Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:49 pm
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Faid. It needs to be a thing.
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Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:51 pm
Excuse me, what?
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:55 pm
It was the (semi) lawless area of the original forums. You had to specifically opt-in/request to join. But basically outside of legal concerns there were no rules in FaiD and mods didn't mod anything.
Sort of had its own culture in a similar way to how the Time thread had its own culture.
Sort of had its own culture in a similar way to how the Time thread had its own culture.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:59 pm
Oh yeah, Free as in Destitute. I'm not really sure if that's something I want for this forum; maybe I'll add it if more users request it.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:22 pm
I posted the link in the FaiD Discord so right now about quarter of the userbase seems to be from there 
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:08 pm
Most active long time users in old forum were in FaiD, so I rather suspect it wouldn't be necessary here. This whole forum will be like FaiD.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 5:30 pm
FaiD is #1 priority.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:44 pm
I read this in a Russian accent because of that one YT channel from a couple years ago...
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:54 pm
FaiD: created for arseholes, continued for probably-not-arseholes.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:44 pm
Sorta like Australia.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:51 pm
And hey, it was down at the bottom of the world, too 
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 1:45 am
Okay, I think that's enough support. Before I go and set up the forum, though, can someone give me a refresher on how FaiD worked? I remember there being a bit more to it than just "lawless", but I don't quite remember what.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:58 pm
It wasn't visible to everywhere. You had to have permissions to view and post in it. But other than that, it basically was just random discussion threads that were slightly less moderated. My favorite thread was where we spectated and discussed other people's arguments/disagreements that occured within the forum.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:20 am
One of my proudest accomplishments in life was starting a FaiD permathread.heuristically_alone wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:58 pmMy favorite thread was where we spectated and discussed other people's arguments/disagreements that occured within the forum.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 8:21 am
There is no accomplishment higher.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:06 am
So is there going to be a usergroup you join wondering what it does and then go "hey, I didn't see that before" on the board index?
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 2:21 am
I remember this thread.heuristically_alone wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:58 pm It wasn't visible to everywhere. You had to have permissions to view and post in it. But other than that, it basically was just random discussion threads that were slightly less moderated. My favorite thread was where we spectated and discussed other people's arguments/disagreements that occured within the forum.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 2:11 am
New forum is finished.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:12 pm
Don't remember how to apply to groups.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:16 pm
User control panel -> Usergroups -> select "Slaven'ts" and click submit to apply to join.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 4:49 pm
Hmm, it looks like non-logged-in users (and people who aren't in the group) can see posts in there, which isn't how it worked in the old forum (and I'm sure people would prefer if it worked how it did).
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:08 am
That's weird, I remember seeing the forum even though I wasn't participating.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:24 am
I think the forum showed in the list of forums on the home page up but you couldn't see anything in it.
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:33 am
I don't think it was visible at all. archive.org confirms it wasn't visible to non-logged-in users - no way to prove it for users not in the group, but I certainly don't remember being able to see it (because I didn't even know it existed until I'd been on the forum for several years).
Re: Faid. It needs to be a thing.
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:47 am
I didn't know of it's existence for the first year I was on the fora til someone mentioned it in a thread