Y'know what? I'm surprised no one has made a replacement for the vgcIM yet. Seems there are enough people interested. It shouldn't be that hard to embed an irc chatbox onto a page.

Edit: Nope, Impossible. I made a chat but I can't embed it onto a page =/

Your rise in activity and Montana's main time of activity don't quite sync up. Don't get down.

How dare you, im obviously swedish.

A lot of those older users are on Night Societe and South Side of the Sky now.

makingmusic476 said: Carl2291 said: I regret not going into VGC IM all too often. Looked really... Erm... Fun. This one's my favorite: http://i.imgur.com/onJlt.jpg And I have another fun one lying around from when I called out a YesWiiCan alt.

ooo, please post it. :) Wasn't I apart of that one?

@Talon: It's good to see you back dude. I remember talking with you and Brett all the time back in the day about straightening out the DB. I actually found this thread because I was looking for direction on an issue I found on the latest JP chart that involves the DB. I just don't know what to do/who to contact :(

Anyways, glad you are well and makin babies. The new layout of the site does have certain advantages, but it's also a bit overwhelming and feels disjointed in some regards. Anyways, I hope you'll be back in full force one day. I'd like to do the same. I had to fall off the map for about a year when I joined the military and had to do tons of training. I've been trying to get back into the swing of things here slowly, but find myself kinda confused about certain things and just don't know what's going on sometimes. Oh well, I do my best with the time I have.

@Montana: Welcome back and congrats. It's good to see an old familiar face here again. I remember that you used to chafe my tushie sometimes haha. Still, that was years ago and I'm glad to see you back :P

Haha, that's what I was trying to do as well. Just couldn't click on the game that didn't have boxart. I tried searching for it manually and it wasn't in the list. I also tried checking deleted game entries and it wasn't there either. When I held the cursor over the game on the chart the url showed "error" on the end I think.

WOAH! Quigon, it's good to see you. You were part of the original DB crew. I honestly wished I had worked on the DB more but usually moderating and school would take up all my time. When the site makes its transition, we'll definitely need talented people to help the site rise further in prominence. 2012 is likely going to be a huge year for the site and it'd definitely be nice to see some older faces sticking around.

Also, not sure what I did to bother you back in the day since it's been a while. I apologize if I did anything to make you feel uncomfortable on the site.

Firstly, welcome back.

Secondly, I agree that a return to the old layout would help as well. There are STILL features that I haven't figured out (or missing in entirety) since the last transition.

I have mostly been a lurker, but I've been around and I do miss the banter of the old days - I was here for months before I even made an account. The current lack of energy makes me sometimes wish for the edgy/trollish postings of yesteryear when the "console wars" were still hot...

Not that I am advocating a return to that bedlam, but lets see how some of your suggestions work first.

Also, does anyone know what happened to leo-j? He still posts, but not often... and not with the ferocity of old.

I can't say that I frequent many forums, so I'll take your word for it.  What I meant was... "in the 'old days' the layout seemed more intuitive.  There didn't seem to be nearly the number of "how in the hell do I do <blank> threads (ex. adding games to your collection)".  Granted, once you know how it isn't a big deal, but the old layout seemed to be easier to simply learn by messing around.