Looking Back at Nameberry

Oh my goodness the forums are so nostalgic

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I forgot about the comments at the bottom of the main page! I used to get on everyday and go see what sort of drama was cooking up (some of those got HEATED)

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The NSRN was one of my favorites! I used to also try and search up some of my favorite names and hope they’d show up on there :joy:

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I’d try to search mine so many times that they’d show up in the Today’s Most Popular Names :joy:

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I forgot about signatures and how they used to show up! I was browsing through the forums and it gave me a wave of nostalgia :heart:

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I also found old posts of mine where I was asking about names

This is so funny! I had very different taste back in the day

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This is so cool! They have one from 2 days after I joined! Thank you so much for finding this :smiley:

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It’s so lovely to see comments from a few years ago left from users that I actually recognize :smile: Though I admit I did get confused when I clicked 2014 and got a comment from an active user that said it was posted 17 minutes ago. And signatures (!!!) were the best! I didn’t know there was a NB store though, but that looks interesting!

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@OpheliaFlora I found one of your posts on the wayback machine!

Fun to find some users from years ago that are still active

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It isn’t letting me look at posts :slightly_frowning_face: Is it maybe just my internet? :crossed_fingers:t2:

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Sometimes it doesn’t work. Some of the posts don’t show up but some do. I had to go on a few different dates to get some to show up

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Oh wow! So nostalgic seeing the forums before the 2020 update! (I would look at them all the time, but couldn’t make an account due to glitches in the system!)

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I only made an account last year but I used to read the blog and the forums years before that. I miss the “names viewed right now” feature!

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Me too :sob:

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“baby names, only juicier” - I love it :laughing:

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@leafsgirl44 is this you from 2015? :joy: also if it isn’t or if you don’t want it on here I can delete this


Also @futuremama ive only been able to mainly get onto threads that were featured on the home page in this section

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I miss: Coloured texts on signatures :sob:

A new feature I wish we always had: Likes and notifications

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And not much has changed name-wise, haha! But I do miss signatures so much, I’d trade almost all the new features for a signature (the only one that is truly brilliant is getting notified when someone mentions you in a post)!

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I saw this on the Quick [name_u]Poll[/name_u] Thread and decided to go back to see how much Nameberry has changed over 12 years and counting! I then started to see a few posts from way before I became interested in names, and I eventually used the advanced search feature here to bring back some older BNGs I liked!

Even though I had a signature for about three weeks (from when I first joined NB to when the site changed), I do miss seeing signatures on here, but at the same time, I love the new layout! It did take a few weeks to get used to, but the more I played around with the new features, the more I liked it!

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I agree! I love a lot of the new features, especially tagging people and notifications, but UC don’t live up to signatures at all. I don’t usually take the time to click everyone’s UC as I read through posts, and seeing everyone’s signature really made it easier to keep track of who everyone was and what their naming style is!

Despite this I think the new site runs more smoothly, I like that it is updating constantly as opposed to needing to refresh, I like seeing who is typing as they reply, and many other features :slight_smile:

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