pulls up on my zimmerframe

Short boring answer:
I miss when the site worked and wasnt plagued with sudden bouts of lag. When you could change your avatar (man that's a weird thought you can tell apart the older accounts from newer ones; the older ones have avatars). I cant remember if changing your display name AND being able to reply/comment worked though or it's always been broken.

Long hopefully less boring answer:
I miss when people used to make screenshot dumps, you don't see them as much these days, nor do they attract as much attention. Sadly most of the old ones are lost to time having been eaten by Photobucket or other image hosting sites that died.

Players used to have interaction/rp/ask my deer/character blogs where players and/or characters could interact/ask questions about said characters etc.
There used to be so so so many rp blogs back in the day, when interactions actually happened on the site and bios were filled to the brim with rps between characters. These days it's basically all done on Discord. Back then we used to have MSN (crinkles up into a prune of old) and Skype and interacted on those, man sometimes even over email, but I feel like a majority/the major stuff happened on the site and not behind the scenes.

Art posts that ranged from every day drawings to huge elaborate posts with plots that had you scroll for five minutes while listening to a song at the same time. Players would make these to mark big life events for their deer. Some were collaborations between a handful of players while others not and were a solo effort.

Fun/Silly little posts with characters doing TEF news reports/TEF newspapers based on inforest interactions and things they've seen.

When Toyhouse wasn't a thing and we all had to wrestle with css and fight the site in order to make bios. Somewhat related is characters felt more accessible back then given you didn't have to worry about someone locking their characters behind being logged in/permission on TH. Like I get why people do so to protect from theft etc but sometimes it just totally breaks immersion.

Also TEF actually used to have a fully functioning forum (two of them actually) where players could post concepts, ideas, discussions etc and have actual interactions from the devs, however both forums were eventually swamped with spam bots and the devs deleted said forums. And unlike the community site, these forums were properly moderated..ish. However it was Michael that was in charge of deleting the spam bots and welp.

I get why activity has waned from the TEF site given how broken it is and the original community getting older, but it's still sad to see it fade and Michael sweep all the issues under a rug + donation tier (that we now cannot even achieve because he closed the donations).

I don't miss how much drama used to be apparent back in the day, players would hate others for rp reasons because character did -thing- and things would be taken personally and it'd bleed over onto here. arguably the community back then was younger and we've all since matured.
We actually havent had any major petty drama for a loooooooong time and this recent happening on top of how insane it was/is is an outlier.

There's probably more but this is just what's coming to me now.