(09-22-2015, 03:08 AM)Foxberry Wrote:(09-22-2015, 03:00 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: I remember T1/T2 and I wanna say there was a T3 but it was iffy and a lot of people didn't recognize it. Â And yeah, Yahoo basically destroyed it by getting rid of the Arts & Entertainment section. Â They probably had good reason, as the entire place was like a Chris Hanson sting on steriods. Â There were sooooooooo many underaged people in there cybering left, right, and sideways with adults. Â In fact, I seem to recall someone ending up going to jail because their character was involved with a character played by a 13 year old.
Actually yes, I think there was a T3. As for the jail; I heard that as well- and I also heard that was the reason why the chats were closed. But such was rumor.
A lot of people missed the golden age of the Yahoo forums. Â It's kind of depressing. Â I ran the Hotel Auroria thread (the Volins thread) for between a year and two years pretty much daily. Â Generally with about 15 actual players in the room, sometimes more sometimes less. Â They were good times, though. Â A mulit-para RPers dream.
The death knell for a lot of us came with the posting limit. Â It must have been sometime in the 90s when the forums dropped from allowing what I think were about 700 characters in a post to about 150. Â It made setting up a scene almost impossible, and it really ruined the way you could edit your posts and type up the setting you wanted. Â This was probably six months after I'd ended the Auroria threads, but it's certainly what sent me to MMORPGs full time for my roleplaying needs.
But there were some glory days on the forums. Â I still remember a lot of those threads fondly. Â We ran a whole Shadowrun campaign without dice rolls, just freestyle RP. Â You could have Alucard inspired vampires having religious conversations with witch hunting priests. Â They were great times.
Once the line limit was cut to Hell and back, though, that pretty much disappeared. Â Then there was nothing but T-series fights (God knows that's all you had space for). Â When you're outside a game and the entire whole of your character and actions has to be written by you (since a game like FFXIV handles a lot of that for us), that text limit was outright murderous. Â I can't, to this day, figure out why they did it. Â It wasn't like the people who were doing the most damage on any of the IMers or forums were the ones who typed a lot.
But, such as it was. Â Where are the IM programs now, right?
