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> with the attack going on right now we are having other issues anyway! (btw, this is not isolated just to the /end/ either 8chan too has been other attack from what I understand)
yeah, not sure if the Russians have something personal with /endchan/ or if it´s the usual walk around from the security intelligence. I was a bit surprised when I noticed that 8chan was affected as well this time around, I guess they want to ruin the alt chans a little bit. 
Anyway, there is always an advantage for that and you know what it means.

I could have prevented the digits because I was mostly unaffected with the .org version of the site. 

> it was a fantasy setting and many anon simply had little to work with, especially for the first season.
the first season brought the lore but you could barely do anything with it, not to mention that it barely showed episodes that would cut the edge unless you count Party of One or the cockatrice from the Stare Master. So many introductions but too little and too soon to use them. Basically the fandom was starving in those times yet when it hasn´t been hungry, it creates less content than the period when the show didn´t deliver. Time doesn´t always makes justice 

> rules that now seem ridiculous like normal unicorns being almost unable to kill things with their magic (which died durring the use of combat magic in the canterlot wedding) or the most surface tier innocent world. Amazing what you can do now just with hasbro's canon. 
but time is a funny thing as well. It gets even more hilarious when almost all the villains are unicorns or display magic of any kind.Save maybe Cozy Glow, unicorns have dominated the villains department. Those who said it may laugh at themselves for saying that and eating their own words. Who said that Hasbro wouldn´take those risks? I guess we all underestimated the show capabilities for what it can offer. 

> I love low stakes action mixed in with secondary adventure. Think Canterlot Wedding or when spike got his wings over high tier fanservice. Nice fight but I almost consider it a mistake would have ta make a whole other post on that though to explain myself and it probably be more fitting in the season 8 thread
fanservice at once like Slice of Life doesn´t do many favors in general because it either becomes too awkward or out of place. Spike´s growth or A Canterlot Wedding added progression for the show (character development and a new species) so they can be justified with proper arguments. The mistake or that fight....go for the season 8 thread. 

> So many side characters now some of the originals have lost their once huge fandoms, not that is a bad thing though. 
they have been replaced by secondary characters instead. The Students, the Pie family,movie characters, the princesses, the villains.... moving onto relevant characters that bring their own canon backstory instead of figuring out one. Those days seem so far away...

> You never know what ya find when looking back. Sometimes I find things that surprise even though I was there. 
one of the pictures of Celestia got featured this year and it seems like a classic pic from 2011 but it didn´t earn the fame until Derpi brought it into the spotlight. Story revisionism plays a big part whenever this gen ends.

> never really got into any of the other fandoms yet I too also have started to be become interested in the industry and will now lurk some in many /co/ places out of curiosity. 
I don´t lurk /co/ with as intensively as you may do but I lurk around every now and then to check a few things out there to see what is going on out there. Also, this is the first actual fandom for me as well despite knowing how the Sonic one works in the early 10s and that I could played a part in the PKMN instead. Lurking around their communities (forums) served me to know how this stuff works on the internet but I never took part on them. Even if I tried to go to another fandom or forums, I cannot escape or forget the influences from this one.