Goodbye, AGN.

Uh I don't see an Attack Site warning and Firefox's built in warning systems can both be ignored or on the warning page, you can click the link to ignore the warning and still view the page >.>

I don't get the attack site warning at all - haven't for some time now.

Whatever that means.

Never noticed an attack thingy, but then again I've bairly been active here until about a month ago.

Yeah. I think the virus (or whatever the hell it was) got taken care of about a couple of months back.

It's nice to know that SOMEBODY is taking care of things around here.
I've also noticed the SPAM BOTS are being banned too.

Noticed that as well. Spam bot activity does seem much lower.

AGN ain't goin' nowhere.

Yeah, it's nice seeing the spambots being dealt with.

A simple way to get rid of those pesty things would be to add the captcha back to the registration page.
Currently, there is none to challenge the bots.

You say goodbye like you sink a ton of time into this place. Hell, only time I come around is when I get an email notification that theres a spam bot to ban/delete.

Glitch wrote:You say goodbye like you sink a ton of time into this place. Hell, only time I come around is when I get an email notification that theres a spam bot to ban/delete.

Well, this is saddening news.

Doing my usual yearly check in, what the hells happened?!

I also stopped visiting once I kept receiving the attack site warning. I was just like...fuck it.
I dig what people say about this place and adolescence. I learned quite a few social skills on this forum, but mostly I just had fun. I was like 12 or 13 when I joined. That was over ten and a half years ago - which is insane. Quite literally, AGN has (somehow) been the most stable thing in my life over the last decade. While I don't want to just be like "I'm done with this place", I don't have the energy to put into something that no longer contains a natural draw for me. I think we had a good thing building up with Shattered Earth, but with me on a Mac it wasn't able to really go anywhere - not to mention I couldn't code and it was slightly difficult to get in contact with WL on moving forward with the project.
There are several people at this place that I've somewhat kept in contact with - CAD, MSU, and Masamune. There's a couple of other people I'm FB friends with but I forgot what their usernames were.

facebook.com/jwhitmarsh
Find me if you want to. I might be around here, but it'd take this place generating its own energy instead of me feeling like I am posting into an endless abyss.

Guess what I decided to type into my address bar? I'm actually kind of surprised I even remembered my password without using up all my login attempts. 😛

AtmaWeapon wrote:Seeing this place go down is what it must be like to visit a childhood home, only to find it's been bulldozed and replaced.

I joined way back in 2001 (mainly because of Zelda Classic), along with a bunch of other members. I was 12 back then and spent most of my awkward adolescence here (as evidenced by my username and early posts). I kind of drifted away around 2005-ish, if I remember correctly. I would pop in and post every now and then, but I slowly became a lurker and stopped visiting altogether.

I have to say though, out of every discussion forum I've been a part of, this is probably the only one where it felt like a family. A caustic and dysfunctional family at times, but a family. c:

Even if this place is just a husk of what it once was, the fact that it still exists is something I'm thankful for. Good times... even if it became more of a ghost town than it already is, I'd still be sadder if it wasn't here.

MasterSwordUltima wrote:Then the first incarnation of Shattered Earth came about, and I think I dated an imaginary person - granted I was like 14? That was definitely the weirdest part of my adolescence. [Only KJAZZ can really confirm whether hyper was real or not, really - fucking weird].

It seems strange to be mentioned in a post like this, I never really knew what kind of effect I have on people though a web forum. Then again, there are a lot of names in that list I have good memories of.

I think the fact that this site is still up and running says a lot about it, even though it may be sparsely populated. It hasn't faded into the void of the internet.

holy.. i ve been inactive since like 2002 or something lol i cant believe they didnt erased my account , maybe nobody remembers me, im the guy who doesnt speek english very well i remember your names and its sad to see people that have always been here are ...leaving... i feel nostalgic i stopped posting because there was no motivation to be here i mean zelda classic never advanced and open zelda died or moved to another part , i dont know how things like this work but they should give zelda classic to more programmers or something
please if you or somebody else really wants to leave dont do it at all, i mean keep comming sometimes at least

Just got here after over a year away and it is sad to see posts like this. But good to hear people are still checking in once in a blue moon. Almost like we're all wishing for it to become revitalized, knowing its probably not going to happen. I've met some good friends on here. You can all look me up on facebook under Darkflamewolf. Pretty easy to find me. Must give major shout out to Cbailey for being one of the most awesome testers I've ever had to work with. You can test my new and upcoming projects anytime buddy!

everything's relatively ok here, aside from spambot attacks. the Zelda Classic forums are still very active as they work to get everything fixed. did I mention the spambot attacks?

I even check the "Currently Active Users" at the bottom of the main page and I would be darned to see it go to the single digits.

I remember logging in here probably every day for about 6 years. It was when i moved out of home and didn't have Internet that my interest kind of dissipated. It's a shame. Like many of you, AGN was such a huge part of life. Will never forget travelling halfway across the world for the AGN convention in '05. That was a blast and i met a bunch of awesome people there. My life is nothing like it was back then, to most of you who haven't kept touch, I would seem like a completely different person. I guess in a few ways that is because I am.

Thanks for the shout out Atma. Hope your life is well and you've achieved what you had hoped so many years ago.
It's sad to hear what has happened to AGN and even though i don't visit much anymore, it will be a dark day when this place ceases to exist.

Good luck to everyone who's been here forever, those of you i still keep in touch with, look me up for a chat! Those of you who dont, i'd love to hear what's going on in your life:

e-mail: brentonjames at gmail dot com
facebook: www.facebook.com/bootman (make sure you say who from AGN you actually are in a message or something, or you may get ignored 😉 )

Cheers for the memories AGN,
goKi.

Don't forget though, most of us were probably assholes too.

I mean this *IS* AGN.

Each time I come back here I hope to find a reason to stay.

SUCCESSOR wrote:Each time I come back here I hope to find a reason to stay.

I have been seeing a LOT of spambots lately! People advertise in their replies!

Who am I kidding? I find it hard to bring myself to maintain activity on my facebook let alone a forum where I have to use 4 of 5 attempts to remember my 5 year old password. I try though, I try.

SUCCESSOR wrote:where I have to use 4 of 5 attempts to remember my 5 year old password.

Mine hasn't changed since the old days when AGN still used UBB. 😃

Mine hasn't changed is years. All my other passwords, however, have become more diverse and secure now-a-days because I now have things to protect like credit card numbers and I don't want every internet douche and spamlist to have my (important)email address. The amount of script-kiddies around these days is ridiculous.You can't upload a picture of your girlfriend to Photobucket without some /b/tard breaking in looking for blurry nudes.

Anyway every time I come back here I have to think which of my old passwords is the winner. Usually the problem is remembering how old the password is. I think the current one is 4 years old. Before that, I think, was the original I registered with.

Atma... thank you for the kind words hon <BIG hug> I hope life is being good to you and all is well. I've not traipsed thru here in quite awhile.... just needed to step away. MasterG got in touch with me a few days ago and told me SE might be back up and running again.

So here I am again 😊

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