The Guardian are looking for your stories. Which will you submit?
Just posted a long rambling thing about the journey from joining this place as a lonely, anxiety ridden student to a slightly less anxiety ridden adult whoâs releasing music and starting a business and how both are only possible because of my time on here. Not entirely sure itâs what theyâre after tbh but it felt nice to document it.
Reddit, Flickr, IGN
Myspace, Tumblr, 4Chan
Slashdot
LiveBlog,
Online Radio
Twitter, Weibo, ICQ
UseNet, Facebook, Yahoo Groups
Something Awful, Soundcloud
Bebo, Friendster, DrownedinSound
We didnât start the
How different is your experience on DiS to all of those platforms? What could DiS do better going forwards?
Used to have sex a lot more.
Slices Of Apple With Jam On
Met some total GBOL babes who I catch up with 2/3 times a year and theyâre top top eggs. Love DiS.
This almost sounds like they gave you crabs or something.
The first time I tried to MEAT anyone from here, they all decided not to go for different reasons but because my phone was out of battery and Iâd already left, I didnât know until I returned home.
Good Bunch of Lads.
I found a long lost branch of my family through this forum (s/o Ruffdawg) along with meeting a GBOL and releasing music on a real life record label!
I wouldnât have tasted a calypso bomb were it not for DiS.
I now keep my tins upside down.
Thanks Bamos
Thamos.
Well first it made me into a jumped-up little snobby indie bellend and probably set me back 5 years socially
Then DiS 2.0 has been very very helpful for my MH, thanks MH thread, selfies thread etc.
Donât wanna be in the guardian though ta
Discovered Chvrches thanks to Wishpig
WelllâŚ
I did have a slightly blue dream after reading something on here, once.
Without DiS Iâd never have thrown up in a skip.
Donât be so harsh on yourself.