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thebackalleys is back! alleys!

Posted by rtil - October 6th, 2023


Back in 2005 (!) I started a forum called TheBackAlleys. From then until 2012-ish, I put a link to it on all my Flash cartoons, and the result of that spawned a demented sub-community of Newgrounders. Over those years we put together some collabs, chatted a lot amongst ourselves, spawned a lot of needless drama, and had a lot of fun.


Things settled down a bit after I went on my long Newgrounds hiatus, then Discord appeared, and everyone pretty much migrated there - but I kept the site up because I like to preserve all the history. In early 2020, my webhost complained about my forum hogging up too much memory or something, and by that point it was so out of date and broken that I simply decided to put it in maintenance mode, locking away all the threads and posts.


And it stayed that way until a few days ago when I randomly decided to take on the task of updating the forum software. Somehow, I was able to do it without the entire thing going up in flames. Sadly, it was so old that it forced me to ditch the theme I created for the site, so now it looks very "default" for lack of a better word. But all the memories, history and insanity is back for everyone to see - for better or worse. And, of course, you can post there!


I plan on (slowly) restoring it to its former glory, adding Ruffle/SWF support/BBcode, changing the layout, etc. I've always likened TheBackAlleys as a place for artists, animators, creators, and fans of them to hang out, share resources, etc. The site has worn many hats over the years, and I have no intention of abandoning it.


All that being said, whether you are new or old, you are more than welcome to join us once again at the humble, fucked up home we call TBA.


https://www.thebackalleys.com/forum


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Already heard the news firsthand. As if my nostalgia fix wasn't already maxed out this year.
EDIT: Congrats on the 30K!

I remembah! I got me the pixeltool for Flash on there! ':D
It has served me well for many years, still does.

So many people got it from my site that there was a misunderstanding that I created it, which I very much did not. It was created by a French programmer, whose site is long gone - part of why I mirrored it to begin with.

Hell yeah, forums are back!

thanks for joining!

Very nice to see forum preservation. :D

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I wish I had made real friends there. Sometimes I feel bad about it

I'm glad if you kept in touch with everybody. I sort of kept in touch with ant to this day but not a lot. Thanks for the memories

Awesome, good to see actual online interaction alive and kicking. but I got troubles creating an account.

what was the problem? we've been having issues with spambots so i'm tightening security on registration.

@rtil The CAPTCHA, I insert the letter exactly as they appear but It always says that are Incorrect.

i was able to replicate this issue. i've disabled it for now.

@rtil thanks for the help

@rtil Yikes, I don't want to annoy you, but the problem still there with typing the number verification

the answer is just 'eleven'

@rtil I know, it gives me the same error

lmao i guess i broke it. i turned off all captcha for now, all it requires is to verify via ur email.

@rtil after all the trouble, again thanks. I will not bother again.

no worries

Oh God no

Hey, do you still have a DevianArt account? I remember you had a funny ass callout animation to Ventrilo Harrasment, with a Duke Nukem rocking out to Mötley Crüe

i was banned from deviantart LOL. the animation used to be here on my alt xtil but it was deleted due to copyright infringing music.

@rtil Damn haha. thanks though! I was just cracking up with my friend about those good ol times.

the ventrilo harrassment era of youtube was a different time it could never happen now. good memories though. at least you can still watch the videos.