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Miss this kind of communication. Something about it that modern social media just doesn't reflect or capture correctly. Not quite like logging in and doing a music contest, or playing a round of D&D by post, or just seeing what the community's been writing about.

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Reason to not just post and write here? Is Discord just constant fun times?

Only thing I've been able to figure out is the ~400 "guests" constantly crawling the forum. No to minute long page loads.

Seems like the scrape-bot wave washed over everything. If some of the constant server abuse could be toned down, probably be relatively responsive.

And the obvious Tombstone situation. Need Friendly Zombie Thriller Island or similar. Course, only ref ends up being Scooby Doo Zombie Island. Maybe Isle of the Undead (cool cover at at least) or Ravenloft with "mysterious islands of undead horror and hilarity float among the fog" (D&D was kinda popular)

Otherwise, actually happily surprised it still works, and still one of the better structured, formatted forums.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

re: Discord, was not especially looking for a link or anything. Tried a few times, and kept having the failed link error, back when folks were actually posting them somewhat frequently.

If so, probably just send it PM or something. My life appears cursed with bots everywhere.

Frankly, reluctant, just because I appear to have a horrible bot wave that does very little other than obliterate and ruin almost every community I join. Now I just write on forums that are mostly quiet. Very little to steal or ruin.

Here, D&D forums, /., MtG forums, HN, Stackoverflow, almost every journalism site. Became some kind of aggro lure for griefer bots unfortunately. Massive LLM/scrapebot shitwaddery. Don't especially want to infect your discord if it's working. Kinda like being a plague carrier...

(edit: HN still kinda work cause lots of money involved and really lightweight format, just lots of scrape and marketing. Not much to read. 100's or 1000's of scrapes a second doesn't do quite as much when it's almost plaintext.)

Earlier comment was mostly just a general question to those who happen to read here.
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re: Rychord. Maybe? Recognize the handle, maybe D&D, or Civ 3/4 games, or the music contest possibly. Miss the music contest. Tough criticism, yet a lot of interesting music got floated. (Note: Found somebody archived our contest results on Github from GamingForce Best Song Contest editions 2 to 15 (2004-2017))

Unfortunately, last personal activity before starting to do my posts occasionally here again was back in 2009-2010. ~20 years is a long time.
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edit: aside question: Anybody actually have the forum code in a form that's distributable?

It's pretty amazing forum code. Lots and lots of features. It's just really heavy on pageloads.

Be cool to turn it into something that was way more lightweight per load. No images. Near plaintext (at least for guests, and people who choose that browse option). Tried downloading my own articles and 25 posts worked out to ~200KB for the text/HTML. I write a lot, yet a similar HN page with ~25 comments works out to ~50KB. Tiny.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.