NeoGAF is heating up!

Very happy to see this. I loved Gametrailers [rip] and GAF was the only suitable substitute [past crazy era] that I found. Heres hoping the members will triple by the end of the year.

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While I don't post too much here (I'm more interested in PC-games and indies, not so much AAA, consoles or fancy graphics), I can say the community here is a lot more welcoming than extremist sites like Reeeera or RPG.net.
 
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Came here running away from reddit.
There still some problems with console wars, but that certainly beats being called white supremacist for not agreeing Mordhau is racist.
 
This thread must have lurkers form elsewhere Reeing hard right now.
Came here running away from reddit.
There still some problems with console wars, but that certainly beats being called white supremacist for not agreeing Mordhau is racist.

I'd wager that alot of GAF's new identity are people running from liberal websites making them feel bad lol

either way, good to see it's active

Yeah its really nice to see. But i still hope that some discussions could go a bit more mature. But pls no more mods that Ban you because you dont like something etc like on Era

This is the only issue with GAF i have at the moment. Discussions get derailed into shit way too fast.
 
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I'm glad the forum has gotten back on its feet again. It's nice to have a forum where you write freely without having to stay clear of the politically correct mob and crazy mods.
 
Sorry to ask but what happened? Did gaf suffer a setback of some sort before?
People were being banned left and right for petty reasons. If a mod disagreed with what you posted, you could get perma-banned immediately, with zero chance for appeal or anything.

So things have improved greatly. It's not perfect, but most likely that has to do with the mods being overrun with reports lately due to the heated console debates.
 
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The best, most fun place on the internet ascends.👌

Thank you to everyone with a hand in creating it, from EviLore EviLore who has now twice built an amazing forum from scratch, to our hard working and fair moderators, to all the posters that contribute awesome content, and especially everyone who helped build it back up again in darker, less clear times.

Basically everyone here is awesome, and we've all built something truly special together.
 
It's great to see the numbers, you can definitely feel that the place is much more active and I have always kept an eye on the numbers out of curiosity... and all this despite not having an E3 this year.

I thank Evilore, the mods and everyone behind the scenes for creating such a nice environment for everyone here to read, discuss or even just lurk...

I'm sure there will be a lot of growth ahead as word spreads through the internet of what a good place it is.

Well deserved and congratulations!
 
Wait, I was dumb and missed someone, lol.

Thank you to Gromph Gromph and everyone behind-the-scenes of the tech, features, and business of Gaf. You guys are a little more invisible, but your effort is something we appreciate every day!
 
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Nice to hear. I don't do social media, so in terms of online interactions, Gaf is about it for me. I know message boards are antiquated to some (many? :P), but they're comfort food to me. Long live digital smoke signals. :P
 
Good stuff. Hopefully those numbers keep rising.

Everyone involved with the running of this forum deserves a thank you. This is a cool place.
 
Awesome good to hear. What happened in april? Did the site go down for a day and I missed it? Edit* NVM my reading skills needed sharpened.
 
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What social issue is going on now...that would cause an influx of banned users to flea their other home....i wonder... :)

Welcome back
 
Wait, I was dumb and missed someone, lol.

Thank you to Gromph Gromph and everyone behind-the-scenes of the tech and features of Gaf. You guys are a little more invisible, but your effort is something we appreciate every day!

On the sysadmin side, Gromph Gromph does back-end and Palliasso Palliasso does front-end. Gromph smoothly handled one of the largest forum database migrations in history when we did ours back in 2018, and Palliasso coded most of our custom functionality like our Twitch integration and Giveaways as well as our themes. They're S-Tier guys.
 
Can we just have a war with Resetera to settle this? I cant be bothered jumping between both forums.
They will destroy themselves from within. I used to go there all the time, now I will check it once a week for gaming news, then i realize there is no gaming news its only social issues in gaming news. I cant be bothered with that, i want to know what games are coming and when, not "well a trans black women created this game so lets all buy it"
 
I remember when it was impossible to get an account on NeoGaf... I applied a ton of times and kept getting denied... no idea why. Glad it's not like that anymore.
 
I posted the same thing here and on ResetERA.

Here, EviLore liked and quoted.

There, i was banned.

I'm fine with this.
Evilore is slow at figuring out who are the racist bigots. One day he will figure it out, lay down on his knees and beg for forgiveness for the dangerous speech he enabled 😬.
 
The best, most fun place on the internet ascends.👌

Thank you to everyone with a hand in creating it, from EviLore EviLore who has now twice built an amazing forum from scratch, to our hard working and fair moderators, to all the posters that contribute awesome content, and especially everyone who helped build it back up again in darker, less clear times.

Basically everyone here is awesome, and we've all built something truly special together.
You're welcome :messenger_heart: :messenger_sunglasses: :messenger_tears_of_joy::messenger_beaming: seriously tho I agree with every word.
 
Around 45k posts per day, and concurrent user counts somewhere north of 10k.

The reaction system has definitely cut down on noise posts, though. We're averaging over 15k reactions per day, and many of those would be "this" and "yeah" posts otherwise.
Do you see a lot of old timers coming back? (If you can even measure this)
 
I remember when it was impossible to get an account on NeoGaf... I applied a ton of times and kept getting denied... no idea why. Glad it's not like that anymore.

Okay, who let NoobleBear in? We have one rule here, and that's to never let in NoobleBear.

Agreed. It's why I only lurked before the great reboot. It's so much more friendly and welcoming to sign up and get started now. Being able to add my voice to Gaf has been wonderful.
 
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What a recovery: from a little more than 500 posts per day to over 6000 posts per day, and from an average concurrent online user count of 2600 to over 4000 (with many times more members online).

We have a great community here, a sane and relatively civil one where differences of opinion are welcome and people can debate with facts or memes, and we'll continue to rebuild into this new and exciting gaming generation of teraflops, SSDs, ray tracing, and VR.

Thanks for being a part of NeoGAF.
DEFUND THE MODDING TEAM!
 
Okay, who let NoobleBear in? We have one rule here, and that's to never let in NoobleBear.

Agreed. It's why I only lurked before the great reboot. It's so much more friendly and welcoming to sign up and get started now. Being able to add my voice to Gaf has been wonderful.

HA!!! Not gonna lie... I actually snuck in through one of the vents and set up camp in one of the lesser used custodial closets. *Shhhhhhhhh!
 
Do you see a lot of old timers coming back? (If you can even measure this)

I take ban appeals on a regular basis from people who were unjustly banned back in the day (typically from 2015-2017, the dark times when most sane people were being banned), and those guys are usually cool. There's a steady stream of new registrations, too, which you can see in the introduction thread over in off-topic. We see some "reeeturners," but they're often indoctrinated and not able to participate much without going nuclear ad hominem on everyone else. Some are okay though, and we evaluate case by case.
 
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