EoFF in 10 years: a look back

[Scottie]

Endless, what was your name when you joined?

[Endless]

Master Vivi (btw, you can see previous names in profiles )

[Scottie]

Master Vivi (btw, you can see previous names in profiles )

Ah I see that now, thanks. And I do remember you!

[Freya]

EoEO is still a pit of intolerance and immaturity, and likely always will be. Except for the personal life threads, those are still really great and meaningful.

You forgot ignorance. Tremendous ignorance. It's a lot of fun, except for all the boring personal life threads which are easy to skip.

EoFF will still exist in 10 years because even if everyone else quits using it, there will be a desperate few who refuse to give up even as it decays around them. Not that it won't necessarily be thriving, too. There's just very little chance of total disappearance. I guess if the page views got low enough, the owners could just shut it down regardless, though.

If EoFF has a failing it is that it isn't very tolerant of 'differentness' from the collective ideal of what an EoFF poster should be and what they should post about. I don't pay that much attention anymore, but it's always been present in things like the strict adherence to rules about double posts, or the interpretation of a post as being "trolling" when it's not, or the complete non-acceptance of anything that even resembles a person attack even when it isn't, in fact, a personal attack. There are plenty more ways in which it's demonstrated, as well.

Now, there's nothing wrong with that in principle - but it creates a very "inbred" (I mean that in a non-offensive way, I guess sort of isolationist) environment in which people who aren't like other people here are driven away, unless they've got extremely thick skin in some regards. Even then, they tend to eventually get bored and leave, which leaves a community that thinks a lot alike (trivial surface differences and a few outlier members notwithstanding).

Are we visiting the same website? Cause.... I don't...... see that... I mean maybe if you go into EoEO yah but everyone knows not to go in there. Otherwise I think we have actually improved and have become more open and welcoming.

The rest of this discussion has been moved here: http://home.eyesonff.com/feedback-fo...er-thread.html ~Shlup

[Denmark]

wait, a 10 year old thread was on the last/first (however you want to put it, chronologically, etc) page of GC? but that would have been 4 years after the forum was created, i am confuse

such prune

[Pike]

*snip* (comment moved)

As for where EoFF will be in ten years: I dunno, it can see it either way, really. We're a holdout for sure, but with the way the internet and communication is so rapidly changing, who knows.

[Freya]

Back on track of the actual topic:

I think eoff will be around in some way in ten years. I have this feeling Final Fantasy will make a comeback! Then we'll get more people and activity. But look how much the internet has changed in ten years. The way we communicate on it is different. EoFF may be here but not the same way it has been.

[Jiro]

If EoFF is still around in another 10 years then it will be almost entirely the same as it is now: full of semantic debates, exclusionary injokes, nostalgic oldbies, eager newbies, imperfect (but, y'know, satisfactory) staffing, weird ads, and countless threads about EoFFers.

[Sephex]

In another 10 years, we will have our very first EoFF murder mystery because one of you will kill the other in real life at this rate!

(SPOILER)It turns out to be Del Murder. We really should have seen it coming.

[Jessweeee♪]

I want to play EoFF CSI again.

[Del Murder]

I like how Bert knew what will actually happen.

Well, Del was right that there'd be new fads, but he underestimated out crotchety resistance to change.

I guess I did. I won't make that mistake again!

In ten years EoFF will still be around unless the internet implodes upon itself. Then we will go back to this thread and wonder why we were bickering over forum rules in a ten-year outlook thread. Also Spuuky will be President of the United States.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

Another past event I found interesting was when I logged on and everyone had their name switched to a different gender.

I noticed my name was Angel Wing Heartilly and I had a Rinoa avatar. Looking back I can't remember what the point was. If there was a point. I like the things that throw people off of their regular mindset for a bit. Like all these Dearly Departed titles.

[Roogle]

To gaze into the future of others can be a terrible thing at times: an offhanded comment can find its way to leave others emotionally battered, bruised, and beaten.

I prefer to keep thoughts of what I think will happen in ten years to myself. I don't think that I would have been able to foresee this point ten years ago, but if I had, who would have believed me, anyway? Likewise, I don't want to say anything about what will happen ten years from now. There are some who will make it and many who will not, but the journey is everything -- that's what matters and that's what's important, not who stays or who goes; experience it for yourselves and I'll see you 'round, someday, should we make that journey together.

[Shlup]

Ah, this thread looks much better now. Ya'll let this nice little topic get f'd in the a.

Now to do my part in keeping my word:

[Del Murder]

What the hell is she supposed to be?