Car'a'Carn
Berries & Cream!
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09-18-2024, 08:40 AM
It's been a while... And I'm feeling a might nostalgic because the September - January months on Menewsha have always been my favorite. You all still alive? I sure as shuckin hope so.
What's been happening? I'm terrible at keeping up in the discord... I need to try harder :O
I've had some big family losses this year, doggo and otherwise but I'm holding together. I discovered why water heater pans are so important and have begun an extensive reno because of it... XD This is also the first year I haven't grown hay in over 10 years... Fertilizer is too gosh dang expensive...
How about you all??
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Briar Rose
Professional Procrastinator
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09-20-2024, 06:25 PM
I just re-activated after a very long hiatus.
In that time, I've gotten married, had children, got divorced, remarried, lost my dad, moved across the country, and switched from being a chef at an inpatient rehab facility to being a cattle rancher. Two days ago was the ten year anniversary of my dads passing, and I've been really depressed over it. My friends suggested I do something I love, and I always loved Mene, so I thought I'd come back to see how it's been. I'm so glad to see it's still here! Hopefully I can find new friends to write with ^_^
I'm so sorry for the loss of your doggo, they're family and hit just as hard. We had to put down our family dog two years ago, she was old and it was quality over quantity for us. She was with us for darn near 15 years, she made it two months shy.
And yes, I full heartedly agree that fertilizer is too expensive!! Our hay crop was not great; we're probably going to have to buy it from the neighbors this winter, and I don't like that one bit XD
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Car'a'Carn
Berries & Cream!
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09-21-2024, 08:56 AM
That is quite the journey :O Been a hot minute for you, Welcome Back! I hope you're having a good time with the cattle! I've never had them myself but sold plenty of hay to a few farms in the area over the years that did.
10 years or not, I'm sorry to hear about your dad. Lost loved ones (pets included!) Just plain hurt, even years down the road.
And as for my doggo, that's basically where it got to with him. He'd had a stroke or something and it was really limiting his quality of life.
If you missed it too... We have an (unofficial) Mene server on Discord. This link will expire in 7 days so if you miss it, ping me and I'll try to come and refresh it for you but There's a few Mene members that are still active on there! Menewsha Discord Sever
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Briar Rose
Professional Procrastinator
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09-21-2024, 02:38 PM
It really has lol The cattle are fun, we have a couple that are basically pets; we'll never sell them!
I completely understand, it's so hard to make the choice, but it really is all for them. It'd be selfish to keep them longer, when they're in so much pain.
Oh awesome! Thank you! I joined up, though I'm not super active on Discord. I guess I'll have to start lol
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Winterwolfgoddess
Miss You Guys
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09-22-2024, 03:27 AM
Not dead, just life stuff. I have moved, lost a parent, and advanced in my career quite a bit since I was last active on Mene. I did not know there was a discord o.o.
These days, outside of work I am usually gaming, usually survival or rp of some type (DayZ, RDR RP, GTA RP, etc), playing with my dog, or trying and failing to develop a green thumb xD haha.
I mainly go by Amberela or Avaleicia these days.
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Cora
☆☆ Pixel Pixie Moderator
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09-23-2024, 12:38 AM
I'm not dead yet, at least last time I checked I was still kicking around. People have been on quite the journey since they left reading all your lives. My life has been rather boring in comparison. I did go through cancer a few years ago (I'm clean now) and recently I'm discovering that I am probably Autistic and ADHD with connect OCD and Despraxia profiles so that's been kinda a "fun" journey. Other then that my life has not changed all that much
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anadentone
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09-26-2024, 08:29 PM
its been raining and hot as poot... ah Florida weather lol
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Kent
owo
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10-04-2024, 06:39 PM
Hey! Nice to see you pop up every now and then~ I've been getting used to living on my own in my one-bedroom apartment with my cat. I think it's been three years already?? Been in my current work position for just a little longer than that too. I work as a computer assistant at a public library. I've struggled somewhat with finances but my family's been real helpful. ; w; I'm looking forward to like a $2/hour raise next month! And then my extra holiday pay. * u*
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Bartuc
Sky Pirate
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10-08-2024, 08:50 PM
There's a discord?
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Cora
☆☆ Pixel Pixie Moderator
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10-09-2024, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Bartuc
There's a discord? ��
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So I have heard but I don't have a discord so, I dont actually know
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Bartuc
Sky Pirate
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10-10-2024, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Cora
So I have heard but I don't have a discord so, I dont actually know
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Wow. Wonder who's all in it
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Cora
☆☆ Pixel Pixie Moderator
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10-10-2024, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Bartuc
Wow. Wonder who's all in it
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I know BSW is in there because she is the one who told me about it hahaha. I feel like I remember either Carn or Zig mentioning it at some point but other then that I too am curious
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Bartuc
Sky Pirate
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10-15-2024, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Cora
I know BSW is in there because she is the one who told me about it hahaha. I feel like I remember either Carn or Zig mentioning it at some point but other then that I too am curious
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so how do we aquire a linksies
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Cora
☆☆ Pixel Pixie Moderator
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10-15-2024, 10:07 PM
That's a good question >...>
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Mikio
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10-16-2024, 08:43 PM
Hi everyone, glad to see some of you are still around and well!
I miss mene and the events we used to have around this time of year :(
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PWEEP
Shadow Panda
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10-25-2024, 11:50 PM
Mene was good until Inso said fuck it.
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Cora
☆☆ Pixel Pixie Moderator
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10-26-2024, 07:45 AM
Sadly, I can't exactly blame Inso though. Even when we were running events, Mene was not making any money. For years we tried to figure out how to turn an actual profit. Then when wishie started to become too busy to put out CIs we brought in even less. He had other jobs that were actually paying him to take care of. He's kind enough to not shut down the servers on us.
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Zephiyr
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10-28-2024, 01:38 AM
Oh wow q-q it's so wild to see names that I remember q-q So cool. Stay well everyone ^-^
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Bartuc
Sky Pirate
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10-28-2024, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by PWEEP
Mene was good until Inso said fuck it.
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inso has little to do with it. Avatar forums lost their appeal to many after a 10 year run. Even when Mene was at its prime. (staff delete if not allowed, I am not sure the NDA or what's allowed.) but I personally on several months was the highest contributor. One month alone totalling $3000 USD in contributions. Other months I was still ranking top contributor with $300.. The profit margin of Avatar forums is realistically at the prime of them was averaging $100 a month per -daily- active user. Eventually it dries up due to users like me having so many stashes of items worth 10s of millions of gold.I literally has 3 full sets of every item, to included the Green Clover Pin. And so many just hoards and hoards of items. I was only doing enough for my two CIs a month, and eventually just buying them off MP from people who contributed.
Sites don't survive when the money declines. So, Inso had very little to do with it. It was honestly more of a user problem. Eventually when we become "rich enough" to buy whatever we want. We stop contributing. And it becomes real easy, real fast to stop contributing.
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Cora
☆☆ Pixel Pixie Moderator
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10-28-2024, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Bartuc
inso has little to do with it. Avatar forums lost their appeal to many after a 10 year run. Even when Mene was at its prime. (staff delete if not allowed, I am not sure the NDA or what's allowed.) but I personally on several months was the highest contributor. One month alone totalling $3000 USD in contributions. Other months I was still ranking top contributor with $300.. The profit margin of Avatar forums is realistically at the prime of them was averaging $100 a month per -daily- active user. Eventually it dries up due to users like me having so many stashes of items worth 10s of millions of gold.I literally has 3 full sets of every item, to included the Green Clover Pin. And so many just hoards and hoards of items. I was only doing enough for my two CIs a month, and eventually just buying them off MP from people who contributed.
Sites don't survive when the money declines. So, Inso had very little to do with it. It was honestly more of a user problem. Eventually when we become "rich enough" to buy whatever we want. We stop contributing. And it becomes real easy, real fast to stop contributing.
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Honestly, I might be going against rules here myself, but at this point I don't think its unreasonable for people to know the truth about why we died. I don't think its fair or right to blame inso for what happened to mene. I never contributed $3000 a month by any stretch of the imagination, but for 10 years I definitely contributed $20-50 a month without fail. But then, I was on the back end. So even when I could afford them on market I never did. But it is true that for many many years Mene hardly made enough to cover its own costs. Inso paid in the remaining more times then I can count. Jelly would tell me about it nearly every single month.
We got by still being active with users and staff who cared a lot. But then we lost Jelly. We continued to try and make things work after that but losing Jelly hit the staff pretty damn hard and the work was a lot less fun. We still kept up appearances of course and we worked ourselves to the bone. Its no small thing to say this start to feel more like a job in which I was paid in fake currency, and less like the place I once called home. I wont talk about some of the behind the scenes stuff, but eventually it got to a point were we started to drift away and without staff to really hold it together, the site didn't have much hope either.
So to put a long story short - Many many factors play into why Mene died.
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salvete
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11-02-2024, 04:20 PM
Menewsha has always been my favorite avatar forum because of the artwork, games, and conversations here. Sometimes, the forum section reminds me of a much smaller and more illustrated version of Reddit (if only we were as popular!). Thank you for sharing your insights about what happened behind the scenes with the site. I am thankful Menewsha is still active, even if it's only a few of us visiting now and then. If there is ever a decision to market and re-introduce Menewsha to the world -- I recall Mene was at a convention many years ago (?) -- please count me in.
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Cora
☆☆ Pixel Pixie Moderator
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11-02-2024, 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by salvete
Menewsha has always been my favorite avatar forum because of the artwork, games, and conversations here. Sometimes, the forum section reminds me of a much smaller and more illustrated version of Reddit (if only we were as popular!). Thank you for sharing your insights about what happened behind the scenes with the site. I am thankful Menewsha is still active, even if it's only a few of us visiting now and then. If there is ever a decision to market and re-introduce Menewsha to the world -- I recall Mene was at a convention many years ago (?) -- please count me in.
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I actually went to that convention! My friend and I met CK and Omi and dressed up as our Avatars. That was fun! I don't know if it got enough traction to warrent doing it again though, I don't remember......that was before I was on staff so a long LONG time ago.
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salvete
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11-03-2024, 07:00 PM
That's so cool that you went and got to meet some others :) do you remember what else happened at the convention?
True, any sort of marketing would have to start small. Wishful thinking on my part, just imagining how we could achieve a balance of appealing to the masses (items reminiscent of popular movies / shows / comics?) while still maintaining Menewsha's unique world and storyline. Would have to be a grassroots effort since money is the main issue.
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Cora
☆☆ Pixel Pixie Moderator
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11-03-2024, 09:25 PM
I remember a few of the artists I went to but not too much, that had to be like 15 ish years ago. I remember the drive, because it was in georgia and we came from new, and the city itself. I remember the venue and many of the artists but we didn't go to any of the panels or anything because my friend was kinda a buzz kill and hardly wanted to leave our hotel. She only went to meet CK and Omi hahaha.
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