• In case you're wondering what the fuck is going on with facepunch (recap thread)
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The only international community that I participate is FP and it's subcommunities, even if I don't post a lot here I got to know about a lot of my now favorite things(from games to youtubers and music) through FP, and it was also essential in improving my english by a lot since I finally interacted with people from other countries. I own a lot to this place, and it would be sad to stop having it open in a browser tab everytime I'm online.
Daily reminder he hired Compwhizzi. The greatest decision ever made.
I haven't been around all that long, but I'll go ahead and speak my piece on what makes Facepunch special to me. To me, it's how FP doesn't really feel like some sort of hivemind in terms of community perception. If you have a differing or controversial opinion on here, there's actual debate and discussion about it. After coming from countless communities where you either get flamed or drowned out to hell for daring to have a differing opinion, it's refreshing to be part of a community that has actual meaningful DISCUSSION about various topics. On top of that, I'd say FP has sort of the perfect amount of moderation and shitposting. This community knows how to have fun with things in a mostly non detrimental way that is not easily replicated, and even if you hate the moderators (jokingly or otherwise), you have to admit they do a damn solid job of keeping this place running and promoting the best aspects of this community. Losing access to the amazing community that every member in here has had their part in making (yes, even you) would be a tragedy to me. Outside of my own personal corners of the internet, FP is very much like a second home to me, and it wouldn't be the same without any of you in it.
see you guys on ResetPunch
maybe he should actually listen and talk to the community beforehand instead of forcing change for no actual reason and thats the end of it, then he wouldn't get tired because communication would make things a lot easier on everyone I can see where he's coming from as well, but this is a forum, not a simple website where it doesn't matter if you push out sweeping changes because people aren't on it every single day
Also lol at the fact that 'he knows better'. The mobile version of the site has been an unmitigated nightmare from day 1. That is an objective fact.
This is a basic web-dev no-no, too. Mobile is the vast majority of web traffic now.
Probably would be at least 20% more traffic if mobile works out of the box.
My memory is coming short, who was he again?
Dont you ever get tired of being mocked and disliked by a vast majority of this website because of the shit you decide to say.
The videos section was like my go-to section where I was bored, it's really jarring now because by reflex I keep trying to go back to it but then I remember it's not there.
nah, i went in with a slightly provocative intent, figured I might as well, but it's in good fun. Regardless I do genuinely think Garry isn't as big of a "rude idiot" as y'all make him out to be.
He was a 'mod' that was only a mod because he was helping Garry with backend stuff and hosting (I think he also briefly worked on an actual project of FP's but I'm not sure.) Dude would basically make up rules and catch you 'breaking them'. Even other mods were like "WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU DINGUS" Or trying to enforce a certain thread's rule in some random other thread just because. IIRC he started fucking with LMAO pics and making normal things bannable just because.
Agreed with above. - I'm a bit worried that all the "just in case FP dies..." and "my favourite memories of fp..." threads will make it seem like its a good time to end it after all.
Same here, I am scared and confused. Please someone put it back. please
I mean, he isn't really a big part of the forums anyways he doesn't HAVE to do all the shit he does
I went to the videos section every single day
You better have fucking archived it.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/226487/d38477f1-1909-4ff4-84cf-18cca6618240/H4tvl.jpg
Didn't MaxofSTDS do this too? Caused a huge shitstorm on LMAO pics because IIRC reaction images became bannable and some other stuff that were "Not LMAO pics"
Garry does whatever the fuck he wants so it's kinda asinine to worry about jinxing it.
If facepunch dies I'll kill myself
And just like giving you mod powers both were bad decisions.
He complains it's a burden, yet it's only his job because he wants it to be. How many web devs do we have? How many designers and artists? How many people who would be willing to support the site through Patreon? People have offered to work on Facepunch for free. But no, please, someone save Garry from having total and absolute control over the site! I don't know if it's about attachment and a history with FP, I don't know if it's a fear of missing out, I don't know if it's an ego thing. But Garry being the only one who develops Facepunch makes no sense. No one's asking for it, it's not beneficial to either party. It's a very weird self made disaster
There's more sympathy for the situation on a fucking /v/ thread of all places, than what we are getting from garry. I'm not mad anymore, just disappointed.
Link?
Isnt that the express purpose of having a team of moderators who essentially run the forums for you.
>spoonfeeding Just kidding, I know where I am. Here. You have the usual shitposters, people who legitimately disagree, but there's also actual discussion on what made this place different, but good.
well yeah, but in the end the person who bears the responsibility for the site is garry. the person who has to manage the backend is garry. the person that might have to legally answer for what goes on here if stuff were to degenerate really badly would be garry. he can't delegate everything... or if he does it's by using discord/reddit, hence why it's not a inherently a bad idea if his main goal is just focus on the stuff that matters to him (making games)
He's also a horrible judge of character, considering some of the videos he posted of himself making fun of a SFM artist... then uh. Well I don't even have to mention the rest because the irony would kill half of the forum
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