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Did anyone use the forum ‘The Deadwood’

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Pibplob · 12/09/2018 14:32

I used to use it a while ago and just logged on and it seems to be dead. What happened? Anyone know.

OP posts:
Whoisshequestionmark · 12/09/2018 17:08

What was your username OP?

tillytoodles1 · 12/09/2018 17:03

HiGinger and Nickynacky, hope you're both keeping well.xx

CarlGrimesMissingEye · 12/09/2018 17:00

I'm not slagging it off. I loved that place. Shame a small number behaved so appallingly.

It was a forum that span off from another forum that's all. It's no secret really. But as it's defunct other than on FB now you were there or you weren't.

Oakmaiden · 12/09/2018 16:54

I love the way everyone is being so secretive about where the forum community have gone now and what the purpose of it was. If you don't know the secret handshake you can't get in.

Oh hang on, wrong word. Not love.

Nicknacky · 12/09/2018 16:54

jeremiah I’m assuming there is an in-joke I'm missing?

JeremiahBackflip · 12/09/2018 16:52

nicky must be confused with netmums. Deadwood was for woodwork and wood related career folk.

Nicknacky · 12/09/2018 16:52

medea Just a chat forum like this but smaller. It started as a weddding forum which is how I came to be on it and it had a baby section etc. You really got to know posters and followed their lives through marriage, children etc.

JeremiahBackflip · 12/09/2018 16:51

It was a forum for lumberjacks Medea and generally used for trading large saws, excess sawdust and talking about wood supply chains.

Medea13 · 12/09/2018 16:37

I'm really curious, what was it and what was it for?

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 12/09/2018 16:26

I was on there and very fond of it - they helped me through some incredibly tough times and will always be indebted to it and the people on it.

After life got better, I stepped away as I felt it reminded me of the worst of times and I generally took a break from my life online. I had a look not that long ago and it seemed incredibly quiet with barely anyone still there. So I'm not surprised it has finally succumbed but also very sad that it has.

Coldilox · 12/09/2018 16:21

Slagging off one forum on another. Nice.

Daggers11 · 12/09/2018 16:21

Vicious? Really? Never found that myself. Forthright but not vicious in my opinion x

CarlGrimesMissingEye · 12/09/2018 16:02

Yeah I was on there. I was on the Facebook group too but left. Almost everyone is lovely but a couple of vicious ones made it not worthwhile. It's worse now it's Facebook somehow. I miss so many of those folk though.

Original poster
Pibplob · 12/09/2018 16:00

I don’t have anyone as Facebook friends. Just ‘knew’ them from the forum.

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Nicknacky · 12/09/2018 15:40

tilly I remember you!

memyselfandmoi · 12/09/2018 15:38

If you have FB friends from either DW or the other site then you can always contact them and ask to be added to the group. The community is still around :)

TheHeartOfTafiti · 12/09/2018 15:24

I was on it, I’m in the Facebook group now

NotAnotherJaffaCake · 12/09/2018 15:20

Yeah, I was on it, and on the Facebook group. Left a few months ago.

helterskelter99 · 12/09/2018 15:15

If you knew people from both places you will probably have some friends on Facebook from there and should be able to track the group down.
;-)

Coldilox · 12/09/2018 15:10

Ooh a few of us here!

joan12 · 12/09/2018 15:03

I was on there from the start, after the break with the other website I won't name! But then I had a social media break, forgot about it and when I looked again a long time later it seemed very quiet. I miss that community, it was small enough that you got to know people but large enough then at least to stay interesting.

I was thinking about it just the other day when I noticed someone here with the same, unusual username as someone from there.

Ginger1971 · 12/09/2018 14:57

Hey Mariets!

Ginger1971 · 12/09/2018 14:55

What was your username pilbplob?

tillytoodles1 · 12/09/2018 14:53

I was on there too as mariets, then I left. I logged back on, only to find it's totally dead.

Ginger1971 · 12/09/2018 14:52

Nope