My first foray into forums was when i was 11. I was barred from playing an FPS game because i had stole money from my parents to play it on internet café. So with the meagre connection i have at home, i visites the game's forum for a 'substitute'. Little did i know that it would lead me in a tight community (we even have our own Facebook groups, befriend each other, sending FarmVille invitations, and some launched their own forums, including me. But damn, myBB was fucking cool back then).
But for whatever reasons i stopped visiting the community, and it died a long death.
Fast forward in 2017, i stumbled upon this game called NationStates. Me, being out of school for almost a year at that point, and bored as hell, took a plunge on it. My first region, The Western Isles, was where i roleplayed and, i owed them so much for teaching me how to talk and write in English. And my current job is partly because of that English proficiency. I lasted there for 1,5 years, but i'm still there even though i dont participate in roleplay anymore. True community makes you stick around even though what makes the community coalesced is not there anymore, because it is about the people who made up the community.
Then, i think in 2019, i remembered Luca making a circuit around regional NS discords, and TWI was one of them. It is certainly an out of ordinary things to do, and Luca is still the only people i know for making that rounds. But that wasn't when i joined Refugia.
It all started with Conifer, a region where i was a diplomat from Forest. I went in, and, boy, that was one of the most memorable time i ever had on NS. Just the people around, including Luca and Emily, was really welcoming to the point i dared to joke around (and several of my jokes made it into the pin! What a hall of fame it was!). But then, the founder, Vukmire, vanished. I think it was at this point, either Luca or Ath, or Suba, invited me to Refugia. It was a small region, barely 50 nations, and not long after Luca decided to close it and the discord. I think my nation stayed, but i forgot about this period since it coincides with the first outbreak of COVID, and thus the heavy restrictions.
Then somewhere around late 2021, i think, i found that Refugia is active again and i joined the discord. That's where i am right now i guess. And a really convulated way to join Refugia, but it never occurred to me that Refugia, would grow this big.
Still, i'm not much into CalRef, since i'm barely outside of NS. But i'm glad, and impressed, by what Luca and others have made this community into. And for the technicaly stuffs, as a sysadmin myself, impressive to keep datas from years back, and keep it running until now. It is a thankless job, yet it is the one of the most amazing thing i found on this community. Tenacity.
But for whatever reasons i stopped visiting the community, and it died a long death.
Fast forward in 2017, i stumbled upon this game called NationStates. Me, being out of school for almost a year at that point, and bored as hell, took a plunge on it. My first region, The Western Isles, was where i roleplayed and, i owed them so much for teaching me how to talk and write in English. And my current job is partly because of that English proficiency. I lasted there for 1,5 years, but i'm still there even though i dont participate in roleplay anymore. True community makes you stick around even though what makes the community coalesced is not there anymore, because it is about the people who made up the community.
Then, i think in 2019, i remembered Luca making a circuit around regional NS discords, and TWI was one of them. It is certainly an out of ordinary things to do, and Luca is still the only people i know for making that rounds. But that wasn't when i joined Refugia.
It all started with Conifer, a region where i was a diplomat from Forest. I went in, and, boy, that was one of the most memorable time i ever had on NS. Just the people around, including Luca and Emily, was really welcoming to the point i dared to joke around (and several of my jokes made it into the pin! What a hall of fame it was!). But then, the founder, Vukmire, vanished. I think it was at this point, either Luca or Ath, or Suba, invited me to Refugia. It was a small region, barely 50 nations, and not long after Luca decided to close it and the discord. I think my nation stayed, but i forgot about this period since it coincides with the first outbreak of COVID, and thus the heavy restrictions.
Then somewhere around late 2021, i think, i found that Refugia is active again and i joined the discord. That's where i am right now i guess. And a really convulated way to join Refugia, but it never occurred to me that Refugia, would grow this big.
Still, i'm not much into CalRef, since i'm barely outside of NS. But i'm glad, and impressed, by what Luca and others have made this community into. And for the technicaly stuffs, as a sysadmin myself, impressive to keep datas from years back, and keep it running until now. It is a thankless job, yet it is the one of the most amazing thing i found on this community. Tenacity.
count here, but for the love of god i can't remember if i really did).