- Wed May 27, 2009 7:13 am
#20311
Ahh.. It seems today like an eternity since I joined this site on the last day of 2006. When I was younger, I used to browse the classic dark blue Atari Forums with great excitement about Driver. I remember posting in the Driver, Driver 2, and Driv3r topics. Driv3r was the best.
The community was so close with the exception of dickheads like GTA4EVA. Xtsubarublazin, Albrozdud3, matt__jon, I cant even remember everyone's name.. What a shame.. Anyways, those days seemed like the golden days, when the glitchy yet, slightly addicting Driv3r came out, everyone kept the boards booming, for months... years..
The boards were a helpful and interesting place, you could always expect your question to be answered, and for everything to be ok. It was easy to make friends on the those boards, unless you had it coming to you. The days of monitering the boards while eating fried chicken and drinking root beer almost seemed like a daily routine. It wasnt until the last day of December 2006 that I stumbled across this place, because the Atari Forums for Driver were closing. But, since I had stumbled across this place, the Atari Community closing started not to even bother me anymore, because I could see that this place would most probably be the perfect place to retire from the Atari Community too.
I joined under my same original alias I had at the Atari Community, Sedans. It felt like home away from home, It seemed like this would be my new chill spot, I began to treat other members like Family. When I started here, this place was moderatley active, I went from topic to topic seeing new replies almost every moment I posted something new. When the Driver Madness held it's first (or was it second, nah, I think it was first.) anniversary chat room, I stayed up until maybe what.. 3, or 4 A.M. in the morning even though I had a test the next day, just to enjoy the anniversary with my fellow Madness Members. It was a good feeling that I thought would stay for a long time. And it did. It stayed for what felt like an endless amount of time, things were booming. But in the fall of '08, things had changed...
It didnt feel the same, it seemed that the members I remember "growing up" with on these boards were dissapearing, the hope for another Driver was dissapearing, and that I virtually served very little or no purpose here anymore as a member. Under a certain time that I dont remember I left these forums without return for a good while. Returning time to time, I saw no purpose to stay permanatley. Things were basicly the same way they were when I left. I was dissapointed and discourgaed. The hope for a new Driver game didn't even phase me anymore. And I felt that this once great feeling sensation of being on the forums had been blown into oblivion. I dissapeared again. Then I was checking my emails at yahoo. I noticed I had "19" in my spam folder, other than "18". I had gotten a new spam messgae. With curiosity, and knowledge that, well, spam doesnt always end up in spam and mail doesnt always end up in mail, I checked my spam folder, only to see a message from drivermadness...
"Ah!" was the first thing that came to mind. Having forgotten all the links to the actual working drivermadness site, (anyone who has been here ven a little while knows that this forum alone has had a good bit of link changes) I was excited to actually come back and see what kind of booming and bustling site this has become, only to see that, while we did get new members, it seems we lost many as well, maybe more than we gained, and the site traffic went from lunch hour, to blizzard. I felt even worse than before.
I noticed we're missing things that we had before... The portal, statistics page, albums, etc. It feels like this site is on the way down, Im not trying to be negative, or make anyone feel bad. It seems that madness is obviously trying to make some good changes around here or he probably wouldn't have put the place back on the .net server. But what do I know? I'm just suggesting that maybe, old features like I mentioned might help increase site traffic.. maybe not.. but worth a shot..
Anyways, My rambling has been going on and on and seems like I should begin to wrap it up and spare yall. If you have ready everything so far and didnt just skip it all, then I commend you, and uh.. congradulations. All Im trying to say is that this place brings back memories, but hasn't changed for the better. I'm going to stick around for a little while to see if anything gets better over here, moniter it a bit, and just be here in case anyone needs help with anything. I might not be around that much longer either.
Thanks for reading.
-Derek aka Young D or "Dj"
[President, P71 Rydaz, N.O.C.]
(No, I'm not going to do that after every post, just important ones.)
The community was so close with the exception of dickheads like GTA4EVA. Xtsubarublazin, Albrozdud3, matt__jon, I cant even remember everyone's name.. What a shame.. Anyways, those days seemed like the golden days, when the glitchy yet, slightly addicting Driv3r came out, everyone kept the boards booming, for months... years..
The boards were a helpful and interesting place, you could always expect your question to be answered, and for everything to be ok. It was easy to make friends on the those boards, unless you had it coming to you. The days of monitering the boards while eating fried chicken and drinking root beer almost seemed like a daily routine. It wasnt until the last day of December 2006 that I stumbled across this place, because the Atari Forums for Driver were closing. But, since I had stumbled across this place, the Atari Community closing started not to even bother me anymore, because I could see that this place would most probably be the perfect place to retire from the Atari Community too.
I joined under my same original alias I had at the Atari Community, Sedans. It felt like home away from home, It seemed like this would be my new chill spot, I began to treat other members like Family. When I started here, this place was moderatley active, I went from topic to topic seeing new replies almost every moment I posted something new. When the Driver Madness held it's first (or was it second, nah, I think it was first.) anniversary chat room, I stayed up until maybe what.. 3, or 4 A.M. in the morning even though I had a test the next day, just to enjoy the anniversary with my fellow Madness Members. It was a good feeling that I thought would stay for a long time. And it did. It stayed for what felt like an endless amount of time, things were booming. But in the fall of '08, things had changed...
It didnt feel the same, it seemed that the members I remember "growing up" with on these boards were dissapearing, the hope for another Driver was dissapearing, and that I virtually served very little or no purpose here anymore as a member. Under a certain time that I dont remember I left these forums without return for a good while. Returning time to time, I saw no purpose to stay permanatley. Things were basicly the same way they were when I left. I was dissapointed and discourgaed. The hope for a new Driver game didn't even phase me anymore. And I felt that this once great feeling sensation of being on the forums had been blown into oblivion. I dissapeared again. Then I was checking my emails at yahoo. I noticed I had "19" in my spam folder, other than "18". I had gotten a new spam messgae. With curiosity, and knowledge that, well, spam doesnt always end up in spam and mail doesnt always end up in mail, I checked my spam folder, only to see a message from drivermadness...
"Ah!" was the first thing that came to mind. Having forgotten all the links to the actual working drivermadness site, (anyone who has been here ven a little while knows that this forum alone has had a good bit of link changes) I was excited to actually come back and see what kind of booming and bustling site this has become, only to see that, while we did get new members, it seems we lost many as well, maybe more than we gained, and the site traffic went from lunch hour, to blizzard. I felt even worse than before.
I noticed we're missing things that we had before... The portal, statistics page, albums, etc. It feels like this site is on the way down, Im not trying to be negative, or make anyone feel bad. It seems that madness is obviously trying to make some good changes around here or he probably wouldn't have put the place back on the .net server. But what do I know? I'm just suggesting that maybe, old features like I mentioned might help increase site traffic.. maybe not.. but worth a shot..
Anyways, My rambling has been going on and on and seems like I should begin to wrap it up and spare yall. If you have ready everything so far and didnt just skip it all, then I commend you, and uh.. congradulations. All Im trying to say is that this place brings back memories, but hasn't changed for the better. I'm going to stick around for a little while to see if anything gets better over here, moniter it a bit, and just be here in case anyone needs help with anything. I might not be around that much longer either.
Thanks for reading.
-Derek aka Young D or "Dj"
[President, P71 Rydaz, N.O.C.]
(No, I'm not going to do that after every post, just important ones.)
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