u guys remember

When LG wasn't dead.
You know before gaia raped us with it's captcha?


Yeah me neither.

I remember when people use to know who the fuck I was. ):

lol. Pretty sure a few people here still remember you. Pretty sure Gaia's captcha also has nothing to do with LG's deteriorated activity. The Gaia community as a whole has pretty much been dying out since circa 2010.

So the new decade screwed us! Darned society and its ever advancing technology. Gaya just isn't the craze anymore. Apparently the cool kids use reddit.

And yeah, LG is pretty much dead. I'm grateful for the little activity we have, because the site can be active at times. If you look around, pretty much ALL gaia oriented communities are gone. Extinct. So yeah, it's pretty impressive that LG is still intact. So hope still remains.

Reddit sucks.

I agree. I use it 100% for basketball reasons.

Full disclosure: overview for protozoid

I do check the front page every so often. But I don't post.

Someone took my name overview for Stapled .

GAME managed to grab his before anybody took it.

overview for GAMEchief

I totally forgot there was a time when Gaia didn't use captcha.

Pretty sure Gaia's captcha also has nothing to do with LG's deteriorated activity.


You are so wrong, I was here for old old old LG and it was booming when we had bots. Like riddle's cracker etc.. After the captcha LG tried, it really did try to continue to stay relevant and sometimes it succeeded, like with the whole booty grab bots and what not, but really, there was no way to recover, with our biggest catch broken LG started it's downward spiral. But I'm not dogging LG, at least no one totally gave up.

Back in old old old LG, I began starting to learn programming c++ and the rest is history. Thanks to the spark LG gave me back then I was able to find something I absolutely love doing. Even though I dropped C++ and started learning web technologies, LG is where I began. So I just want to give LG my thanks. No one in particular, just LG itself. Wihout this site I wouldn't be the God tier (lol) programmer I am.

Off topic

Oh and I've had a new project in development for about a year (HTML5), it's a RPG like manahaven but not written by an autistic egotistical fruit bag. ( I really don't like Tyler.) It will support PVP and PVE as well as a full blown avatar system, clans, forums, etc. I'll post within a few months with more information and previews.

HTML wrote:

You are so wrong, I was here for old old old LG and it was booming when we had bots. Like riddle's cracker etc.. After the captcha LG tried, it really did try to continue to stay relevant and sometimes it succeeded, like with the whole booty grab bots and what not, but really, there was no way to recover, with our biggest catch broken LG started it's downward spiral. But I'm not dogging LG, at least no one totally gave up.

Back in old old old LG, I began starting to learn programming c++ and the rest is history. Thanks to the spark LG gave me back then I was able to find something I absolutely love doing. Even though I dropped C++ and started learning web technologies, LG is where I began. So I just want to give LG my thanks. No one in particular, just LG itself. Wihout this site I wouldn't be the God tier (lol) programmer I am.

Lol, dude, exploiting no captcha in gaia is not the cause of why this site is dying. Gaia itself is dying. Would no CAPTCHA have prevented that? Doubtful. It was inevitable since the core of this site is featured around Gaia. Gaia has been steadily dying since whenever. Gaia at its peak was full of holes/vulnerabilities though, so perhaps there may be some form of relation.

Either way, captcha, something standard in most web forms now, was not the cause of LG dying. If CAPTCHA was still gone today we'd just have a bunch of members begging for bots rather than actual quality people.

It's great though that Gaia programming got you started. It got me started, too. No Gaia == no programming knowledge for me most likely.

HTML wrote:

Off topic

Oh and I've had a new project in development for about a year (HTML5), it's a RPG like manahaven but not written by an autistic egotistical fruit bag. ( I really don't like Tyler.) It will support PVP and PVE as well as a full blown avatar system, clans, forums, etc. I'll post within a few months with more information and previews.

gr8. Can't wait to see.

Yeah maybe if we put our attention towards different gaming sites we would have had more to fall back on.... Hazer of doom's bot was pretty sweet back in 09. But Unintelligible is right. It's not mostly due to the loss of bots and programs but mostly due to the decreased popularity of it.

I still remember you as well HTML

HTML wrote:

Pretty sure Gaia's captcha also has nothing to do with LG's deteriorated activity.


You are so wrong, I was here for old old old LG and it was booming when we had bots. Like riddle's cracker etc.. After the captcha LG tried, it really did try to continue to stay relevant and sometimes it succeeded, like with the whole booty grab bots and what not, but really, there was no way to recover, with our biggest catch broken LG started it's downward spiral. But I'm not dogging LG, at least no one totally gave up.

Back in old old old LG, I began starting to learn programming c++ and the rest is history. Thanks to the spark LG gave me back then I was able to find something I absolutely love doing. Even though I dropped C++ and started learning web technologies, LG is where I began. So I just want to give LG my thanks. No one in particular, just LG itself. Wihout this site I wouldn't be the God tier (lol) programmer I am.

Off topic

Oh and I've had a new project in development for about a year (HTML5), it's a RPG like manahaven but not written by an autistic egotistical fruit bag. ( I really don't like Tyler.) It will support PVP and PVE as well as a full blown avatar system, clans, forums, etc. I'll post within a few months with more information and previews.

That project sounds pretty awesome.

I'd like to offer my assistance if you're looking for more developers.

Kingz V wrote:

That project sounds pretty awesome.

I'd like to offer my assistance if you're looking for more developers.

If you're familiar with the laravel framework and you're a God with javascript then PM me. Otherwise we're only looking for more artists.

Hi HTML.

I know you.

You don't know me.

We used to be good friends.

That was on a different username, though.

Good times.

HTML wrote:

If you're familiar with the laravel framework and you're a God with javascript then PM me. Otherwise we're only looking for more artists.

y u use framewerk?

this site's still alive what

Bunny wrote:

this site's still alive what

Weren't you banned?

edit: nvm. Pretty sure that was "bunnyz". Hm, oh well.

Stapled wrote:

y u use framewerk?

Who the hell programs huge web-based projects from scratch without using a MVC model? And I'm sure as hell not going to write my own framework when there's plenty available with tons of classes, libraries and helpers. But to answer your question it's mostly for code structure and organization that frameworks offer. Especially after laravel introduced it's blade system.

Database active records are sexy and easy.
MVC frameworks keep your code organized and beautiful.
Many built in helpers + libraries for example : Sessions, pagination, security, events, templating, file handling, mailing, bbc all have built in classes you can include if needed.
Securely handles all input for you.
Most frameworks have HTML helpers which come in handy when outputting data in HTML pages. They also make writing repetitive HTML easier. My pages literally go from 200 lines to like 45. Best part is it's all still PHP.

//Can easily manipulate PHP data in here. Also password fields are automatically set to 'password' type of input.

{{ Form::open(array('url' => 'foo/bar')) }}

                 echo Form::text('username');

                 echo Form::password('password');

                 echo Form::submit('Click Me!');

{{ Form::close() }}

tldr FRAMEWORKS OFFER PROGRAMMERS THE TOOLS THEY'VE BEEN USING ALL IN ONE PACKAGE WITHOUT HAVING TO CHANGE CODE, SACRIFICE CODE, SACRIFICE EFFICIENCY OR SACRIFICE TIME, ALSO FUCK QUERIES ILL NEVER GO BACK TO STANDARD SQL.

srsly if anyone on here is doing web development and you have a very strong understanding of OOP, go study up on MVC, best practices and design patterns. Then dig into a framework. You're coding time will drop significantly.

Blac wrote:

We used to be good friends.

Who r u i dnt believe we use 2 b frandsi dnt ever have frands..

HTML wrote:

Who the hell programs huge web-based projects from scratch without using a MVC model? And I'm sure as hell not going to write my own framework when there's plenty available with tons of classes, libraries and helpers. But to answer your question it's mostly for code structure and organization that frameworks offer. Especially after laravel introduced it's blade system.

Database active records are sexy and easy.
MVC frameworks keep your code organized and beautiful.
Many built in helpers + libraries for example : Sessions, pagination, security, events, templating, file handling, mailing, bbc all have built in classes you can include if needed.
Securely handles all input for you.
Most frameworks have HTML helpers which come in handy when outputting data in HTML pages. They also make writing repetitive HTML easier. My pages literally go from 200 lines to like 45. Best part is it's all still PHP.

//Can easily manipulate PHP data in here. Also password fields are automatically set to 'password' type of input.

{{ Form::open(array('url' => 'foo/bar')) }}

                 echo Form::text('username');

                 echo Form::password('password');

                 echo Form::submit('Click Me!');

{{ Form::close() }}

tldr FRAMEWORKS OFFER PROGRAMMERS THE TOOLS THEY'VE BEEN USING ALL IN ONE PACKAGE WITHOUT HAVING TO CHANGE CODE, SACRIFICE CODE, SACRIFICE EFFICIENCY OR SACRIFICE TIME, ALSO FUCK QUERIES ILL NEVER GO BACK TO STANDARD SQL.

srsly if anyone on here is doing web development and you have a very strong understanding of OOP, go study up on MVC, best practices and design patterns. Then dig into a framework. You're coding time will drop significantly.

+1

HTML wrote:

If you're familiar with the laravel framework and you're a God with javascript then PM me. Otherwise we're only looking for more artists.

Working on my js chops recently.

Not familiar with laravel, but I'll do some researching and pm you sometime.

Artists are tough, good luck finding some good ones.

Oh yeah I do, that was awesome