DVDizzy Forum

There is already a board for Disney on Reddit, but that is for Disney in general and not for this website specifically. Finding members from here on that place would be very difficult. So what about a DVDizzy.com group, or subreddit as it is called, on Reddit?

It is not meant to replace this page in any way, but to be a supportive extension. For instance if this page is down for a longer period of time, members may want to seek out other members to find out what has happened. (And of course you don't have to be registered on Reddit to read the posts.)

I created a new account on Reddit some time ago, so I could make a subreddit if anyone is interested. To make it easy to find it will have the exact same name (by the way, when I use Google, I usually use the words "ultimate disney forum" to find this place).

So, I can create it, but there has to be some moderator there. Not sure if moderating is for me, so if anyone who is or will be registered on Reddit wants to, I can add them as moderators (if and when I create the page), or they can take over the account I made for this purpose and change the password to make it their own.

Anyone who is interested?

I think this is a great idea. I am aware we already have the Disney Mania alternative forum, but it's rather clunky and difficult to find.

While I would be thrilled to moderate, I simply don't spend enough time on forums and such to do so effectively. I visit UD practically daily, but in multiple and very brief sessions.

15 years ago I'd spend the whole day on the UD main forum page refreshing obsessively every 30 seconds. I was a teenager.

Thanks. Yeah, it would probably have to be someone who perhaps already spend som time on boards or Reddit. But the activity would be far more modest than some of the bigger Reddit pages, like Game of Thrones while the show was still running.

Internet is not quite the same today as it was 15 years ago, which is sad in some ways, because if prefer the old fashioned forums as a place to discuss topics.

Sadly agreed.

Not sure if it's just rose-tinted nostalgia goggles that makes me yearn for old-timey internet, but I most certainly feel it.

In the early 2000s, the internet was magic. It's weird that those old, crudely designed websites are a positive memory for me. But they are. Why would I miss the days on my Pentium 4 PC running pirated Windows 98 and going online maybe once a month on a screaming, whining 56k modem?

Rumpel, I cannot remember whether you're from the USA or Germany. (If you don't want to answer don't worry. I'm just curious.)

Internet has become more domesticated, political and despite being bigger also a bit more claustrophobic. It peaked as the Cambrian explosion, and what remains is what is still here after the first one or two mass extinctions.
There were Napster, imdb boards, countless chat rooms and lots of personal blogs like this (GeoCities I think): https://web.archive.org/web/20180409072 ... ezone.com/

I'm neither American or German (but I do live in Europe).
(I called myself Rumpelstiltskin not because I'm German, but because Disney is known for their adaptations of classic European fairy tales into animated features, and Rumpelstiltskin was (and still is) one of the fairy tales they have not made into a movie yet)

Forgive me. I now realise I'd already asked you that question before, and you had answered it in the same way. It's been a while - certainly over a year ago - but I suppose I forgot.

Interestingly - about ten years ago a troll on Steve Hulett's TAG blog would keep insisting that WDAS was developing a Rumpelstiltskin animated feature. Everybody knew it was bogus.

Rumpel wrote:Internet has become more domesticated, political and despite being bigger also a bit more claustrophobic. It peaked as the Cambrian explosion, and what remains is what is still here after the first one or two mass extinctions.

There were Napster, imdb boards, countless chat rooms and lots of personal blogs like this (GeoCities I think): https://web.archive.org/web/20180409072 ... ezone.com/

Fully agreed. That site you linked to is a perfect example of what I was talking about. If I'm honest, though - when I started using the internet in 2001 or so, those types of sites were already disappearing. I distinctly remember extremely elaborate and glossy websites drowning in Macromedia Flash during that period, and did not stumble across purely 90s-style sites that often.

Even Flash is now a memory. I must say it was appealing and allowed for quite a bit of creativity in site design.

I'd be happy to be a Reddit mod. I think it's a great idea to have a subreddit over there just in case. I assume we'd have it set as private and only allow forum members (current or past who can't log in, etc)?

I had a distant memory that someone asked me before, but not who and when. No problem.

Jules wrote:Interestingly - about ten years ago a troll on Steve Hulett's TAG blog would keep insisting that WDAS was developing a Rumpelstiltskin animated feature. Everybody knew it was bogus.

Unless you hear it straight from the horse's mouth, one should always take rumors like that with a grain of salt (something online articles doesn't always do).

From an article on the net:

Geocities was a web hosting service launched in 1994. Along with Angelfire and Tripod, Geocities offered your average human being the ability to build their own website. What made the service unique was its neighborhoods. During sign up, users would select which neighborhood would host their site according to what their site would be about. Websites about theater would be hosted on Broadway, and sites about sports would make their home in the Colosseum. According to a Wired retrospective on the service during its closure in 2009, Geocities hosted over 38 million websites before it closed.

I remember finding a really archaic looking Ren & Stimpy webpage some years ago. Can't find it again, but it looked like one of those "living online fossils" that show up now and then.

Social media is not all bad, but they are more ephemeral in nature, and navigating to find older posts is way more difficult, unlike traditional message boards.

blackcauldron85 wrote:I'd be happy to be a Reddit mod. I think it's a great idea to have a subreddit over there just in case. I assume we'd have it set as private and only allow forum members (current or past who can't log in, etc)?

Great. I can have a look at it tomorrow or so. At least it should be open for everyone to visit and read. If they have to be members to post comments depends on activity. There will not be much activity at first at least, and therefore moderating and weed out potential trolls should be easy. Maybe one could make it more private once a certain amount of activity has been reached?

It's a good idea in case this site is down ever. I'm already on Reddit myself, so I guess I just join the subreddit when a link is posted here?

So, I just tried to create a page on reddit, and learned that the page already exists:
https://old.reddit.com/r/DVDizzy/ And it's a closed group.

r/DVDizzy is a private community

A new home for DVDizzy.com forum.

The moderators of r/DVDizzy have set this community to private.
Only approved members can view and take part in its discussions.

Anyone who knows if it has been created recently or is it something older?

I searched through all of the pages where "Reddit" was used in posts here, and none listed that link or talked about making a Reddit for this site. Maybe Sotiris or Luke made it as a just-in-case?

There's no Reddit page for r/UltimateDisney so if we're allowed to, maybe we can put it under that name?

And we don't know when the page was created. If nobody in here knows about it, it is probably inactive.

I tried to use the name DVDizzy.com, but it seems Reddit don't accept any other signs than letters (and numbers, I think).

Anyway, I have now created the subreddit. I used the name UltimateDisney, considering that's what this page used to be called before it changed its name to DVDizzy.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20060114080 ... com/forum/

Kind of back to its origin.

It could also have been fun to call it VanDrake, but there are probably way fewer who are familiar with it: https://web.archive.org/web/20030203085 ... /index.php

Do we just search for it and login with our current Reddit usernames? No link here?

Will check this out and join when I'm at a computer and not on the bus.

I searched for it and found it no problem. I responded to the post there since my username is different on Reddit (not that you wouldn't have figured out it's me).

Looks like I forgot to put out the link: https://old.reddit.com/r/UltimateDisney/ And anyone can use whatever account they like.

I don't know if it matters if it says Old.Reddit or just www.reddit- this morning I used the Joey reddit app but now I used:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimatedisney

And Rumpelstiltskin, I sent you a new message over there since the Mod page I need to go to to accept doesn't exist .

Hi,
I decided to delete my Reddit account because Reddit has become deeply antisemitic.
I know the chances of this site going down are small ever since the redesign but just in case, some of you have my email and I'm also available on Twitter.

I just followed you on Twitter just in case.

Thanks, followed you back.