Anybody else sad where the community has gone?

[Idkfawin32]

The community is almost completely gone. And the psp doesn't have the respect it deserves anymore. I miss the days of 2006 when we were trying to crack Firmware 2.60...

Hopefully the psp fans will come back. This was seriously part of my life.

I came to psp3d everyday when I was 16. To get the new homebrewz and whatnot. lol.

Anybody else miss the good ol days?

[jsf]

Yeah i do. I miss the good old days. Things have really changed...

[gdspsp]

i don't think that is entirely true. we do have newer members coming here, but i don't feel they are as welcomed as we used to welcome members. also we do have many very well written guides so we do not see a lot of threads asking the same q. our news could be more frequent but many of the "site mods" have lives as well. some of our core members still visit "to say hi," but as with all things we grow up or find new interests, or life happens. i do miss the "exciting" days when there were many relevant threads to read and several members were posting photoshop pipe dreams and how many memebers were helping other members with custom gameboots or program installations. things change and i bet there are some tricks up our collective sleeves, but as a group we need to embrace the change that has occurred. we need to foster the relationship with new members. we need to help with the " hacking" that can happen and help keep hope for the hacking to come for the 3000 series. there are some old tricks from back in the day that can help and we just need to engage our audience better.

i am 28 , i play video games, other members also play video games.
could we start clans?
can we collect more or better news?
can we utilize some homebrew progs on non-hacked psps?
can we compile "best of" list for UMD games or H/b progs?
can you help?

the last part is the most important part of our community: can you help?
i know we have rules; i like our site rules' but i feel too many times instead of suggesting "rules appropriate" help, we just close a thread and ask the person to read the rules.

i miss a lot of things, but i miss our sense of community the most..........

P.s. the "hello and goodbye" threads really irk me

[zzaz3]

Yeah, I can remember back when I had verson 1.52 and was wanting to play homebrew so badly. Then verson 2.00 came out and everyone was trying to find explots for it and finally fagietta (or how ever you spell it) came to the rescue! I remeber the thrill I had when I was playing pong for the first time on 2.00. I remember when I was an idiot and upgraded to 2.10.

Then, after psp-hacks posted an article from this site, I found myself a member of PSP3D. Everyone was friendly. I was a noobish guy, but I still made friends and had all my questions answered. the forums were always active. I remember shoving my USB cord in and out of my PSP trying to get the fake explot to work. I remember some of my buddys like BUM, hackmeanew, and spongefreak.

I hadn't even gotten my PSP hacked again and I was still having fun hanging around the forums.

I remember when the GTA explot came out and everyone was posting back and forth about it. And after a while, the GTA tetris came out. Then the GTA downgrade! I remember when my mom wouldn't let me get GTA and I had to wait for the Lumines downgrade. I remember at Christmas when Admin (Robert) had that give away and I was constantly refreashing the page just to try and win.

I remember when custom firmware first came out. It was the coolest thing. PSX games, custom XMB, and ISOs. I remember getting an extra web icon and thinking I made a big discovery. I remember loving the PSP more than almost anything else...


...And I remember when every new firmware was hacked within a few days. I remember how everyone at PSP3D dissapeared and the community died. During the summer there was never anyone online. I remember when they announced the Pandora Battery just before the Slim was released. Every PSP could be hacked, just like that. I remember popping my Pandora into my Slim and then finding out that the Slim wasn't that much better than my old PSP.

...I remember when even though PSP hacking was so boring, what was left of the comunity stuck together. We had the PSP3D shindig and stayed up late in that chat room playing iSketch and what not. I remember even though I had larengitise or something, I was still having fun.

...I remember when even more people left PSP3D and and it was just a few senior members. I remember when DQ9, jsf, and Dorkdork all became mods. I remember sassing them and giving them a hard time as the new mods. I remember breaking my PSP and leaving the scene... I remember coming back to find that PSP3D had been hacked...

I remember when the PSP scene died...

(I didn't realise I had so many memorys here. Sorry for such a long post)



But yeah, I think we do need to start doing stuff as a community. I think that the clan thing is a pretty good idea. Maybe we could have another PSP3D shindig for old times sake. Anything really, everything at PSP3D is so boring these days... We need something!

[hemiola1]

The community isn't dead. New homebrew is coming out every day. Also new members are registering for this site everyday. Sadly, they're just not posting on the site.

I do miss the old days though.

[Gav]

Well if it's thine good olde days that ye wish for.
I'll start posting n00bish questions, like:
How do I shot web?
Icanhascheezberger?
And Wut are a PSPs?
Also, I'll be overly nice to the new kids.
I'll be so nice that:
A.They'll love this site long time
B.They'll say "do not want" and leave forever.
In case of the latter, do not blame me, I'm Autistic.

[iamstrange14]

Originally Posted by zzaz3

We had the PSP3D shindig and stayed up late in that chat room playing iSketch and what not.

That was the stuff.

And I think the community is dead because most of the frequently asked questions, if not all, have already been answered.

[Gav]

Well hey, I say we have another.
Soon.

[zzaz3]

Yeah, maybe this time we could all play an online game together. Like starcraft or something. Any ideas?

[gdspsp]

starcraft? seriously? THIS IS A PSP SITE!!!! how about twice a week the community games together. it does not matter the game. start a thread showing what games we can join. use private rooms on certain games and also host a chat.....
i vote for wednesday and thursday game days. jsf,dq9 can we do this??