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Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-04-01 04:35pm
by EnterpriseSovereign
Anyone remember that message board that hosted a lot of the morons from the days of ST vs SW almost 20 years ago? Well it's officially dead:
Hello,
As discussed elsewhere previously, 'Jedi Master Spock' had been looking to get away from maintaining this site and this board. Technical issues and moderation problems in an age of incessant spambots have resulted in this latest restored backup you're seeing now.
I was and am loathe to see all the history just disappear, but scarcely have any time anymore for lengthy hobby activities . . . posting would be bad enough, but moderating and maintaining, too? With my own lack of time and distractions, I was even failing to coordinate a handoff or other orderly archival, and JMS was rightly going to merely shut it all down. I've jumped in to avoid that temporarily in the hopes of finding a long-term solution that keeps the posts available and accessible but the spambots and hackers at bay. However, for now, the simplest solution was to lock everything down as much as possible.
I believe PMs are still available for established users, so feel free to reach out. Reddit users can also pop over to
https://www.reddit.com/r/STvSW/ to check in, or e-mail me . . . it's g2k at my website.
I'll post more information as available.
Thanks again to all, especially JMS, plus Mike D. and Trinoya, for the twenty years of amusement, bemusement, amazement, and astonishment that these Versus Debates could bring, and the work they did to keep things going.
To everyone, "here's to ya, lads."
Bye, Felicia.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-04-01 10:16pm
by bobalot
The end of an era.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-04-01 10:29pm
by bobalot
Reading a thread called "Archival / future of forums" there and stumbled across this:
The forum era is in decline, sure. However, there are functional gun forums and other broad community forums, and larger niche forums that survive. As for other forums that cover this topic, StarDestroyer.Net probably endures mostly for its rumored porn forum and similar off-topic bits . . . certainly the Trek vs. Wars section is dead. Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity are extremely broad in scope so may attract folks interested in the latest Hollywood spectacle, but for Trek vs. Wars it's sparse as hell.
SD.Net apparently has a secret porn forum.
His link to
https://old.reddit.com/r/STvSW/ doesn't seem to have anything there either...
Oddities aside, the decline of the forum era and replacement by social media (with it's algorithms and other shittiness) has made the internet far worse.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-04-01 10:38pm
by muse
bobalot wrote: 2026-04-01 10:29pm
Reading a thread called "Archival / future of forums" there and stumbled across this:
The forum era is in decline, sure. However, there are functional gun forums and other broad community forums, and larger niche forums that survive. As for other forums that cover this topic, StarDestroyer.Net probably endures mostly for its rumored porn forum and similar off-topic bits . . . certainly the Trek vs. Wars section is dead. Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity are extremely broad in scope so may attract folks interested in the latest Hollywood spectacle, but for Trek vs. Wars it's sparse as hell.
SD.Net apparently has a secret porn forum.
Secret porn forum
s. But it's the kind of stuff that ruins your childhood, I can never watch
Mary Poppins the same way again.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-04-02 06:44pm
by LadyTevar
bobalot wrote: 2026-04-01 10:29pm
Reading a thread called "Archival / future of forums" there and stumbled across this:
The forum era is in decline, sure. However, there are functional gun forums and other broad community forums, and larger niche forums that survive. As for other forums that cover this topic, StarDestroyer.Net probably endures mostly for its rumored porn forum and similar off-topic bits . . . certainly the Trek vs. Wars section is dead. Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity are extremely broad in scope so may attract folks interested in the latest Hollywood spectacle, but for Trek vs. Wars it's sparse as hell.
SD.Net apparently has a secret porn forum.
His link to
https://old.reddit.com/r/STvSW/ doesn't seem to have anything there either...
Oddities aside, the decline of the forum era and replacement by social media (with it's algorithms and other shittiness) has made the internet far worse.
I can neither confirm nor deny if there were Secret Porn Forums on SDnet.
I will confirm a forum was named A.R.S.E.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-07-06 12:56pm
by Ubiquitous
The decline and fall of the forum/message board has indeed been a very sad thing. My formative internet years were on BBS and they were crazy/great times. Social media isn't my bag and reddit is just too big/American.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-07-06 05:59pm
by Crazedwraith
I mean we shouldn't really be throwing stones from our teetering glass house.
I'm amazed Mike bother fixing us after that last month's long issue.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-07-29 01:15am
by Raw Shark
muse wrote: 2026-04-01 10:38pm
Secret porn forum
s. But it's the kind of stuff that ruins your childhood, I can never watch
Mary Poppins the same way again.
This doesn't change the way I think about Mary Poppins at all. Maybe that says more about me than you.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-07-29 01:27am
by Raw Shark
I mean, a beautiful woman with the voice of angel who habitually wears pretty dresses and flies unassisted. I'm not even to call myself a dirty-minded fuck here, this is some normalcy. Where else is a young boy going to go with this scenario?
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-08-02 11:23pm
by Raw Shark
I mean, okay, maybe sometimes when I was 13 I was thinking maybe when she's flying she's not wear- You get the idea.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-08-03 08:04am
by bobalot
Who wrote the original post? It seems to have disappeared.
Ubiquitous wrote: 2026-07-06 12:56pm
The decline and fall of the forum/message board has indeed been a very sad thing. My formative internet years were on BBS and they were crazy/great times. Social media isn't my bag and reddit is just too big/American.
I loathe social media and reddit has quickly become enshittfied. Also, Reddit never had the sense of community the smaller boards had.
Re: Bye-bye Starfleet Jedi
Posted: 2026-08-03 09:12pm
by EnterpriseSovereign
bobalot wrote: 2026-08-03 08:04am
Who wrote the original post? It seems to have disappeared.
No idea what their original username was, they changed it to a number to reflect their post count:
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