Were you ever on a site with a strong community feel

[Liz1tummypain]

Just interested to know what people have to say about this. I was on a questions and answers site, not that I imparted much knowledge, it was mainly the music and chat areas I liked. But there were a lot of friendly regulars who I was friends with over tinternet. Mostly Americans, and I think about them now and then. No particular single other user but I miss the community, the atmosphere, if that's the word. I suppose my kids were no longer needing me and it filled a bit of space in my head, my life. Killed odd bits of time and was nice seeing a side of other users lives.

Plenty to be dealing with now and even if it came back I've moved on from that kind of site, I think.

Can other people relate to this ?

@BitOutOfPractice I was so tempted when you were having your parcel issues to recommend you drop kick something (a toblerone, was it?) down the driveway to show her you meant business.

I miss it so much, never found anything like it!

I loved BGH, I found it after my wedding so must have come from one of the wedding sites - it was small enough to feel properly supportive and really useful at times. There were some great characters and LaQueen as she called herself on here was the best, her life was like a soap opera but I often wondered how much of it was true as she posted so many personal details - I knew the names of her husband and kids, what he did and where she lived. She was very entertaining though.

oh I wish I had 😁 It was that drive I kicked it down originally of course!

What I should have done is broken in while they were out (I know all the tricks in that house) and searched the gaff.

I "met" a load of lovely ladies on a pregnancy forum over a decade ago.

Still FB friends and in a WhatsApp group with them despite never meeting in person (some have met as they live geographically closer etc). Our bumps are all now 10+ years old.

another former iVillager. I originally joined mn in 2008 or possibly 2009. I de-regged in a rage, but came back a few years later.

I was a regular on a question and answer site called WHQuestion in the early noughties. Was a lovely community, I don't remember any trolls, bitching or unpleasantness. It was sad when the site shut down.

Same. We migrated from the original app we met on, all DC born in same month and now have a private fb group and splinter whatsapp groups

Originally, channel 4's Big Brother forum (about 2003-5) which was an absolute wild west of gossip, backbiting, romance, hilarity and generally way better than the show itself. Persistent trolling led to a group of us jumping ship to a forum of our own but it wasn't fast paced enough and faded out eventually.
I got into fanfiction after that and had a livejournal, through which I made some brilliant friends. Sadly LJ was bought up by a Russian company with dodgy views on gay rights so we all moved offsite and it was never the same again.
My all time favourite forum was one I never joined but just lurked on - because it was in Italian and I was reading it to improve my language skills. It was called Operaclick but, whereas most opera forums are just people arguing over their favourite artists and recordings, all human life was truly and brilliantly here. They all moved to a closed Facebook group and I lost them. Still sad about it.

Ship of Fools - a vaguely (or very much so, depending on your bent) Christian website in the early 2000s. Met up with lots of people from there, all over the world, and there were several weddings. I’m not the only person here who was there :)

I came on to say this as well! So many names that had been on WT for so long and many life events shared over the years.

I'm still FB friends with a few, but there are many that I would love to know how they are now.

I like mumsnetters 😄

I also meant to add that I took part in a couple of Secret Santas as well. Also a book exchange and I have vague memories of sending an oversized lollipop to someone in Canada, but I forget why!

Well I’m doing fine 🥰🤣

I was there back in the day as well. I was on the TTC/ DTC threads particularly- DS is now 13!

Yes Girland!! I was obsessed around 2002 and collected the badges they used to send through the post....can't quite remember why but it must have been connected to posting a cervain number of times. I think there was a points based system as well. Didn't we use to give each other rep points or something.
Met one of my closest friends on there and we still catch up a few times a year.

Me too. I met a good friend there who became Ds' Godmother. We had Lunch 2 days ago. He's now 21. I bought Tony's (Co creator of site) old pram to use for Ds & we got it shipped up to Scotland. MN in rhe early 2000's was lovely too. Meet ups, secret santa, woolly hugs. Such lovely support by Mums for other (sometimes desperate, sometimes having a ball, always fab) Mums

A harry potter fansite forum years ago in the early 2000s, there was a group of us that would constantly talk on the forum, then the chat room, eventually msn and then blackberry messenger, over years and years, the site is shut down and everyone drifted away now but it was a huge part of my teenage years and we celebrated people graduating, weddings, all sorts it was a proper community.

Another BMC'er here!

Netmums when it first started.

Still remember some of the names.

Mumsnet back in the day. I think I joined when DS was about four and he is 24 now. I went to a meet up in London at one point. Was living in Budapest back then and came over for a weekend of Christmas shopping and went to the meet up. Was nice to put faces to names. And then that was the Christmas of Mouldies…….

I also used iVillage. I think I was on an Atkins diet section on there.

Medtwitter a few years ago - ie the UK doctors community on Twitter. Entertaining a few years ago but then descended into quite a lot of drama and arguments . The Twitter algorithm has made it less of a community now too

Were you Queenie by any chance? 😂 Or something similar?

I was on netmums for a bit in the 2000s before I migrated here. It was all just too sparkly.

I was trying to remember what iVillage was called. It was so exciting. We must be the same vintage-I remember the mouldies. And I have a 24 year old….