After ~30 years, it seems Shacknews.com's community has finally (mostly) died. The "chatty" (the comment section) is a bit of a dead zone, after a bunch of weird conflicts between moderators, the site's owner, some prominent posters who since left, etc.
I've been visiting this site daily since ~1998 for various reasons. It has always been my "window" into US culture, and with some gaming discussion on top (it was part of the websites I'd visit from the PlanetQuake days!).
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Yet I don't feel bad about it. The comments section is a bit of a relic, detached from what the website actually is (gaming posts/news), and has been dying for a while, with the same people just echoing each other. I don't personally know anyone there, and no one knows me. And I've had my own grievances about moderation there in the past.
Still, it's symbolic of how you can't have small communities anymore. The modern alternative is stuff like Reddit where you have a million anonymous people.
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Anyway, it just feels weird for a place I've been visiting for over 25 years to just sorta fizzle and die.
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