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PC back in the day
I came back to the site after about a year hiatus and things seemed a little different. Nothing to drastic but new sections, and the direction of certain sections had changed as well which is fine. The Underground and The World of PC were added which was cool, and both of the Clubs sections were taken away which sucked, but wasn't a personally big deal to me anyways. The majority of the people on here I didn't recognize either because they were new, or changed their names and it was a little intimidating.
Anyways for you old fellas, what was PC like back in the day? Like in 2010 or even 2005? What was it like when you first joined, and how has it changed since you've been a member on here. Are there any moments that you specifically remember that were great for you on this site, or moments that questioned why you even get on here? How has the direction of the forum changed in your eyes and if it has changed, how has the member base changed? Have you ever been on a hiatus for an extended period of time and felt the same as I did? So many questions I've been wondering since I've returned last month and I've seriously been wondering for a while now if anyone else has had the same questions or experiences that I've had on here. Please share because I've been thinking about this on a gaily basis when I get on here and have been anxious to post something about it. |
For me, it was all about the crush thread. It became a topic of guessing who you liked to constant and random chatter. It was nothing like it is today either. I don't remember much because I've blocked out most of my memories. This was back in 2004ish I believe too.
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Honestly, I think PC has stayed relatively the same. Back when I joined, the Off-topic Discussions forum was modelled completely differently, however the topics have stayed consistent no matter what label the forums and subforums had. ROM Hacking was still incredibly popular. I used to have a blast playing the Monotype and Nuzlocke challenges and posting them to Pokemon Gaming General. And I made plenty of friends in the MCG, OVP and Other Chat forums. The biggest changes I can list are: popularity contests (Member of the Month) was a very healthy idea and people loved it, and the staff was a little bit more cliquey, a little less transparent and a little more closed-minded to expansion. So I'd say PC has changed for the better!
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Back in 07, 08 and 09, PC consisted of Other Trivia and The Count To Infinity for me as far as I can remember. Also some manga fandom or somesuch? I really can't recall much else, I hardly even knew who were mods and who weren't. Basically, PC opened up for me when I finally started roleplaying <3 Which is kind of backwards, considering how many in that forum rather are/were RPT hermits to begin with haha.
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About ~4 years ago the staff were more distant from each other and the community in general. It was more acceptable to be rude to users. Rule enforcement was more uptight, especially in regards to minor rules like 4/25, consecutive posting, etc. Battle server community was incredibly hostile before ~2010. If you weren't staff or one of the 2-3 select favorites, you got **** on. In other words, it was a clique. Speaking of cliques, they were prevalent back then, such as team sweater. PC is a lot more lax and open these days.
Wi-Fi was huge back in 07-09 because it was recently introduced. Battling events and groups/clans had their own forum called Battle Stadium, while RMTs and discussion went into Strategies & Movesets. Over time Wi-Fi dropped in popularity, especially in 10-11. Battle simulators like Shoddy Battle, Pokemon Online, and Pokemon Showdown became more widely used as opposed to Wi-Fi. Eventually Stadium was merged with S&M to become the Competitive Battling Center, which was renamed to Battle Center, and again to Battling & Team Building. Graphic art had a dedicated forum and community. It was pretty popular in around 09-11. It was more common for people to use graphic art for avatars and signatures. (I'm referring to banners with rendered art and fancy effects.) PC was arguably more active in 09-10, and Shiny Gold probably contributed a lot to that. Presumably the rising popularity of social media, Smogon, etc. has reduced PC's activity some, but in my opinion our activity is fine right now and the difference isn't really noticeable. |
PC back in the 2008-2010 for me was really exciting since PC was the first forum I ever joined. I pretty much lived in the Pokemon Group section for a long time, since there were really awesome groups like The Wolves Hideout and Pokemon: The Toddler's Playground which kinda inspired me to join PC in the first place. Created my own club for electric pokemon club called Thunder Arena which ended up being kinda popular and eventually had about 3 or 4 versions of the club and kept me busy for 3 years between 09-11. Let's not even mention the millions of other clubs I joined or the fact I made a mystery dungeon club without even having played the games. Deep inside it still kills me that the place I joined PC for is now gone :c
Eventually I drifted into what was Art and Design then due to constantly staring at the Graphics and Photography section which inspired me to make my own. I think originally began because I wanted to make banners and such for my pokemon groups but half of it was also because a lot of the artists there inspired me. I've talked about this a few times with the current A&D crew, but A&D although incredibly active, used to be pretty scary back in the day -especially for newbies: Quote:
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In relation to the hiatus question brought up by the OP, around 2010 to 2014 I would be on and off hiatus and lurking mostly, only to then be active again early last year. |
Haaaa, this is gonna be fun. I remember the days when Natsuki, Lily, Loveless, Midori Chi and Kura were mods and now all but one are gone </3 Reading a lot of the posts and thinking about it, the staff was a bit more strict, but I honestly didn't have any negative opinions of anyone. Intimidating? Sure. Mean? Nah. I was too excited and too nooby to realize how nooby I really was.
VMs weren't a thing. If you wanted to talk to someone you either had to suck it up and PM them or go their member fanclub (which was my favorite section of the forum). I think I met every single one of my friends on here through fanclubs. Then VMs basically made them obsolete :< I also loved how crazy the DCC was, you could go away for like 10 minutes and come back to 3 new pages of posts. I remember how big forum families and pairs were. Like, my whole signature used to be dedicated to my family. Now families hardly exist?!? And the only people I see paired anymore are people who were paired back in the day anyway </3 I dunno. I may have rose tinted glasses when talking about PC back in '06-'08 because this time meant so much to me. Now, the people and sections of the forum I used to know are almost all gone. But this place is still my internet home. When in doubt, I always come back no matter how much it has changed :) |
I only joined a little over 2 years ago, so there's nothing drastically different. What I look back on most fondly is the original group of friends I made in my first few months here. People like ShadowE, Mika, Fernbutter, and a bunch of other people who aren't active here anymore, I spoke to them literally every day, sometimes for hours at a time. It's really a shame most of them left because they all played a major part in shaping my experience here.
In terms of how the forum itself has changed, it's more or less the same. Things have been moved around, new forums have been created, and back when I first joined supporters of all tiers were green. And I think PC as a whole was a bit more active when I first joined, but that's because a new generation of Pokémon games had just come out at the time :) Now that I think about it, most of the activity was in the new generation's Pokémon gaming forum, whereas the off topic forums weren't as active as they are now. |
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Mods were a lot stricter back then, a slight off-topic wouldn't land you a warning. But the mods would definitely step in and remind us not to stray too far. Having said all that, I'm not criticizing the staff from both eras. They are all equally hardworking. (: Quote:
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I joined way back when and took a 6 year hiatus so you can imagine that I was (and still am) super confused at all the changes that happened while I was gone... What's all this World of Pokecommunity, Treehouse, Underground stuff?? Like.... What??? Who came up with these names LOL... And then I see that Ausaudriel has been busy adding a million cool features-- I remember when he first turned green and basically became the most useful staff member overnight because he actually knew how to work the forums and kept adding a bunch of cool stuff that we could do, like-- IDK colors in the userbars and whatever else was suddenly available. Now I'm like y'all and your fancy CSS need to slow down for this old lady and her twelve cats.
I was always most active in RP and G&D though... The RP section was really lax-- Shiranui was the mod at the time, and she was pretty laid back about stuff-- didn't need to have mod approval for your RPs or anything, you could just post and go. When I was modded in the RP sections though I was a lot stricter-- And for some unknown and bizarre reason, Pokemon RPs were all the rage- there were so many Pokemon RPs and literally like, maybe 2 or 3 'Other' RPs that weren't all that active. Now there's such a nice balance of Other and Pokemon RPs, and all my super uptight rules feel like they've mellowed out even though the system of thread moderation is still in place. It's really improved since I stopped being a grouchy old elitist vulture over it hahaha Then G&D, which is now A&D, was my other haunt.... looks away because I'm pretty sure I was the mod of that section-- or at least the s-mod that took care of it the most during the time that the critiques were at their worst. It amazes me in retrospect, because even as an smod I got scathing comments on my stuff too?? I was reminiscing with zappy about it but some of these people had serious guts, especially since that was when staff was, as mentioned, super cliquey and kind of holier-than-thou. Not even a golden bolded name could protect you from the G&D member base's snark, it was pretty incredible. (And in retrospect, why didn't I do something about it??? I guess I just thought it was normal???) But those were the days when tags and banners reigned supreme, when everyone had matching icons and siggys like I do right now (I'm old school sob) and G&D had some really really skilled artists who probably had the right to be maybe half as snarky as they were. Now there's a lot more variety in the galleries, which is really great-- and I really like how much friendlier everyone is in general. Comments are kind of a less common occurence than they used to be, which is a bit of a struggle when it comes to motivation to update, but-- better that people say nothing than say horrible things...? Seconding what Ausaudriel said about H-Staff back then though. I honestly was never that active in h-staff, but honestly it was like we couldn't make any decisions without fighting over SOMETHING as a fundamental part of making decisions? Like I feel like it was some kind of precedent or something. I remember writing WALLS of text arguing in those threads over god knows what.... It's nice to see that most of the core staff has a lot of familiar faces though. And finally, of course, being paired with parallelzero for like 5-6 years. Though technically we never 'unpaired' so IDK?? Maybe we've been paired for 10 years now LOL! I don't think my PC family ever really expanded much further than that, but some people had intense family trees back then... You can tell I've put a lot of thought into this as well haha-- definitely been mulling over all these memories and surprises for the past month or so, so I'm right there with you marscat! edit: also I can't even believe you remember their usernames Sun LOL.... I blocked them from my memory because they literally never did anything anyway... |
I joined PC in 2009, and I remember how strict and uppity the staff were. No offense, but half of the staff scared me. I remember vaguely how three staff members were up my ass about using a yellow font color, so I had to change it. Holy, some of the staff were just... yeah, uppity and strict. Most were very hard to talk to, and I've left this forum multiple times, to be honest.
I remember Other Voting Polls was a thing, and Tabletop Games had a forum as well. I don't really remember many specifics, but a lot of forums from the past are gone now. Over time, the staff got nicer. It was probably around 2013 when I noticed a change in that. Mot of 2009 - 2012, I somewhat thought most of the staff were very hard to talk to or even ask them to help. However, the April Fool's Jokes were fun, and well thought out. And the DCCs were insanity. I remember when Razor Leaf was still a mod of General Chat, I think, and when Drew was a Super Mod. I feel like I should have been more active here in 2009 - 2012, but it just never happened. The community is much nicer now, and I hope it stays this way. |
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I officially returned here to PC around late year 2013, I also noticed the change of atmosphere as well as the disappearance of my older friends. The staff nowadays are kinder, helpful like the customer service people as oppose to the stern cops, haha. I'm more curious on the current staff members' view on their predecessors, particularly on the stern ones, haha. Quote:
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Now everyone goes rogue and mis-matchy which is cool, but whenever I think about making a new sig I'm always like "but wait, do I have a matching icon???" ehhh it doesn't matter now :P I think that's a big reason why there aren't so many request shops anymore. |
I joined here back in 2009, when I was at the height of my teen years Pokémon hype. It was around the time HGSS were due to be released, and I was madly excited since GSC were my favourite games as a kid. I think that's what drove me to join.
I remember the crazy debates in 2010 when BW info was started to pile up slowly. That was hilarious, they got a little out of hand :S The other thing I remember was the admins and mods trolling everyone with the Lerroux thing, and I knew the whole way through that it was a wind up. Funny times. |
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I miss PC families too, although mine was ridiculously large. You had parents, siblings, children, step-whatevers, it was crazy!! I think they went away because, like Lucid said, the average age range is much older and people seem to be socializing outside their small groups of friends anyway. The forum now feels a lot more open in that way. I used to get so nervous at the thought of randomly saying hi to a user I didn't know. Now? I feel like most people are cool talking to whomever. It's nice :)
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PC used to have more (sub-)forums. Nowadays it's more common to use categories for organizing threads.
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WH and TP were good fun. They were the place that I spent most of my newbie days. Shitpost central though lol. |
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Anyways, I haven't been on PC too long to consider myself an oldie but this place has changed a lot. For starters, being a moderator is much more enjoyable now that it was back my first time being promoted. We all work so well and discussions actually come to a completion. Secondly, I feel like people are posting healthier threads all around PC, there are more fun sections than ever, our battling community continues to grow, and just overall nothing but improvements are happening. |
Oh man, reading this thread was like a time warp...
I've been here off/on since 2005, but I really didn't begin to get very active outside of ROM hacking until 2008 when I ventured out into other boards, eventually landing me into the off-topic boards like Other Chat (The Round Table's ancestor) and Other Voting Polls (which, yes, were distinct and strictly enforced), and of course when I decided to make New Users/Welcome (Welcome Lounge) my obsession home. Strict and cliquey was the name of the game. I remember, and somewhat embarrassingly admit to being part of little escapades like sweater and daily, never-ending conversations with large groups of, well, infamous PC people on MSN. Eventually I found my way on staff; the previous descriptions are pretty on the nose. I was considered the "nice" moderator due to moderating The Welcome Lounge and all, and even I deleted soooo many posts for not complying with the rules -- and I was being lenient! I'm so happy to see the direction staff has taken here since the years I was inactive. There is so much more transparency and accountability; it's so refreshing. I get where you're coming from though, acatfrommars. It was shocking to come back to at first. I stepped down from staff and stopped being active around 2011-2012ish due to school getting super serious and to give my romantic interest room to grow. No matter what happens though, this place will always be my online home. Like marz said, it's nice to see how many other people have really grown up here and continue to come back. PC sure is different, but I feel I'm different now too. I think it just grows as we grow. |
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Ah, well, my memories from PC are a bit limited than some here, but I joined around 2010 where I don't think I received the kindest of welcomes, but they were great just the same! I remember there were those "groups" that showed which one you joined on your profile, like I remember joining Melody's group of 'girly girls and girly boys' which was pretty nice, ahaha. I think the members were nice, but kinda cliquey, which I imagine it's a little tough to go outside your comfort zone, which I can understand.
I didn't know too much about the members, I used to hang out with Anna (who was TheSmartOne) and a few others on the Trivia section, which was pretty nice! I met some of my first few friends from there! Soon I became the moderator for Pokemon General which I believe Ayselipera was the mod there before me, but yeah. I think it was Arcanine, Erica, Geoff, were admins and some others were assistant admins, with Hiiro, Pachisou Yutohru, and TwilightBlade were Smods back then? Maybe there were more if someone could correct me on that! Anyway, ah, the staff team was pretty laid back, we all used to just hang out on MSN's messenger back when that was still around. I didn't really stay around as the mod for PG too long, in which shortly after Toujours stepped in, which was cool! Toujours, Forever, seeker, Sydian, and some others were some of the mods I looked up to then. ^^ Oh, I remember some really interesting characters came around... like JustinRPG, and MichealXD. :b I used to deal with JustinRPG's shenanigans A LOT during my tenure as PG mod, cause he tended to make threads about pokephilla, which was a big no-no, bahah. x: |
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I remember the laughs and the flirting. I remember Castrainer and his silly reputation as the in-house comedian. I remember my big crush on legendary_pokegirl and her popular signature graphics.
I remember P.K. Hammer's fixation with Tool and a band called Big Black (don't Google it). I remember Star and her colossal post count and punk persona. I remember Jolty and his bubbly posts and Lil' Schu and her sheer popularity. I remember Teara and the way zhe alwayz wrote her postz. I remember girlgenius and her making me laugh all day. I remember Emma and her drawings and innuendos. I remember Forest Grovyle's art—legendary. I remember Signomi and the crazy art she made me. I remember Kylie—chan's love affair with everyone, mostly ebola. I remember Sammi changing her usertitle like dirty laundry. I remember Chairman Kaga's eloquent posting. I remember ~*Silent Tattsu*~'s big drama about PC not being what it used to be. Tattsu, oh man. She was a bona fide Misty fangirl with a way of writing that just made you think of a bright, sunny day. I remember that she disappeared and we never heard of her again. I remember oni_flygon and his ferociously well—written fictions. I remember LilyPichu and her poems and ethereal persona. I remember Mr Cat Dog and his sense of humor, but most of all our Kubrick, Kurosawa and Bergman conversations. I remember Kayleigh, Midori Chi, 22sa, Dakota, Abby, Suzu, TRIFORCE89, Arcanine, Lightning, Frostweaver, Kairi, wakachamo. I remember my first puny sentence here. just who knows when jirachi the wish maker and visitor of space fissure (jirachi and deoxys movies) arrive america? I remember ending up in charge of the writing forums. I remember having a reputation as a SM for closing threads with jokes and for having fun with trolls. I remember the staff forums, and falling out of love with PC. I remember the sloggy decision—making and our fiery temperaments. I remember thinking I did not want to take PC seriously. I wasn't having any semblance of fun. I remember thinking my rank wasn't gonna bring Amy back... or Niko, or Lily, or John, or Shana, or Karli or Kylie, or Cassie, or Geoff *, or Paige or Mandy or Kay or anyone. Most of all, I remember they were the reason why I came in the first place. In many ways, it feels like I was the last to leave. And still every year I dedicate a day or two to PC, because it still reminds me of them a little bit. Wait, what? Mork is STILL here? Mother of god. |
Eh, honestly, I don't think the place has changed drastically during my time here. I've managed to take long hiatuses (some planned, some not), and come back and re-integrate myself just fine. Members have came and went, but it happens on every forum; but the core elements of this place have remained pretty consistent throughout.
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Ok well I joined way back in 2002 that's like 14 years ago. Forums were pretty new back then
I never really had any bad experience back then. I was a good girl lol I do remember lots of things that happened through the years . Yes we did have some drama at some points But to me I always enjoyed this place and I always will. (and I have never changed my name lol ) :) |
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Lol yeah I know that I made that a very long time ago , keep things the same for now
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let's just say Treehouse is the embodiment of everything PC enforced rules against ~4 years ago.
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I joined in 2010 for ROM hacking and it has seriously changed since then. Teams used to be such a big deal and now we have the whole Beginner's Lounge which wasn't a thing until like last year iirc, and there was that old ROM hacking ideas subforum way back then, before even 2010 I think. Hackers back then were all very serious business but that attitude seems to have really relaxed these days, which is always nice.
I became a supporter back when we were organized by numbers and got rank one by donating one dollar. Takes a bit more these days to get the benefits. :P And one other random thing that I remember was the social groups that were linked from user profiles. Those were um... something. Yeah. |
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@flight First of all, I'm so happy that someone else can speak to how I'm feeling. Personally, it's a bit uncomfortable to think about. I can empathize with your experiences, but perhaps not so much with making new friends since I guess I haven't really.
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I think I agree with your realization that a lot of people might come here to distract themselves or escape from IRL stuff. That's definitely true for me to some extent. It's not the nicest thing to think about, but it makes sense. Now that I think about it, some of the people I used to hang with and aren't around so much anymore have a lot going for them IRL and I can't help but feel happy for them. I feel like our experiences on PC will eternally be tinged by melancholy and bittersweet. |
12 or 13 years ago, it really was possible to know everyone on the forum. And I did! And I made it my job to read every single post on the site. That burned me out fast, but I learned a lot about myself in the process, too.
In fact, I think that's what was best for me about PC. I got to hash out so much of who I was in a pretty safe environment, and I avoided pitfalls later in life. It was a lot less refined than now; it was almost like a chatroom. I think it reflected how young everyone involved was. |
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Everyone will really recall the time of their own highest activity to be the "best that PC has ever been" personally. It's really best to accept that it's time to move on and let the youngsters have their moment too. Also, we weren't *that* laid back... others have mentioned how we're lot stricter in this thread, and I remember that half of my modding duties involve reporting signature sizes and double posting lol. Our potatoes back then were not the same, you know! Quote:
I left PC in 2004, but I kept in contact with Oni_Flygon and Lilypichu (the same one who does voice acting and LoL youtube vids/LoL streamer) since then. I met 22sa in real life as we turn out to be from the same town, so we hung out in 2005-2006. I hardly chatted with Lightning/Cherrim when I was in PC, but magically we became good friends on twitter too in 10 years later in 2014 for some reason. Then I end up meeting newer PC members like TeamFail via these connections too, and he's the one who told me to come back for a revival visit from the grave for this thread. Of course, I also met Haruka-chan/Kairi in PC as well~ You are still probably the most life defining person that I've encountered in my life. I'm really grateful to have met you through PC here. In a thread about reminiscing the old PC, we can't possibly recount history and dig up dirt about the pass without this link about you, right? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Staff+Administrator&defid=1002897 |
Congrats to this thread for winning Thread of the Week!
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I think that even in my stay since 2003, Kwesi showed up maybe 5 times... you are dreaming a little too hard there on that one lol.
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I definitely agree with those who have said that PC had a much harsher environment back then than it does now. Getting picked on because of a simple mistake was the reason why I took a hiatus for a few months from here, and when I returned, I became a writing section hermit.
These days, there does seem to be a missing feeling of friendship here. While I do know more people here now and more people know me (if that's just because of my orange name), I don't really know people on the same level. There's not a lot of people here that I talk to on a daily basis, or in the same manner where we have long conversations. I think because we're--or at least I am--older now and not so attached to PC. Staff is definitely friendlier. The current staff seems like they're willing to listen to the members' problems and help the community, rather than ignoring someone just because they're a regular member. Mostly, I remember just how fractured PC was. The forum wasn't a big community of people. It was a collection of little communities. You had the manga fans, the writing group, the RPers, the Member Fanclubs group, the OVP posters, etc. Very rarely was there someone who floated around to the various sections and posted. These days, a lot of members post around in various sections, making PC far more of a bigger community than it was. |
I have only been here since 2012 , so the most major changes have been changes in forum titles. I remember when I joined, The Treehouse was called Other Voting Polls and it was way more lenient in the type of discussion allowed than it is now. Then there was Other Trivia, Other Clubs, and Other Chat & Discussion. God, the redundancy in those names makes me cry. I remember when posts in The Playground/Other Trivia didn't go towards your post count, and that section not getting that much traffic cause of that. Many of the places that were forums back then are now just sub-forums. Anime & Manga was Japanese Entertainment. I remember at one point Anime & Manga and Culture &Media were merged was on whole forum called General Entertainment. Then Anime & Manga became a sub-forum, and now it's back to being a separate forum. Really the only changed since 2012 are forum names and forums becoming sub-forums. Back when I joined, signatures and themes were a much bigger deal. People would spend hours making signatures and icons and would have set periods of times for how long they'd have said theme. Now people don't really put effort into signatures. Like me, I just find a gif off tumblr and use the same old links I've always used haha.
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The numbers, oh my gosh.
Nowadays, I don't think there's a thread that can surpass any of those numbers due to the various social medias, messenger apps, etc. etc. Back in the days we were (mainly) limited to ICQ, MSN, AOL, YM and forums. XD Hopefully PC is still here with us for many many years to come. (: |
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Honestly, I think this place will be more active than ever (well since I've been a member) if e get a new announcement in March/April. Even since the time that I've come back it seems that activity has increased.
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And I thought the DCC was active when I joined...Jesus is that 1 million views?? Dear lord. I think what's caused me to not be active is a lack of DCC and also a lack of active members I was friends with. The friends I had here is why i kept coming back. I miss that.
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Ah yes it's sad to see Treehouse DCC's are now becoming a thing of the past, and we all have the current leaders to blame. It's also weird getting used to Pokemon gaming sections without a catch-all Q&A thread, instead we're now limited to creating new threads if we have questions. Not the case for XY and ORAS though, likely because they're current generation.
Back in my day, the staff weren't as friendly. Or at least most of them. I remember how many bad run-ins I had with some now former mods. |
My younger PC days are getting fuzzy. That's probably a good thing. I remember being too obsessed about being a mod, and being on staff, and being in that clique... even though I felt like I was outside of the clique I wanted to be in, haha.
It's strange to me that y'all say staff was a lot meaner. Maybe it was because I was one of the nicer ones? ...was I one of the nicer ones? does anyone even remember me anymore if you're not following me on Twitter? .___. Then I remember how HQ could be and yeah it could get pretty heated. Or even in the mod sections, where there were some not-very-nice threads. And I participated in those threads because tee hee aren't some members just stupid? Siiiiiigh. I was quite obsessed with Other Voting Polls. It was my baby because... I don't even know why tbh. Maybe it was because I could post and not think too hard about things. For years, it was All Polls, All The Time, and that's all I wanted from it. My kneejerk reaction when it changed names and started going in Treehouse's current direction was It Changed, Now It Sucks. Then I realized that things change and that's a good thing! Y'all can probably get to know each other better and have more fun if staff is not breathing down your necks going YOU CAN'T TALK IN A POLL THREAD!! which probably happened too often back in my day. That was also around the time where mods were expected to be more positive influences to their sections and be more than just a glorified janitor. I'm not much of an ideas person and I was only mod by that point for the perks so I left. It was best for everyone. Old PC meant a lot to me as a teenager. It was my only source of socializing outside of school. I met a ton of cool people and got into stupid fights and cared about stupid staff positions too much but I don't even care. I was super invested -- maybe too much so -- but I had fun doing it. But it's a little hard to see older members be successful in real life now when I'm not successful at all due to my own mistakes. ^^; I don't come around anymore because I replaced my PC addiction with a Reddit addiction. D: Wish I could say I moved onto ~bigger and better things~ but not really. It's just that my current gaming interests are easier to talk about on Reddit for whatever reason. Every once in awhile I see PC linked over there -- usually because of ROM hacks and Pokemon fan games -- but every time I am, I'm like "hell yeah, PC!!" I'm proud of this forum even now. :') Also: I like that PC has a Twitter account! I don't visit the forum but I at least know y'all are still alive and kicking and having fun as always. That's actually why I logged on. I saw this thread get linked and went "I have opinions on that!!" and came to visit Treehouse to see what's up. I'm sorry I ended up rambling there. Quote:
A few months ago I ended up running into some old downloads from our MSN conversations and saw some really awful **** he said about some of the admins he hated. And I was like "...I put up with this guy why??" The answer is leaks. Sweet, sweet leaks. Does anyone even care about staff leaks anymore? Please tell me no. I'm glad people can't suddenly gain an admin position on PC because of a site and not fit in with the rest of the staff. Or that great staffers aren't restricted from being admins because of those silly rules. PC as a whole has definitely changed for the better. |
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Btw I love Erika's sig and avatar, haha. |
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I too miss the days of the popular DCCs. Even though I never posted in them, they were fun to read through because there was always something going on. |
Good gosh, back in my day, it was a think for 90% of the members here to display their PC family in their signature, which is not something I see too much of anymore. Oh, and back in my heyday, HeartGold & SoulSilver was its own section, too.
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alternatively: WHERE O WHERE HAS MY DCC GONE / WHERE O WHERE COULD SHE (or he!) BE
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I wonder how DCC will do in the long run if it comes back. A *long* time ago we needed one monthly, and then it decreased to seasonal later... with so many things that serve the same purpose to just chat with one another online, do you think DCC will last after the initial rush of activity due to nostalgia fuel?
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"Popular" it may be int he past, but whenever you make a post and 10 new posts would've flew by, you couldn't have any meaningful discussions at all. It always degenerated into weather talks, and a bunch of posts all directed to different posts in the past. It was pretty hectic.
There's a charm to some slightly longer posts that take at least a minute until there is a response ^_^ |
That was part of the fun, tbqh, having to keep up with all the simultaneous conversations.
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One thing that makes me feel old, and this forum, is about the pokemon anime. Over a decade ago back in 2005/2006 there were people who still honestly believed Misty would return to the show, or that the writers would reunite the original trio, etc. There was this huge Misty club that went on for like a decade from 2004-2011 before it got closed, haha.
Its kind of ironic how even 13 years later, thinking about all those people crying over Misty a decade ago and how they never got what they wanted. The writers really did get rid of her character permanently way back in 2002, so everyone who spent a decade whining about it never got the satisfaction of seeing her return. I'm indifferent so I don't care much, but it almost feels like those people were in vain and watching Misty fade away into oblivion in the anime means they wasted a decade of their lives for nothing. Its pretty funny when you stop to realize how long ago that was now. |
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Does anyone else love the "Discover Weekly" playlist on Spotify? I have found so many amazing songs through it shfujdodfz;kfhq
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i miss spey
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As others have mentioned, there was more hostility and exclusivity. At the same time it was a pretty magical time period from 2006-2008 where many of the members who were around during that time are still remembered today by those of us who have returned/those that never left. I would say the forums have gotten a lot nicer and there are a lot more tools for new users to get situated to the forums. But it was fun back then I'll admit.
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i'd also like to give a shoutout to mewthree wherever they may be in life
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The early days for me (2006 was when I got really into it) was all about Mixed Community Groups. All of my early friends (two of which I still talk to now) were in these clubs. The altaria and typhlosion club was the most random pairing of Pokémon but we loved it. There was a plusle and minun club that kept on getting yelled at by Kylie-Chan at the time no clue what her username is here. There was a dude who was super dodgy and I think he got banned but that was in the gold silver crystal club. He was trying to get members to play his rom hack. Then we had a club for every single type and it didn't really achieve anything. The cool club back in the day was the dragonair or Arcanine clubs iirc? You wanted to look good in those clubs because the cool people joined them. One of our own joined the DCC and we thought he was evil. Until two of us went there and eventually got told to stop posting so much. :') good old early days.
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