TL;DR I got tired of the direction and moderation of L1T and decided and spin off my own thing. Didnt really like discord so made a forum and its been mostly smooth sailing so far. Pretty good place and surprisingly active with the 6-10 main members we have. Still more alive than crit (aka teksyndicate) XD
Would like the main forum to get more use besides the lounge but that happens with time
It all started with good ol stubby. A lounge without all the asshats and pointless shitposting. A place where discussion could be had and not completely derailed by someone just coming in and shitposting. That had its own problems between me being able to unable to moderate properly and it being invite-only with no way to remove people (was before the uninvite feature in discourse). Eventually i handed off control of stubby to @KemoKa and moved onto discord (mostly to just mess about with it)
See below for more details
stubby lore
In The beginning Dje4321 had came to the forums and was stunned by the power of knowledge and shitposting. She lurked the forums trying to understand how to process the knowledge. She began asking questions in a attempt to assimilate herself into the knowledge. Month after Month her knowledge had increased and began to use it to educate others into the world of knowledge.
Dje4321 soon began to become jealous at how close the community had seemed and spent many weeks to figure out how they knew each other. This is when she had stumbled upon the Lounge and was amazed at the true power of discussion she was seeing there. She watched silently as she learned what the lounge was and how it operated. One day she hopped into a discussion and was amazed at how welcome the community was to a new person. The community had made her feel welcome there and she was happy to meet people who had the same interests as her.
The lounge was her new home for many years until one day when she logged into the forums she had seen that someone had sent her a pm. It was a invite to a hidden lounge and she was marveled at its glory. Before she could even get more than a glimpse it was taken away from her. This left her will a void wondering what it would be like to have a hidden lounge. The thought sat in her mind for many days until she decided to make her own hidden lounge.
Dje4321 invited who she thought was her greatest friends from the lounge but when they tried to bring down her new hidden lounge it made her feel betrayed. With no way to remove the people that hurt her she was forced to create a new hidden lounge. The hidden lounge flourished like no other but fears grew among the members of the hidden lounge that a admin might be able to see what they were up to. In order to cover up there tracks they would create a new hidden lounge to prevent high post count from drawing unwanted attention. This went on for many iterations and the name had morphed from hidden lounge to stubby.
She began to grow tired of the constant hiding from the admins so on behalf of the stubby she had reached out to the great and all mighty wendell. She plead for permission to have the stubby but wanted no one else to be harmed so she took the full blame for it. The almighty wendell and granted permission for the stubby to be existent. when dje4321 told the sfubby they had rejoiced at the news.
A few weeks later dje4321 came to the forums to find that the stubby was gone. She spent several hours investigating what happened. she found out from a mod that someone has started shitposting NSFW content on the stubby and it was flagged. The stubby was kind and caring and gave mercy to the one who caused the stubby harm. From all of this mods had to be invited so they could help remove the evil from the stubby.
and that brings us here. to the present and soon the future
Discord went pretty ok and ended up getting a decent little community going. It lasted a while but it always left a bad taste in my mouth. Lack of customization, shitty web app, Instant messenger feel, etc. I ended up spinning up a discourse install mostly to learn how it worked on the back-end and get more understanding to how it worked as a whole. Friend let me borrow a subdomain so i could do some basic hosting (Thanks @eddynetweb). It was a nameless and pointless discourse. A gray soul wondering the internet wastelands but people did eventually use it. Few months went by and the discord pretty much died due to this place kinda taking over.
At some point in the timeline me and @Cavemanthe0ne re-tooled the discourse for the little side company he and his father had setup. It was mostly fine though i did want to strangle some point for the inability to get the domain setup properly so we were limited to about 25/emails a day and having pretty much every email get eaten by spam filters. Eventually cavemans dad pulled the domain and name from us and left us in the same place as we were before. Nameless and pointless. Instead of relying on other people to give us a direction and a mission we decided to take it into our own hands.
We held a naming contest which @wolfleben won. Re-tooled the forum again with our new name “Ordered Chaotic Discussions”. We are now and will forever be a place where discussion comes first but its ok to let it get a bit chaotic and have fun. Sorry if this post makes me sound like a crazy person but i do really want this place to succeed and do well. Its a really good community and i hope for nothing but the best for it so feel free to share and invite your friends. They will be welcomed with open arms