I miss the old days at various places I chat, or I use to chat, such as “The Link”, “CC”, “.com” and “ps”. There isn’t really anywhere I found online that feels like a community like it did or indeed another defunct place I use to go, sure there are replacements or new versions, but there are very few of the “first ones” around. I’m on a couple more boards but it’s not the same partly because I was a first one in both places, I chatted there for years and it’s allot easier than having to come into what is already a sort of community the place I get my episodes is an IRC chat room with a community and it’s really hard to break in.
Talking with a really good friend about this on IM at the mo. Sure I have quite a really good friends and a couple of really close friends on im, but it’s the whole group dynamic that’s missing there. Every know and then go with a buddy chat but it’s not the same thing 🙁