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I've little love for the place myself (rapped on the knuckles for insulting a tree? I was banned for laughing at 40K itself) but tarring every person there with the same brush doesn't seem overly... rational.

I will miss my old Armored Company Log that was a precursor to the whole "Painting Log" craze. it was the oldest log on the seer AFAIK.

I will also miss the Mini-Movie Review thread that no other forums has been able to replicate, despite many attempts.

I will also miss the old content about Varingyr and the Death of the Squats.

RIP.

I left warseer and came here because some posters were so unbelievably rude that it made me physically angry. I'll not name names but I had to quit. Good riddance.

The only thing I'll miss are Rheinholt's occasionsl big blocks of yellow text. The over finnicky moderaing killed it for me. I axed my account 3 or 4 years back, and just used to go back to lurk whenever GW published their accounts to watch the fanbois explode in indignation.

I think it's sad for the folk who went there to share nice things and enjoyed talking. A lot of history vanishes when forums go down.
Schadenfreude is one thing, but not everyone on the forum was hell bent on being awful.

Back when I returned to 40K (about ten years ago! Where has the time gone) I enjoyed posting there, but work filters stopped me and I posted here more.

Whilst 40K has been replaced by other games - I still fondly look at my old project log there.

Good memories of Warseer for me. I used to do a ton of trades and sales there but the site's traffic came to a crawl and I eventually just stopped going there.

I'm sure it'll be back soon enough, it's had protracted downtimes before.

 Easy E wrote:
I will miss my old Armored Company Log that was a precursor to the whole "Painting Log" craze. it was the oldest log on the seer AFAIK.

I will also miss the Mini-Movie Review thread that no other forums has been able to replicate, despite many attempts.

I will also miss the old content about Varingyr and the Death of the Squats.

RIP.

There was a cracking Abaddon's 13th Crusade thread as well, with some posts which summed up that event nicely.

It definitely had (or has?) some things going for it, although I much prefer the more relaxed and generally better natured atmosphere on Dakka.

Think Warseer was fine if you were just into 40k/WFB, but it never really seemed to expand to encompass the growing hobby and so had started to feel a bit antiquated (or out of touch) of late.

Towards the end, I was only checking the off-topic forum and the non-GW games forums.

To be honest, I prefer the "all in one" approach to the painting and modelling forums here. It'd be nice if posters could tag threads with the game system, but really, for looking at well-painted models, I don't care what game they're for.

I've seen the "funniest" of things when it comes to WS moderation.

During the Chapterhouse issues someone made a thread regarding Raging Heroes having to change the head of their Llamasu model due to GW pressure. One mod (I think it was Wintermute?) came and blasted the thread into oblivion for people no posting that kind of things in the Chapterhouse one (I suppose they wouldn't want to soil the forums with a thread about some dirty French company). Then something like what, 2 weeks later, he came into the Chapterhouse thread and bombed all Raging Heroes posts for being OT in a Chapterhouse thread... your safety has been assured citizens, WS moderation is watching you!

But hey, overall it would miss them greatly, a shame that there were only 2 and a half person still worth following in their dead N&R section. The Dakka one with its mix of so many different games is so much more lively, and Warseer really killed some of their sections by separating them into to many subforums (most notably the independent games section).

Bah, in the end I suppose WS moderation issue are as much a part of the scenery as Dakka one sided anti WS sentiment is. It comes with the whole package.

 sing your life wrote:

DarkSoldier wrote:
Rumour is that GW C&D'd the 'seer.

What would they do that for? From what I've heard the Warseer mods would do anything GW told them to.They wouldn't infringe on anything GW owned.

It's a joke. EVERY time a WH forum has technical trouble, _somebody_ starts howling with great sincerity about how it was a C&D and GW is starting it's great internet crackdown. It was especially hilarious when both Bolter & Chainsword and The Waaaaugh would drop (they shared hosting or something) and people would lose their minds. Two forums down! GW is coming for us all!

 Brutus_Apex wrote:
I left warseer and came here because some posters were so unbelievably rude that it made me physically angry. I'll not name names but I had to quit. Good riddance.

Welcome! You will not regret being here.

I really hope nothing happens to Warseer. It was the place that helped me get into the hobby years ago. I know there is a lot of hate around for it due to...lets just say "heavy handed" Mods but it was my go to forum.

I will admit that the Fantasy sections became quite the ghost town after AoS hit however.

I'm a Warseerefugee. I've lurked Dakka's excellent gallery for years, but I lived in Warseer's 40k background discussion forum during my sojourn in Brazil- when I was very much separated from my hobby.

Its still got some excellent Terrain blogs that I was keeping an eye on and I'd occasionally browse the other Painting blogs.
Thats a thing that bothers me here- I haven't found a way to filter the Painting/modelling blogs to just look at terrain.
I'll often just search the gallery instead, which is why it took me til now to make an account, I guess.

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:
I really hope nothing happens to Warseer. It was the place that helped me get into the hobby years ago. I know there is a lot of hate around for it due to...lets just say "heavy handed" Mods but it was my go to forum.

Me too. The ability to have 80 posts per page was a nice feature as wwell. I'll never understand why people don't want as many posts/page as possible. We don't live in the days of 56k dialup any more,

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:
I will admit that the Fantasy sections became quite the ghost town after AoS hit however.

In fairness, that kinda goes for every forums fantasy section.
Most people who cares about fantasy anymore I presume posts at the 9th age forum and the few who bother with AoS mainly seem to use closed facebook groups or something.

Couldn't care less.

I got banned from there by telling someone straight up that Bikers will always give more mileage than Terminators and that defending them was spreading misinformation.

I just don't get what so many of you did to get banned?
I had I think around 2.5k posts over there, and only received a warning once (for making fun of a furry, which I guess is sorta rude, but seriously...)

Perhaps that place was a lot nicer if you were only really into 40k?

I will miss the background section and especially the hobby logs, so much good painting, and easy to find stuff for whatever you want to be inspired about.
I will be a bit sad if my own massive ~200k view log is gone forever. Getting lots of comments and feedback was really useful for keeping up inspiration, and restarting a log where I just 'show off' everything I've done feels pretty weak.

Besides the project logs section, I think it's a good thing for the hobby on the internet. Having new players visit that site upon their introduction to the game gave a horrible impression of the people involved in the hobby.

 Zywus wrote:

Me too. The ability to have 80 posts per page was a nice feature as wwell. I'll never understand why people don't want as many posts/page as possible. We don't live in the days of 56k dialup any more,
.

I believe the reason Dakka doesn't have that is due to caching requirements or somesuch. It's just not feasible.

 Ketara wrote:

 Zywus wrote:

Me too. The ability to have 80 posts per page was a nice feature as wwell. I'll never understand why people don't want as many posts/page as possible. We don't live in the days of 56k dialup any more,
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I believe the reason Dakka doesn't have that is due to caching requirements or somesuch. It's just not feasible.

Many, many lifetimes ago -- I mean, around 2000, when a few people were still on 56k, nerds had DSL, and companies still had expensive T1/T3 lines -- I wrote a piece of forum software from scratch for a popular gaming site that had millions of hits every month. It displayed no less information per page as Dakka (though back then people didn't upload as many/as huge photos). It is certainly not a technological barrier

 Talys wrote:

 Ketara wrote:

 Zywus wrote:

Me too. The ability to have 80 posts per page was a nice feature as wwell. I'll never understand why people don't want as many posts/page as possible. We don't live in the days of 56k dialup any more,
.

I believe the reason Dakka doesn't have that is due to caching requirements or somesuch. It's just not feasible.

Many, many lifetimes ago -- I mean, around 2000, when a few people were still on 56k, nerds had DSL, and companies still had expensive T1/T3 lines -- I wrote a piece of forum software from scratch for a popular gaming site that had millions of hits every month. It displayed no less information per page as Dakka (though back then people didn't upload as many/as huge photos). It is certainly not a technological barrier

I couldn't comment, I'm no techie. But that's what I was told by the chap who does run the site, and I assume he knows what he's talking about.

@Ketara - it could be just badly written. There's mountains of poorly written, highly inefficient code out there

Especially when it comes to something like a website that you do as a hobby -- I mean, it's not to take away from any hobbyist programmers who write things for fun, or just use a discussion forum software that's free or cheap, because hey, it's a hobby, after all.

I've been mostly hanging at Warseer since I came back to the hobby a couple of years ago, and initially there was quite a lot of activity in the plog forums. Lately though, it feels like it's almost petered out into nothing. In the Xenos forum, where I had my own plog, there were hundreds of posts every week, but the last 6 months or so it has become less and less, and before it went down you'd be happy for even a handful a week.

It's a shame, because there were quite a few really amazing plogs there, which were great for inspiration and motivation.

The problem is that when a forum goes down for an extended period of time, a lot of people simply won't come back. And if a forum is already kind of in decline, well...

I still am not sure if it was just Warseer that was losing users, or GW losing players and hobbyist. The former would be a pity, but the latter would be even worse IMO, since I do love the fluff and hobby aspects of 40K and I would hate for it to go away.

I find loads of good hobby material on facebook these days. Some people say they find lots of interesting stuff on twitter, but I can't seem to get my head around it.

Yes, I did find a fantastic Ork group on Facebook a while ago - that's where I get the majority of inspiration these days.

Maybe people are simply moving on to other media - it's only old farts like me, who's been hanging around on forums since the mid 90's, who think that it would be the only way...

I'm a middle aged adult and Warseer is the only internet forums I have ever been banned from. For using word "freaking." As in, "that's freaking ridiculous." Apparently I cursed. The mods were so rude, hopefully they stay down for good.

 totgeboren wrote:
I just don't get what so many of you did to get banned?

I don't get it either. And when one don't get why one was banned, it's usually bad .

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Was there aynthing going on there that might warrant a C&D?

Nah, Warseer has been irrelevant for years concerning rumors and leaks. They used to delete leaks in a fit of unwarranted self-importance; believing that GW is monitoring them 24/7.

The only thing that place had going for itself was the painting and project-log subforum with plenty of good and inspirational painters.

 Vermis wrote:
It's been a while, but weren't Warseer project logs basically arranged by sci-fi (i.e. little but 40K), fantasy (i.e. little but WFB), and 'everything else'? Or a slight variation thereof. Not exactly Hermes Conrad levels of pigeonholing.

Splendid reference!

And yes, from what I remember that's pretty much how I remember Warseer organized their project logs.

Oguhmek's mention of the xenos plog board reminds me that there were more subdivisions than that. But by the same token, yeah - a coupla 40K plog boards, fantasy plog board, terrain plog board, and 'everything else'.

Maybe Dakka could use a bit more division in it's plogs, or more sorting mechanisms, but TBH I think GW-only fans could use an RDA of 'everything else' every so often. Lets them get used to new experiences so they don't freak out and start snapping when unfamiliar things pop up.

I saw Cesar Milan do it, once.