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SMWCentral, Then and Now

S.N.N. Is the oldest user I’ve talked to here. Giga has been here longer than me as has WYE I do believe.
Hey, Giga's here too. I almost forgot you occasionally show up here too. What a small world we live in. We need to go back to doing N64 netplays again someday. Those were fun times.

I can feel you on the user id sentiment. Sometimes, I hardly believe this account is running as long as it has. 10 months from now and it'll be a decade old. That's almost 1/3 of my lifespan.

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Oh wow, even hearing Nightfall mentioned brings me back quite a lot.

I mean, I was never actually present for it, but it did come up in conversation somewhat often while I was around. It had a really mystical quality to my young mind, as if it were some sort of alternate dimension that still existed out there, somewhere.

...Actually, that reminds me of the time we had that dimensional rift at the top of the website that led to a separate instance of SMWC, with its own user registration, forums, etc. Does anyone here remember that? Fun times, aha.

Glad this place is still pretty active.
My memory of that is a lot foggier than I remember. Can only call back to there being the rift, and Lunar Rico capitalizing on the whole concept with his "Negaverse" hack. The alternate website is a blur.
Originally posted by Giga
Nightfall, if anyone remembers that - afterward, the user database was reset

Oh, that's why that "2005-2019" seemed suspected to me since the users with one-digit ID were registered in 2007, and Kieran's ID number is 5 instead of 1 despite the fact that he's the site's owner.
I have a Discord server as well! (by joining, you agree to the rules)
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Basically, I believe in peace and bashing two bricks together.

Originally posted by Hobz
the site was always trash but when ur a starry eyed little kid the idea of connecting with a community of like minded people can be entrancing

the site now is a lot less of a community and more of a collective of people. you used to know everybody that posted on the forums and in the irc, but now the people i know either dont post or left a long time ago and i'm not interested in meeting any new people so the new wave of fresh faces are just kind of meaningless to me.

i have a lot of nostalgia for those first two years (as toxic as they could be) but i think a lot of it was just the surrogate of being surrounded by people you considered your friends. It made the loneliness of high school seem irrelevant (even tho hindsight is 20/20 and i wish I put myself out there instead of secluding into the forums)

basically this.

I honestly miss old smwc, even if it was """toxic""" (for me it wasn't, it was just tough love of some sorts). it actually felt like a community, and the atmosphere was more chill and less, uh, sterile.

sadly these times will never come back.
i just lurk sometimes
Originally posted by Emerald Shell
Originally posted by Giga
Nightfall, if anyone remembers that - afterward, the user database was reset

Oh, that's why that "2005-2019" seemed suspected to me since the users with one-digit ID were registered in 2007, and Kieran's ID number is 5 instead of 1 despite the fact that he's the site's owner.

That's actually not true. Nightfall happened in early 2008, and the site reset was after the chaos of "everyone's a mod day" in August of 2007. Nightfall had no consequences on SMWC's database as far as I know.

(I joined after the latter, but before the former.)


 
I must've misunderstood Giga's post saying that they were active before Nightfall then. Why did I even have to bring up that 2005-2019 thing back then? #smw{-_-2} But now I know that database reset explains why all users were registered in August 2007 and later despite 2005-2019 down in the site.

I don't know who thought that idea of "everyone's a mod day" would be good. I can imagine what newbies could do back in day, even despite the fact that I didn't know about the site back then. Let's not do this once again, ever!
I have a Discord server as well! (by joining, you agree to the rules)
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Basically, I believe in peace and bashing two bricks together.

Then: Better staff
My layout has removed you.
Now: I'm a regular user again
It's easily the best thing I've done
So why the empty numb?
Sorry, but can one inform me what Nightfall was? Was it an alternate site? A period where rules got ignored far too often?
Nightfall (nfall.org) was a new site planned by Kieran and Smallhacker, intended to be the successor to SMWC (with a somewhat more modern design and resources for more than just SMW). It was teased at the very end of 2007 and "launched" at the very beginning of 2008. However, the launch was very premature - if I recall correctly, when SMWC was shut down and Nightfall opened, Nightfall had no features implemented but login and logout. Kieran made little progress on coding over the next weeks, and eventually left the community for a while, placing Smallhacker in charge. Smallhacker decided to cancel Nightfall, so in February of 2008 SMWC was brought back again. Kieran fully returned in 2009 or so, and a few attempts at a redesign of SMWC have been made since then, but none have worked out.

And that's the story, kids! (to the best of my knowledge)


 
Originally posted by WhiteYoshiEgg
And that's the story, kids! (to the best of my knowledge)


That sounds very interesting, I had no idea a sister site was being worked on.

I'm predicting that a site redesign is inevitable, because the internet changes overtime, programming languages and features get phased out from the most modern browsers.

It's pretty cool that this website looks pretty much exactly how it did if you look at the earliest wayback machine state. Maybe there will come a time when this site needs to be redesigned for new web standards, but can be disguised to look as though barey a thing has changed.

I'd like a scalable mobile version of the site, with post headers and footers specially for the m.smwcentral.net site. Any chance of that being worked on? I'm sure there's more seasoned web programmers than me on here who would be up for making that work.



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My 10 year anniversary is also coming up. From 2009 to 2011 I worked on a hack called "Origin Metroid Saga" which was supposed to act as a side-story to the Metroid series. I never finished it, and was never terribly socially active in the community either. I still come back from time to time since this is the oldest community online I'm from that still exists. Since having stopped hacking, I've gone on to actually working with Nintendo of America as both a brand ambassador as well as hired as an associate on-site. Despite never having finished a hack, I did help development of the Metroid fan-game, AM2R. Funnily enough, it was released the same day Nintendo of America hired my as a Miiverse Community Insights Specialist. I feel a part of my career success is thanks to having discovered SMWC and the creativity it revealed to me. I still want to finish developing a hack someday.
Still waiting on that Keytastrophe full version...
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remember the radio podcast smwc staff would host during hot summer days. Good days B)
I only remember the music part of it, used to listen mostly for that music icon besides my name (seeing that I still can't have the coin...), but I liked listening too. I might've caught a few talks, but wasn't able to understand it at the time...

Also, I don't think the site needs a redesign, to me it still looks good. If there's going to be a mobile version, please don't force it, but make it a choice instead (set a cookie(?)). I don't like incomplete details only because I might have a smaller screen... and I don't mind zooming in.
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SAN値!ピンチ!
Holy shit throwbacks to when Caffie Radio was a thing. I distinctly remember a song called
"Anime Puss"
was playing one of the few times I actually tuned in to listen. I think this was during the 2014 Summer C3.
Remember that time everyone was freaking out over a pair of pixel-art panties?
My layout has removed you.
I hit my 10 year anniversary a few months ago #smrpg{:D}

I'd say the biggest difference, especially for someone like me who registered a long time ago and just picked up hacking again a year ago, all the tools, patches, graphics – everything has been overhauled on this site.

I will say though, this thread is kind of strange. SMWC looks almost identical to how it looked back when I registered. Some slight differences, but if you brought my 2008 self to 2019 and put him on this site, he would barely notice a difference.