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Post by pompi on Jun 29, 2018 16:04:22 GMT -5
Hi,
I have been visiting this board a while ago.
I wonder if it's still alive and if there is a Discord channel for it?
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Post by Zeithri on Jul 1, 2018 13:17:17 GMT -5
Sorta. I stumble in here every now and then to see if there's any activity going on.
If there'a Discord channel? Not that I know of. Not that I personally would join something like that because well... I feel that such a channel would negate the usefulness of a forum all-together ?_? But that's me and I'm old and rusty.
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Post by RyuKisargi on Jul 18, 2019 10:49:32 GMT -5
There is a Falcom discord, but.
No, forum is kinda dead. It'll come back tho.
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Post by Fiel on Jul 19, 2019 13:48:40 GMT -5
Hopefully, since nobody is talking about Ys9.
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Post by Xalphenos on Jul 25, 2019 1:23:22 GMT -5
Yeah. It’s kind of sad. This forum used ti be one of my favorite online communities. It seemed as though once English availability of this series became so easy/widespread the need for this place dwindled. Still a lot of good memories.
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Post by wav on Jan 2, 2021 18:35:34 GMT -5
Yeah. It’s kind of sad. This forum used ti be one of my favorite online communities. It seemed as though once English availability of this series became so easy/widespread the need for this place dwindled. Still a lot of good memories. sob i was told this was still alive  |
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Post by Xalphenos on Jan 5, 2021 16:20:39 GMT -5
sob i was told this was still alive Not so much unfortunately. Just a beautiful memory we can come back and look at sometimes. It's not hard to find the games anymore. Where once a niche community like this was needed for a game that had few official english releases it just is no longer the case. And the internet going masses have more and more moved away from forums and toward much less persistent mediums such as discord and reddit. |
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Post by wav on Jan 9, 2021 0:19:56 GMT -5
sob i was told this was still alive Not so much unfortunately. Just a beautiful memory we can come back and look at sometimes. It's not hard to find the games anymore. Where once a niche community like this was needed for a game that had few official english releases it just is no longer the case. And the internet going masses have more and more moved away from forums and toward much less persistent mediums such as discord and reddit. It's sad but i guess that's how it is |
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Post by NightWolve on Jan 10, 2021 22:09:46 GMT -5
sob i was told this was still alive Not so much unfortunately. Just a beautiful memory we can come back and look at sometimes. It's not hard to find the games anymore. Where once a niche community like this was needed for a game that had few official english releases it just is no longer the case. And the internet going masses have more and more moved away from forums and toward much less persistent mediums such as discord and reddit. Judging by Reset Era, the traditional forum model can still survive, just that there'll be a lot less active ones in favor of Facebook, Twitter, and what you mentioned, etc. If a forum is built with an accompanying phone app with similar notification features to FB/Twitter, I think that'd go a long way since the problem is we've gone more mobile for convenience over powering up a Windows PC and sitting on the desktop... A lot of the old forums weren't ready for the smartphone revolution and still work horribly on a phone. Anyway, it is kinda sad there probably can't be a dedicated group around Falcom, the nostalgia in me talking, but all things come to an end... There are several Facebook fan groups, some further division with company forums/groups/discords (NISA and the other one I won't name), so you get less/divided activity all around naturally. |
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Post by Truner on Jan 11, 2021 9:28:17 GMT -5
I feel like reddit is the closest we can find to a forum alternative.
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Post by abaddon on Jul 2, 2021 19:04:10 GMT -5
Yeah, but one can only take so many "reddit moments" before they say fuck it and walk away from said sub-reddit.
My limit for a sub-reddit is 1 time. I delete the comment, leave the sub-reddit, and move on.
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Post by NightWolve on Jul 22, 2021 16:49:11 GMT -5
Yeah, but one can only take so many "reddit moments" before they say fuck it and walk away from said sub-reddit. My limit for a sub-reddit is 1 time. I delete the comment, leave the sub-reddit, and move on. I've tried to like Reddit, but yeah, it's not for me I think. I love Twitter and I begrudgingly use Facebook too. In the last ~2 years I've grown to really like Discord especially after my OLED phone upgrade with a 6.4" purty panel... It actually became VERY usable on the go; would've been great if we had that 20 years ago instead of always limited to Windows desktop and MIRC [Kraken] or normal ones, then on to Trillian which provided an all-in-one solution to AIM/YIM/MSN/MIRC for early 2000's Internet, etc. |
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Sept 12, 2021 19:06:23 GMT -5
I agree, and miss this place dearly. Either way, I would love to see this place make a comeback. It's good to see the posts that have been made this year.
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Post by NightWolve on Sept 27, 2021 18:09:37 GMT -5
I agree, and miss this place dearly. Either way, I would love to see this place make a comeback. It's good to see the posts that have been made this year. A "comeback" ? Well, odds are low for that happening for reasons pointed out, but if I was gonna try, some ideas are: - Take ownership from Seldane/FM-77; he disappeared 10 years ago, if you care and wanna lead this forum into relevancy again somehow, you're gonna need full formal control... Should it really still say "seldane.proboards.com" at the top ? No. He doesn't care, so if you take the reigns, export this out to a new domain with more advanced forum software (like XenForo), it'd be a starting point. A redirect to the new domain, say ancientlandofys.net, would port people over.
Somebody who cares enough would have to lead the place into relevancy again... Does such a somebody exist here anymore ?? This is the least likely idea ever being tried, but just throwing out some idealism if there's a slim chance...
- Like modern consoles with games that could all be ported to Steam/GOG on Windows PC, rendering them obsolete, you need "exclusives." What could the forum provide that's found nowhere else ? Exclusive interviews, YouTube or Twitter stars that are big Ys/Falcom fans (e.g. Happy Console Gamer Johnny), etc.
The DigitalEmelas Twitter for example, if you could get a shoutout/plug by him it could help recruit new membership, but obviously that person is trying to grow his own Discord/Facebook fanbase/presence, so unlikely you'll get help...
You'd have to try befriending and inviting such people to make this place their home, you get the idea. Uphill battle...
P. S. Where is the "Ancient Land of Ys" Discord ?? While you guys slept, you let Ribose jump on that bandwagon first and establish the #Falcom Discord which even I've visited on occasion...
- Raffles/Giveaways/Prizes AKA Bribes! That's right, oldest trick in the book to lure members in under the "exclusives" principle. Offering something nobody else does... Because of how DigitalEmelas grew so quickly, it established back channels with NIS America, XXXSEED, Limited Run Games, etc. to raffle away free Steam codes and even physical collectible products! There's nothing stopping you, Unsavory, from establishing the official "Ancient Land of Ys" Twitter and Facebook account to offer prizes once in a while, quarterly updates about what's going on in Falcom land, classic newsletters, etc. DE can do this every week, and whatever your schedule, you could do it quarterly or twice a year, you get the idea... You're gonna have to make it a mission...
Well, that's random spitballing and as I don't see any of these ideas likely happening, yeah...I can't say there's much future here. As others pointed out though, it's nice that it still exists as a WayBack Machine to look at old threads/interactions that people once cared about whenever the nostalgia mood strikes again... I'm wrestling with the same issue actually, and I think I might purchase XenForo down the road because it integrates with social media better. Reality is Facebook Groups have simply crushed a lot of the competition... Per Xalphenos ' point, overall, people have migrated to less persistent forms of gathering as they care more about hanging out in the present tense with friends be it Discord/FB/Twitter which make it easy/fast especially WITH mobile phones ( too many old forums were built for desktop appearance, and still stuck in the past!). I'm somewhat puzzled by it because I like the thread model and search feature of traditional forum software, and Facebook is still pretty horrible about finding past threads, or at least in its presentation... Anyway, it's an interesting discussion for sure. |
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Post by abaddon on Oct 6, 2021 13:55:40 GMT -5
I would post more topics, but it's kind of discouraging when something gets posted, and no one replies at all.
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Post by Zeithri on Oct 23, 2021 5:41:26 GMT -5
The best I can say is a quote from G'Kar of Babylon 5 ;; I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains.(( Spoilerific Scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1emoP8Xh1k )) This forum did it's part in the history of Ys and has long outlived it's relevancy, for better or worse. |
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 16, 2022 15:05:09 GMT -5
Heck, hate to necropost. Where we've been quoted, it feels only right to respond. We have no current plans with ALoY, unfortunately. We're glad to sign over any power (if we haven't already) to the nearest respectful, responsible and trustworthy member. Xalphenos is definitely someone we'd like to entrust with the care of this place. We currently have several projects in the works; Forest Falcon, Ascended Mermaid Gaming, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Twitch, Twitter, Discord, Fansly , etc. -- we're disabled and desperate for money, tbh, so we're literally using every single avenue possible. Ko-fi, Patreon, CashApp, and working "under the table" (figuratively and literally speaking) .  // So basically, we have no time to spend on renovations or preservation with ALoY. As sad and painful as it is to leave it all behind, as they said on Titanic, We bid you adieu, until we meet again. <3 |
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