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The current site itself I really don't have any problems with, meaning how it is setup. I like having all the different Lounges, makes it easy to find a topic you are interested in.
I was a lurker starting around 2006, then officially joined in 2009, I do remember the site looking different before 2007, I don't have any screen shots.

Clearly the number of members has dwindled and the conversations were more engaging back in the day is best way I can explain it. Today it seems the discussions are merely about what is porg and what is not porg and then why do you think that way LOL.
Rehashing of topics is a normal occurrence when new members join, they don't understand pretty much everything has been discussed already. But I'm fine with that, if not for that the site would be seriously dead.
The biggest change for me is many of the older members/collabs leaving the site for good. I left for a long while due to the mentalness/a$$ness of some but will always come back. Thinking of going to another porg site is waste of time, I can't think about starting over. I used to frequent many other music sites but found it too daunting to keep track, so cut it back a lot.

Anyhow, PA is fine. I just miss some of the discussions from back in the day.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I've been knocking around a while. I remember at least one forum software update but tbh I can't remember what the difference was. Fundamentally things are the same but we no longer hear from the likes of Snow Dog and even micky is not around so much these days.


Like me, Micky goes through periods in which he's interested in other things. I know he pops in from time to time, but as a whole these days he keeps to himself. Personally, I tend to hang out mostly in the Interactive Poll threads, which have been a constant source of new musical discoveries. In the past few years I have lost a lot of my previous interest in discovering new prog, but I like finding out about other music that can appeal to me.

Regarding the forum as it is now versus what it was like in the past, I'd take PA as it is now any day. Some of the things that went on in the Collab zone were really unpleasant, and I know there is still some bad blood around. PA now may be boring, but (at least to me) it also feels friendly and reassuring. As to Facebook, my main beef with it is not so much its toxic atmosphere (which has improved somewhat in the past few months), but its overall falseness. People there don't care a fig about anyone but themselves, and I feel embarrassed by those who put their lives out for everyone to see.
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I have known this site since the autumn of 2004. My joining in as late as 2008 is due to my tendency to long hesitation prior to jumping in.

The look and feel of this site has hardly changed. The banner, designed by darksideof, has not always been there. I recall that in earlier years it was possible to browse through albums without going back to the artist's main page.

The forums have become rather relaxed lately. Hardly any right ding-dongs between forum members; 10 years ago I was a spamfighter, now I am a retired spamfighter. As Easy Money stated, the banhammer has hardly been wielded by the Admins lately. It only gets out of the toolbox when a Wally or a Svet tries to sneak in once more.
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I started using the site around 2005. Before that I did most of my research on GEPR. Officially joined in 2007 and wrote bunch of lousy reviews for about two years, but didn't really spend much time on the forums until the last 5-6 years. So I think I missed much of the "aggressiveness" of the early years though I remember reading through a long thread about the inclusion of ELO where words got rather heated. Starting around 2010, I actually went through the entire database from A to the # section over my lunch breaks at work and compiled notes for things I might be interested in.

I don't think the appearance of the forum has changed much for a long time, but I do remember a time when the main page didn't have the banner it currently has (and has had for many years).

This is how I remember the site looking back when I first started using it for research back in 2005:

And here's what the forum looked like in 2005:

This is the earliest capture of the site from 2002 where it has the note "Our Database is currently under populating process":
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Apparently, I joined about a month before Mr. Aardvark.  I was compiling a database of all of my albums in Access, and I found this site by chance by looking up albums for years of release, song titles and times, and record labels.  I used it for a while as this source before joining the forums.  I tried my hand at reviews for a while, but that's not really my thing.  Maybe one day I'll get back to it.  Like someone_else, I am a retired spamfighter.  I have definitely spent/wasted way to much time here on this forum, but I guess it still entertains me enough that I keep coming back...or I just can't figure out how to leave.  
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