What happened to The Gungan Council??? [Archive]

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 21st, 2019, 11:09:41 AM

I just tried to look at it and it's like, empty. I have to be honest, I never thought that would happen.

Dasquian Belargic

Mar 21st, 2019, 11:10:40 AM

Are you trying to start a war with Ceel again? :lol

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 21st, 2019, 11:18:00 AM

No! I never started anything I'll have you know. :shakefist

But I am genuinely curious. It looks like when Yuku merged or changed into Tapatalk it was a Real Bad Thing?

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Mar 21st, 2019, 11:26:59 AM

Oof, that's a harsh layout :(

Dasquian Belargic

Mar 21st, 2019, 11:28:22 AM

That's what you get when you stick with ezboard/yuku :shrug:

I do, for reasons unknown, occasionally get emails about people posting there.

It's a pity that the community there seems to have dried up.

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 21st, 2019, 11:40:14 AM

Yeah, I've gotten the occasional email but I never looked at it until today. :lol I'm part of the problem!

Ninda Chae

Mar 21st, 2019, 11:45:13 AM

Maybe some of them need a home? :p

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 21st, 2019, 11:47:15 AM

Now I'm checking out all the old forums I have in my "RP Groups" bookmark folder. :ohno

Dasquian Belargic

Mar 21st, 2019, 12:03:48 PM

Maybe some of them need a home? :p

:mischief

Now I'm checking out all the old forums I have in my "RP Groups" bookmark folder. :ohno

Aaaaand?

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 21st, 2019, 12:22:00 PM

Star Wars Epics is still around, but barely. I can't figure out what's happening there. The Rebel Faction won't load so I guess they're gone. SW-RPG is still trundling along like us, so yay vbulletin ;) Star Wars Evolutions is gone.

:cry

I'm sure there are a ton of newer boards that have cropped up in the last ten years, but it is a little sad to see the older ones disappearing.

Arya Ravenwing

Mar 21st, 2019, 12:23:24 PM

If we say The Gungan Council a bunch of times in this thread then maybe people searching for it will end up here. XD You're welcome to join us if you need a laid back home to do some Star Wars writings!

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Mar 21st, 2019, 12:35:54 PM

TRF is still about, though they are a shadow. I need to pop in there and say hi.

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 21st, 2019, 12:46:54 PM

I couldn't get it to load. :huh

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Mar 21st, 2019, 12:48:00 PM

I had to re-register, but I haven't gotten my verification email yet :(

Dasquian Belargic

Mar 21st, 2019, 12:51:25 PM

What's the URL?

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Mar 21st, 2019, 12:52:13 PM

here you go:

http://rebelfaction.org/forums/

Dasquian Belargic

Mar 21st, 2019, 01:02:44 PM

I still have accounts there, but at least one of them I guess is tied to an email address I don't use anymore?

Atreyu

Mar 22nd, 2019, 03:46:14 AM

::dusts off account::

TGC kind of fell off the cliff a couple of years ago, before Tapatalk came around. I've only lurked every so often so don't know the complete details but from what I've observed/read they suffered the usual decline as the years rolled on just like nearly every other SW board. But on top of that, sometime back in 2015 (I think?) Yuku apprently locked half the membership out of their accounts and never let them back in, which pretty quickly cut the legs off what was left of the community that was still at TGC. I think a few stragglers continued to make a go of it over the following months/years but by and large the remaining community died off.

There have been attempts at revival (probably why some of you are still getting emails) but it hasn't really led to anything taking hold again. From the looks of things it's just the General and a couple of old timers still chit-chatting away - the RP side of things seems to have completely died (and by the looks of it right now it seems the General has wiped away/archived all the old threads and has just a blank slate left - only a single rules post in the RP forum but that's it).

(on a side note, it also probably hasn't helped that a former TGC admin has since setup their own board (http://starwarsunleashed.jcink.net/) with some TGC refugees moving over there)

Tapatalk was actually a saving grace in a lot of ways because Yuku was nearly buggared towards it's end and if Tapatalk hadn't bought it out and merged it with it's own board system it's likely the whole thing would have just gone offline completely.

Star Wars Epics is still around, but barely. I can't figure out what's happening there. The Rebel Faction won't load so I guess they're gone. SW-RPG is still trundling along like us, so yay vbulletin ;) Star Wars Evolutions is gone.

:cry

I'm sure there are a ton of newer boards that have cropped up in the last ten years, but it is a little sad to see the older ones disappearing.

For other old boards, years ago I bookmarked one of those old 'Unity proposal' threads (remember that?), specifically the one on TRF (http://rebelfaction.org/forums?m=posts&q=8035) as it had links to a heap of the old boards to try and keep tabs on them but a lot of them have now gone. From what I'm aware of:

* Old ezboard boards - pretty much all of them are long gone now. Most didn't survive the transition to Yuku in the late 00s and those that did were probably long dead by the time Tapatalk in turn took over. I think TGC is the only one actually left. EDIT: oh and SithLore still exists, it jumped ship onto it's own board software not long after Tapatalk took over Yuku.

* SW-RPG.Net - still kicking around as Miss De'Ville mentioned. I was actually chatting to Dara only the other week and unfortunately something has happened over there which has seen some leave but I don't know any details. A board software upgrade and rules revision is in the works apparently.

* The Rebel Faction - still online but the community is pretty much gone except for the odd Hello post and occasional RP post.

* Meras.org - went offline a few years ago (didn't someone from here own it?)

* Order of the Oaken Dawn - was still online up until last year but has now vanished as well. It's community had been dormant for a few years now.

* Star Wars Epics - went offline last year but just now appears to have returned with version 2.0. I guess we'll see if it can revive itself as my memory was that it had long been dormant when it disappeared last year.

* CoruscantCity.Net - went offline in late 2016. It had been dormant for close to a decade by that point.

EDIT: if anyone wants to try and find some of the old places in the thread linked above it would probably pay to try copying and Googling the name than relying on the old URLs (TRF for instance changed URL years ago).

Newer boards have since come about (such as SW RP: Chaos (http://starwarsrp.net/) and Star Wars Roleplay (http://www.thestarwarsrp.com/forum/index.php) - the latter resets itself every couple of years kind of like our old reset idea was proposed to work) but the message board roleplaying neighbourhood is a lot smaller and more niche than it was 10/15/20(!!!) years ago.

Dasquian Belargic

Mar 22nd, 2019, 03:51:35 AM

* Meras.org - went offline a few years ago (didn't someone from here own it?)

Yes, it was owned by Ogre. I think there was a group agreement that we would let the license on that one slip, as it was no longer being used anymore?

It's interesting to look at that list thought, and think about the 'family tree' of all of these boards... how most of them are in some way related to one another.

Nikolai Drakken

Mar 22nd, 2019, 05:52:53 AM

A few of us were from swrpg and part of that departure referenced. It brought us here.

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 22nd, 2019, 09:19:07 AM

Hey Atreyu! Thanks for the information, that is really interesting.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Mar 22nd, 2019, 11:01:06 AM

Oh man, it's great to see you again, Atreyu!

To add to what Jenny said about Meras, it's backed up, and pretty much in hibernation for now.

I still haven't gotten my confirmation email from TRF (and I can't even begin to remember my old lycos email p/w, so unless you get me in good with Omnae then my original s'Il account is gone :( ), but I did register on the new Epics board and said hello to folks.

Atreyu

Mar 22nd, 2019, 05:50:53 PM

Hi guys, good to see you all. :) I know I haven't posted in like forever but I do lurk around every so often.

A few of us were from swrpg and part of that departure referenced. It brought us here.
Apologies if I've inadvertently dredged something up - it was late at night when I posted and was on a bit of a ramble there as I was trying to think about all the various boards and what was going on.

Yes, it was owned by Ogre. I think there was a group agreement that we would let the license on that one slip, as it was no longer being used anymore?

To add to what Jenny said about Meras, it's backed up, and pretty much in hibernation for now.
It's nice to hear it was at least archived and the stuff saved for posterity (I never was a member there but did lurk once or twice and saw some RPs happening there).

It's interesting to look at that list though, and think about the 'family tree' of all of these boards... how most of them are in some way related to one another.
Yes it is amazing seeing the list of all the various boards and remember how some of them came about. I remember SW-Fans offshooted CorustCity.Net, SW-RPG.Net ... and Aramir (I think?). We can also probably clain a link with the Marzullo Clan since it offshooted from The Sith Council which was founded here as well. :emperor:

Nikolai Drakken

Mar 22nd, 2019, 06:30:31 PM

Oh no you are all good. We all go our own ways at times. :)

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Mar 23rd, 2019, 11:04:21 AM

I always love seeing old faces, even if it's a pop-in. To see the peeps that we used to spend so much time with in the past, and hear how they're doing these days is great.

Now I just need Jedieb to sneak back so I can talk about Star Wars toys with him ^_^

Darth Turbogeek

Mar 24th, 2019, 04:03:51 AM

peaking of "old" faces......

Hey ya'll.

GG did I really start with this whole online Star Wars thing over 20 years ago????

Never really expected it to go as it did, never expected to make long time IRL friends out of it and I certainly never expected that one of those is going to become Mrs Turbogeek in August - aka Miriya Cailis and ummm... whatever dozens of id's she uses :-p

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 24th, 2019, 08:15:32 AM

:Poke

Hey old timer :)

Congrats on the upcoming nuptials!

Ilias Nytrau

Mar 24th, 2019, 12:09:38 PM

A little tidbit - SWRP: Chaos was started by people who split from TGC. TGC is a swear word over there and is as such altered by the board software when anyone has mentioned it by name. ;)

Also, hey, soon-to-be Mr. Owl. Fancy seeing you post here. :p

Atreyu

Mar 24th, 2019, 07:05:32 PM

peaking of "old" faces......

Hey ya'll.

GG did I really start with this whole online Star Wars thing over 20 years ago????

Never really expected it to go as it did, never expected to make long time IRL friends out of it and I certainly never expected that one of those is going to become Mrs Turbogeek in August - aka Miriya Cailis and ummm... whatever dozens of id's she uses :-p
Hey Mr Turbogeek :wave - long time no see. Congratulations as well on the upcoming marriage. I myself got married just last December. :)

A little tidbit - SWRP: Chaos was started by people who split from TGC. TGC is a swear word over there and is as such altered by the board software when anyone has mentioned it by name. ;)
Wow, never knew that. :eek Thanks for that bit of info - out of curiosity is there anywhere that has a bit of detail of what happened and led to the formation of Chaos, or is it all a big unmentionable?

Lilaena De'Ville

Mar 24th, 2019, 07:16:51 PM

Congrats on getting married, Atreyu! :cheers

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Mar 25th, 2019, 11:51:25 AM

DT and Miriya <3 <3

Also, like Atreyu, I have to admit to some curiosity over the split between Chaos and TGC. For some reason I wasn't aware that Chaos came from there; or maybe I did know, but just forgot... there's no telling.

Darth Turbogeek

Mar 25th, 2019, 05:49:24 PM

a) Congrats on the marriage Mr A

b) Kaman and I are marrying in Canada so.......

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/62/df/fe/62dffe9107e3c59f2d285cbb46b3d2af.gif

I've lost count on the number of board meltdowns and splits TGC has had over the years..... always the reason is basically Ceel does something that riles people up.

It was kinda amusing to meet one of the Choas factional leaders and she finds out who Miriya's strange visitor from Australia was. And then spending the next few hours talking about the history of all this RP stuff going waaaaaaay back - and it's still going all these years later.

Ilias Nytrau

Apr 7th, 2019, 02:11:16 PM

Yeah, one of the major faction leaders on Chaos is one of my best friends.

As for what caused Chaos to split from TGC, I cannot for the life of me recall, other than the unsurprising answer of drama and assholery. Y'all would have to ask Chaos' owner or whoever for more detail than that.

Dasquian Belargic

Jan 5th, 2020, 05:57:46 AM

TGC is under new ownership, on a new board :)

Hello everybody!

I have some bittersweet news. General Ceel has decided to transfer ownership of TGC and have a happy retirement. Those of us who he entrusted to continue TGC have decided to try for a small reunion on a brand new site. We have launched a new TGC on it's very own server.

If you would like to stop by and say hello to some old TGC faces please stop by at thegungancouncil.com

We would love it if everybody could stop by and say hello!

Lilaena De'Ville

Jan 5th, 2020, 02:31:53 PM

Good for them! Having their own server is a very good move.

Aurelia Wayne

Jan 5th, 2020, 02:55:42 PM

Happy days are here again, LOL

Atreyu

Jan 7th, 2020, 10:02:12 PM

Just paid a visit now, looks very nice (XenForo is a nice piece of sftware). Hope it goes well for them. :)

Xanatos Etanial

Jan 7th, 2020, 10:24:30 PM

Very cool. It's always nice to hear old friends are doing well for themselves.

Liam Jinn

Feb 7th, 2020, 09:58:03 AM

Ha. You guys are like Star Wars RP Archeologists. And old. Ah crap, I'm old too...

Xanatos Etanial

Feb 7th, 2020, 10:05:40 AM

Oh wow, now there's a name I haven't seen in a long time! Good to see you.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Feb 7th, 2020, 01:17:47 PM

Hey stranger!!!

Lilaena De'Ville

Feb 7th, 2020, 02:02:26 PM

Ha. You guys are like Star Wars RP Archeologists. And old. Ah crap, I'm old too...
We're all old here.

:) :wave:

Ryloth Grimhammer

Feb 7th, 2020, 06:31:09 PM

Ha. You guys are like Star Wars RP Archeologists. And old. Ah crap, I'm old too...
We're all old here.

:) :wave:

Woah. Speak for yourself!

Liam Jinn

Feb 8th, 2020, 03:39:33 PM

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well. I live in Vegas now so if anyone is in the area just let me know. Back to the Topic now...

Dasquian Belargic

Feb 9th, 2020, 11:36:27 AM

:wave Liam. Good to see you :)

Maze Maniaci

May 16th, 2020, 11:07:44 PM

Also if any one is interested to know a few years after swrpg: Chaos split the last big chunk of TGC split off before TGC was revived. That Group which was mostly the Witch of Dathomiri Faction formed Star Wars Unleashed on jcink.

The likes of Caltin Vanagor, Santeria Decuir, Various Marzullos, Ryori Holloway, Xander Starkiller, Blade Ice, and others you may know all reside there.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

May 16th, 2020, 11:09:56 PM

Oh wow, Blade Ice is a name I've not heard uttered in a long while. Also, the Marzullo clan. How are those delightful jokers doing?

Maze Maniaci

May 16th, 2020, 11:23:26 PM

Fiera Marzullo Out of Character leads the clan these days with permission from Itala who is pretty much retired from the game. The few that are left are still up to there usual shenanigans.

Callista

Jun 30th, 2020, 07:53:12 PM

Oh man, sorry to bring this topic up again, but all of these names are nostalgic. I used to be a Marzullo (Arpa), haha. I haven't heard Fiera in forever! Blade Ice either! Dang, we are old, aren't we?

Maize Wayne

Jul 1st, 2020, 05:58:49 AM

Oh man, sorry to bring this topic up again, but all of these names are nostalgic. I used to be a Marzullo (Arpa), haha. I haven't heard Fiera in forever! Blade Ice either! Dang, we are old, aren't we?

No, no. Not old. Vintage. ;)

Lilaena De'Ville

Jul 6th, 2021, 09:47:52 AM

Looks like they just moved again.

and I won’t knock them for being low content, we are very low content as well, just what happens when we all start pushing 40+. It’s a shame they lost all the old threads though!
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Loklorien s'Ilancy

Jul 7th, 2021, 01:02:25 AM

From what I gathered, they had shifted to some sort of audio format? I can't recall correctly atm, but it seemed they were doing some sort of 'reading threads' and casting them or something of the like? It's been a while since I last visited, so my recollection may certainly be off -shrug-

Dasquian Belargic

Jul 7th, 2021, 06:31:19 AM

Some of the staff had a fairly successful Star Wars podcast for a while, IIRC.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Jul 7th, 2021, 11:17:44 AM

I remember that. I'm not sure how long it lasted though. It seemed to be for a while, I think.

Atreyu

Aug 3rd, 2021, 06:42:38 PM

Looks like they just moved again.

and I won’t knock them for being low content, we are very low content as well, just what happens when we all start pushing 40+. It’s a shame they lost all the old threads though!
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They still have the same URL (thegungancouncil.com), but yeah they had to move. Unfortunately the attempt to rebuild TGC just didn't take off (I believe they were hoping for the whole 'old members will come back and rebuild' thing to happen) and with only 4-5 regulars now they couldn't keep the payments up without cutting costs somewhere so they had to ditch XenForo for cheaper software. The new message board they have appears to do the job but I won't lie that viewing it makes me feel like I've been transported back to 2007-ish and it lacks a lot of features we now take for granted.

Plus as Miss De'Ville says they lost all their old threads that had built up over the past year, not to mention all the other threads that had already been lost after leaving Tapatalk - admittedly nearly anything 2005 or earlier was already gone due to that hack of ezboard that happened back then but there were still thousands of posts that are no more. It's yet another thing that makes me grateful for everyone's work here (we have threads going back to 1999 still in our archives).

From what I gathered, they had shifted to some sort of audio format? I can't recall correctly atm, but it seemed they were doing some sort of 'reading threads' and casting them or something of the like? It's been a while since I last visited, so my recollection may certainly be off -shrug-
One of their admins set up a podcast called 'Bombad Radio', it originally focused on TGC roleplaying but later expanded to general SW news before eventually becoming a general entertainment podcast. It ended up being renamed to something but I can't remember it now, not sure if it's still active or not.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Sep 14th, 2021, 12:23:09 AM

I haven't peeked in in a long while, and about all I can remember from that peek was a thread a poster had started that seemed to question the choice to read threads and not focus on writing, and was answered with essentially 'this is how we do it now'. My memory could be lacking though.

I have to admit, I love your commentaries on the sites and offshoot sites, since you have this amazing ability to break everything down to brass tacks and knowing the pulse of all the sites. I still want to do that illustrated history I told you about, and I'm sorry that I fell off the grid in a way and let it stall.

Atreyu

Oct 17th, 2021, 05:23:20 AM

Tis' fine :) if you ever want to get it going again feel free to hit me up (hopefully I'll still remember something!)

Darth Phantom

Dec 5th, 2021, 11:27:04 AM

Oh man, I've been feeling a bit nostalgic as of late and have been look through all the old boards. Its good to see some of the old faces on them. I was wondering what happened to TGC myself.

Danster Bokoto

Jan 7th, 2022, 01:40:12 PM

This thread was a nice read, triggered a lot of nostalgia.

TGC had a decent revival at the start of 2020 and sustained a decent level of activity for about 5 or 6 months but then it dwindled again. It's now basically me, Ceel and Admin Droid chatting crap.

Darth Phantom though, that's a name I've not heard for years. Great to see.

Padd

Apr 14th, 2022, 07:35:01 AM

Looks like TGC is officially finished. Upsetting, but these things can't last forever.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Apr 14th, 2022, 11:06:05 AM

I saw that the other day. Despite the periodic friction we had with Ceel, TGC was still a fellow SW message board, and it was unfortunate to see those old boards gone.

Atreyu

Apr 16th, 2022, 11:47:26 PM

I browsed by the board back a few weeks ago and caught the tail end of the closing.

The last I saw there was a topic of debate between Ceel and the head admin ('Admin Droid' - don't know what their original handle was). Ceel was querying the URL no longer working (turns out they had stopped paying for it) and was then trying to rustle up ideas on how to promote the board better, possibly even relaunch again on new software and encourage people to return. The head admin spent post after post telling Ceel that the oldies weren't going to come back (even providing hard numbers of all the invites they had sent) and if he wanted TGC to live on, he needed to look for new posters.

It was a really awkward read. Ceel seemed (to me) to really stuggle understanding the idea that no one was likely to return, kept constantly saying with all the posters they've had over the years statistically there had to be someone out there who might Google them up and come back.

The head admin then posted their resignation, and that's the last I saw before the blank page it is now. I'm guessing with the admin resigning there's no one left to run the show.

Vale TGC

EDIT: I've updated our wiki page about TGC, including the (now dead) URL and replacing it with a link to the Wayback Machine. I thought it was worthwhile as whenever I googled TGC our wikipage tended to pop up high in search results.

Maze Maniaci

May 2nd, 2022, 06:07:27 AM

TGC is on Jcink so they could go free with ads if they had wanted to stay alive but since I know the Admin I have good Idea why they just closed up shop instead of going that route. As for their resurgence in 2020 it feel apart because as some of it was built on nostalgia people returning just to see how it was going so didn't take long oh yeah there were the secret bannings the admin there staff were doing of people they didn't like. So people also didn't stick around because of the Wiki situation the admin tried to change the original wiki (rewrite history) got caught and had their privileges stripped on the wiki. Basically the "new Admin" (not Ceel) didn't a lot of foul things and they tried to bury it all by banning people who knew about it and tried changing the story. I could go into more detail as I was one the people banned but I will leave it at that.

After everyone left or was banned the admin themselves stepped down to let other clean up their mess but ti didn't work and then sometime after that they moved to Jcink. As for who Admin Droid is they are more commonly known by there rp character name Katarine Ryiah in the star wars community. For me TGC died in 2013 it was home from 2008 until then.

Yufi Hercula

May 2nd, 2022, 07:34:50 AM

Wow. TGC is finally gone?

That's where I started out, many many years ago. Had my fair share of issues there, but also some fun.

Atreyu

May 16th, 2022, 09:31:30 PM

TGC is on Jcink so they could go free with ads if they had wanted to stay alive but since I know the Admin I have good Idea why they just closed up shop instead of going that route. As for their resurgence in 2020 it feel apart because as some of it was built on nostalgia people returning just to see how it was going so didn't take long oh yeah there were the secret bannings the admin there staff were doing of people they didn't like. So people also didn't stick around because of the Wiki situation the admin tried to change the original wiki (rewrite history) got caught and had their privileges stripped on the wiki. Basically the "new Admin" (not Ceel) didn't a lot of foul things and they tried to bury it all by banning people who knew about it and tried changing the story. I could go into more detail as I was one the people banned but I will leave it at that.

After everyone left or was banned the admin themselves stepped down to let other clean up their mess but ti didn't work and then sometime after that they moved to Jcink. As for who Admin Droid is they are more commonly known by there rp character name Katarine Ryiah in the star wars community. For me TGC died in 2013 it was home from 2008 until then.
Thank you for that info, I recognise the name 'Katarine Ryiah' so glad to finally connect a name (was always wondering who this mysterious 'Admin Droid' was as they were clearly a forum veteran but didn't know what handle they had used). Sorry to hear you had issues with the TGC relaunch, I was unaware of any bannings or other such goings-on and simply assumed TGC's quick decline after the initial relaunch was due to people's initial nostalgia hits waning.

Padd

May 29th, 2022, 09:30:18 PM

Kat did an amazing job trying to relaunch TGC, and she was going through a lot IRL and had to take a step back. I am a very big fan. Apparently she and some others are over at Chaos. I haven’t been to Chaos in a few years, but it was very active at one point.

CleggHoldfast

Jul 15th, 2022, 12:13:24 PM

Hey everyone. You probably don't remember me. I was one of the founding members of TGC. Ceel and I were best friends and in high school worked on it for countless hours.. after we graduated... we kept up with it, sometimes school got in the way and as we made our way deeper into adulthood we would work on it.. and TGC was everything to him.. I started to become less of a partner in its creation to him.. and lets just say he parted ways and I moved across the country to follow my ambitions to be a video editor.. was bombarded with responsibilities that didn't allow time to be an active participant and was booted.. he briefly made an effort to connect with me, but it just didn't happen.. Kat did try and hold it together from what I remember... anyways.. with the new Star Wars episodic shows that have come out I was interested to see if it still existed.. which lead me here.. it is sad to see that it disappeared glad to see the community is still thriving

Atreyu

Jul 16th, 2022, 07:58:54 PM

Hi Clegg, yes I do remember you from way back when, good to see you. :)

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Jul 27th, 2022, 01:58:55 AM

Heyo, Clegg :) I remember seeing your name pop up here and there, and I'm glad you're still kicking about! Hope life is treating you well!

Padd

Oct 3rd, 2022, 12:50:47 PM

Same -- I definitely remember you, Clegg. Good to see you around.

Danster the Gangster

Sep 15th, 2023, 01:05:15 PM

Hey guys.

We're actually back, The Gungan Council refuses to stay dead for long. Well, I say we're back, I've knocked up a pretty basic message board and thought I'd see if there was any appetite to get a small community up and running again.

www.thegungancouncil.com (http://www.thegungancouncil.com)

Be great to get some old faces pop by.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Sep 21st, 2023, 01:58:20 AM

Good to see you guys still out and about :)

Message boards are pretty much a dying breed these days, I've come to find. Some of us are still kicking around though :)

Injah Bas

Sep 21st, 2023, 09:27:53 PM

I’m curious what replaced message boards? Discords? Where do writers and topic lovers collect? Because outside of things like Reddit, this world has become very niche in the last 5 to 15 years.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Sep 21st, 2023, 11:21:39 PM

For some boards, I feel that the time that was once used to write has been shifted to other things as a lot of us have gotten older. We still have our fits and spurts when creativity strikes, but we also have a lot of downtime where we get sucked into having to be responsible adults, heh. A lot of the OOC stuff, at least for here, has absolutely shifted to Discord. And it might just be me talking out of my ass when I say that message boards are a dying breed. There very well could be a host of others that are still going strong, and I just don't know about them. What I do know about are a lot of the ones that I personally am familiar with; many of which went defunct and were straight up abandoned a decade ago.

Danster the Gangster

Sep 23rd, 2023, 06:36:01 AM

I definitely think you're right. The demographic who made message boards popular back in the day are now too busy with real life stuff to sustain them at any great level of activity and the generations coming through, and I'm generalising massively here, don't seem to have the attention span for it. It's got to be instant responses on Discord or 15 second videos on TikTok. There are obviously some exceptions, SW Chaos seems to have a thriving community, but we can all remember a time when there were half a dozen thriving SWRPG forums, all getting dozens, if not hundreds of posts a day.

There just don't seem to be enough people who are fans of the format anymore.

What I've also discovered is that it's one of the rare internet-based things that has gotten harder. When I was a kid, you could sign up to EZBoard and create a half-decent looking community in a matter of minutes with zero technical knowledge. Now all the free forum software packages require at least some coding knowledge and you're not knocking it up in a matter a minutes either, it takes a bit of effort.

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Sep 23rd, 2023, 01:53:39 PM

For us here, our Discord is hugely helpful since a lot of us I suspect have only enough time throughout the day for quick stuff. I can only speak for myself, but even on Discord my interactions are not a whole lot, owing to my job taking most of my brainspace. And by the time I get home, I really have little bandwidth to fully engage on a message board. Maybe it's the format, who knows. I still love message boards with a passion, but i also know that my mental exhaustion plays a large part in my posting abilities.

Though, lately the writing bug has been biting once more, and I've been a bit more active than normal.

Kent

Mar 6th, 2024, 07:36:49 PM

Good ol' Lord Gue here... no idea why I have an account named Kent, just autofilled name and account and there it was.

It does feel like 25 years of SW RP history has gone on hospice... First we were on CC.net somewhere around '99, right? Then we made SWFans and at some point CC.net died. Gungan Council split off from SWFans and now they are gone. The Rebel Faction split off from Gungan Council many years ago and they are about half as active as these forums seem to be now. Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but even with all the negative memories I have associated with this place... I always considered it to be the monolith of SW roleplaying that would never die... and it makes me kinda sad to think that all that history might just go away.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/5STHP1kcduUAAAAC/blade-runner.gif

Loklorien s'Ilancy

Mar 8th, 2024, 01:36:00 AM

Good to see you're still bopping about, bud :)

Hopefully we won't go completely away, hehe. It's true that we all grew older and have had other things occupy our time, but there are still some of us around who tell stories together, despite the much slower pace :)

Kent

Mar 30th, 2024, 09:54:58 AM

Yeah, about ten years ago I started streaming tabletop games and made a Youtube channel around it, found my best friend of the last decade that way... then about three years ago we transitioned to reacting to anime instead. Just last week, unfortunately, my co-host and best friend decided to move away from online content in order to focus on other things. So, in addition to not having anyone to share what I've built with for the last ten years... the person I've been spending all my time with these last ten years is gone. So, now I'm just depressed with no one left to talk to and all the old places I used to haunt becoming just as quiet.

Padd

May 14th, 2024, 07:41:58 PM

What’s the YouTube channel? We could at least give you a subscribe.

Kent

May 15th, 2024, 07:39:40 PM

https://www.youtube.com/Raktus (https://www.youtube.com/Raktus)
Appreciate the thought :-)