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been browsing about recently and noticed a pretty big loss of this site's old familiar faces, and having made my account back in 2011 im now officially a member of the "old guard" (coming up on half a decade now jesus fucking christ).

let's talk fondly/unfondly about the past, and create a tangible BEA timeline; understand how the site works, worked, and how events on an off the site shaped its future.

first off: who misses gary and naples? a lot of people apparently, this website's activity peaked around right before they were banned. is it possible that bea's confrontational nature and drama was what was actually drawing people to the site, as opposed to the then-over-curated threads. and what do you guys make of these dips in the site's traffic on specific months?
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edit: in all seriousness tho even though there are more and less active periods for the site, BEA "golden ages" are purely imaginary. This place is always pretty dope tbh

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[19loveless91]

Don't believe in there being a golden age of BEA, but for each individual, the experience can be the best when the timing is right and the right people (like-minded individuals or proper antagonists) are posting. Lots of fun users having left combined with things going on in my life made it that I'm certainly less eager to come around anymore. Don't particularly miss Naples or GARY though. Or JMan. That Jackwc fuck, maybe...

There does seem to be less traffic on the forums these days, even if this is probably not true for the site as a whole. Maybe it's the negative effects of the implementation of the suicide booth aka option to delete your account with a click of a button.

[nutso42]

[Skinny]

I don't remember any shitstorms. We've always gotten along famously.
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[sp4cetiger]

My interest in BEA has declined significantly in the last six months or so -- many of the most engaging personalities have stopped posting regularly. Decreased use of the lounge means that we don't really get to know the new users in the way that we used to, unfortunately.

As for music, the tastes of the site's regulars have become increasingly esoteric and discussion of even the p4k mainstream is often treated with disdain, so I expect this scares away a lot of users not interested in devoting many hours a day to listening to new music. The main reason I stick around is that I am one of the people that does that.

None of the other places I've seen offer the same combination of a small, everybody-knows-each-other community with this level of music knowledge, so I'm not expecting to leave anytime soon... but yeah, if BEA had a golden age, it has long since passed for me.

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