Comedy

[Bolty]

Social media has replaced a lot of the time and desire that these forums used to get. I'm pretty private, I've stayed off facebook and all that. Bah, kids these days.

This site is definitely a relic of a bygone era of the Internet when individual sites with forums were all the rage. If the Lounge were a "site" created in this modern era, it would simply be a Discord or some similar social media system.

Interestingly, while Discords are certainly searchable, they're not fantastic as repositories of easily referenced information. In a forum software like this, it's a bit easier to dredge up a 10-year-old conversation and continue it...as spambots enjoy doing on the regular.

Also, as social media shifts to different platforms from time to time, anything posted to such (e.g. a Discord) would get lost moving to a new platform.

At this point, the Lounge is mostly a site for several old-timers to check in with each other and reminisce. I've had countless users PM me thanking me for keeping it running and being surprised that their account is still around after 10+ years. I enjoy that aspect, as I too enjoy pouring through some old posts from time to time, remembering my much younger years.