online community deceased remembrance site?

February 23, 2006 3:18 PM

Wasn't there a site that existed solely to commemorate members of various online communities who have died?
posted by scarabic to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

There was that MySpace deaths livejournal but I think it was taken down, or at least they were not allowed to post names or pictures, or something to that effect.
posted by cloeburner at 3:21 PM on February 23, 2006

There used to be, but it looks like it never really took off.
posted by Gator at 3:24 PM on February 23, 2006

Or rather, it hung around for a couple of years and then died.
posted by Gator at 3:25 PM on February 23, 2006

there's a pretty active one for LiveJournalers.
posted by mewithoutyou at 3:46 PM on February 23, 2006

Response by poster: I think UserNotFound is the one I was thinking of. Bummer that it's gone offline! NotFound, indeed!
posted by scarabic at 4:37 PM on February 23, 2006

Looking at those Wayback Machine archives, it seems that I was right to say "never took off" to begin with; the last entry was made only a couple of months after the first, and all the subsequent "updates" until it shut down were spammers clogging up the comments. Too bad, it was an interesting idea.
posted by Gator at 4:40 PM on February 23, 2006

The MySpace Deaths LJ community is still very much up and running. Now, there is a rule LJ set that the community cannot fully name the dead MySpacers, so they will identify them by first name/last initial, but then will always link to a news story about them so you'll be able to figure out who they are. And of course they'll link to the actual MySpace.
posted by apple scruff at 12:16 AM on February 24, 2006