Must the memory of the dream of Ur fade from the minds of mefites?

December 18, 2015 12:57 PM

On December 15, pb retired a number of Social Apps that had zero users or no longer existed from profile pages- including the one for Glitch, the weird cult non-game that eventually became a glorified IRC Client unicorn. However, all of the old user pages for the game's players continue to live on at glitch.com. Couldn't we keep the memory of our participation in this weird little thing that once existed around for posterity? (Or maybe let people know when social apps are going to be cleared from their profiles?)
posted by Going To Maine to Feature Requests at 12:57 PM (24 comments total)

Sure, I can put Glitch back. The few user pages I spot-checked were coming up as a 404 for me. But if they're still active that's fine.
posted by pb (staff) at 12:57 PM on December 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

It's back. And you can find more MeFites with Glitch profiles at the Social Explorer.
posted by pb (staff) at 1:01 PM on December 18, 2015 [4 favorites]

(can I use this to ask if adding Behance is possible/useful?)
posted by lmfsilva at 1:08 PM on December 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

woo!
posted by Going To Maine at 1:10 PM on December 18, 2015

Sure, if you have a social service you'd like to see on profile pages you can add it to the wiki here. It just needs to be a site that mefites can join and it needs to have public profile pages of some kind.
posted by pb (staff) at 1:10 PM on December 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

Wow, MySpace is retired! How the mighty have fallen.
posted by Melismata at 1:12 PM on December 18, 2015 [3 favorites]

Wow, MySpace is retired!

Holy shit! Is there anything out there that has replaced it?
posted by el io at 1:30 PM on December 18, 2015 [3 favorites]

Sadly not.
posted by Going To Maine at 1:39 PM on December 18, 2015 [3 favorites]

*puzzled Sheldon Cooper expression* Sarcasm?
posted by Melismata at 1:56 PM on December 18, 2015

One cannot post gifs in the same river twice.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:29 PM on December 18, 2015 [6 favorites]

*holds up a candle in memory of the [img] tag*
posted by zarq at 3:09 PM on December 18, 2015 [4 favorites]

pb: Sure, I can put Glitch back.

Man that made me really happy for a second even though I knew it was just about the profile field
posted by flatluigi at 6:41 PM on December 18, 2015 [10 favorites]

Holy shit! Is there anything out there that has replaced it?

No, people grew out of that whole thing.
posted by bongo_x at 7:50 PM on December 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

Can you add MeFi to the list? It's my favorite site and I think a lot of people here might be on it too.
posted by ctmf at 10:12 PM on December 18, 2015 [16 favorites]

I think you meant "glorious".
posted by ericost at 8:26 AM on December 19, 2015 [1 favorite]

I'd recommend updating the profile links to userscripts.org to point to userscripts-mirror.org, for those folks who never migrated their scripts to Greasy Fork.
posted by Rhaomi at 2:25 PM on December 19, 2015

I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but yes.
posted by Going To Maine at 5:59 PM on December 19, 2015 [5 favorites]

God, looking at people's profiles and seeing "a long time ago" as the time on any and all news updates has made me much sadder than it should have.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:56 PM on December 20, 2015

Myspace was pretty great for making your profile completely gothic and unreadable via html mangling, as well as forcing anyone who looked at your profile to experience your horrible taste in music via autoplay.






I propose we implement that here, in memory of everyone's friend, Tom.
posted by Existential Dread at 8:44 PM on December 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

Aw, I put my Glitch profile in, even though I joined late and didn't get to play much before it disappeared :(
posted by wintersweet at 10:07 PM on December 20, 2015

This thread has made me really miss Glitch again. If only there was a similar game! Alas...

I'll always have all those butterflies I renamed "Bumblescrump", the pigs I renamed "Crimpshrine", and the chickens I named "Isocracy".
posted by kendrak at 8:44 AM on December 21, 2015

So glad that so many others still miss it and hope it'll come back somehow someday.

Meanwhile that hole in my heart is being filled by Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Flutter Butterfly Sanctuary.
posted by fiercecupcake at 11:41 AM on December 21, 2015

One of my quiet hopes for things that will never realistically happen is that Slack ends up getting big enough and profitable enough for them to bring back Glitch in an official returned form (since they're made by the same developers). Get on it, mathowie!
posted by flatluigi at 7:42 PM on December 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

More likely is that they'll bring it back for April Fool’s day one year, like Flickr did with Game Neverending. (Poor Stewart Butterfield. All he wants to do is make quirky games, all he can do is make productivity tools.)
posted by Going To Maine at 8:42 PM on December 21, 2015 [1 favorite]