It’s sad to see the quotes of the week and pics of the week go. This is a great blog to document the history of the forums.
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Oh, hey, I got tagged here. That wasn't the first post in the history of the NG forums, just the first after it was upgraded. The thread is hard to follow as posts from deleted accounts are missing, and conversations dropped when the old forum closed are continued on the new one. The old forum predating this one used to be archived at newgrounds.com/oldbbs, but now you'd have to look it up on Web Archive.
The 9/11 thread is a real trip. I was such a naive child then, and now we still live with the ramifications of that day. My best friend still to this day 22 years after meeting on NG is ShastaClock, and he still trips out that I was the person that told him the twin towers were burning.
I’m gonna miss the quotes on the Tank Tribune!
I want me one of those suggestion threads! And by sheer coincidence a video popped up in my YouTube feed the other week describing the sirtom incident, massive respect for the people stepping up <3
I started hanging out here far too late for much of the above to strike a personal chord with me, but I feel the nostalgia oozing from its pores - best of luck to all in trying to find a new/revised purpose with this. Feel free to drop in over on the VA forum and show the talent some love!
Ahh, I remember discovering the Tank Tribune thanks to an image I posted on the forum making Pic of the Week and I've been chasing that high ever since. Gonna miss it and quotes of the week, but we carry on regardless.
This is a really good retrospective, though. Gives you a taste of what the BBS was like back in its prime.
What a fun blast to the past. Thanks for putting this together!
I always love looking at the frong page.
This was a great read with lots of fun history, thank you for putting it all in one place!
For all the flaws I met some of the best people in my life in Politics and General.
Thanks for highlighting some good memories!
That's a lot of history, and it feels so authentically Newgrounds. What an era.
If you'd like to preserve the quotes, as some people wish, it might be worthwhile to expand them to the creative forums. There's a lot of funny stuff that goes on in the Art Forum and others too! In order to keep you from having to scan through all of them, though, you could have a suggestion box open for those quotes.
Regarding General, a wise man once said:
"delete it.
there is seriously no fixing it at this point. half the laughable moderation staff only sign on like once a month. the other half are people who brown-nosed the staff and now just do the whole "HEY I'LL BAN A BUNCH OF PEOPLE AND WRITE A REALLY RUDE POST HAHAHAHA I AM SO EDGY EPIC" thing, while a slew of 10 year olds make 40 new naruto topics....
...the bbs is a tumor.
but of course, dont point the flaws out or you get banned!"
(Source: TheInterviewer, Interview No. 3)
Anyway, you're still free to quote the other forums and their threads, and the Supporter Party's still available.
I still love hoes.
A fitting memorial to the end of an era. Thanks for tastefully making this.
thanks for the shoutout!
Good times :3
RIP general forum. So many good memories.
DrSevenSeizeMD
Oh man
That was a trip down memory lane