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JigsawTDC posted...

So I immediately thought of two possibilities: you had a secret board consisting of three people that amounted to a glorified (but probably entertaining) group chat, or you assembled top tier posters from across the various corners of the Internet to assemble some sort of secret society message board. Both options are equally entertaining to me.

It was basically the second one.

I had a secret board before PotD ever existed, which I mostly used for online RP games and archiving writing sessions with Internet friends from various corners of the Web, along with a few people I knew from real life. I also used it as a guild hub for a couple online multiplayer games (like Destiny). Basically, it had like two dozen subsections and each user had to be approved to see specific sections, and they could only see the ones that directly pertained to them. So in theory two separate users could be on the board and never see each other's posts because they had access to different subsections.

When Nudo was running his PotD D&D game, I made a D&D section and posted my character sheets there and gave him access so he could see/edit/comment on stuff whenever he wanted. We used it to occasionally chat about other stuff that we didn't feel like posting publicly.

Omgarm got invited in later. It was for a specific reason, but I forget what it was now. It was long after the D&D game had fell apart, and Nudo was like "Hey, why don't you invite him there so we can talk", so I did. We were brainstorming something or other.

The board's gone now, though, and I never really backed it up, so I can't just go look and see what we were talking about.

All told, the board probably had somewhere around 50 members, though I don't think there was ever a point where they were all around at the same time. Even at its peak it probably never had more than a dozen or so active in any given period. Some of the people there knew a lot of the others, some were mostly just confined to a single section and barely knew anyone else.

I think Nudo and Omgarm were basically the last two people invited in, and by that point they were pretty much the only people left, because I wasn't really using the board for anything else at that point.
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