Things that we all did everyday on old DiS but have now totally forgotten

#1

I’ll start

  • CRICKET
  • threadsmash
  • Autofill replies and Autofill threads
#2

Mum jokes

#3

Isn’t it weird that we used to have a little space for a title for the post

#4

^this

#5

:'D

#6

I miss this, above all.

#7

No, your mum jokes.

#8

Make each other really upset with aggressive posturing

#9

Remember how some people didn’t know about the threadsmash button and thought people were just typing threadsmash for the hell of it.

#10

234 days since a Diser …

#11

Seems weird now that literally everyone used to have several accounts. A rogue moderator made me one once for the craic, and there was a tool called ‘possible pseudonmys’, which i guess just listed accounts with matching IPs. Virtually all the regular posters had five or six accounts (some of them weren’t joke accounts either). DOTS had about 25. cat-race had about 60. Foley had over 150. How did we hold down jobs?

#12

85%

(as in “like 85% of personal anecdote threads on DiS, this is craven boastfulness disguised as angst”)

#13

Sexism

#14

Foley’s accounts were impossible to keep track off, but that was part of the fun.

#15

Finishing a long post with PAT

#16

I think my lowest point was creating a ‘jude’ account so I could reply with ‘hey’ to @meths in a post he’d made about the Beatles. I think he’d just put ‘hey jude’.

Good times.

#17

I wonder if the Paul Daniels/Debbie McGee threads are still up

#18

Huge fan of the AlanShearer account, and Mehodor’s Orange.

#19

I wrote a reply, but the boards ate it.

SEAN!!!

#20

That’s the sort of commitment that new Dis is missing