I was feeling a little nostalgic when I saw on p'dox forum people were being amazed at those registered more than 10 years ago. I know mongers touched on it with this thread earlier this year (https://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,16694.0.html) but I wanted to say specifically cheers to Languish (in its incarnation post project Keewie :P).
I literally don't know what my life would be like without you all. :D
I also found this on p'dox forum from back in '03.
QuoteIf anyone wants to discuss the war with Iraq without as many restrictions of this board, then feel free to join the discussions over at Languish Forums. There is already a few of us from this board over there. :)
:cheers:
Christ we're getting old.
:cry: :cry: :cry:
This place is probably the most stable thing my life ever had.
I'm a late comer, only coming here in 2004, but it's for all intents and puposes my second living room and the longest I've been part of, well, anything. :)
Glad to have met you all in person or IRL (my natural shyness/introversion notwithstanding). :cheers:
Quote from: Josephus on September 20, 2023, 06:59:26 AMChrist we're getting old.
You might be getting old, I have arrived at that destination and let's not talk about Grumbler.
Onward to 20 more I guess.
This had always been my main online refuge from the flood of crap that infests almost every other online community I visit.
Twenty years is simply not enough. As Crazy Ivan says, let's do twenty more and then take stock of where we are.
I was originally a KAPLander who then migrated here. I think I saw a link in Buddha's Paradox profile that led me there? Oh, what a long strange trip it has been. :ccr
I was in one of the first iterations of the forum, but never posted much and missed the migrations. Then Larchie brought me here like... 10 years ago? Christ, tempus does indeed fucking fugit.
Yeah it's been a wild trip. For such an innocuous beginning (I mean - it was a board set up as refugees from a computer game forum so we could discuss the Iraq war) it's been a noticeable part of my life for these 20 years now.
Yeah it's been a bit of a thing.
:cheers: all
:cheers:
I can't imagine what life would be without this board. :)
I wasn't the first wave, but I think I was relatively soon. Don't recall how I even came. Wasn't much in the Iraq stuff. Think like one post I can recall. Was also part of KAPland.
Yeah, personally I'm a KAPlander. We got amalgamated into languish at some point.
Quote from: Jacob on September 20, 2023, 10:31:25 AMYeah, personally I'm a KAPlander. We got amalgamated into languish at some point.
I was just looking up about kapland on p'dox as I recall visiting at times but preferred the tamer waters of Languish.
I stumbled across this:
21 Aug 2003
QuoteI used to be a bit of a regular at the Lonely Planet Thorntree but haven't visited much lately.
I peek in at Languish and KAPland.
Other than that, I do most of my trash talking at bars and pubs :).
Jacob
Was that you?
:cheers:
Although I think I registered quite early, I only started posting here in earnest once I started my first full time job, so around 18-19 years ago.
As Garbon, I have trouble imagining a life without Languish being there. I suspect you guys greatly affected my English-language cultural and political exposure and as a result likely have had a big influence on the course of my life.
Quote from: garbon on September 20, 2023, 10:39:39 AMQuote from: Jacob on September 20, 2023, 10:31:25 AMYeah, personally I'm a KAPlander. We got amalgamated into languish at some point.
I was just looking up about kapland on p'dox as I recall visiting at times but preferred the tamer waters of Languish.
I stumbled across this:
21 Aug 2003
QuoteI used to be a bit of a regular at the Lonely Planet Thorntree but haven't visited much lately.
I peek in at Languish and KAPland.
Other than that, I do most of my trash talking at bars and pubs :).
Jacob
Was that you?
Yes most definitely (young) me :)
I was already here when you invaded but I don't quite remember it.
Quote from: Jacob on September 20, 2023, 10:31:25 AMYeah, personally I'm a KAPlander. We got amalgamated into languish at some point.
Yeah - I posted on KAPland for awhile (I even went to KAPapalooza!), but it had even less traffic than Languish (which was really hopping at one point). I think it just died, but then didn't we have a separate KAPland backroom here at Languish - which was mostly used for posting naked pics? I think we must have lost that during the great server re-set of 2009.
Quote from: Barrister on September 20, 2023, 12:03:17 PMQuote from: Jacob on September 20, 2023, 10:31:25 AMYeah, personally I'm a KAPlander. We got amalgamated into languish at some point.
Yeah - I posted on KAPland for awhile (I even went to KAPapalooza!), but it had even less traffic than Languish (which was really hopping at one point). I think it just died, but then didn't we have a separate KAPland backroom here at Languish - which was mostly used for posting naked pics? I think we must have lost that during the great server re-set of 2009.
Actually I remember there was a separate Kapland part of the backroom. But that died away.
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 20, 2023, 12:05:04 PMQuote from: Barrister on September 20, 2023, 12:03:17 PMQuote from: Jacob on September 20, 2023, 10:31:25 AMYeah, personally I'm a KAPlander. We got amalgamated into languish at some point.
Yeah - I posted on KAPland for awhile (I even went to KAPapalooza!), but it had even less traffic than Languish (which was really hopping at one point). I think it just died, but then didn't we have a separate KAPland backroom here at Languish - which was mostly used for posting naked pics? I think we must have lost that during the great server re-set of 2009.
Actually I remember there was a separate Kapland part of the backroom. But that died away.
Yeah I think we either got older and less pervy, or more likely with the even greater abundance of porn on the internet in the last 20 years it just became redundant.
Quote from: Barrister on September 20, 2023, 12:03:17 PMYeah - I posted on KAPland for awhile (I even went to KAPapalooza!), but it had even less traffic than Languish (which was really hopping at one point). I think it just died, but then didn't we have a separate KAPland backroom here at Languish - which was mostly used for posting naked pics? I think we must have lost that during the great server re-set of 2009.
We lost the posts and so on, but as I recall it went like this:
- KAPland and Languish were separate boards
- KAP stopped running KAPland. Languish hosted a separate KAPland area.
- The KAPland part of Languish got renamed "the Backroom".
- Enough non-KAPland folks got added to the Backroom over time that the KAPland identity disappeared.
20 years of lurking! How time flies.
I should post more. I'll make it my next-20-years resolution.
Bring back WKAP, home of the The Specials - You're Wondering Now sign-off! :punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEPfSWk0Lsw&ab_channel=tes74 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEPfSWk0Lsw&ab_channel=tes74)
I used to stream that for Katmai :lol: it's where I heard Sheilbh's voice (:wub:)
I miss WKAP. Wish I had gone to the meetups.
Damn we are old.
Quote from: Jacob on September 20, 2023, 10:31:25 AMWe got amalgamated into languish at some point.
Resistance was always futile.
Wow, been a long time.
Grab On so sentimental. :cry:
Cool thread.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2023, 02:11:57 AMGrab On so sentimental. :cry:
Cool thread.
And they say men have trouble expressing emotions to one another. :hug:
Really strange what things last.
Languish is Lindy.
Just don't complain about tornadoes in your backyard.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2023, 02:11:57 AMGrab On so sentimental. :cry:
Cool thread.
I think the site has mellowed a lot, as a whole. Partially everyone just growing up more, and partially because a lot of the edgier alumni are no longer here.
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 20, 2023, 08:52:35 AMQuote from: Josephus on September 20, 2023, 06:59:26 AMChrist we're getting old.
You might be getting old, I have arrived at that destination and let's not talk about Grumbler.
I'm 57... :(
Time to start planning a few years in advance the ultimate languish meet before you gadgies croak? :p
Quote from: Josquius on September 21, 2023, 05:33:25 AMTime to start planning a few years in advance the ultimate languish meet before you gadgies croak? :p
Maybe we should start a pool over who's gonna go first?
Quote from: Syt on September 21, 2023, 04:57:14 AMQuote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2023, 02:11:57 AMGrab On so sentimental. :cry:
Cool thread.
I think the site has mellowed a lot, as a whole. Partially everyone just growing up more, and partially because a lot of the edgier alumni are no longer here.
Also, people don't have that much time on their hands anymore. :P
Quote from: garbon on September 20, 2023, 06:32:36 AM(snip)
I also found this on p'dox forum from back in '03.
QuoteIf anyone wants to discuss the war with Iraq without as many restrictions of this board, then feel free to join the discussions over at Languish Forums. There is already a few of us from this board over there. :)
Who posted this? I was one of the early proponents of the move, but don't recall who else was doing it, and I can no longer log in to paradox forums.
(https://i.postimg.cc/DwVH6Ww6/image.png)
Original post: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/iraqi-stuff-here-only-part-3.77090/page-99#post-1425590
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I don't post very often but I've read this forum every day that I've had internet access.
I used to engage earlier on a lot more on political issues. But after a decade or so it dawned on me that those of you who think wrongly can never be convinced of the truth ;)
Quote from: Josephus on September 21, 2023, 08:34:26 AMI used to engage earlier on a lot more on political issues. But after a decade or so it dawned on me that those of you who think wrongly can never be convinced of the truth ;)
Good self reflection
:P
Languish . . . dying since 2003.
I occasionally find some of the godawful Photochops I used ot make for KAPland or Languish in my archives.
Here's to twenty more years :cheers:
It is kind of amazing when I think of all the things that have happened in my life since I started posting on Languish. Basically my entire adult life.
Love you guys. Here is to 20 more when we can start grumbling about living on a fixed income and chatting about our grandchildren.
We need new blood.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 21, 2023, 09:53:10 AMQuote from: FunkMonk on September 21, 2023, 09:23:16 AMWe need new blood.
We need legacy blood.
Languish's continuation depends on those of you with crotch fruit*.
*our forum search couldn't tell me if two or one words. :sleep:
Quote from: Syt on September 21, 2023, 08:11:19 AMOriginal post: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/iraqi-stuff-here-only-part-3.77090/page-99#post-1425590
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Thanks. Another member I didn't recall until now. Which user with "Captain" in the name was the one we used to tease GF with by pretending we thought that GF was just a sock of the "Captain" poster? Or maybe it wasn't "Captain" but some other title.
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 21, 2023, 09:23:16 AMWe need new blood.
We also need to get the old blood to start posting here again.
Quote from: grumbler on September 21, 2023, 11:54:11 AMQuote from: Syt on September 21, 2023, 08:11:19 AMOriginal post: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/iraqi-stuff-here-only-part-3.77090/page-99#post-1425590
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Thanks. Another member I didn't recall until now. Which user with "Captain" in the name was the one we used to tease GF with by pretending we thought that GF was just a sock of the "Captain" poster? Or maybe it wasn't "Captain" but some other title.
Are you thinking of General Wolfe?
Quote from: grumbler on September 21, 2023, 11:54:11 AMQuote from: Syt on September 21, 2023, 08:11:19 AMOriginal post: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/iraqi-stuff-here-only-part-3.77090/page-99#post-1425590
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Thanks. Another member I didn't recall until now. Which user with "Captain" in the name was the one we used to tease GF with by pretending we thought that GF was just a sock of the "Captain" poster? Or maybe it wasn't "Captain" but some other title.
Captain Crunch.
... of Incan Torpedo Boat fame.
We should advertise.
ARE YOU GRUMPY AND OLD? JOIN US NOW. FREE HISTORY BOOK ON REGISTRATION.
Quote from: Razgovory on September 21, 2023, 12:04:08 PMQuote from: grumbler on September 21, 2023, 11:54:11 AMQuote from: Syt on September 21, 2023, 08:11:19 AMOriginal post: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/iraqi-stuff-here-only-part-3.77090/page-99#post-1425590
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Thanks. Another member I didn't recall until now. Which user with "Captain" in the name was the one we used to tease GF with by pretending we thought that GF was just a sock of the "Captain" poster? Or maybe it wasn't "Captain" but some other title.
Captain Crunch.
Captain Crunch was definitely both a Captain and a former poster, but I'm convinced grumbles was thinking of Gen. Wolfe. It wasn't so much we thought one was a sock puppet of the other, but people would confuse their names, either accidentally or for comedic effect. Think General Fox, Grey Wolfe, that kind of thing.
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 21, 2023, 12:48:09 PMWe should advertise.
ARE YOU GRUMPY AND OLD? JOIN US NOW. FREE HISTORY BOOK ON REGISTRATION.
:lol:
We can start a Languish: the next generation. Those of you with kids have them start a new Languish.
Quote from: Josephus on September 21, 2023, 01:18:02 PMWe can start a Languish: the next generation. Those of you with kids have them start a new Languish.
Yeah, because if there's one thing kids really want it's to hang out with their dad's friends when they're in a mood to lecture and nitpick :lol:
Maybe get our children to speak to each other?
Looking at my posts history and wow did I post a lot in 2009, ~1000 posts.
Usually, I find the tone of my past self to be quite annoying. Do you guys feel the same about your own?
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 21, 2023, 01:23:38 PMUsually, I find the tone of my past self to be quite annoying. Do you guys feel the same about your own?
... I'm not going to look :lol:
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 21, 2023, 01:23:38 PMUsually, I find the tone of my past self to be quite annoying. Do you guys feel the same about your own?
Ugh, yes.
Yeah, I prefer not to read back. :D Although I can use my improving English as an excuse.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 21, 2023, 01:23:38 PMUsually, I find the tone of my past self to be quite annoying. Do you guys feel the same about your own?
I find that my posts from the past are as close to perfection as are the ones I make now.
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Quote from: Grey Fox on September 21, 2023, 01:23:38 PMUsually, I find the tone of my past self to be quite annoying. Do you guys feel the same about your own?
Past as in yesterday?
Quote from: Barrister on September 21, 2023, 12:57:40 PMQuote from: Razgovory on September 21, 2023, 12:04:08 PMQuote from: grumbler on September 21, 2023, 11:54:11 AMQuote from: Syt on September 21, 2023, 08:11:19 AMOriginal post: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/iraqi-stuff-here-only-part-3.77090/page-99#post-1425590
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Thanks. Another member I didn't recall until now. Which user with "Captain" in the name was the one we used to tease GF with by pretending we thought that GF was just a sock of the "Captain" poster? Or maybe it wasn't "Captain" but some other title.
Captain Crunch.
Captain Crunch was definitely both a Captain and a former poster, but I'm convinced grumbles was thinking of Gen. Wolfe. It wasn't so much we thought one was a sock puppet of the other, but people would confuse their names, either accidentally or for comedic effect. Think General Fox, Grey Wolfe, that kind of thing.
You are correct. Thanks.
Quote from: Valmy on September 21, 2023, 09:12:56 AMIt is kind of amazing when I think of all the things that have happened in my life since I started posting on Languish. Basically my entire adult life.
Love you guys. Here is to 20 more when we can start grumbling about living on a fixed income and chatting about our grandchildren.
Yeah. I literally moved to another country and back as well.
To 20 more indeed! :cheers:
Quote from: Jacob on September 21, 2023, 01:20:16 PMQuote from: Josephus on September 21, 2023, 01:18:02 PMWe can start a Languish: the next generation. Those of you with kids have them start a new Languish.
Yeah, because if there's one thing kids really want it's to hang out with their dad's friends when they're in a mood to lecture and nitpick :lol:
A New Languish.
Quote from: grumbler on September 21, 2023, 11:54:11 AMQuote from: Syt on September 21, 2023, 08:11:19 AMOriginal post: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/iraqi-stuff-here-only-part-3.77090/page-99#post-1425590
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Thanks. Another member I didn't recall until now. Which user with "Captain" in the name was the one we used to tease GF with by pretending we thought that GF was just a sock of the "Captain" poster? Or maybe it wasn't "Captain" but some other title.
Captain Carrot
I spoke to KainShinra once or twice on Reddit
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 21, 2023, 01:23:38 PMUsually, I find the tone of my past self to be quite annoying. Do you guys feel the same about your own?
I really came off as condescending know-it-all back then. :(
Yes. I'd erase myself if I could.
I enjoy reading my old posts. They remind me of the time before the humiliating treaty of Neerlandida; before I led the 32 rebellions against the government and lost all of them; before fathered 17 sons with 17 different women and before I faced the firing squad; experiences which have left me the bitter shell of a man that I am today.
In any event here's to another 20 years :cheers:
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 21, 2023, 01:23:38 PMUsually, I find the tone of my past self to be quite annoying. Do you guys feel the same about your own?
You couldn't pay me to go back and read my old posts.
Quote from: Savonarola on September 22, 2023, 02:23:25 PMI enjoy reading my old posts. They remind me of the time before the humiliating treaty of Neerlandida; before I led the 32 rebellions against the government and lost all of them; before fathered 17 sons with 17 different women and before I faced the firing squad; experiences which have left me the bitter shell of a man that I am today.
In any event here's to another 20 years :cheers:
You ARE old. :lol:
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on September 21, 2023, 03:34:12 PMI spoke to KainShinra once or twice on Reddit
KanShinra was a metal fan, right? He had a band with Carolus Rex?
Shitgoat, IIRC
Was friends with TheLotus.
Graf von Geld.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 23, 2023, 04:40:56 PMGraf von Geld.
Thanks. (And how is that(Me being still none the wiser)) :D
Count de Money.
Really mongers. Tsk tsk
Quote from: Josephus on September 22, 2023, 04:22:42 PMQuote from: Savonarola on September 22, 2023, 02:23:25 PMI enjoy reading my old posts. They remind me of the time before the humiliating treaty of Neerlandida; before I led the 32 rebellions against the government and lost all of them; before fathered 17 sons with 17 different women and before I faced the firing squad; experiences which have left me the bitter shell of a man that I am today.
In any event here's to another 20 years :cheers:
You ARE old. :lol:
And I still haven't gotten my pension. :(
;)
I am surprised so many posters wouldn't go back and read their old posts. I do from time to time, I like to see what I was up to and what was going on in the world. (It probably helps that in the previous incarnation of this forum I had been set straight a few times about the cellular industry and electrical engineering. That helped me to realize that the world and this forum could live without my expert opinion on all subjects. ;) )
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on September 21, 2023, 03:34:12 PMCaptain Carrot
I spoke to KainShinra once or twice on Reddit
Oh lord, I forgot about the sock saga (Captain Carrot was me until I got tired of the confusion between me and Ironfoundersson and rebranded with a nick from a comics project that never took off).
Was
supposed to be the one making Shit Goat a trio, but turned out I was just way, way, way too easily embarrassed. Still in touch with Kain, who came out as "her" a few years ago and has been married for a year or two now- last time I saw her in person was at my wedding almost 5 years ago.
Kain was actually the one who brought me in to KAPland, and after we joined (mostly to make the mod elections more "interesting"- IIRC, we were mostly brigading to boost Saskganesh's poll results), I tried for a while to get her more active here on Languish without much success.
KAPland elections were probably my single most favourite part of EUOT - KAPland - Languish. Great times :nostalgia:
Quote from: Jacob on September 24, 2023, 11:46:06 PMKAPland elections were probably my single most favourite part of EUOT - KAPland - Languish. Great times :nostalgia:
This is your reminder that I am STILL the President of Languish OT (aka POLOT) until another President is elected to replace me...
It might be many years ago but I still fondly remember the KAPland antics.
Was a less of a lurker over there.
20 years! It actually feels longer...well done everyone for still being around
Quote from: Barrister on September 25, 2023, 02:54:45 PMQuote from: Jacob on September 24, 2023, 11:46:06 PMKAPland elections were probably my single most favourite part of EUOT - KAPland - Languish. Great times :nostalgia:
This is your reminder that I am STILL the President of Languish OT (aka POLOT) until another President is elected to replace me...
Sounds like we need some sort of insurrection
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 26, 2023, 08:23:21 AMQuote from: Barrister on September 25, 2023, 02:54:45 PMQuote from: Jacob on September 24, 2023, 11:46:06 PMKAPland elections were probably my single most favourite part of EUOT - KAPland - Languish. Great times :nostalgia:
This is your reminder that I am STILL the President of Languish OT (aka POLOT) until another President is elected to replace me...
Sounds like we need some sort of insurrection
After my time as POLOT X (which included a series of funny-to-me X-related avatars) is when Ank took over the forum. He changed POLOT to PMOLOT (Prime Minister of Languish OT), but I maintained that change was illegitimate and thus I am still the President until new Presidential elections are held.
:cool:
I'm still a part of a few "old style" privately hosted message boards like this, all that I joined around a flurry of online debating I was doing around the first GWB administration and the Iraq War. All are pretty reduced in number obviously--something I often, grimly wonder about is a few posters like MB we know have passed on to the great beyond but I sometimes wonder how many of the ones who just "vanished" over the years have also passed on.
(https://media.tenor.com/N_8p8kIvWxAAAAAC/alive-dead.gif)
Quote from: OttoVonBismarck on September 26, 2023, 03:38:52 PMI'm still a part of a few "old style" privately hosted message boards like this, all that I joined around a flurry of online debating I was doing around the first GWB administration and the Iraq War. All are pretty reduced in number obviously--something I often, grimly wonder about is a few posters like MB we know have passed on to the great beyond but I sometimes wonder how many of the ones who just "vanished" over the years have also passed on.
So these types of message boards are a subculture born at a very specific moment in time. Super interesting.
Could you start a languish today? I guess it would be rather hard as everyone's attention span is shorter and people prefer short form video.
Quote from: Hamilcar on September 27, 2023, 03:18:04 PMQuote from: OttoVonBismarck on September 26, 2023, 03:38:52 PMI'm still a part of a few "old style" privately hosted message boards like this, all that I joined around a flurry of online debating I was doing around the first GWB administration and the Iraq War. All are pretty reduced in number obviously--something I often, grimly wonder about is a few posters like MB we know have passed on to the great beyond but I sometimes wonder how many of the ones who just "vanished" over the years have also passed on.
So these types of message boards are a subculture born at a very specific moment in time. Super interesting.
Could you start a languish today? I guess it would be rather hard as everyone's attention span is shorter and people prefer short form video.
You could form something similar, but it would be a Facebook group or a sub-reddit or something.
Probably a Discord channel.
Quote from: Sophie Scholl on September 27, 2023, 03:47:53 PMProbably a Discord channel.
Yeah even as I was typing it I was thinking "Facebook and reddit are probably already a bit outdated, it's probably something I'm missing"...
Yeah Discord type services are the thing now. Although it's also basically IRC from back in the late 90s.
I miss mIRC :cry:
Undernet misses us too.
Quote from: Sophie Scholl on September 27, 2023, 03:47:53 PMProbably a Discord channel.
Discord is a terrible place to try to have ongoing discussions, though.
I find so too with discord. I don't get its appeal. Its crap for continuing discussions and its not as good as whatsapp and the like for instant messaging style discussions.
I know its voice channel and game integrations are supposed to be good but... what else is there to it?
Are teh yoof really using it so heavily as a standard chat place?
Discord is best for large communities of like hundreds or thousands of users. It's for chat servers, basically a modernized IRC.
Quote from: Josquius on September 28, 2023, 07:21:27 AMI find so too with discord. I don't get its appeal. Its crap for continuing discussions and its not as good as whatsapp and the like for instant messaging style discussions.
I know its voice channel and game integrations are supposed to be good but... what else is there to it?
Are teh yoof really using it so heavily as a standard chat place?
They don't know any other alternatives where there's only one community at the time.
I actually enjoy Discord. I've found that a well moderated, an agreeable community, and multi-channel breakdown by topic allows for great communication and for staying on topic and in a manageable way where discussions can continue without devolving into chaos. With content/concept titles for different channels within a Discord server, you can look at those that interest you and ignore those that don't. It honestly just feels like a slightly different setup than what we have here. To me at least. YMMV