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I'll just say it does depend on where you go/what you do on Gaia as to whether you have mostly bad experiences, or mostly good experiences. Some places (CB, GD) are more inclined towards bad experiences, lol, but I had a 10k page thread in the AF (art freebies) forum for 2-3 years, and I met some of my very best friends on that site, I had a blast...

I will agree though the vibe is really different now from when I was a regular (2006-2008) it doesn't seem that as many people are willing to stick around in threads and make connections, make conversation and friendships -- my shops, auctions, threads tend to have a lot of lonely bumping from me these days lol. And yea inflation has made everything more expensive, 5mil used to be an auction AB because it was just so jaw-droppingly large, now if you don't end up with 5mil at the end it's almost a waste of time -- the blame for that can be landed squarely the fact they started over-saturating the site with items.

Used to be you'd just have the monthlies, and then a shop update once in awhile, and a few rare special items in random boxes. (Which are p much worthless now lmao, poor Angelic headband) Now there's something new almost every single week.

...ok I have way to much opinion on this lol shutting up