Happy Scanniversary!

[stubbleupdate]

I gave the mods a heads up, but didn't hear anything back, so I'll make the post that Fifteen Years Today, Scans_daily was permanently suspended from LiveJournal.

What a Saturday morning that was!
Stubbleupdate: I crawled out of bed on Saturday morning (which meant that the community would have been deleted late evening/night on Friday, America time) and saw that my inbox had a lot of LJ friends requests from people on the community. I get that sometimes, but four overnight is unusual. They all wanted to know where the community had gone, which is the first that I had heard of it. A lot can happen in six hours on the internet.

And the oral history
What the mods said
What Comicvine said
What Comics Should Be Good said
What MGK said
What Fanlore says
What Kevin Church said (the page is gone, but he said "fuck 'em")
What Peter David said
What Peter David said later
Welcome to Noscans_daily

The community has persisted, in some form, over the last 15 years. There has been a churn of members, some new posters establishing themselves, some posters vanishing. Some I've lost contact with (whatever happened to the poster who posted DIAF? I wonder how she feels). Some I've stayed friends with. And some I've kept an eye on because they're fascinating creatures to be studied.

And, since this is likely my last post here, and I was a mod on two communities, Ask Me Anything and I'll answer as honestly as I can.

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

Fifteen years? Where has the time gone? I remember trying to log in that morning and then going googling. I think I didn't find anything that time, so was left very confused. That GMT+2 can be kind of a detriment.

Anyways, that question since you gave the option. Why is this likely your last post? If the reason isn't that personal, or if you just don't want to talk about it publicly, that is.

[stubbleupdate]

Yeah, that was a stressful weekend. Each message you respond to, ten more appear in their place.

And, since Comixology died, my weekly comics purchasing has dropped off the charts...apart from The Witcher and She-Hulk. I've picked up DC Ultra (they gave me a paper copy of Death of Superman for free because I'm so cool) and those issues are released a month after print and digital, which means that even the books I still read, I'm not able to join in the conversation because I'm a month behind. And honestly, I don't miss it.

[shakalooloo]

Pff, a month behind is nothing - given that that's the window for breaking the four page limit, that allows for more discussion at the point where more is available!

Although, sometimes I feel like I'm behind simply when I'm only waiting for Saturday to pick up my comics, so that feeling's perfectly understandable!

[stubbleupdate]

Twitter has made lots of the comics commentary instant and unavoidable.

I bought USM #1 partly because of FOMO and partly because I knew I was going to see bits of it anyway, so I might as well read the whole thing.

[shakalooloo]

All the more reason to stay off Xitter!