I kinda miss forums
Before Facebook and Twitter and Blogs and all that, forums were much more prevalent. Cool stuff happened on forums. In my experience, it was less about socializing and more about collaborating on projects. In a way, forums helped me ‘find myself’ – that is, what I love to do. I learned so much by participating in weird little challenges, projects, collaborations, etc. In order to participate, I’d often times have to learn something new, experiment, step outside my comfort zone. When one of my own fun projects that I hosted on a forum turned into a business, I started to participate a lot less.
But man, things like Quilts and Photoshop Tennis on Dreamless.org (gone but not forgotten) … or K10K’s matchmaker … or crazy YayHooray projects … they really made an impact.
Everyone out there participating on forums: stop talking nonsense and start doing something constructive! (And yes, that goes for me too)
Your account on B3S is still active. :)
Oh, man. I had some good times on forums back in the day. But they’re such a wasteland these days. Like the comments section on any YouTube clip.
Sad!
I miss helpful forums. I used to post programming questions and get helpful answers from awesome people. Now I get someone, who clearly hasn’t understood my question, telling me I should do what I’m trying to do differently, even though they don’t know what I’m doing. Meh.