This website, and cyberspace at large, has definitely decayed over the years.
There was once a wild west era online. Anything felt possible. You could download an entire book for free if you wanted. Searches actually gave you good results. It was easy to get attention because things were smaller back then. No bots, no twelve year olds, and few Jannies.
Nowadays, you can have no fun at all online without getting a 6 million year long ban, and searches and downloads lead to porn malware more often than not.
During my tenure online, I have been to many areas. I made no less than 67 accounts on wikipedia, with a total of over 80,000 edits between them all.
No less than 65 of those accounts got permabanned, or "blocked" as they call it, including one account that got blocked by the arbitration committee themselves.
That is the thanks they give to editors for years of faithful service.
Back when I used Reddit, I made over 60 different accounts, and I made numerous subreddits. How many of those subreddits got any traction? Well, most did not, although one did get 11,000 members. All of my subreddit platforms were taken away from me by the admins. A platform is basically impossible to build anymore online.
How many of those reddit accounts of mine got perma suspended? All except two, which I no longer use because to heck with plebbit. I also got perm banned from over 60 different subreddits.
On twitter, I made two accounts. One failed to get attention, the other got permanently suspended.
My YouTube account has been stuck at 40ish subscribers for months now. The first video i ever tried to post there was immediately taken down.
And of course, on newgrounds, my posts get no traction and I got a ten year ban from the forums.
There are a lot more websites, but I think that I have made my point.
What the heck is wrong with Jannies? They NEVER give lenient bans, never, it is always permanent. And why is it impossible to build a platform anymore? All I ever wanted was a platform, but the new tech barons have a vandetta against me for some reason.
Years of hard work get you no platform, and even if the platform does grow, it gets ripped away from your talons for no reason. Anyone who can get famous online nowadays without getting banned has sold their soul to the Cinnabon of $atan.
New internet sucks. Too many bots, jannies, malware, and bans.
If only there was some way to revive the golden age.