshole. Fine. Do it. You've been trying to kill me anyway, ever since Reddit got that promotion and you started doing Discord!" Facepunch frowns. He holds the knife up, the tip pointed at the userbase's throat. "See? All this hostility. I try and I try. I try so hard to give you something good and all I get is negativity. You're such a child, you know that?" Userbase is torn. Half of her is quietly, desperately pleading for him to put the knife away. To just go back to the way things were. The other half is seething, furious, after months of muted begging and heard-but-unheeded whimpering. The months of condescension and withering silence to even the most simple questions. Userbase sways, her response voiceless and confused. "You know what? Let's see how this goes for a few months," Facepunch says. He slips the knife back in to his jacket pocket and heads for the door. He's probably going out for some Discord. He opens the door, and winks back over his shoulder before slamming it closed. The embedded windows shake. On a more serious note, I can't believe how pigheaded it is to say that this place "just isn't Discord or Reddit" like that's a problem. I'm part of other forums. Forums are great ways to manage drawn out conversations among a defined set of users. They build and forum communities that functionally don't exist in the ephemera of Discord or the million man mill of Reddit. Go look up any other forum out there right now. They still exist. They still function. They may not have hundreds of thousands of users all up-dooting and spamming @everyone but that's by design. A forum is meant to be a stable, easily-moderated platform for users to share thoughts and feelings in a sequential, even-handed way. Trying to chase the purple and become Emperor Of The Internet by trying to ape a chatroom or Reddit board is just... asinine beyond reckoning. Facepunch has been a neat little place for me to pour snippets of time for a long while, and I'd be sad to see it go if it ended in flames. However, I do think it's foolish for the userbase to suddenly begin fawning over threats (and make no bones, the threat of a forum shutdown is just that, a threat) from a lackadaisical, unresponsive and disengaged developer. Down that road just lies more disappointment and frustration for everyone.
what if this is just a spooky halloween prank
if Garry doesn't want to run facepunch that's fine, but at least hand it off to somebody or sell it, shutting it down would be tantamount to a child breaking his toys once he's sick of them so no one can have them
alright boys when do we set up a subreddit
Garry is a seriously seriously stupid cunt. It's comical. He's like some caricature of an out-of-touch manager that doesn't even know what his own job is. If "nothing [he does] is appreciated - everything [he does] is wrong" then that is because he refuses to acknowledge any and all criticism, and instead, opts to mock those who find his practice of burning the whole thing down on a whim user-unfriendly. His professional conduct is appalling. It's sporadic, it's irrational, blithe to criticism, and just generally self-centred. That a man with such conduct has managed to create anything that lasted more than a week is a miracle. It's been like this for years, and yet he's never shown any personal growth in this regard. It's always just the children who are wrong. Garry, you're not Sol. You don't have 8 planets and Pluto revolving around you. So how about you show some goddamn emotional maturity and get over yourself.
i've been here for nearly half of my life i'm not gonna stop now
Modern isn't always better. Just look at the old youtube or google image search layout, shit was so much better back in the day. Garry needs to stop making changes especially if no one is complaining about the website. All its doing is causing him stress when he makes changes nobody asked for. You don't see 4chan changing their layout every few months and its still a popular website.
Facepunch is my only true social media account if i'm being completely honest. At school, at home and even at vacation i'm always checking out the site for anything new. It all sounds corny, and probably said hundreds if not thousands of times by many other people. Though the sentiment is all true, I wouldn't be here if I didn't otherwise. By now I would've let this account remain quiet, after all i'm not exactly the social butterfly I may look in public. But for 7 ( Closing in on 8 ) years, i've kept at it. Kept on lurking, kept on posting much like Steam, I grew up with this site and it in turn has made me feel a lot less awkward about talking about stuff in public. It all sounds pretty stupid, I know but a huge hole in my life would be made if this place were to ever shut down. Maybe I could look toward Reddit and become User #3267421874352, but compared to Facepunch's more recognizable and repeat users I doubt it would last. I like many others do not control Garry's Hand of Fate however, so if this were to be the last moments of Facepunch as I knew it I can only post a song to express my feelings for you.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54W8kktFE_o
Coming out of my cave to show my support for FP. Been here ever since PHWcomics exploded back in 2007, and even though I have been a lurker for 99% of that time, this place is like a calm port in the malevolent storm that is the modern internet. All these years later, I still go here multiple times every day. It's just so nice to have a place to unwind, and see what other people have posted, regardless of the context. Maybe it's because the community originated in the same slice of the gaming world as me, in the old HL2/GMOD9 days, and yet it is still so varied. I feel like this place still carries that legacy for me in a meaningful way, and it needs to survive, preferably as a forum. No other medium can do it justice. If this community died, I feel like we would just wander the internet aimlessly, never quite settling anywhere else in the same way.
I've visted Facepunch less ever since the forum switch, but please garry don't shut down ths website. I've had numerous memories here, and I honestly prefer Facepunch over any other type of internet forum because I feel like it's much easier to be heard about anything.
No offense, if Garry is maintaining this forum in order to get praise then you are doing it wrong. The whole point of the forum is to be user intuitive and promote a sense of community. Since the start of newpunch it has been the opposite, in fact it feels smaller and the community feels less active. Then you delete sub-areas and consolidate the forums even more, what the hell do you expect? The forums are being deconstructed and going in the opposite direction. Peoples little sub-communities got deleted, the posts they likely put effort in gone. If you want to make the changes that is one thing, but you expect people to be appreciative for something they didn't want or see coming? What kind of mentality is that. Then the forum is threatened to be shut down? This community made a little mod successful. It continues to be successful because of the community involvement in making mods, code, content. I learned a lot about various topics on facepunch, it was at one point in time a valuable resource for information such as computer building, hardware issues, and so on. A lot of the same users have been here for over a decade. Lets talk about the lack of appreciation for being apart of the community for that long. Non of us should be entitled to anything, but fuck. This isn't like a bunch of people who joined yesterday are making comments.
Dude, appreciation? I mean Gary, what else can I do other than come on this forum and post? I'm poor, and my country is going under faster than a limbless boy in a river. Plus you made a game that I still play to this day, gmod. That old ass game is still in my top favs. Least gives us a hand in finding options for the forums and its members. I feel like this place is the only place I can talk to people and be honest with how I feel without people just being assholes and posting stupid shit. You guys actually give back reasons for your beliefs for the most part. It'd sucked big dick if we got disband.
im really not surprised, but i guess theres a silver lining in that it's nice to know that people were right when they theorized that garry made these changes to make the site worse so people leave
Love you too, McD. Facepunch, to me, has always been the forum I actually care about and read daily. 11 and a half years and I still love to get on here. I get frustrated at times with some users of course, like anyone would, but it's never not great to always see regular users and have a sort of "digital personality" imprint for each one over time. Personally I can't stand Reddit, don't even have an account because I hate the place, and traditional SA style forums like this just aren't around much anymore. We are somewhat niche but stable in size and content and that's rare. I love the place, it's been my only regular forum visit for years now. We've even been mentioned in some articles and by large scale channels before as a place for gaming and interesting stuff. Even TotalBiscuit referred to us a few times along with other gaming news sources like Reddits. I'd really hate to see it all disappear, feels like home.
facepunch is one of the few remaining public discussion places I feel like I can go to at any point, regardless of how long it's been, and still feel like it's welcoming. Posting on Reddit or whatever just feels completely faceless, like a 'come and go' kinda deal. It'd suck to see this place go under
This. If you don't want to work on the forums any more Garry, give it to someone who will. No use putting effort into something you grew out of. I know how that feels.
Facepunch to me is synonymous with "forums" as "social media" is to Facebook. Out of all the websites I still frequent, it is the only one which offers me a more traditional posting and reading experience. It sounds dumb but in 2018 this is a pretty unique experienec. Since the move to newpunch, I don't post as much, I don't mod as much, but I still browse this site multiple times a day. I would also understand if the forums were to be shut down and migrated away. It sounds like a big mental time sink which isn't good for someone trying to work a normal job. Only thing I can ask for is the ability to export my data in some way so I can preserve my dumb ass posts all the way from 2007 if they exist. I joined when I was 13. I'm 24 now in a solid software developer position after starting coding with my first shitty gmod addons when I was 14/15. I feel like I owe this place everything, but Garry doesn't owe us anything, so I can only respect where he wants the Facepunch games discussion to go.
What the fuck even is this forum now? You've shit it up too much by this point, I could deal with it before but now it's just condensed and messy, why do you make these changes if you don't really give a fuck about the forum?
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