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Post by Ferntail on Aug 8, 2017 23:43:52 GMT -5
I'm wondering what all of your reasons are for still being a part of these forums, even after the officials demise. I'm wondering if most of you still read the books or are just here because your friends are here. Or maybe you are all here because you don't want to leave something you used to (or think) you love. I'm very curious.
For me I was on the original official forums back in 2010 and on until a few years before it was scrapped. I no longer read the books but I do remember logging on and rping for hours with my friends and enjoying forum drama at my fingertips. I come back only to remember and enjoy a bit of what is left. But honestly it doesn't seem as enjoyable with so few people. What do you guys think?
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Post by wadevvilson on Aug 8, 2017 23:50:42 GMT -5
I honestly just came back because some friends promised me they were going to reboot an old group I was in. Turns out, that meant "leave Hawk to reboot the group and then not communicate with them for like weeks on end". And I was on the official forums since 2011-2012 or so, but I was lurking since around 2009.
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Post by Dingoleap on Aug 9, 2017 0:21:21 GMT -5
Im one of the people who's here because I wasn't ready to leave. I've met so many wonderful people on here, and the forums are literally my only way to contact most of them, and I certainly wasn't ready to leave them behind, so here I am.
The forums have been pretty much my number one tool for getting my art and writing 'out there' and helping me improve, so that's part of the reason why I'm still hanging around.
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Post by tiger beetle on Aug 9, 2017 0:23:01 GMT -5
comic pictures of bugs a couple friends Pokémon
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Post by sand dollar on Aug 9, 2017 0:26:01 GMT -5
when the forums closed i was actually devastated. like i haven't touched the books since 2014 or so and most of the people i was close to decided not to join the wcrf / have been inactive since it opened, but i wasn't ready to completely let go of the forums. i was on the wcf way too much from 2012-2015 and i was severely attached to it. i'm not as active now but i guess i like the community here. it's different from any other site i've seen, maybe because it's more PG ?? and i feel like i can come here for advice or drop in when i need to kill time. it's nice to be a member even if i'm not on as much as i used to be. i like seeing that the wcf still remains in some form
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 0:28:46 GMT -5
idk
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Post by mickle on Aug 9, 2017 0:46:16 GMT -5
honestly i feel obligated to come here just so i can finish the stupid pasta name thing. once i finish that, idk. but i stay cuz its a good time killer, i guess.
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Post by alfred on Aug 9, 2017 1:15:31 GMT -5
it's b/c i have no other choice. xp and after 7+ years it's hard to change old habits.
i also just kind of like it here and find you guys rather cool regardless of the stigma this place carries at times. roleplaying's been fun, otd's been entertaining, and i find it far better than surfing mindlessly through the internet everyday.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Aug 9, 2017 1:38:40 GMT -5
OOC I'm here for some of my roleplays, my friends, and this is also the only place I can really come on the internet. It's this weird internet home now and I would probably have a hard time leaving. Plus not to mention this is the only place I can come to share my stupid art so that's a plus.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 5:40:55 GMT -5
Back in the day the old WCF was really a nice little escape for me from the real world. I kinda forgot about it in later years (aside from some occasional lurking), and only re-remembered thanks to Moonkitti's video. I was really upset, since I never felt I really got the chance to "connect" with many forumers on the old one (mostly a fault of my own). So I told myself I'd try and come back to this one, try it out for a few weeks, see what happened
Needless to say it exceeded my expectations in a lot of ways. Since the community was so much smaller here, I instantly felt closer to a lot of you. I also kinda wanted to bring justice to myself, since I was kinda in that Angsty-Teen-Stage when I was active on the old forums. I felt like you guys didn't know the "real" me. So here I am, haha.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 5:41:49 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 5:48:11 GMT -5
Ensemble has glued me here and will continue to do so for a very long time. also because outside of school this is usually the closest thing I have to social contact
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 7:12:55 GMT -5
im used to the layout of the site and the way things are run i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ old habits die hard
plus the old site meant a lot to me when i was younger, and when i found out the new one would allow people to be open about their sexulaities, and have custom avatars and pm, and basically everything anyone had wanted in the old one, i was pretty hyped
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Post by Northstar3213 on Aug 9, 2017 8:28:09 GMT -5
Because I have no friends
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Post by Sησω on Aug 9, 2017 8:35:40 GMT -5
Roleplaying is my main reason for staying.
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tord
tordedd king
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Post by tord on Aug 9, 2017 8:50:33 GMT -5
i want to talk about cats
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 9:47:21 GMT -5
what else is there to do?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 10:43:08 GMT -5
I have nothing else in my life
also I have my secret reasons
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All hail me, the flower-flushing queen of Prague
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Post by 𝓣𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓵 on Aug 9, 2017 11:52:55 GMT -5
I've grown really used to being on a forum. My friends are here. I still read the books, though I've lost interest.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 12:17:05 GMT -5
i cant leave theres honestly no real reason i havent left, other than this place has been a part of my life for somewhere around 5 years now and i just cant leave it
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Post by 🎃❅❖.Şp໐໐kฯຟiຖ໓.❖❅🎃 on Aug 9, 2017 12:44:15 GMT -5
Been going on these cat forums from as far back as 2009. No I don't have a lot of friends and I don't lead a busy life but after like .. almost 8 years of this stuff it's hard to let it go. I can't help but find more enjoyment on this site than on other sites. And well, I was thinking of trying to get back into the books.
But aside that, I lead a rather large rp and I can't just abandon it. After the official forums closed down, I really thought the last bit of what I had from being 11 was over. tbh if these forums weren't here i'd probably have taken the closing down of the old forums a lot harder. Especially because I'd lose my friends I came to care about a lot.
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Post by mymerlincat on Aug 9, 2017 12:47:20 GMT -5
I hadn't been on in years but I got the email saying the officials were closing so I decided to comeback. I met my girlfriend here so clearly that was the right thing. I don't come much anymore but this will always hold a special place in my heart because of that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 13:38:31 GMT -5
i'm mostly just bored over the summer and am gonna disappear again once school starts up again so if we're pals and u wanna talk still pm me for my tumblr or twitter or discord info and i also miss a forum layout. it's a lot more conducive to discussion and interacting w others than tumblr or twitter tend to me for me
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Aug 9, 2017 14:31:03 GMT -5
ahhhh tbh my pals on christianland, we're not ~super charty~ but when we do talk i never regret it ive come to trust our little close knit community a lot and theyve become a source of comfort on bad days
im also very nostalgic and sentimental. very hard for me to let go of that which ive grown familiar. especially after moving from my childhood city, i clung much more desperately to the connections that didnt get left behind.
im too much of a coward to leave. of what letting go of this place would mean, even though i despise 78% of it. esp since im going to college which is another unfamiliar experience. its one of my few lifelines to my childhood that i still have an opportunity to cling to. too much emotional attachment.
i didnt come here for friends or community. in fact all of my friends had left the forums years before. im just stuck with an unhealthy dependence on this place, a symbol of the childhood i lost too soon and still suffer a lack of emotional closure over.
EDIT: wow this got deep
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Post by wadevvilson on Aug 9, 2017 16:21:43 GMT -5
i'm mostly just bored over the summer and am gonna disappear again once school starts up again so if we're pals and u wanna talk still pm me for my tumblr or twitter or discord info and i also miss a forum layout. it's a lot more conducive to discussion and interacting w others than tumblr or twitter tend to me for me Yeah, I also feel like the layout of this place is a lot neater than other places.
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Post by indecisive on Aug 9, 2017 16:57:14 GMT -5
It feels familiar, and it's decent for the occasional roleplay or chat. This place is pretty much the only form of social media I have. I keep trying to quit, but so far all that's constituted is several months-long hiatuses and sporadic activity. I always end up coming back eventually, either out of boredom or force of habit. But I don't exactly have friends here and I haven't touched a warriors book in years, so I have no idea why I'm still here. Someone please help me escape this blue hellhole.
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Post by Thunderlake on Aug 9, 2017 16:59:57 GMT -5
nobody ever leaves
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Post by wadevvilson on Aug 9, 2017 17:09:26 GMT -5
You're here forever. Forever.
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