I have to second the remarks about abuse from the Vogons community. There are members of that forum that are a blight on the retro computing landscape quite frankly. The abuse that I've seen them level at others for simply enjoying themselves is staggering.
When I debuted my own first major retro project, "Building the REAL Ultimate Windows 98 PC" [1] I went to absolute lengths to prove my research was done with such absurd meticulousness simply out of fear that I'd be targeted by Vogons and bullied into oblivion for it. I spent two years and thousands of dollars buying old hardware just to ensure every little detail was as perfect as I could make it.
Other much larger youtubers such as PhilsComputerLab received so much abuse over the years they straight up left the site entirely.
Another friend of mine was also recently harassed by a user on that site, snarkily editing all his posts with ".Deleted because it was useful but ignored." after giving useless commentary [2]
Vogons is a blight. The files hosted on it should be moved to the Internet Archive and the website allowed to sink into linkrot oblivion. There's very little useful information on it to begin with, just a bunch of angry old men smugly jerking each other off about "period correct" 90's computer builds
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I have to second the remarks about abuse from the Vogons community. There are members of that forum that are a blight on the retro computing landscape quite frankly. The abuse that I've seen them level at others for simply enjoying themselves is staggering.
When I debuted my own first major retro project, "Building the REAL Ultimate Windows 98 PC" [1] I went to absolute lengths to prove my research was done with such absurd meticulousness simply out of fear that I'd be targeted by Vogons and bullied into oblivion for it. I spent two years and thousands of dollars buying old hardware just to ensure every little detail was as perfect as I could make it.
Other much larger youtubers such as PhilsComputerLab received so much abuse over the years they straight up left the site entirely.
Another friend of mine was also recently harassed by a user on that site, snarkily editing all his posts with ".Deleted because it was useful but ignored." after giving useless commentary [2]
Vogons is a blight. The files hosted on it should be moved to the Internet Archive and the website allowed to sink into linkrot oblivion. There's very little useful information on it to begin with, just a bunch of angry old men smugly jerking each other off about "period correct" 90's computer builds
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETxI4rA_gs
[2] https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=95770