Jed Kemsley said: I'm asking all of the old members... Boko Mog, Dark Emissary... Onyx... who else remembers how the FFO Forums were back in 2001, 2002, and 2003... those were the good old days... Dh, I see you're online right now. Maybe you can help jog some people's memories!
Dh said: Yeah, I gotta admit, I miss the internet as it was back in those days. I never got into social media and I don't care that only a handful of sites pretty much govern the majority of online discussions now. Nothing like a nice clean vBulletin installation and some customizations to start a brand new community back in the ancient times.
Jed Kemsley said: If only there was a brand-new vBulletin installation to start a brand-new community these days... maybe I'm onto something here... social media can go and get lost, in my humble opinion...
Dh said: The software still exists, but the internet is simply a different place today. Despite the fact this "beta" FFS forum (as it originally was) is broken as hell, it was pretty active a few years back, but people seem to have moved on. There's a Discord server some of the old schoolers have set up where people chit-chat and BS, but Final Fantasy just ain't the draw it used to be.
Arckanghel said: I also miss it, a lot. vBulletin was so much better in my opinion than what we've devolved into. I think I had a lot of meaingful conversations at FFO. Conversations where people actually considered each other's thinking, instead of just shouting out into the ether. I'm glad you put thework into putting this here for us DH. I wish it was more utilized, and I'm guilty of that, too.
Jed Kemsley said: vBulletin was the bees knees. Way better than Invision Power Board, Woltlab Burning Board, phpBB, or ezBoard for that matter!
Dh said: vBulletin was really easy to customize, too. It was nice to tweak the layout to look like FFO and have all the custom buttons and icons we made for it drop in nicely. Nowadays, XenForo seems to be the forum software of choice and it's pretty impressive as well. I relaunched MD recently and just got the beta beta version of my updated forum software, much of which is modeled off of this, up and running. It's actually deader than this place though as Google is actively burying me in search results. It's cleaner, faster, optimized, but the biggest difference is it runs on mobile devices. Feel free to check it out here: https://www.mentaldischarge.com/discussions EDIT: And WTF is up with the weird junk characters in posts now? I never figured out how or when that shit started.
Blue Storm said: ....UBB was better....
