FatWallet.com Demise- One Year Since
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It’s hard to believe it’s almost a year now since fatwallet.com disappeared.
Think about it pretty often, reminded of it from the t-shirts I still have in my collection plus various other goodies collected over the years.
I am thankful this site was started @dangeRuss @fivetalents it’s really nice to still interact regularly with some of the old crew over there, but miss many who I was quite surprised didn’t become regulars over here.
Life goes on, but SD will never quite do it for me. Too big, too impersonal. For instance, I won a t-shirt over there about a month ago (for what I don’t know, guess posting up good deals). filled out their form to claim it, never got it. That’s okay, probably will just keep wearing my FW BF shirts since they were so creative and distinctive.
Hope everyone from the old corral is doing well. a shout out to @mvp9596 and @NMIMW @MisterBill @VBMcGB and some others I miss interacting with on a more frequent basis.
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@mistercheap Did you see this thread?
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no, I guess since FW was a deal site we all used, I put this in DD. thanks for pointing it out.
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I agree. I see or use FW swag in my house daily but I try not to think about it too much anyway. It took a long time to get used to habitual things like not being able to search their forums for past threads/info (the Way Back Machine only works if you already have the exact thread URL already). If you didn’t get a promised t-shirt at FW, a moderator would have apologized and personally ensured you got one ASAP, and might have thrown in a little swag too.
Relatedly, it would have been nice to have some recognition of PhW’s 1 year anniversary. It wasn’t easy to pull of what we all did on such short notice, and quite a number of people volunteered their time to make it all happen.
It is sad not to have everyone all together on one site, but I think of all of the new post-FW options, PhW was been the most active (and largest?). SD is a lot bigger and a lot more active but a lot more hostile and impersonal, and other options are much smaller, less active, and more cliquish… or don’t have a proper forum format that encourages discussion/member sharing/deal posting, etc. PhW has had it’s mis-steps, but that is to be expected and it will continue to improve over time. So, I think a number of people who migrated elsewhere may eventually find their way (back) here.
