20 years of Languishing

[Gups]

20 years! It actually feels longer...well done everyone for still being around 

[FunkMonk]

KAPland 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

[Barrister]

KAPland 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.

 

[OttoVonBismarck]

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.

[grumbler]

[Hamilcar]

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.

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.

[Barrister]

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.

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.

[Sophie Scholl]

Probably a Discord channel.

[Barrister]

Probably 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"...

[FunkMonk]

Yeah Discord type services are the thing now. Although it's also basically IRC from back in the late 90s.

I miss mIRC 

[Grey Fox]

Undernet misses us too.

[grumbler]

Probably a Discord channel.

Discord is a terrible place to try to have ongoing discussions, though.

[Josquius]

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?

[FunkMonk]

Discord is best for large communities of like hundreds or thousands of users. It's for chat servers, basically a modernized IRC.

[Grey Fox]

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?

They don't know any other alternatives where there's only one community at the time.