I signed up really early over at Zantarni. I liked it, but the battle game part of the site bankrupted me so my poor avatar is pretty much naked. I really didn't want to donate to Zan until they had some bugs worked out and then the site kind of went downhill, so ...

Though I would have enjoyed having some of the items, even if the site isn't so popular. The avis are cute as a button, also.

It's sad because, even though Gaia kind of is a bit of a bully in sucking up users, I think Zantarni was in the game early enough and was unique enough that if the original owner had been able to handle it (for whatever reason he couldn't, whether by act of god or his own issue depending on what the deal was) I think the site could have been HUGE.