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NSider is gone.

Posted by: xparasite9
Date: 2007-09-28 13:20:36
The Nintendo NSider Forums went kaput on the 24th, so that means all the Tweaking Glitch stuff is gone. So now we're back to square one with that.

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Posted by: Missing? NO!
Date: 2007-09-28 15:20:29
Sigh.
I really liked the NSider forums.

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Posted by: Guy
Date: 2007-09-28 16:09:55
Tweaking Glitches? What? Sorry, but what is this about exactly?

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Posted by: Mini Mew
Date: 2007-09-29 02:10:15

The Nintendo NSider Forums went kaput on the 24th, so that means all the Tweaking Glitch stuff is gone. So now we're back to square one with that.


Darn it!!! I liked the NSider forums a lot!!! >:(

Re: NSider is gone.

Posted by: Bluelatios
Date: 2007-09-29 09:19:40
Tweaking glitch………oh! it must be that glitch in D/P in which you ride really crazy on the bike to make an area appear blacked out! yeah that one is hard but interesting….I guess it is up to GCL now to find all the info on it.

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Posted by: Guy
Date: 2007-09-30 09:54:16
Oh! :) Never heard of that.
…
So all the data is gone? D: ); :'(

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Posted by: ACE91
Date: 2007-10-02 12:53:32
Well, if there's anything that could bring me back to post again, this is it. I just found out today that NSider was gone. Gone. How could they do this to us? (By us, of course, I mean the members of NSider, not you guys.) I suppose it had been dying for a while after Andy killed the RPG board, but I just never expected it to end like this.

NSider was where I got my start; it was the first forum that I ever joined, and I was an active member for years. I had over 3000 posts there; and suddenly, with a singe anticlimactic administrative action, it's all gone. All my memories at NSider. All of my early history on the Internet. Everything. When the first two Glitch City sites died, it wasn't that big of a deal to me because most of my old posts, glitch documentaries, fanfics, etc. were on NSider, and even though I didn't go there often, I could still go there to look through my old stuff and remember. And most of my friends were there too, although a lot of them left after the RPG board died.

NOA_ANDY and the others have no idea how much they destroyed with such a seemingly careless action. All of the fanfics I loved to read, all of the comics and RPGs and four years' worth of some of the best and funniest discussion between gaming fans that I've ever had the honor to be a part of, all gone in an instant, replaced with a friendly-looking administrative message that gives no indication of the history that was unceremoniously bulldozed in its place.

And all for marketing. Don't think I don't know why NSider started to die two years ago; why the RPG board and Moot Trivia and Camp Hyrule and everything I loved about it vanished, one after another, to be replaced with more marketing propaganda. Now they apparently decided that the forums themselves were a waste of time, and that they should all be destroyed to make room for more marketing! Nintendo doesn't give a crap about their fans anymore! I used to think they were better than that.

But this only solidifies my hatred for big business. No matter how much they seem to care about fans and community and fun–which should be the point of gaming in the first place–it all comes down to making more money off of n00bs who can't tell a good game from the crud that makes up 90% of the Wii's current software titles. One of these days I'm going to go into the indie game-making business, and I'm going to make sure I never abuse my fans like that. Never. You can hold me to that statement.

But I suppose everything has to die sometime. NSider is dead, GCL is dying (as reluctant as you guys are to admit it, it's true) and one era of the internet gaming community is ending, at least in my eyes. Very soon I'll make my own website, where I distribute my own games, and I will be sure to NEVER do such a disservice to my forum community there, if it can be at all prevented.

Ace out.

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Posted by: Newo
Date: 2007-10-02 15:12:25
GCL is dying (as reluctant as you guys are to admit it, it's true)

It is not really dying. We still have loads of people posting, and there is always something else to document.
We can always kill some n00b who spam. We may be getting slow, but we aren't dying yet.

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Posted by: Abwayax
Date: 2007-10-02 16:46:43
And what makes you say that this site is dead, exactly?

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Posted by: PichuUmbreon
Date: 2007-10-02 18:05:36
GCL is dying (as reluctant as you guys are to admit it, it's true)

Check the More Stats page and see if you think otherwise. :\

Here, I'll post it:
Monthly Summary  New Topics  New Posts  New Members  Most Online  Page views
September 2007 148 3631 28 38 152538
August 2007 337 1943 51 60 111850
July 2007 175 2240 51 68 127736
June 2007 138 1975 55 31 100648
May 2007 35 296 7 16 31208
April 2007 69 848 30 20 47686
March 2007 71 928 30 18 50324
February 2007 81 1237 23 25 49778
January 2007 69 701 27 33 44107
December 2006 55 2818 15 39 62165
November 2006 73 788 31 32 32571
October 2006 72 646 18 15 28018
September 2006 122 1240 15 27 42230
August 2006 77 1366 16 10 29806
July 2006 49 1037 12 14 26280
June 2006 104 1440 9 18 40612
May 2006 49 418 11 8 14505
April 2006 61 543 17 10 16536
March 2006 91 927 28 14 22267

The numbers in bold are the highest number in the column. And they're in very recent months.

Re: NSider is gone.

Posted by: Abwayax
Date: 2007-10-02 18:11:48
He might have been referring to the site itself.

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Posted by: Sorreah
Date: 2007-10-02 20:53:45
Meh, I don't think so. I think old-school glitches might be in a bit of a lull right now b/c of Diamond and Pearl, but the site's not dying. I like the fact that there aren't 45049075834975348957 million eager n00bs flooding the site b/c is the "thing" right now. These smaller sights where everyone knows everyone are pretty cool, really.

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Posted by: PichuUmbreon
Date: 2007-10-02 21:13:37

These smaller sights where everyone knows everyone are pretty cool, really.

Yes. XD

In fact, I wouldn't want this site to have 200,000 members. Not because we'd have to get quite a lot of moderators, but because, if the site had too many members, it'd become fail due to all the noobs.

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Posted by: Guy
Date: 2007-10-03 13:50:35
We are definately done with RBYGSC (cries were finished recently) besides upgrading the documents, but now the main focus is Melchior X, right?.

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Posted by: Sorreah
Date: 2007-10-03 14:21:50
Well, if we run out of things in R/B/Y/G/S/C, we can always move on to R/S/E/LG/FR, and then to D/P