User blog comment:MaxineMutini/A toast to the worlds we lost, and the friends that drifted away/@comment-124.180.162.240-20200704145638

i don't know if i knew you. im not good at remembering names, which kinda compounds with the time issue. i was a frequent player, id spend as much time as i could on the server, but being from the southern hemisphere it wasn't uncommon for nobody else to be online when i was. it was also my first server and my first time having online friends. ive since discovered my queerness, and realised i was using the server to escape the bullying and isolation i was experiencing irl. and definitely indulging a special interest in minecraft, long before i could have known that im autistic.

despite that, i have precious few memories that haven't faded with time. i tried to build a town, and got halfway through building a castle in the creative world, although i doubt my builds were very good - i was not exactly the most artful person back then. i remember chatting to friends and strangers, trying to write a parody song, getting very excited about having potatoes to farm. admiring the name tags, somehow convincing my mum to donate so i could have one too. i also remember doing some pretty embarrassing stuff because i was like 12.

i was heartbroken when the server closed, and im a bit heartbroken now to find near silence about it and the old forums inevitably dead. there's a wayback machine archive from october 2012; but it looks like it only saved the index pages. everything else is gone, as far as i can tell. i had a pang of nostalgia and wondered if it did ever reopen, if we did ever rebuild. im not surprised to see that it didn't happen.

i can't believe it's been so many years.

i was pretty shocked to find a relatively recent post here, and i can identify with a lot of the sentiments you've expressed. much as i want to contact others from the server, i don't have an account here and im uncomfortable sharing my old username/nickname.

i hope you've been doing okay in these interesting times <3