ignore what anyone else says, cringetopia.org and pcmemes.net couldve absolutely succeeded if we had active jannies there keeping ppl interested like we did with rdrama and wpd

edit: also u posted a screenshot of the wrong site (a scam one), ours was cringetopia.org not cringetopia.com

This actually got a writeup in Hackernews back in the day

I don't know why anyone is surprised. The edgy subreddits (many of which were toxic cesspools) all warned everyone as they got banned, but people cheered as it happened. Finally the baddies were gone. It was never going to be limited to just them.

On another note, I do not understand why all these banned subreddits that try to migrate to their own site always try to create their own software. the_donald did it famously and created an absolute clusterfrick of a website (and community). There are so many options, there's open source old reddit, there's federating varieties like Lemmy and littr.me (a good choice if you want to run a single community), why reinvent the wheel? If you want to move to an environment like reddit where everyone can interact, but give community moderators full control over their communities, a federated architecture is the way to go, and there are a couple of solutions that work out of the box.

They haven't - they're using https://github.com/Aevann1/rDrama which has already been used successfully for /r/drama's offsite community. They've worked directly with rdrama's developer and community lead.

Well that's interesting, I have to take a look at the codebase and see what it is all about.

Edit:looked at it, it looks like a Ruqqus fork built for single community servers. https://github.com/ruqqus/ruqqus

Looks like pretty good software, from a first glance it looks like it has more sensible UX than Ruqqus.

>looks like it has more sensible UX

Further evidence of hackernewses profound r-slurdation

the only reason rdrama.net is still going is bc its a honeypot

I joined rdrama after following cringetopia to the offsite, and was one of the last people posting on cringetopia.org before I woke up one day to find carp had put it down like ole yeller

The cringetopia jannies are massive cute twinks for sabotaging their subreddit just so they could have a site where they could yell BIPOC as much as they wanted, only to immediately abandon it as soon as it was made to isolate themselves on some groomercord somewhere

!metashit I'm still sneeding about it

To be fair cringetopia users weren't as satiric as dramatards and it probably would've been a boring site in the end

A cringetopia user is who volunteered to draw my Sonichu avatar, thank you Ponystrag

Modern redditors don't want to use forums that aren't mobile friendly and don't have an idiot-proof UI

Speaking on which, whatever happened to /r/cringeanarchy?

I met some of my better irl friends there

I also forgot to ping @Geralt_of_Uganda

Problem was that the original sites also kept going in conjunction with the offsite. All the cases where the offsite has been successful (here, wpd and themotte.org) were ones where the Reddit version effectively shut itself down in conjunction with the offsite going up. This funnels users to the offsite and stops them from going back to reddit permanently without losing their fix.

It's absolutely critical to do this or else you're setting yourself up for failure before you even start.

Your condescending, contradictory bullshit isn't attractive to anyone except your frothing, basement-dwelling, virgin army.

Cringetopia.org was fricking awesome, I will die on that hill. I miss my neurodivergent hellhole