Your Online Home or Community

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

 

[Selinica]

My online home is, well, SL. I've got websites and communities I'm a part of, and with one exception I rarely talk in them (maybe sometime I'll say more as to why that is).
In a way I guess my home community is the LGBT discord I run just due to the effort I put in continually to keep it as a thing and that helped it outlive several others.

 

[NyteWytch]

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

Well now that's just uncalled for.

 

[Cristiano]

Stop it you two - this thread is nice and you're ruining it.

 

[Khamon]

A Brief History of Khamon: It was a warm summer evening when Khamon dialed a local gaming BBS on his Apple IIe using a 300 baud Hayes Smartmodem. Little did he know that messaging and file sharing and scoreboarding with other users would provide a home-like environment in the mysterious ether. But it did. Ten years later, an AVATAR MUD, running on the university's mainframe, provided a virtual world that promoted socialization in a family-like setting that allowed for mutual gaming support and real life discussions around campfires and such. Only one person and I, that participated in both, still know and communicate with each other.

I was then homeless for a while, wandering through USENET, never really settling anywhere because ... USENET.

Then my department received a Working Connections grant and I *had* to attend meetings held at Microsoft's Redmond campus for three years. One of those trips included credits for the store and the only thing there, that hadn't already been provided by the grant, were copies of their new MMORPG Asheron's Call. I purchased two copies and gave one to my coworker. We joined Harvestgain and Dereth became our new online home until Second Life opened. And SL itself was my new online home until I joined SLU.

Now, I know, get a blog, Facebook facilitates communication with several harping groups, a few organ groups, and a couple of charity organizations; and I message with people who only use Discord, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, or What's App; and I play AC in Dereth again, on an emulator, and enjoy it very much. But not one of those populations has, what's the word, affected me as regularly and radically as SLU. "Affected" is not the word, "influenced" isn't quite it either, but perhaps y'all know what I mean. So here we are and I hope we transition smoothly and continue to support and hone each other here.

 

[WolfEyes]

We mostly text chat, not use voice. We limit voice normally to when we are playing online games together, and even then, we normally just do a private group call. 99% of the time it's just text chat.

Thanks. I'll see if I can get Discord working again later this week. Last time I tried to use it after not logging in for a while it just flat would not update no matter what I did. Even uninstalling and downloading the latest and installing that didn't work. And yes I did run cleanup, defrag and reg clean before installing the new version.

 

[NyteWytch]

You can also just join us in your browser...no muss no fuss.

 

[Kara Spengler]

My online home changes now and then. For the past decade that has been here and SLU, no matter how active I was in SL at the time.