I'm newer to this site so I wouldn't know, all I'm used to is the plain smf theme.
If you have any old screenshots or anything like that you could show me them ig.
IT LOOKED LIKE ME BUM, LAD
(https://bunzels.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Leprechaun-Dancing.gif)
Quote from: Skater on October 22, 2025 06:22 PMI'm newer to this site so I wouldn't know, all I'm used to is the plain smf theme.
If you have any old screenshots or anything like that you could show me them ig.
Years ago it used to look like this (https://thebackalleys.com/forum/index.php?msg=299985) before the hard reset (https://thebackalleys.com/forum/index.php?msg=299985)
You can also check the Wayback Machine and check the past of this place, it's fascinating!
That's honestly cool as hell
I hope they do something like that again.
back then forums were also a lot more popular and i drove a lot of traffic here from my newgrounds flash cartoons, which had a link to this site at the end. then i stopped posting on newgrounds for a long while, and discord happened, and now this is more of an archive than anything else. but i like the idea of keeping it open, even if i don't advertise it anywhere anymore.
You can call me too optimistic, but I still have hope for this site to return, not as a big thing but at least a chill place to post that isn't another social media site or a Discord server.
this is what TBA looked like around 2011 although admittedly this is a formatting error
(https://i.imgur.com/DT9MpDs.png)
Man, seeing MSN messenger icon takes me back. seeing that icon already tells you how old is this image without seeing the date on the toolbar.
MSN, AIM, Yahoo messenger. the holy trinity
and the bastard child ICQ