Websites that you haven't been to in years

BoingBoing. It's all clickbait now. Or else they're trying to sell you cheap shit in their "store".

Towleroad…he’s gone PC cray cray!

Curbed is sting. The cut out 1/2 the cities and cut the number of posts in 1/2 for the remains cities.

Deadspin

fark.com - don't even remember why I used to go - boredom, I guess

DListed

Kenneth in the 212

Greg in Hollywood

The Huffington Post

I used to go to Deadspin multiple times per day

I was an early member of Fark and even went to a meet-up in Seattle. You probably hung around for the photoshop contests, R5.

survivor sucks used to be my go to hang out website similar to Datalounge but the platform they are on now is SO SO SO BAD that I can't even go to browse to see it in 'off topic' or 'osts'.

DListed

Pajiba

Fametracker

TWOP

Perez.. CocoPerez

Anyone remember pink is the new blog?

Chat Avenue

Neopets

Socialite's Life. Runner up: Oh No They Didn't Tired of do-nothing, 4th rate celebrities (Never hillbilly news Daily Mail).

Huff Post - does anyone go. Another brilliant purchase by AOL.

Just Jared, became too kiss ass. E online is just a reality star page now. Entertainment Weekly is horrible now too and the mag. Used to be a lot more objective years ago. Another one that's become like people magazine.

Dlisted and Perez . I don’t go to TMZ anymore either as it only seems to be about rappers and athletes.

All those celebrity news blogs used to be clever. Then everything changed around the time the Real Housewives franchise took off. Celebrity news now revolves around all those "unscripted" reality shows.

I used to go to Tom and Lorenzo a lot, but now I rarely visit their site. I do listen to their podcast, but they've cleaned up a lot of their original snark since going mainstream.

MetaFilter. I abandoned ship several years ago when it became insufferably ‘woke’

Princess Marie- Chantal of Greece

Remember that website QWhip. It was created by some disgruntled DLers as an alternative to DL. Is that still around? It doesn't come up in Google.

Dlisted Soap Opera Central

Gawker

TMZ - too black now WorldOfBritney.com - not in use anymore.....followed around Britney during her daily public breakdown in the early 2000s.

[quote] Is that still around? It doesn't come up in Google.

I only get a rainbow Q when I go to Qwhip. I stopped checking it when Erna/Miss Helen Bedd/Mrs. Patrick Campbell started going there after being banned from DL. Qwhip was its refuge.

LLBEAN

r21, me too. I check in to gawk at the Metafilter trainwreck every now and then. It's really sad what it's become. I get the feeling that the owner (Cortex) is holding out for a high-paying tech gig that never comes. He was always the weakest link of the original three leaders/whatever you want to call them. I think Metafilter will one day shutter with no warning and that will be the end of it.

"Dlisted Soap Opera Central"

Soap Opera central! Ha! I forgot about the soap blogs. I used to get drunk and post things I knew would piss off the mid-western housewives. Like please fire Greenlee and Ryan (AMC) they're are stinking up the show and Vicki (OLTL) is a hambone. How does she keep winning Emmys? . It was all true though.

Queerty. Stopped going there in 2015, don't miss it.

Sites like MetaFilter are really vulnerable because moderators have so much power. A heavy-handed mod or a mod with an ideological axe to grind can effectively wreck a forum, turning it into an echo chamber. This is why so many of the forums on Reddit are unreadable circle jerks— dissension is banned.

Perez Hilton, Myspace, HotorNot, Gay.com, Consumerist, Tumblr since they banned porn.

R26 That casual racism you displayed. "To black now" so I guess everything is supposed to be blindingly white to your liking then?

And you wonder why homophobia is alive and well and not going anywhere.

Joe.My.God, the guy is a lunatic.

Pink News, turned into a trans-fest.

Towleroad, insufferable.

Dlisted. God that would crack me up. It also was how I started watching Drag Race. It influenced that show so much.

Buzzfeed. Back before it was full SJW and there were fun quizzes to kill time.

Survivorsucks. So irreverent and fun like DL, but reddit traffic has killed so many message boards (and tapa talk SUCKS).

Dailykos. L-O-fucking-L

Most sites turning into a vote-karma based system have really killed what made the net fun. Old style message boards meant you actually had to read through what others said. It’s why I like DL. We mock the Chicoms and their social credit score, but look what things like Reddit do to us and discourse. Blah.

TVParty

Radaronline

Gay.com

How do any non subscription sites make money? Even the goddamn NY Times can’t make money. All just clickbait now. God help us.

Does he have “a” Vine or “a” Friendster?

Craigslist

PerezHilton, Queerty, DailyKos, JoeMyGod, IHSG, and BillyMasters.com

AOL, does it still exist?

Another vote for dlisted. I will add slate and av club as well as most entertainment and culture blogs. Some time around the late 2000s I noticed that sites like av club, slate, etc started to write with an identical voice complete with identical opinions. It was like they had become monolithic , with the exact same thoughts on everything from current controversies to reviews of movies and TV shows. I also stopped reading Gawker long before it was shut down. I got tired of their sanctimonious finger wagging. They were a sleazy gossip site but towards the end all the columnists seemed to be on a soap box 24/7.

Celebitchy ❤️ my beginning in online opinion-giving. It makes me laugh when I go there now (extremely rare) it’s so frau-ish, and I’m a masculine butch-Kween.

R32 A big problem with reddit is you don't really get to see an accurate assortment of opinions. The comments you see first are the most popular, while anyone with a different view is completely buried underneath 700 other circle jerky comments. Here, you see comments in the order that they are written. Whether they have 50 ww or zero doesn't make a difference.

Is dudesnude.com still around? I'm guessing Grindr made it irrelevant.

GuyswithIphones.com

R47 Uh, you realize you can sort comments on reddit by when they were posted, right? Or by the most controversial comments.

ONTD and Livejournal in general

Something Awful

Salon

Huffpost

City-Data

Websleuths

R50 Whoops. Did not know that. I'm not on reddit very often.

I totally forgot ahoy Fark. Did Reddit Take to place?

The New Republic

Regretsy

Lamebook

Yelp

Horsey’s Male Celebrity Dishcussion Board

Campfire message board

Dlisted and Imdb.com.

AfterElton.com

Dlisted for sure.

I still love Michael K and don't think the quality fell or anything, but there's only so much that can be done before it repeats itself. Also, he has too many other writers there now.

Go Fug Yourself was the same. Love them, love their wittiness but after a while it's all been done.

JoeMyGod is fine, but it's pretty much all news now and not a lot of LGBT specific cultural stuff. It's just overwhelming to read sad/bad news after a while.

To those listing regretsy, afterelton, etc......those sites don't exist anymore so that may be why you haven't visited!!

I'm remembering how heinous Television Without Pity was. And all their cunt moderators.

Haven't read Andrew Sullivan in years. All the old gay sites (Towlerroad, etc.)

You haven't missed much, R63. He still takes Milky Loads, and gives Milky Loads.

[quote] To those listing regretsy, afterelton, etc......those sites don't exist anymore so that may be why you haven't visited!!

Yeah ... AfterElton started to go downhill after turning into TheBacklot, which then became totally insufferable after Logo bought it and turned it into NewNowNext. .. Does anyone go there? I just looked in on NNN, and it seems to have changed somewhat. .. To my amazement a few of the features actually looked somewhat interesting.

Queerty and Towleroad, since they're aggressively pro-T. I wish there were a site by, about, and for gay men only.

moviepass

We used to have salons which, in a way, could have been the predecessors to the “chat rooms” and “message boards” you have today. Such dear memories.

IMDb forums were overrun by trolls and troublemakers but if you looked deeper there were fantastic discussions about vintage, foreign, or relatively obscure films-- sometimes cast and crew members would chime in. For the most part posters on these forums behaved themselves because they all shared a genuine love for movies. I haven't found a viable alternative for in-depth conversations about older films. Yes, there's Reddit, but Reddit's format doesn't lend itself to this sort of discussion, unfortunately. Also the majority of Redditors appear to have a mental age of 12.

Joemygod.com for R66

SO what websites do we go to now?

DL is the only website that has remained a constant in my life for over 20 years. It's hard to believe I've been here that long.

yep, only DL stays fun and wild as fuk !!!!! LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Anyone heard of SodaHead? Many years ago, it was my introduction to blogs where you could post and discuss almost any topic. Realized there were too many ignorant teens and judgmental conservative types, so I left. It's gone now, but who cares?

Ten years ago, Celebitchy used to have funny snarky comments and articulate posters. Gradually it became infested with pedantic fraus and became an echo chamber. Kaiser, the main blogger/moderator who tried to copy Michael K's writing style, removes any comments that don't agree with her narrative. The snarky commenters left. It's heavily moderated because Kaiser is a controlling bitch.

I don't visit dlisted as often as I used to. Too cliquish. The "veteran" posters gang up on the newer ones. The celeb stanning for Jennifer Aniston and the venom for Angelina Jolie is ridiculous. Celebitchy is the reverse: they hate Aniston and revere Jolie. Very little middle ground.

Tom and Lorenzo got full of themselves. If you strongly disagree with their opinions, they respond in such a snooty tone. And the regulars are sycophantic toward them. Plus, how long can one talk about fashion? It gets boring very quickly.

HuffPo and Towleroad are shadows of their former selves.

That's enough complaining for now. Don't ever change, DL.

Dlisted was fucking hilarious. I stopped in 2009. Queerty, Craigslist, and LPSG. lpsg bans everybody for the smallest shit, even people who contribute a lot of content on their site. They'll especially ban you if you mention anything hinting at Trans. I said a guy's chest looked trans once and they called me transphobic and banned me. Fucking crazy.

JoeMyGod I felt like I needed a shower after visiting that site. All Angry Queens All the Time. TMZ - turned ghetto PinkNews - Trannyfest HuffPost - lol

Atkol.com message boards. When I was 12, 13 yoa or so and started to sneak and obsess over gay porn - this was the place to talk porn. A lot of the porn stars actually posted there as well. At some point, I guess the store changed hands and everything just went dead.

Pink is the New Blog

Superficial

Defamer

I used to enjoy tmz. The they started doing things like: Do you know who this is? And the answer would be some obscure no-name that must’ve sucked them off to get on their page.

I liked all of the above-mentioned celebrity gossip sites when they snarked on actual celebrities like Paltrow, Cruise, Jake G. etc. Then they started with the reality show personalities and D-listers and other people I couldn't give two fucks about so I stopped reading them.

There was a moment there when I thought the owner of Towelroad could have sold up for a goodling amount. However the site then became obsessed with gay marriage to the point where - if you didn't really care about it - there was no point in visiting. A few years down the track it now resembles a generic junk news site. What a lost opportunity.

Dlisted went south when michael K decided to have unfunny guest bloggers. They were awful!!

Was an avid reader of MetalSludge in the ‘00s.

They haven’t actually changed that much and have valiantly held on to their style and format. It’s not them, it’s me. I’m just not into it anymore.

R51 City data had become cunt central. Like the bitchiest of data lounge without any humor and wit. I've seen people ask completely innocuous questions about a city and have a dozen commenters bitching at them.

R74, I recall SodaHead. It had a strange format.

Harry's Place, Hurryupharry.org - I visited every day to discuss politics. It was a spot where people who support labor/labour but aren't doctrinaire on all left-wing issues could discuss Middle East politics, irrational left-wing support for anti-western Islamists, could write something complimentary about Israel without being slammed as Zionists, a place for lefties where groupthink wasn't mandated. Right-wing trolls wrecked the place and drove away some of the best writers. There are still some people there who keep track of Islamists in England without themselves turning into right-wing reactionaries, but it's just no fun any longer.

I loved Pink is the New Blog. Thought it was superior to what is now the Perez Hilton blog.

I haven’t been a regular visitor to ONTD in a decade or more. It’s a hot mess over there.

Add Deadspin is a tragedy.