Does anyone come here anymore?

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Does PEEL still get a lot of active users?

I also wonder if the mods would ever consider opening a PEEL community on Discord?

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Not a lot, no.  But I check PEEL every day.  And there are the occasional return of a member, who posts in a few threads, and disappears for a few weeks only to return again.

It's like a modern Republic of Letters.  A good discussion need not be quick.

There already exists a PEEL Discord.  I don't have a link for you, unfortunately, but I am sure some of its members could provide that.

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Registration doesn't seem to be working since the update, so new members can't join.  That probably doesn't help.

PEEL is a lot like the universe (or the Roman Empire); if it's not expanding, it's contracting.

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Hey pandajenn! PEEL has both a super secret Facebook group and a super duper secret Discord server! I'll PM you some more info!

Edit: Okay, I sent you the info in a PM.

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It's like a modern Republic of Letters.  A good discussion need not be quick.

Ah, Svip, PEEL’s resident Luddite poet.

It’s true that the Discord is pretty active (no thanks to me), but I do share Svip’s affinity for the ol’ forums, quiet though they may be. I accordingly try to poke my head in every month or so, just to see what’s what, and I think that’s true of a lot of users.

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Same. It's nice to see folks are still posting and I'm always happy to contribute, regardless of whether it's one post or an all-out posting spree. It seems FB is semi-active as well, although I only check my FB sporadically.

Also, I may have received a link to the Discord a very long time ago but seemed to have lost it. Would anyone be willing to send it my way again?

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I come here once or twice a year. Does that count?

I used to visit daily.... 18 years ago?? Holy shit.

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I pop in most days to see if anything is happening; usually there isn't.

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I felt nostalgic and logged on a few months ago. Tho, I only ever posted regularly in the toynami thread. It's wild to see this forums still active. Hopefully it never becomes a relic of the way back machine. I had to search, but I found my old profile from futurama fan forum on there. I even found some of my posts from a long dead forum called illout from the early thousands.

Damn, this must be what feeling old feels like. Your favorite cartoons been canceled, your friends all have kids, and your life just becomes work. w0000.

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It would appear we now have an answer to this question...

For real, it's wild (and exciting!) how many PEELers of yore have come out of the woodwork in the past few days to comment on Futurama's revival. Now we just have to keep the momentum going, and we'll be back in business.

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I actually like how small and limited PEELers are now. PEEL is ancient by internet standards. It looks nearly the same when it did when it launched (probably, I didn't know about PEEL until 2005-ish to be honest). Space Jam's website can no longer say that. Us users that have registered before Futurama was cancelled in 2013- we're the elders of the Futurama fandom. We were such big fans to have signed up for a forum dedicated entirely to a single series and the weirdos like us who still post today can reminisce about how the old days were. We dispense valueless wisdom!

Now we'll have to segregate PEELers by when they signed up. There's the first generation of PEELers like Tweek and -mArc- that have been posting before zoomers were conceived. There's PEELers like me and Gorky that joined in the second run (maybe I'm first generation- I lurked since around 2005 and joined half a year before the first movie was released). Now we got the third generation- for the majority of this class, this will be the first and probably only time they will join an internet forum dedicated to a single franchise.

Also, it's so exciting that now we have three (or five) eras to Futurama:
1st/FOX Run
-1st Hiatus-
2nd/Comedy Central Run
-2nd Hiatus-
3rd/Hulu/Streaming Run (watch Futurama go to Disney+ in a few years)

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Well, I'm back now that Dimaggio is in for the Hulu episodes. I think the last time I regularly posted was at the end of the Fox run, but I used to wake up in the morning and think "What's going on on PEEL?"

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I imagine I'll be posting occasionally now that the Hulu revival seems to be a go.  This is my second post this year.  My most recent post prior to that was in 2015.  And then only once that year.  Been a while.

The way I figure it, this is Futurama's 4th iteration. 
1st run
DVD movies (I put this in a separate entry because when the 1st one came out, I don't think there was any guarantee that the series was coming back.)
Series revival (Comedy Central)
Series revival (Hulu)

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We belong dead.

And yet... I miss the days of online chatter being a treat to look forward to instead of an endless parade of obligation and guilt grinding down my thumbs, tear ducts, and attention span. Maybe I'll saddle up this old girl and ride out one last time.

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We belong dead.

We belong, I think, dormant. PEEL may stir again when new episodes drop. We're still more of a mammoth than a stegosaurus in the hierarchy of deadness.

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The mammoth may only be pining for the fjords.

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i rarely come here anymore sadly.

[Reply #17 on:]

Most every day I'll check for new posts.

[Reply #18 on:]

Most every day there aren't any.

[Reply #19 on:]

Welcome...to the world of tomorrow

[Reply #20 on:]

I visit once every 12 years. See you in 2034

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I'll be sure to have the site running by then.

[Reply #22 on:]

First post of 2023! In this timezone, at least.

[Reply #23 on:]

Happy New Year, everyone! Another 2h45m for me (near Seattle).

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When was it not a lousy year?

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There's always a mix of positive and negative developments. From a mostly US-focused view I'd suggest 1976.

We celebrated ~200 years of independence, far longer than any of the founders of the country ever imagined.

After the incredibly stupid decision to go all-in on a war against Vietnam rather than forging ties with Ho Chi Minh when he reached out to us, America tried to put the fiasco behind us.

Woz and Jobs founded a little company which would strongly influence the technology revolution.

Tachy moved into a place by himself for the first time and got a taste of responsibility and freedom.

We had a presidential election with reasonable candidates.

In aerospace, the first space shuttle rolled out (though it was a test platform and never launched) and the first supersonic commercial transport airplane took flight. Viking arrived at Mars.

Cracks started appearing in South Africa which would eventually bring a close to the apartheid era.

Ended, the Cod Wars were.

Laser printers became a thing.

The VHS era dawned.

Humanity is objectively horrendous, but if I had to pick a less-awful year, I could do worse than 1976.

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Ended, the Cod Wars were.

The what now? 

[Reply #27 on:]

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-was-the-cod-wars.html

The Cod Wars were a series of conflicts between Iceland and the United Kingdom over rights to fish in the North Atlantic. Iceland won in all the conflicts. The last Cod War was experienced in 1976, and it ended with the UK agreeing to relinquish a 200 nautical mile fishing zone to Iceland when Iceland threatened to quit NATO.

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Oh.  I thought that you were talking about how Long John Silver's defeated both Arthur Treacher's and H. Salt to become the most popular fish and chips fast food chain.  Kind of like the burger wars, but with fish.

That sounds much worse.

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Same. It's nice to see folks are still posting and I'm always happy to contribute, regardless of whether it's one post or an all-out posting spree. It seems FB is semi-active as well, although I only check my FB sporadically.

Also, I may have received a link to the Discord a very long time ago but seemed to have lost it. Would anyone be willing to send it my way again?

There's a Discord?!!

[Reply #30 on:]

Been trying like crazy to get in touch with someone at the CGEF website! But none of the emails seem to be working.

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Marc and Slimmy both retired to raise families. They left a duck in charge of this place and CGEF is now run by ChatGPT.

Nobody is going to answer. There are spiders living in the coffee machine and the entire office building is condemned. There's black mold in the ceiling and all of the taps drip constantly. The PEEL photocopier will only print the last image it successfully acquired: winna's ass.

There's a rat in the filing cabinet. Don't disturb him, he's sleeping. He's been sleeping so long that only his bones are left (that's why you shouldn't oversleep, kids).

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Slight correction: I am not a rat, but rather a Siberian Hamster.

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I'd just like to register the fact that it's funny that a thread with this topic remains near the top.

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Well, it can't fall that far down the page when most of the threads on the page haven't had any new posts in years.

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Well, it can't fall that far down the page when most of the threads on the page haven't had any new posts in years.

Can't argue with that. Still, it's a funny thread topic. The equivalent of asking 'are you awake?'; the mere act of responding gives an answer. Sort of a reverse of Betteridge's law of headlines.

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Though time keeps on slippin'... and I've only managed 141 posts in more than twenty one years of membership... I still float about and drop in from time to time. Futurama, and this forum, were such an enormous part of my growing up, and whatever happens, however life changes... something keeps on pulling me back.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen... it's been a while!

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Though time keeps on slippin'... and I've only managed 141 posts in more than twenty one years of membership... I still float about and drop in from time to time. Futurama, and this forum, were such an enormous part of my growing up, and whatever happens, however life changes... something keeps on pulling me back.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen... it's been a while!

Are you still here?

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I come here whenever.

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Though time keeps on slippin'... and I've only managed 141 posts in more than twenty one years of membership... I still float about and drop in from time to time. Futurama, and this forum, were such an enormous part of my growing up, and whatever happens, however life changes... something keeps on pulling me back.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen... it's been a while!

Are you still here?

Sure.  But I forgot that password in 2018.