I swear to god, everyone in fandom was at that con! Except it didn't even feel that big to me. So bizarre.
FK was how I got fannishly socialized and I treasure the friends I still have from them, but Sentinel was the real formative fandom for me in terms of relationships; that's where I met my fanpair. *g*
As it happens, you're the person I was mentioning to rhi above, where I just connected your user name and other name this year and a lightbulb went off! We moved in different circles in FK and I'm not sure you'd even remember my name from back then, though; I was mostly pretty quiet publicly. I think.
I think some people are still meeting by IRC! There are still some public, busy channels, usually around broader topics than just one fandom, though -- I know of the #yuletide and #vividcon (and maybe #vidding?) channels that are open to anyone, where people seem to turn into regulars and get to know each other. Both/all of those are on Slashnet these days, I think. I've reached a point where the busy public channels are usually too much for me; maybe I've lost my knack of skimming 10 different convos and having two or three going at once myself. *g* It's a pity, though; that really was always my best way of getting to know people, and now I mostly just hang out on a server in case someone I already know shows up.
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FK was how I got fannishly socialized and I treasure the friends I still have from them, but Sentinel was the real formative fandom for me in terms of relationships; that's where I met my fanpair. *g*
As it happens, you're the person I was mentioning to
I think some people are still meeting by IRC! There are still some public, busy channels, usually around broader topics than just one fandom, though -- I know of the #yuletide and #vividcon (and maybe #vidding?) channels that are open to anyone, where people seem to turn into regulars and get to know each other. Both/all of those are on Slashnet these days, I think. I've reached a point where the busy public channels are usually too much for me; maybe I've lost my knack of skimming 10 different convos and having two or three going at once myself. *g* It's a pity, though; that really was always my best way of getting to know people, and now I mostly just hang out on a server in case someone I already know shows up.