I've been doing some reading. Ever since I signed up here, I've been looking around the internet trying to get my head around what this place was once all about. I found some information on Wikipedia very helpful, describing to me the rise and fall of Totse. I also found out that a lot of totse.com users shipped over to that other shitty forum, and that some guys went over to another Totse website. After looking around both of them I have decided that totse.info is my favorite one
But that's beside the point. My point is - what do YOU guys think of the way everything has turned out so far? What do you think of Totse.info, the Totse culture and community? Do you like what it's become, or would you wish that totse.com still existed?
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I like this place too though. Just wish that BB would be more active but I can't complain too much about it because pyrotechnic forums are in decline across the whole internet.
That being said though, I wish the forums were more active. I regret never posting on the old Totse and now I'm breaking out of my lurker shell, but the forums just feel so dead sometimes.
Also, this place is a complete fucking dick fest. Seriously, we need some bitches in here. We have ShadyTroll, but s/he's just that. Then there's ducklips but she's buddha's wife or some shit so I doubt we'll get to see her tits. Look at 4chan, girls post tits there daily and even the old Totse had tits being posted. We need to find a way to get more girls in here.
There are more than enough places on the internet to look at whatever you want to see happen. Rule 34.
Id rather a forum where ideas and knowledge are exchanged rather than camwhoring attention spamming dramafag bullshit.
The totse of today strikes me as being semi-autistic, loner and combative. There isnt that positive collaborative feel that it used to have - the internet itself has changed greatly though, as has society.
Sadly this all is reflected here.
ArmsMerchant is likely long gone, infared also - people who had sacks of life experience and insight to situations just arent using totse these days; it is stagnating and there is no motivation for people of a higher calibre to join because while a place like &t was once rare - the interwebs are everywhere.
Anyway, never created an account, only ever read the text files. So really, I have nothing to compare it to. But this place is pretty damn cool anyway.
The Idea of the computer and leftism has always been around (read: From Satori to Silicon Valley) but we are one of the few holdouts. Reddit is what totse would have been if Jeff had sold the site.
This forum is great. It has curious/intelligent users and we work fucking hard. We have everything but large members. However we have quality members and this site is nothing near dead. We produce more content than even old totse.
The old totse text-files were not all written for totse most were horded from all the BBSs (back when everything was a text file)
Our slow growth is partly due to our antiquated and noble goal of seeing the internet as a positive and empowering. Back then everyone on the network was a nerd (whose nature is generally more open to what we are doing), now everyone is an idiot who thinks of the internet as facebook/youtube/porn/bittorrent. We are now fringe, and are drowned out. New member come one-by-one.
We also tend to see totse with nostalgic tinted glasses.
totse.info is one of the few place were mods don't give you a warning for not being PG-13. The underlying ideology of totse is active here.
EDIT: The tl;dr meme is a good summary of what most of the internet has become. This is why i hate this phrase.
The old Totse was amazing, the concept was interesting and everything worked for them. In that era places like totse were rare and people were just trying to understand the power of the Internet. People looked for rare sources of information and most of all, the old Totse felt like a community.
The new Totse is a baby, it's still learning things and like the new generation, it will use whatever resources it can (Social Networks, Media, Radio, Interviews, Publications) to survive. This place is powered by people who are dedicated as any Prophet in the history of man kind. If I die today, I would die with a smile because regardless of what others think, I had the time of my life working on this project and I will continue on working on it unless I get killed .
This is our home, it's a place where totseans can unite and become a positive force in the world.
This.
Overall I like the progress Totse2 and dot info have made into being how the original Totse was and should have been if it weren't for all the trolling and dumbfuckery. Yes, that shit still happens but it's not the only thing happening.
Bro we support our Totsean sister site
Well I was a member of totse2 for a short while, but it's just shit over there. Never bothered signing up to Zoklet.
I think I first found totse.info on youtube... can't quite remember. Someone was commenting about how the real totse is back. So I came straight here.
Any forum is only as good as you make it...You can choose to have a positive experience or a negative experience. Bottom line is to contribute and hope other people are interested in the same topics you are.
The game has changed. Nostalgia doesnt win any prizes.
When it happened i didnt understand, and i'll remain a contributing member - but now i understand why jeff hunter did what he did, and he did the right thing.
There was the noobsamis, the quality was degrading signficantly and it was dying. Just like there is a lack innovation here, this shit is mainstream. Those anonymous faggots are mainstream and the entire thing is a clusterfuck.
The solution isnt making a slightly different version of the predecessor - its going boldly where nobody has gone before; and if its a shithouse place to be we'll soon find it out.
What i really learnt most from totse shutting down is that each and every person on this site has the ability to manipulate the world in one way or another. We have seen internet counterculture become mainstream. Reddit youtube hits = viral success money. And we are deep in the belly of this internet beast because we were part of a time when there was a community on the internet that wasnt politically correct moderated facebook intergrated marketing driven; Lurkers included. We all lurked at first - only massive *chan attention whores jump straight into commenting.
Its almost a decade since i registered on totse and it gave me many of the tools ive used to succeed in life. Some legal, some not. But everything is different now.
I dont think this totse will be to others what first totse was to me, heres hoping it gets close.
But seriously - back in the day if you dropped a gem on bad ideas it'd go to the right people and you'd all feed back - its not like that anymore.
Well, people grew up and walked away. We started in July 2010. If we went up right after Totse Shutdown, I am sure we might retain some quality but looking at &Z I am bit glad we avoided that clusterfuck. In reality it's a lot harder to find gems on the Internet, most people are focuses on making money using these technologies and don't really want to SHARE things. But we're slowly getting there, we're on a road to recovery and each day we try something new and try to move this place on wards.
I've been trying to find something new that hasn't been done before for the last few years. Four years ago I was working at an electronics manufacturing company that had a hobby robotics retail/online store. I didn't like Arduino and we were selling the Wiring boards which I wasn't a fan of either. Hind sight says that if I had not have quit 3.5 years ago things might have turned out differently. One of the guys I worked with was pushing me to port Arduino onto a new board he designed and I "tried" but I didn't put as much effort into it as I probably should have. They ended up closing the store. I love my new job though.
The ToTSE of today will never be like the .com domain I knew, but it can be as close to it in the sense of this new age of Internet. There is nothing stopping it from becoming that - we just need more contributions, regularly, and a way of maintaining the "cloak" that the original .com domain had. It seemed to be the dark corner of the 'net, and we can still become that, and to an extent we are - but things take time.
We need constructive discussions - like those seen in the Backyard Ballistics or Tech forums. They are places people post things they intend on doing and even I have learnt basic things thanks to them. Places like that should be seen in all of the forums here. I'm a firm believer in keeping on topic and adding to things. Another great example was the guide posted earlier this week about smuggling shoes. I mentioned them in one of my guides, and this user then built upon what I had said by adding pictures etc. That's the sort of thing we need in order to move forwards.
At this present moment in time we have everything going for us and things can only get better: Pro-active admins and moderators who continually endeavor to improve the website and a strong community. The two things that we do need it content and members, and they will both come in time.
Kudos to you for creating a very thought-provoking thread.
Totse.info is essentially a refugee for the few individuals who remain from the era that once made &T great. It will never accomplish what the original did, but we shouldn't expect it to. Times are a changin', and we probably won't see a site of this nature rise to the top anytime in the near future.
That said, I'm pretty happy with this place, given the current circumstances. Most of the members here are interesting and quite knowledgeable people, and though .info is small, it churns out a lot of useful info and discussion. It's just too bad that for the most part it falls on deaf, Facebook addicted ears.
This site sucks for several reasons:
1. there's no good content, just shitloads of porn.
2. very few members.
3. very little posting.
4. no clear direction for the site.
so basically you've got nothing. the old totse had numbers and it had interesting content. people wanted to go there to read shit. this place is not drawing in many members. why? shit content. people can get porn anywhere. porn does not make this place unique.
so no, this place is nothing like totse.com. It's not innovative and it's not going anywhere. so far all the advertising campaigns have failed. this place has lost a lot of the good members it had and i don't see many new ones joining.
but by all means keep on at it. i'm sure some of you will give it another 6 months to a year before realizing that this place is never going to go anywhere or be anything.
So why do you post here moron?
Morons typically answer questions with questions to hide the fact that they are butt hurt.
cry harder try harder
Aww, how cute, your girlfriend got her feelings hurt and you ran in to hold her hand.
.info is a playground where i can shit in.
Not for long, your type is on the way out.
Cry harder, Try harder?
You're always bitching about that. Even on T2 and now on T.info. Seriously I am glad you ran away. Stop being butthurt.
Trolling, arguing on the internet, name calling, keyboard warrior internet tough guys are the scourge of forums - the kill them. They stifle innovation, thoughts, discussions and they do it exceedingly well.
We are not a community we are randoms on a website who argue irrationally with each other over things that are not important to life. Totse is no longer improving your skills, knowledge or thinking skills.
The whole internet used to be about those three things, but now its mostly about image macros and HERP DERP LEEEEGION.
Rome has fallen.
Three things? I thought it was always about Porn?
Mark my words BHD, things are changing. This is not totse.com and never will be. This is the future not a place for you to shit. Change your ways or you will be gone within the month. That is not a threat or a promise it is a predication. One made based on knowledge you do not posses and I do.
There are many changes in the works, positive changes, changes that will distinguish .info from all the other clones, changes that some will rabble rabble about. All things change and that which does not withers and dies. So either get with the program or be left on the outside looking in kid.