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Originally posted by Dent:
Anyone up for telling me how Nubblies was created?
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The guy who hosts the website (Active) created Nubblies with the intention of making it a porn site. After a not-too-long amount of time, he realized he didn't care enough to make something like that work, so he took it down and gave me the domain name (Nubblies.com at the time). I had never had a real domain name before, so I thought it was cool...but didn't really do anything with it. After a week or two, I got my hands on some message board software and decided to try it out. A little over two years ago I got it up and running and started telling a few friends to join the board to post random shit. For the following month, Nubblies grew pretty steadily, getting just under 30 total members in that amount of time. Of course, members at that time were mostly active posters...very few lurkers, so, although there weren't too many members, the board was pretty active for the amount that it had...
...on a sidenote, I'd compare Nubblies activeness about a month after its beginning to its current activeness. It seems pretty slow right now...because we're used to seeing 7-12 members online pretty regularly just 2 months ago...but, at the time, I would get excited when just 3 members were online at the same time...
All of that said, some still stick to the claim that Nubblies was at its highest point quality-wise during those first few months.
I'm not sure without looking into it how exactly the timeline goes from there. Somewhere in there is some unexpected downtime which resulted in two dark periods in the Nubblies history...month+ long periods when only a few posts were made...as well as the changing of the Nubblies name from Nubblies.com...to Nubblies.blueoptic.com...to Nubblies.greatoast.com...to Nubblies.net (and maybe a few url's that slip my mind at this time).
Sometime during all of this...maybe after, Nubblies received a big boost due to a post made by BDH. His post was basically a discussion about the hottest girls in our high school at the time. The post was pretty controversial...and, at the time, it wasn't uncommon to overhear people at school (people I had no clue who they were) talking about stuff said in the post. Nubblies quickly spread through our highschool, gaining 10+ members a day for awhile. Of course, when something grows that quickly, it's bound to take on quite a bit of dumbasses...and it did. As the member count grew, the quality decreased and Nubblies soon reached what some would call it's low-point in quality. Nevertheless, we pressed forward as the dumbasses slowly lost interest in the board.
Once many of us left for college last year, the board began to take on a large percentage of active posters who weren't from the site's hometown. Also, as this was happening, Google started to index the pages more, resulting in hundreds of hits a month...slowly spreading the Nubblies gospel throughout all of the land. What stands today is a pretty fair mix of Nubblites which hail from warsaw and the surrounding areas (the town where Nubblies began), and members who have come here from other places.
The future goals of Nubblies include international domination, something which has obviously begun with a new member from the UK.
That's all I have to share.
[ June 19, 2004, 01:26 PM: Message edited by: Orgazmo ]