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Posted in Uh... Hi... I guess? Posted 3 weeks ago

Ark:

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Not to butt in, but I was on Sapherna, too! I really liked the avatars and the items, and right as I was starting to get more active and gain more items the site shut down. ;-;

You're welcome to!
The avatars were cool and so was here but hey this site is still around so there's hope still!

Posted in Uh... Hi... I guess? Posted 3 weeks ago

Voz:

@devil: wow, those sapherna sets are a blast from the past! I was also a pixelist for sapherna at that time.

Heeyaa, really? OMGG Nice can I see your stuff?

DragonicKittens:

@devil: They look nice to me! But then again, I can't really say too much when it comes to pixels. (The one in my sig is hella old xD) But I tend to stick with 1 highlight, the base color, 2 colors for shade, and 2 colors for the outline. I know its pretty limiting, but its what works for me, especially on a small scale. But I also have a love/hate relationship with my pixel art, so that doesn't really help much. I completely forgot about Caedon. XD I haven't been on there in a long time, but I also remember just stop going on due to it being sorta dead? But I know it did have an active community, just not active how I was used to Gaia.

That honestly sounds like fun! Though I'm more of a PvE kinda gal. But yeah, I think the only other site I sorta got into and fell off was Furvilla, it was kinda the same, but I couldn't figure out how to equip a weapon to fight in its game. (Looks like its still up too.) Its kinda the same with the forms, but from what I understand, if they still do it, they let people edit their bases and also submit them as a recolor, but no idea if they actually got approved or not though.

Which makes a lot of sense, but I'm sure most of the angel subs are people in our age range, if not older. I don't think I've seen anyone younger on there since I was a kid though. Oh and same on gold, I switched to plat as well. I know if you make a new account, its automatically set to plat. I'm afraid to get off of plat and see the difference. I'd probably faint just by looking at my wishlist. XD I know if I were to go back there, I'd have to do art again just to get anything I wanted. But I really don't wanna do that. X_X Gaia was the reason why I started to do pixel art, but Gaia is the reason for the love/hate relationship.

Aww, they're cute though, and I get it; doing pixels for art in Gaia can help you develop love and hate. Some of the avatars get hella cluttered and impossible to draw. Aaah!!! And yeah, I haven't been really active in Caedon either... for YEARS, and last time I checked, you can no longer log into it; you can access the splash page, but that is it.

I definitely had more sets saved on hard drive like these but yeah over the years I've lost loads of the old art I've done, so haha looking back at them, I could improve them now, haha.

And from what I can see, the majority of Angel Donors and active users are millennials and older Gen Z? Which yeaaah that makes sense since the majority of user bases would be from those age ranges. I feel like, and part of me is hoping... sites like these make a comeback with everyone getting tired of centralised platforms like Insta and Twitter. I do just miss the old internet, where we could customise EVERYTHING to our liking. BLARING blinky gifs and scrapbook-esque websites – I miss it, haha.

Huh furville sounds cool though ! I must admit I had a harder time getting really into the pet-site type.

Posted in Uh... Hi... I guess? Posted 4 weeks ago

@DragonicKittens: I did some here and there but I was also artist for other sites at the time so I was being in multiple directions? I couldn't find much for Sapherna that I did except for this one? But yeaah it was one of my really old pixels, looking back at it it looks hella flat and could have done better haha all I could find are pixels I've done for Caedon; everything else is no longer in my hard drive.

And huh... sad cause the Patheon pixels looked cute aw... I'm really sad loads of avatar sites are now gone siigh. I remember Lunae Saga implemented an RPG-type of game where you can PvP other users etc. and to replenish your health & mana is to post? It was amaziiing but that site went offline one day and ever came back.

Yeah, Gaia economy pretty much thrives on "Angel Donors" now so people just pay for sub or buy g-cash to stay afloat and I honestly do not blame them. They gotta fund it somehow. I know some marketplace sellers can be nice selling those exclusive items but they are few and far between. Idk about gold inflation mainly cause I have switched to Plats and never looked back.

Posted in Uh... Hi... I guess? Posted 4 weeks ago

@DragonicKittens: idk if mention ping worked (cause i added it after accidentally submitting the post) but my reply above!

Posted in Uh... Hi... I guess? Posted 4 weeks ago

@DragonicKittens: Yeah I briefly worked as a pixel artist in Sapherna; they were pretty chill and I am kinda sad they aren't online anymore :/ and huh, that's interesting with Pantheon Online - never heard of them but they kinda sound like they have a similar system to Recolor.me (still around) where you can recolour literally any items via sliders and you can even adjust it's opacity and do multiple items layer so you can create endless different combos for avatars. They used to have subscription membership instead of donations but the owner removed that and now idk, as far as I know he is only one funding and running the whole site? with a few artists and the community is very small but active.

And Gaia Online well..... sadly the days of flash games is long dead. Sad really.

Posted in Uh... Hi... I guess? Posted 1 month ago

@DragonicKittens: Yeah, I've seen those too. Idk I feel like if any of these sites will have any type of resurgence it'll probably be GaiaOnline since it's the most well-known and active. But they really would have to put it resource and time to update it's archaic infrastructure to grab any long-term users. I've been part developing these types of niche sites, as a pixel artist, that I'm not surprise you found it through FB haha! For some reason FB was just a ideal platform to update people about these sites during it's prime.

As for the staff, sadly I wasn't active enough here to get to know them so I have no clue with the state of things here.

Posted in Uh... Hi... I guess? Posted 2 months ago

I've been on and off this site but mostly just lurking... I feel like with how manipulative and scary social medias are becoming maybe sites like this one that is just simple forum with cute graphics may have a comeback. Or I hope so.