Encyclopedia Dramatica

[MisterGobbles]

I will miss ED. Had some good times on that site, regardless of whether other sites were better or not.

I think it's retarded how it's now just a clone of Know Your Meme.

 

[BonsaiK]

Encyclopaedia Dramatica, once great bastion of lulz and internet cautionary tales, is dead; its replacement being ohinternet.com, a sanitized mundane clone of Know Your Meme.

Discuss.

You'll be happy to know that ED is alive and well, and living in Switzerland. It's being reconstructed as I type at http://encyclopediadramatica.ch and doesn't look quite the same yet, but a lot of the original content is there in some form, with more on the way.

I thought ED was funny and culturally important, and it was a big mistake for the original sysops to delete the existing content, if they needed to move to something different fair enough but it wouldn't have killed them to retain the original texts in archived form or at least give their users some warning as to what was happening. Of course it's clear that outside pressures have forced the move but regardless, it was handled very badly, and no doubt they'll pay for their PR blunder.

Oh Internet is very unfunny and doesn't capture ED's spirit at all. Perhaps that's the point, but either way I'll never visit it again now that the new ED is up.

 

[Satosuke]

You'll be happy to know that ED is alive and well, and living in Switzerland. It's being reconstructed as I type at http://encyclopediadramatica.ch and doesn't look quite the same yet, but a lot of the original content is there in some form, with more on the way.

I thought ED was funny and culturally important, and it was a big mistake for the original sysops to delete the existing content, if they needed to move to something different fair enough but it wouldn't have killed them to retain the original texts in archived form or at least give their users some warning as to what was happening. Of course it's clear that outside pressures have forced the move but regardless, it was handled very badly, and no doubt they'll pay for their PR blunder.

Oh Internet is very unfunny and doesn't capture ED's spirit at all. Perhaps that's the point, but either way I'll never visit it again now that the new ED is up.

I'm cautiously optimistic, considering it seems put together by a dedicated group of users, but I heard that OhInternet threatened to sue anyone trying to use the Dramatica likeness and logo.

I just hope that if this NewDramatica rises and prospers, it'll go back to its roots of charting memes, being absolute in its fearlessly Un-PC irreverent humor, and tracking drama whores and telling of their idiocy as a lesson to all, instead of being a poorly edited trough of personal attack/dox drop articles and unfunny jokes.

Man...Ol' Dirty BTard must be spinning in his grave right now.