By roundabout I mean neither forums, emails, nor comment sections, but other indirect and atypical ways of community forming online.
By roundabout I mean neither forums, emails, nor comment sections, but other indirect and atypical ways of community forming online.
The irc warez scene was an odd community. People showed up for the hacked software and stayed for the friendly banter.
I used to spend hours on Suprnova’s IRC and they eventually made me a mod.
Yeah I hosted some apps because my “@home” service wasn’t capped at 128k, so I was getting 5mb up/down. Would spend a lot of idle time shooting the shit with people, lots of regulars.