Are you sure that isn't dial-up? I got tired of waiting

Didn't it open for you?
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I didn't realize this site had been around for four years. It sure has changed.

Definitely has improved since 2008; why not bring back the male vs. female posts statistics again. lol

What is/was UFSC?

@ofnuts Upstate Forum South Carolina

@alc...No it didnt' open the first time so I thought maybe it was a joke, but after I saw your screen shot, I tried again and it opened.

Wow, now that is a blast from the past.

This site hardly had any traffic for the first year or two. Only after Oregonian and I redesigned the site and I dumped the portal & improved SEO did traffic pickup, not to mention the issues GT was having (and still has).

It just takes time to build a community.

UFSC was the first forum I started and it ran for 5 years. It was more of a politically oriented site but it really didn't have a narrow focus on a single topic, as does GIMP chat. I got really sick of moderating political battles. Political and religious discussions breed contempt and divisiveness. That's why they are not allowed here.

I am so glad to have this site...it was O who brought me here when she put a link up on Gimptalk...I followed it, signed up, and really liked that it wasn't a bunch of 12 yr olds doing signatures. I can't put the young 'uns down though, their signature tutorials taught me the basics of using gimp. I just have no use for sigs, lol.

O recruited me here from GT too 2-ton. Hope all's well with her.

I miss O, I hope she will be able to come back soon. I hope Jolie is doing better, also.

Some of what you say is funny 2-Ton. I discovered this place via a link on Jolie's youtube page. I went there to ask about her lack of activity and saw the messages about her being ill.

I read a little of the Gimptalk thread on here the other day. I didn't need to read that to see it hasn't been maintained very well. I went through the official tutorials. Then I started to look through more recent stuff. It seemed to be mostly "sig" stuff mixed in with some chan like behavior. That's one thing I appreciate about this place, the maturity. Looking through some of the old tutorial threads can be painful. Person after person asking the same questions that had already been answered repeatedly in the same thread.

Anyway, even though I don't know her, Jolie brought me here.

TBH, Gimptalk used to be my go-to forum, and it was my introduction to Gimp and how to use it...unfortunately, for whatever reason, the administrators had to change the host and it's been downhill since then. I will always be thankful for Gimptalk and the members for my introduction to using Gimp via all the tutorials and discussions. But I feel like Gimp Chat is my home now, it is more comfortable and more compatible with this old lady, lol. I kept up with GT for a long time, but since it goes down so often, I have stopped going over there and also I don't have the time. When I do have some time, I try to check out some of the other gimp forums and blogs that some of the gimpchat members have.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I learned a lot from all the tutorials I went through on there. I'm thankful for that. Obviously, though, I missed it's heyday.

Now that is old..
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i recruited O and Jolie for GT long ago, i really wished both as mods and when were active they were excellent mods

then one day i noticed in the sig of Oregonian " gimpchat " and i just clicked the link ... and from then GC is my favorite forum

Sadly, you're right, everybody expects everybody else to agree with them. I am a Christian but I avoid saying much about it because it invariably causes debates and arguments. That's also partly why I come here, because it's a relaxed atmosphere.