A lot of you remember the ikonBoard, but not many would recognize 5MV's very
first forum -- the Request Board, a simple Bravenet forum. This is from before I was "committed" to doing a show on a regular basis, and before my fivers got long, so I took requests for which VOY episode I should do next and kept them on a page called the Queue.
While that forum is long since defunct, the Internet Archive has a copy of its final state:
The Request Board
The "Everybody read this" message from me at the top (I posted as Webmaster because I liked being able to call myself that) was to let people know we were moving to a section of Owen's 3Sygma forums. Unfortunately, the archive hasn't preserved any of the message contents, but the names are interesting to browse. Most of them are Deltachatters from way back.
As an additional curiosity, here's the old
Feedback page, complete with Queue. You'll notice some of these requests are still outstanding three years later -- in most cases, that's because they're episodes I'm particularly fond of and have been saving, like "Equinox."
Wow, Cel, I'd totally forgotten we met that way. Now that you've reminded me, though, I remember it distinctly. Might be fun to have a "How I found 5MV" thread -- we've been around long enough now that I don't remember everybody's story, even major forumers like Sa'ar.
Finally, to answer Valium's questions... one, we've had the fora/forums debate here before. We used to be the Five-Minute Fora, in fact; Owen set us up with that name and I kept it. But when it came time to do the new forum skin, I decided after a lot of thought that "fora" just sounds snooty. Two, Lord Amothus is a Deltachatter -- and also my oldest younger brother. His character was named after someone from DragonLance and was a dark, skulking-in-the-shadows type with a talent for assassination.