Casualty list?

zerohour

Well-Known Member
#1
So TFF has been through a lot over the last... few years? I can't track time anymore. But we've lost the Admin, moved a few different times (or tried to branch off) and looks like we're settling in here for now. I'm curious how many people we ended up losing during the whole... thing.

Mainly because zeebee1 is apparently gone and has been for awhile. The throne of the King of Posts is empty! Who will claim the gift of gab and become the new number one poster on TFF?
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#2
zebee1 stayed with old!TFF, I believe, and presumably died with the rest of it when tapatalk nuked all the invisionfree forums.
 

Anonguy

Well-Known Member
#3
I can't believe Zeebee died in Infinity War
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
#4
Tapatalk nuked all the invisionfre forums? When was this? The only other forum I visited was the Fanfiction Federation, and only for Chilord's stuff. I know they switched, I did't know all the old invisionfree forums had.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#5
It wasn't a choice, tapatalk bought out invisionfree/zetaboards specifically so they could turn every IF/ZB forum into their ad/tracking/privacy nightmare.
 

Karnath

Well-Known Member
#6
The old forum is still there, that being said it is mostly dead, it has only received 3 post this year and the year before was mostly PCHeintz72's Update List (by the way has anyone asked him why he doesn't do those anymore?).
 

Contrabardus

Well-Known Member
#7
It wasn't a choice, tapatalk bought out invisionfree/zetaboards specifically so they could turn every IF/ZB forum into their ad/tracking/privacy nightmare.
This is why we VPN, NoScript, Ublock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, Universal Bypass, and Privacy Badger.

Nothing runs in my browser unless I okay it.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#8
That's cute and all, but they're the hosting provider. They can stick all that shit right in with everything else that's required to make the site run, and they don't need you to log in to data mine all the posts.

All of that stuff really only protects you if the website is on your side. Don't get caught out because you think you're secure.
 

sith2886

Well-Known Member
#9
Hey long time no see guys
 

Contrabardus

Well-Known Member
#10
That's cute and all, but they're the hosting provider. They can stick all that shit right in with everything else that's required to make the site run, and they don't need you to log in to data mine all the posts.

All of that stuff really only protects you if the website is on your side. Don't get caught out because you think you're secure.
Then the site just won't load or will only partially load. Like I said, I have to manually okay scripts, cookies, whatever. I get a list of stuff to let through or block on most pages.

It is kind of inconvenient sometimes, but generally speaking I just don't bother and find somewhere else to be if a page won't load. On very rare occasions I'll decide to let something through temporarily to access something specific.

Also, the VPN is particularly good at circumventing that kind of stuff. What do I care if it's getting analytics for an IP address that thousands of people use?

I also have manually set up my browser to block all tracking.

My me-irl e-mail is never used to register at any websites and only IRL friends and family know it. The one I use for places like this has no personal information tied to it, and I use a completely different e-mail for personal and business stuff.

Granted, most people don't do all this stuff, but I'm pretty confident that the average website data mining software isn't much of an issue for me.

If a site is particularly aggressive about it, I Tor.
 
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A_T_Sigma

Well-Known Member
#11
....Wow...this place is still around??? Haven't been here in yrs.
 
#12

Karnath

Well-Known Member
#14
Only recently found where it had got to. (seems someone kinda forgot to leave a forwarding adress back then...)
Everyone had an auto message get sent to them with a link to the new forum.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#15
Only recently found where it had got to. (seems someone kinda forgot to leave a forwarding adress back then...)
Sure wasn't me that didn't leave a forwarding address, 'cause I had a python script PM alllllll you mustachio'd mofos.
 
#16
So I figure I'll ask this here and pray for an answer. I was in a fic binge mood and was looking up some old favorites, wandered here to see what's become of TTF. I was looking for several Bleach fic specifically, but I see it's section has now been merged into Anime general, and several things have gone missing or I just can't find.

I see the post about how it got bought out and turned into an ad nightmare, but another post says it was still there atleast. I just can't seem to find it though. Any searching just ends up with this site. Any chance sebody could link or point me to the old site if it still exists now?
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#17
No. It would be better to ask for help finding it on this site.

I'm not going to link you to a site I know is sketchy af, and neither should anyone else.
 
#18
Besides, a google search looking for TFF will only lead you here. I don't think the original site, or any of the other off shoots, exist anymore.
 

silentorphan

Well-Known Member
#19
If the Tapatalk moderators/staff are to be believed, a lot of inactive boards (especially those that were dormant for years) didn't make the migration. The InvisionFree servers themselves were shut down in early or mid-2019, possibly even late 2018.
 
#20
I'm kind of torn on whether or not I'm glad or guilty of not trying harder to keep old forum more active. Apart from spotty internet access and some major real life issues, part of the reason I quit being a regular after 2010 was because it seemed like I was becoming a thread killer. To clarify, there was a startling trend of me posting in a fairly active thread and, all of a sudden, all activity in that thread going completely silent. I remember getting the e-mails about this place, but I missed everything that came after with the beginning of the end for the original forums and the troubled beginnings of this one. I cringe when I go through some of the posts from that time.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#21
well, you didn't kill this thread.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
#22
In retrospect, hearing about how shitty tapatalk is, it's good that we eventually moved forums or else TFF might have truly died an ignoble death under them

(weren't we the most active board on invisionfree? I thought I had heard that. Or maybe it was on icyboards that that was the case)
 
#23
We were at one point I believe. People were always talking and posting stuff from '06-'10. On my birthday in 2008, we hit our max activity, having had nearly every member on the forum all at once. As far as I can tell, the Original TFF is dead and was dying long before that. I still talk to some people occassionally, like dogbertcarroll and AJT, but it just isn't the same.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
#24
I'd assume the end of Naruto was really what hit the biggest all at once. I've seen a lot of names in the old old threads that never were around anymore when I signed up, but there was still a solid core of newcomers posting again. Compare the Boruto threads to even what the late-manga Naruto threads got and it's insane how much of a drop-off there was there.
 

MastaofBitches

Well-Known Member
#25
Compare the Boruto threads to even what the late-manga Naruto threads got and it's insane how much of a drop-off there was there.
Considering how badly written that last arc was, I imagine a lot of the drop-off was because people were just sticking around to see how the trainwreck ended.

I know I never bothered with Boruto because of how bad Naruto's ending was. Was Kaguya foreshadowed at all? White-Zetsu and Black-Zetsu being completely separate characters? The Juubi?
 
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