I wonder what happened to the IRC channel
New theme music also a boxAs I recall, a good chunk of the people who used it wandered over to the channel run by Wack D and then kind of wandered away to other things. I joined Tumblr because Wack'd was there, and now they only make a couple of appearances a year. Mostly to use their encyclopedic knowledge of webcomics for mischief.
(edited because apparently they added nonbinary pronouns on their troper profile in 2018)
Though on the other hand, I think I'd wandered away from the IRC channel before all that drama happened.
Edited by TParadox on Feb 9th 2024 at 7:45:26 AM
Fresh-eyed movie blogwait did we have an irc channel after FE nuked the original from records because he didnt run it? i know Bon Sequitur ran or had something to do with the original
i know the original still kept it on as #tropers even after FE cutlisted the page. i cant even remember what the page was called :(
i think #yackfest had a channel too
Edited by MsOranjeDiscoDancer on Feb 9th 2024 at 8:08:45 AM
hail, holy queen of the sea, you're whirling-in-rags, you're vast and you're sadThe IRC channel was separate from TV Tropes, so FE could cut its page (Troper IRC Channel) but not the channel itself.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIJBM turned into a hot mess all on its own. It didn't need any help from the Goons. Tropers are the reason they can't have fun/nice things because they will inevitably ruin it if some sort of set enforced rules are not laid out and adhered to. Even then, that isn't a guarantee. See the ultimate fate of Troper Tales and color text in the wiki section. FE was not the only one unhappy with the situation in IJBM. It required quite a large amount of mod time to look after that one section to the point the mods had almost no time for other things.
Who watches the watchmen?Color text is back on the wiki now (not intentionally though). The official mod stance on it was that it's ok to use sparingly on the main wiki when appropriate like for color tropes. It being disabled for so long killed it being used as a trend so most tropers coming up aren't aware of the markup + it's almost never used outside of some color tropes/indexes (ex:Purple is the New Trope) and JFF pages.
Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 10th 2024 at 1:54:31 PM
Macron's notesDidn't know that. I honestly wish it was still dead. I remember the mess it made and the Sisyphean task it was to get it policed before it got cut. Thankfully, the public at large is unaware of it and that it has the potential for "FUN."
Who watches the watchmen?Aye, there is the suggestion that colour markup be enabled only on particular pages, specifically to prevent its use in graffiti.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanThat sounds like a good idea.
Our site is weird but sometimes oddly predictable.
Who watches the watchmen?thanks septimus, ive been meaning to go look the page up on archive.org to see what it was like back then
Tuefel Hunden IV: no i know it wasnt the goons getting IJBM cancelled but it felt like it was the final straw. P5 didnt go up until the goons pointed out all the gross fanservice examples though FE was iirc planning to add something like it before the goon rush
i remember arguing with people on the original incarnation of So Bad Its Horrible and if i recall IJBM was partially spawned out of that. another issue was that Fast Eddie participated in the original page, albeit to add a Superf*ckers (sic: yes that's the title) pic. funny enough that is how i found out about James Kochalka Superstar
i feel like that, since jff/sugar wiki is taken care of and i rarely see stuff like Evil text being used + AC now forcing a line break, most editors know not to wild out w/ it and we are far past the days of natter...
...but then again, i likely just jinxed it
Edited by MsOranjeDiscoDancer on Feb 16th 2024 at 10:58:35 AM
hail, holy queen of the sea, you're whirling-in-rags, you're vast and you're sadYou don't use the Q word. :P Oh man I forgot about so bad its horrible.
The the ad nuking from the Goons likely being culprits was definitely a "we are done with this" point. Honestly I was happy to see more than a few pieces of that content get the axe.
Who watches the watchmen?whats teh Q word
New theme music also a boxyeah that was how i remember it. obv fuck lowtax, his clones, and every goon who hid their shitty tendencies behind a veneer of exposing ~gross nerds~, but the site was a hot fuckin mess. the goon swarm against Reddit happened around the same time and i kind of like how people do not remember Leddit used to be a pedo-friendly shithole
yeah what IS the q word?
hail, holy queen of the sea, you're whirling-in-rags, you're vast and you're sadI follow AmaLee on Twitter / X as I've gone down the Virtual YouTuber rabbit hole.
Amalee did a cover of the Kim Possible theme - and was asked on Youtube what "page me" means.
The video in question:
to be fair, growing up, i dont know anyone who knew how to use a pager except maybe when i was in kindergarten in the tail end of the 90s or something
hail, holy queen of the sea, you're whirling-in-rags, you're vast and you're sadMy father had a pager for a few years before his job gave him a cell phone. He had a couple of different models of pager, because I remember the upgrade to the kind that can display text messages. I never quite worked out how to send messages to it. Obviously it was SMS, but as we didn't have cell phones, that wasn't an option. Supposedly you could send an email to number @ carrier, but I tried it once and it didn't work.
Fresh-eyed movie blogThe email thing actually still worked for texts for a long time, at least on Verizon. I haven't used it in ages, so I'm not sure if they still do it.
ETA: I just tried it, and it does still work!
Edited by lee4hmz on Apr 15th 2024 at 3:33:18 PM
online since 1993 | huge retrocomputing and TV nerd | lee4hmz.info (under construction) | heapershangout.comsending a text message/photo to my email is something I've done at least once
New theme music also a boxI'm pretty sure I just didn't actuallly understand how it worked.
Fresh-eyed movie blogYou know this is maybe the first time I've used this forum in...10 years? Wild.
Anyway, see you in 2034!
Wow that is a blast from the past. Good to see you again.
Who watches the watchmen?I saw a single edit I wanted to make and then wandered onto the forum for old time's sake.
I keep looking at my avatar and feeling bad about it. If the Diamond is Unbreakable anime was new last time I was here...was that really that long ago? Guess that's why I came to this thread in particular, huh?
Don't feel too bad. I have to sell alcohol to people half my age.
Who watches the watchmen?
oh so THAT was what it was, i remember reading the thread before it got renamed to the nunnery
and yeah i remember eddie going after IJBM and the IRC channel as a result; i cant remember if it was eddie getting mad IJBM criticised him or if it was too-late damage control after the goonswarm
hail, holy queen of the sea, you're whirling-in-rags, you're vast and you're sad