Thanks for the great memories

BTW, my FB page is setup like Newsvine.

“A person can dream, right?”

Well… I’m dreaming that dream too.
-Steve Ford. AKA Mal
On the Vine, I often assumed the persona of Mal, the anthropomorphic Malamute

mikersocal@hotmail.com is my email if anyone from the site remembers me :)

I was originally submitting my writing, and seeds, under my full name, but soon switched to Shaun V., because people were contacting me at home.

I enjoyed writing my own articles, and fiction stories. I also enjoyed managing the seeded articles from other news publications that people so fervently discussed for hours or days. The commenters often provided valuable insight and information, even the obnoxious participants, who were rarely so odious that I did not want to interact with them.

The fact that there was no political censorship, unless a Newsvine rule was broken, was intriguing and refreshing. The rules were few and clearly detailed. The conversations in which people disagreed were the most lively and interesting, IMO.

When Tyler was hired, he was a very fair moderator.

I, too, was regularly at the top of the leaderboard, something I did not realize until others pointed it out to me.

I really disliked when MSNBC bought Newsvine. It was no longer the friendly interactive site the original creators worked so diligently to establish. I stopped visiting Newsvine daily, at that point, and eventually not at all.

Still, I am glad the captivating original crew that started Newsvine kept it alive for so long.

–Freewill wrote a lovely, humanist post on April 21, 2019 above! That’s how I feel.
–I remember your illustrations, Robert Blevins! I visited often.
–I remember chloe, who I knew best as cl or maybe cl1. I miss you.
–I saw McSpocky on Twitter. He had tens of thousands of followers there! But it wasn’t the same.

For those who asked where else they might go now: There isn’t anything like Newsvine anywhere that I’ve found. NewsTrust went offline several years prior to Newsvine. The entire contributory Web 2.0 is vanishing; it is shifting back to the more traditional media form of broadcasts. Many news websites no longer offer the opportunity to comment. Even Disqus is getting rare. Forums (fora?) a.k.a. user groups still exist, and some tech websites have active discussions areas. There’s also Slashdot but that tends to be technical and computing.