So I was looking around my profile a bit

Much to my chagrin I discovered that user notes were gone. All of them. All the history. Gone. No one will ever go looking through the forum and find older member's profiles and get an idea of what brought this site here. No one will ever have the pleasure of finding out someone they just started talking to was actually someone they'd seen before. No one will ever see something they left themselves to look back on like a time capsule. No one will ever see messages from old members, long since gone. No one will ever know anything. It's all gone. Probably forever.

Before you start posting, "No one used those anymore, anyways," or ,"Stop being such a nostalgiafag," or anything really. Just remember, we had a history. We are this site, we were its past. That past has been slowly chipped away at and lost over time, but we had relics. We had something easily accessible to prove that we were here. Now how much longer before the old threads are just deleted because, "No one uses those anymore, anyways."

 

I cried.

 

I really enjoyed reading Christhor's notes. There could be a possibility that they could be added in, though? They are adding a few things that aren't currently shown.​

 

Oh god... No no no !!!! Please god no!

 

make new history. fresh starts can be good.

 

Oh that's unfortunate :/

Well...time to make some a new memories. Regardless of how much a piece of data is deleted, the memories are always there within us. We are many and we are willing. Maybe our footsteps dissapeared in the sand and are now gone, but as long as we can keep walking forward, towards each other, then I think everything will be fine.

Also the assertion that they were deleted because 'No one uses them anyway' is not true at all.

 

Or the staff has a hard copy back up of the old forum and could reimplement them?

I agree to this. After all, I am a relic from the past.

 

Well, you guys have a back-up of the forum, no? So, even if you can't reinstate user notes to it's full effect, you can at least create an archive of them so user's can go back and look at them as they please.

 

hivemind

 

More like also, butttt...

...I think this is actually possible. Somehow. If the user notes were saved.

 

Anything that comes from here on out will be different and even if it doesn't completely suck will still be different and no one will ever feel the same way about it. You know very well that history is irreplaceable. You can go on about how much you need to make new memories and you can't dwell on the past, but there's a difference from having a past and dwelling on it. What we lost wasn't the ability to remember or think about the past, it was the ability to see it. You want a fresh start? Then you're running from your past, which is just as bad as being trapped in it.

 

Could you please bring it up to your other staffers, Chev?

 

They already know.

 

Dammit. I had a death threat in there. Now I don't know who to look out for.

 

im having a hard time seeing what the big deal is. you yourself said the past wasnt deleted, just the ability to see it. would you rather be able to see something that isnt there, or not be able see something that is there? dont want to sound cold but it seems like your getting caught up in something thats not worth it, considering theres nothing that can be done. besides, its not as if the people were erased.

 

bout time.

 

We have a case of someone here who just doesn't quite get it. Re-read the thread, see if your conclusion changes.

As for me, I had usernotes I wish I could see. Well, I won't be able to anyway, but ya know.

 

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