I'm quitting UHX. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, or via email. I like most of you, but this message board is mostly dark assumptions, arguments as opposed to discussions, generally dark vives, and topics I don't give a shit about.
How about we all leave?! Like a mass exodus... the skeleton crew of admins can watch the activity dwindle and then pull the plug. Seems like a good way to start 2017. A FRESH START! Maybe we can start a new collaborative project together or something.
LET THE PAST DIE!
See you somewhere else.
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This weekend UrHo was down for a bit cause we didn't pay the hosting bill (technical issues on my part) on time. Once we got the lights on I just started wondering about my own motivations and obligations and decided that while I love most of these people this is not the way I want to interact. I think it's how sometimes people feel they need to leave Facebook.
No new people can join without an invite code (because of spam) so we're like the last survivors on a dying colony. Obviously UrHo has played a huge part in my life and it's the foundation on which I built my understanding of the role the internet plays in my social life. But I question the value of holding on to a digital relic. There are so many more places to engage with people online now, and I'd love for us to have an UrHo group on Snapchat rather than this.
UH is not the center of my culture anymore, so I'm going to put my energy into other projects (and continue to collaborate and reach out to the people I met here).
Calling out for everyone to join me in ending it is a selfish attempt to eliminate the feeling of abandoning a loved project. (But I have no problem keeping the lights on. Energy and bandwidth are cheap!)
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Is anyone having K Board flashbacks?
I don't know how to use snapchat but I can figure it out. I will hang out with you wherever you go, if you'll have me
I think we might be confusing "politics not being fun anymore" with this board not being fun anymore?
It's very rare in 2016 to have a basically unmoderated space for discussion on the internet. Where folks have both the intelligence and social skills to participate in group communication in which a single errant hand on the wheel can send the whole group off the cliff.
It's also rare to have a non Facebook/Twitter/Instagram internet space for long-form discussions. Which as someone in the process of disengaging from the mental DOS attack known as social media, I have appreciated over the years.
I won't follow to another platform where "You Are The Product" but happy either to trail along behind the group to the next indy discussion board watering hole or mourn the death of another non-profit voice on Internet, Inc.
social media is rough stuff and I would miss this old-timey space
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JK but not really. :)
FFXIV isn't so bad. You can have guilds (free companies in FF) with like 8 people. Healers even get to DPS some in it. I'd be the Conjurer to anyone on this boards's inevitable Archer/Bard or Lancer. That game even has a fairly straightforward macro writing documentation. Ok, I'll shutup. :-B
Well, the 9-year-old was awake on the couch next to a sleeping Mike when I got home but STILL.
(PS: Maybe we could have a /r/Portland style all-caps rant thread where we can encourage a healthy outlet for our impotent rage?)