Post by Keeby on Apr 30, 2016 15:47:20 GMT -5
With the 2 year anniversary of #kun taking place, I'd like to commemorate the occasion with an entire Discord server for #kun
The purpose is of course experimental but is open to a lot of potential as another playground/alternative for the main chat and discussion of various things. It's multiplatformed so it has a browser app, phone app, and desktop app. The link will also be added to the Galaxy Warp shortly.
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It's honestly really hard to believe it's already been 2 years since I first decided to prompt several people to form a spin-off community from the Brawl in the Family forums. It seems like only yesterday I had created a mibbit channel and advertised it on my user notes and had named it after that. At the time, I wanted to keep it secret for some reason but then it became known after awhile, and then an entire forum was built off of a small number of people from different locations talking. With the death of the Brawl in the Family comic, so subsided the community that it had left behind, but luckily there were survivors from the inevitable death of the comic- namely the main and original group of people from around the beginning times of the comics conception on #bitf, the Terra Firma forum, and of course, us.
It's funny to think that a simple webcomic brought together so many people and forged so many friendships across 8-9 years, people who may never have the chance to meet in person and people who would have never came across the other if it weren't for something like this to bridge the gap. When I had first joined the BitForums in the November of 2012, I was very different back then and was not accustomed to message boards and online communities, because I wasn't exposed as much to things like those, my only other choices of residence online were previously Webkinz and a lurker of the AT wiki/chat. So of course my early days of what would be the middle of the BitForums lifetime was me mostly being confused and immature. Over time though, I had come to known the community that presented itself on its own IRC channel, and over time again I befriended the group and stayed with it through thick and thin, and it opened up the world inside my head to the complexity of the lives of other people, which #kun has also done the same with me. Had it not been for joining such a great online community of many different kinds of people, I would likely be more bored online and off. Being in touch with more people, on multiple places, with such a vast group of interconnected forces, changed me. It even helped me make more friends offline after gaining the interests of the people I was accustomed to. We now live in an age were online presence is growing and is more accessible, and with that, more opportunities to know more people, and more opportunities to make friends. The sights they see, the lives they live, you become a small part of theirs, too.
With #kun being the icebreaker, we've now had our own community of people and internet friends for awhile now, and I hope that it'll stay that way for a very long time.
The purpose is of course experimental but is open to a lot of potential as another playground/alternative for the main chat and discussion of various things. It's multiplatformed so it has a browser app, phone app, and desktop app. The link will also be added to the Galaxy Warp shortly.
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It's honestly really hard to believe it's already been 2 years since I first decided to prompt several people to form a spin-off community from the Brawl in the Family forums. It seems like only yesterday I had created a mibbit channel and advertised it on my user notes and had named it after that. At the time, I wanted to keep it secret for some reason but then it became known after awhile, and then an entire forum was built off of a small number of people from different locations talking. With the death of the Brawl in the Family comic, so subsided the community that it had left behind, but luckily there were survivors from the inevitable death of the comic- namely the main and original group of people from around the beginning times of the comics conception on #bitf, the Terra Firma forum, and of course, us.
It's funny to think that a simple webcomic brought together so many people and forged so many friendships across 8-9 years, people who may never have the chance to meet in person and people who would have never came across the other if it weren't for something like this to bridge the gap. When I had first joined the BitForums in the November of 2012, I was very different back then and was not accustomed to message boards and online communities, because I wasn't exposed as much to things like those, my only other choices of residence online were previously Webkinz and a lurker of the AT wiki/chat. So of course my early days of what would be the middle of the BitForums lifetime was me mostly being confused and immature. Over time though, I had come to known the community that presented itself on its own IRC channel, and over time again I befriended the group and stayed with it through thick and thin, and it opened up the world inside my head to the complexity of the lives of other people, which #kun has also done the same with me. Had it not been for joining such a great online community of many different kinds of people, I would likely be more bored online and off. Being in touch with more people, on multiple places, with such a vast group of interconnected forces, changed me. It even helped me make more friends offline after gaining the interests of the people I was accustomed to. We now live in an age were online presence is growing and is more accessible, and with that, more opportunities to know more people, and more opportunities to make friends. The sights they see, the lives they live, you become a small part of theirs, too.
With #kun being the icebreaker, we've now had our own community of people and internet friends for awhile now, and I hope that it'll stay that way for a very long time.
