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barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot
The SA Index is a list of all current and former subforums listed in order by forumid. SA has had lots of different forums over the years and a lot of them have closed for good. But with the archives upgrade and a quick change of forumid in the subforum URL, you too can catch up on all the hottest posts in your favorite dead gay forum. As far as I know there are no forumids from 281-665 or greater than 679, but if you find one please post about it!! I don't know if a full list of subforums exists somewhere already but I already made this poo poo so gently caress it I guess there's two now if there is one out there.

Never manually surfed before? All you have to do is copy this link, paste it into your address bar, and replace # with the number of the subforum you want to visit: https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=#

Most of these forums will require archives to be able to go back and see the threads that were in them, with the exception of somewhat recently closed ones like forumid=666 FYAD or the Paranormal forum.

Active Subforums
22 – Serious Hardware/Software Crap
26 – FYAD: Somebody Fardit. Smell Like DooDoo
27 – Anime Directly to Readers Worldwide
31 – Creative Convention
43 – Goon Meets
44 – Games
46 – Debate & Discussion
48 – Main (category)
49 – Archives (category)
50 – Help (category)
51 – Discussion (category)
61 – SA-Mart
77 – Feedback & Discussion
85 – Coupons & Deals
90 – The Crackhead Clubhouse
91 – Automotive Insanity
93 – Private Game Servers
99 – Mod Subforums (category)
103 – The Game Room
104 – Musician’s Lounge
122 – Sports Argument Stadium
124 – Pet Island
130 – TV IV
132 – The Firing Range
133 – The Film Dump
139 – Poker Is Totally Rigged
144 – BSS: Batman’s Scrappy Sidekick
145 – The MMO HMO
146 – WoW: Goon Squad
150 – No Music Discussion
151 – Cinema Discusso
152 – The Finer Arts (category)
153 – The Community (category)
155 – SA’s Front Page Discussion
158 – Ask/Tell
167 – Post Your Favorite: Derail Valley
170 – Haus of Tech Support
175 – The Ray Parlour
177 – Punch Sport Pagoda
179 – You Look Like poo poo
181 – The Football Funhouse
182 – The Book Barn
183 – The Goon Doctor
191 – Let’s Play!
192 – Inspect Your Gadgets
196 – Cool Crew Chat Central
200 – Business, Finance, and Careers
202 – The Cavern of COBOL
210 – Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses
211 – Tourism & Travel
214 – Everyone’s/Neurotic
215 – PHIZ
218 – Internet VFW
219 - YOSPOS
234 – Traditional Games
236 – Cycle Asylum
241 – LAN: Your City Sucks
244 – The Fitness Log Cabin
247 – The Dorkroom
248 – The Armchair Quarterback
255 – Rapidly Going Deaf
265 – project.log
267 – Imp Zone
268 – BYOB: An Inside Yob
269 – C-SPAM
272 – The Great Outdoors
273 – General Bullshit
275 – The Minority Rapport
277 – The Pellet Palace
278 – Retro Games
279 – Mobile Gaming
668 – The Sci-Fi Wi-Fi
669 – The Cholesterol Clubhouse
670 – Post My Favorites
676 – Technical Enquiries Contemplated Here
680 – Imp Zone
681 – The Enclosed Pool Area
686 – Something Awful Discussion
688 – RSF: Scholastic Book Fair

Utility Subforums (no posting, threads moved here from active forums, parent forum in parentheses)
21 – Comedy Goldmine
25 – Toxic Waste Dump
115 – FYAD: Criterion Collection
154 – The Hell Circus (FYAD: LULZ FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE)
176 – BYOB Goldmine: Gold Mango
222 – LF Goldmine
264 – The Goodmine
677 – Resolved Technical Forum Missives
687 – Resolved or Duplicate Closed Threads

Archived Subforums (no posting, forum accessible to users/viewable with archives, parent forum in parentheses)
1 – General Bullshit
89 – Photoshop Phorum (Creative Convention)
119 – Concert Calendar (No Music Discussion)
126 – GoonCon Discussion (Goon Meets)
149 – Euro GoonCon Discussion (Goon Meets)
157 – Travel (GoonCon Discussion)
160 – Review Dumps
164 – The Reading Dump (Review Dumps)
186 – Your Console Sucks (Retarded Forum for Assholes)
188 – QCS Success Stories
190 – The A/V Arena (Inspect Your Gadgets)
193 – Helldump 2009: Ex-Nice Guy here
195 – HD2K V2: everyone in this forum should kill themselves (Helldump 2009: Ex-Nice Guy here)
201 – Laissez’s Faire (Retarded Forum for Assholes)
203 – AwfulPedia (General Bullshit)
204 – Helldump Success Stories (Comedy Goldmine)
208 – BYOB 8.1
209 – Filmy Filmmakers (Cinema Discusso)
213 – THE TERRORDOME – HIDDEN FORUM THAT YOU GET PERMABANNED FOR POSTING IN
223 – HOT TOPIC: Election 2008
226 – RSF Graveyard
229 – YCS Goldmine
233 – Lovedump: Valentimes
242 – Paranormal/Conspiracy Forum
249 – Summer Olympics (Sports Argument Stadium)
250 – The StarCraft II Zealot Zone (Closed – Blizzard Subforum)
251 – Retarded Forum for Assholes (category)
253 – Rifftrax Live Meetups (General Bullshit)
257 – Comment Carnival (SA’s Front Page Discussion)
259 – Closed – Blizzard Subforum (WoW: Goon Squad)
274 – Blockbuster Video
276 – Winter Olympics (Sports Argument Stadium)
666 – FYAD: The Official Forum of the WWE
675 – QCS: Quiet, Calm, Sincere
679 – RSF: The Great Space
682 – Friday Forum
683 – Limited Edition Collections
684 – RSF: Rap and Rhythm and Blues
685 – RSF: Goonland

Hidden Subforums (forum exists but accessible only to mods/admins, parent forum in parentheses)
59 – Mods and Admins Only!
64 – Admins Only Forum
105 – Moderator Reports
106 – Resolved Reports
107 – Misc Reports
108 – Bullshit Reports
114 – The TCC Contact House
127 – Planning Crew (Goon Meets)
163 – The Game Dump (Review Dumps)
165 – The Music Dump (Review Dumps)
171 – Post Your Request (Post Your Favorite: Derail Valley)
180 – Stop, Collaborate, and Listen
189 – Forum Friday: The Forum!
212 – Grand Theft Auto Forum
225 – Warhammer Online
227 – Hidden Forum
243 – RSF: Conspiracy Corner
246 – Dogs: They are Complicated
254 – Rift: Goon Squad HQ
256 – 3rd Street Skyrims: Elder Saints The Fifth
258 – Some cheap poo poo chimp like OP will think this is whatever…
260 – The Guild’d Cage (Games)
261 – Hidden Forum
262 – Test
263 – Hidden Forum
266 – Idiot King Huddle
280 – Hidden Forum
667 – Hidden Forum
671 – Hidden Forum
672 – Hidden Forum
673 – Hidden Forum
674 – Hidden Forum
678 – Hidden Forum

Deleted Subforums (no longer exist in the forums database, parent forum in parentheses)
2 – Daily Awfulness
3 – gently caress You and Die
5 – Awful Links
6 – Don’t Post Porn Here!
7 – SA Goon Meetings
8 – Serious Hardware / Software Crap
9 – The SA Post Dungeon
10 – SA Goons – SoCal Chapter
11 – No MP3s!
14 – Pirate Conversations Regarding Pop Culture
15 – drat, I Just Threw Up the Weirdest Thing!
16 – Post in this Forum if You Want to be Banned
17 – Widescreen, Censorship, and Your Freedom (Sandy Smith)
18 – id Software Funding Dreamcast Pirate Sites? (Sandy Smith)
20 – Jason Hall Lives… Forever?!? (Sandy Smith)
22 – Graphic Design – Tips, Hints, and Guides
23 – Electronic Music – Tip, Hints, and Guides
24 – General Bullshit – Comedy Goldmine
29 – Geno: Follow the Path
30 – SA’s Photoshop Challenge! (SAPC)
32 – Rainbow Blight / jre / elpintogrande forum
33 – Rainbow Blight / jre / elpintogrande forum
34 – Rainbow Blight / jre / elpintogrande forum
35 – Rainbow Blight / jre / elpintogrande forum
36 – Rainbow Blight / jre / elpintogrande forum
37 – Rainbow Blight / jre / elpintogrande forum
38 – Rainbow Blight / jre / elpintogrande forum
39 – Jonas_cord
40 – Spankle
41 – MoneyMark
42 – Yoinkster
45 – Cliff Yablonski: Freedom Fighter
47 – The Retard Farm
52 – SA System Liason Uniformative Team Scorpion
53 – DPPH
55 – General Bullshit – Archives
56 – Community Forums (category)
60 – Automotive Insanity
62 – Pirate Conversations Regarding Pop Culture and Scurvy
63 – Hardwired Development Forum
66 – Photoshop Phriday
67 – The Review Dungeon
68 – Computers
69 – Games
70 – Video
71 – Audio
72 – Music
73 – Household Electronics
74 – Services
75 – Visual Entertainment
76 – Automotive Gear
78 – SA Mart Announcements/FAQs
79 – SA Mart Discussion
82 – The Crackhead Clubhouse
83 – Science/Philosophy
92 – Hillbilly Jugband Forum
94 – Musician Sampling Warehouse
96 – The Daily Caption
97 – BTB
98 – Files (category)
101 – The Leper’s Colon
102 – The Furry Concentration Camp
109 – The Goddamn Shithouse
110 – FYAD for X-E Matt (sponsored by Narghile)
111 – FYAD for Oswauld (sponsored by Ferrett)
113 – Hot Topic: War in Iraq
120 – The Sig Pets Forum
121 – BTB Requests
123 – ELF PRON OBSESSION FORUM
125 – Hole In The Wall
129 – The Mad Moderators
131 – Chuck E. Cheese Role Playing
134 – The Situation
135 – Hoobdwarp:Twal? (Atomo)
136 – Hot Topic: Theo Huxtable? (Atomo)
137 – Muppets and Waffles? (Atomo)
138 – Hot Topic: Livestock Blows \ Hot Topic: Michael Moore
140 – Fantasy Island (Sports Argument Stadium)
141 – Hot Topic: Election 2004
142 – The SA Propesting/Fauxtesting Forum
143 – EQ2: Clan Banhammer
147 – The Mega64ums
148 – FYAD Jr.
156 – Guild Wars: 100s of Goons Playing a Game
159 – THE GULAG
166 – Hot Topic: Hurricane Hoedown
168 – Goof Troop 2006
169 – Slap Happy Circus
172 – Elder Scrolls Fiesta
173 – ALoD Discussion
174 – BYOB
178 – The Comment Box
184 – The Cheat Trough (Games)
185 – The Photo Fill
187 – The Forum That Is Safe From Witches
194 – The Enchanted Realm of Shattered Dreams

Interesting things I learned while making this
  • Euro GoonCon was a thing :gop:
  • There used to be a dedicated subforum for photoshops
  • The AwfulPedia subforum has some decently interesting posts in any given thread for a particular year, documenting forum events in timeline form easier to read than browsing the SAclopedia
  • The RiffTrax Live Meetups subforum has never had a post in it, or maybe all the posts were deleted, or maybe it was a category of subforums that have been hidden. I have no idea what it is or what it was supposed to be
  • There are some really big gaps in forumid usage, even if you aren't counting the big skip from the 200s up into the 600s

barnold fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Apr 3, 2023

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Pot Smoke Phoenix
Aug 15, 2007



Smoke 'em if you gottem!
Dinosaur Gum
:five:

Bookmarked. Thank you for this!

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.
Mother of God

New goon project: uncover the hidden forums and their secrets

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Neither forumid=69 nor forumid=420 produce anything, this site deserves to languish in obscurity :rip:

Full Metal Jackass
Jan 22, 2001

Rabid bats are welcome in my home
General Bullshit, the archived sub forum.

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

*As Ronald Reagan*

Mr Jeffrey of YOSPOS, make forumid=420

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



how is TCC not forumid 420 like jfc people it is 2021 this poo poo is not hard

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
127 is Planning Crew - Subforum of Goonmeet
165 is The Music Dump - Music Reviews, subforum of Review Dump
246 is Dogs: They are Complicated - No Posts
260 is The Guild'd Cage - Guild Wars 2 Subforum looks like.
262 is Test - No posts, no mods, no nothing
266 is Idiot King Huddle - IKs had their own space at one time.

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Athanatos posted:

127 is Planning Crew - Subforum of Goonmeet
165 is The Music Dump - Music Reviews, subforum of Review Dump
246 is Dogs: They are Complicated - No Posts
260 is The Guild'd Cage - Guild Wars 2 Subforum looks like.
262 is Test - No posts, no mods, no nothing
266 is Idiot King Huddle - IKs had their own space at one time.

whoa! list updated, thanks :toot:

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Athanatos posted:

127 is Planning Crew - Subforum of Goonmeet
165 is The Music Dump - Music Reviews, subforum of Review Dump
246 is Dogs: They are Complicated - No Posts
260 is The Guild'd Cage - Guild Wars 2 Subforum looks like.
262 is Test - No posts, no mods, no nothing
266 is Idiot King Huddle - IKs had their own space at one time.

Which one is the one where mods guess which posters have tiny weiners and make fun of tiny weiner posters

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



low key sex master posted:

Which one is the one where mods guess which posters have tiny weiners and make fun of tiny weiner posters

This one, except I'm technically not a mod

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

barnold posted:

  • The RiffTrax Live Meetups subforum has never had a post in it, or maybe all the posts were deleted, or maybe it was a category of subforums that have been hidden. I have no idea what it is or what it was supposed to be
Lowtax did some stuff for one of the Rifftrax Lives, my guess would be he created this subforum for that. Knowing Lowtax someone probably made fun of him in the subforum and he nuked the whole thing.

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


:clownballoon:

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe

low key sex master posted:

Which one is the one where mods guess which posters have tiny weiners and make fun of tiny weiner posters

One? Just one?
oh you sweet summer goon.

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


I definitely remember the old Photoshop Phorum. I believe it was exclusively for Photoshop Phriday threads.

DPPH and the other :filez: forum might have been 59 and 64. They were definitely super-early forums. Though it might have been those 105-108 ones (I can't remember how separated the movie, tv, and music versions of those forums were. I vaguely remember them being clumped together near the bottom after a while.)

EDIT:

I just looked at the third page of the rules, and it's interesting to try and guess when it was last updated based on the forums and mods listed there.

LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Mar 1, 2021

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



Bring back Lovedump!

Jeza
Feb 13, 2011

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
I have archives and tried inputting a load of different red ones, but it just says not visible on live forums for every single one. halp


e: im the worlds biggest moron and put the hashtag in the url.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

With the information in the op, combined with the recent size changes to the sun and moon my evil plan grows ever closer to completion!

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

LanceHunter posted:

I just looked at the third page of the rules, and it's interesting to try and guess when it was last updated based on the forums and mods listed there.

my guess is gonna be 2011-2012. a lot of these names I only vaguely remember from around the time I joined. that, and the lack of BYOB in the list clues me in

Inept
Jul 8, 2003

This Wayback page has some of the lost early forumIDs https://web.archive.org/web/20010217172551/http://forums.somethingawful.com/

they seem pretty bad

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
ahhh the fuckin pirate forum

there were the file piracy forums, which were pretty good, then there was the forum where everyone talked like a pirate, and that forum was not as good

Jeza
Feb 13, 2011

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
*a wizened figure pores over the ancient archives by candlelight, searching for pearls of lost goon wisdom forgotten by time but every page is just a different variation of people calling each other f*gs. he slams the book closed in disgust*

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Inept posted:

This Wayback page has some of the lost early forumIDs https://web.archive.org/web/20010217172551/http://forums.somethingawful.com/

they seem pretty bad

pretty neat! gonna have to add a new color code to the list for subforums that at one time existed but now are completely gone I think. a couple of those even have forumids that are now used by more modern forums, like 22 which used to be the Graphic Design forum in 2002 but is now SH/SC :stonk:

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

140 - Fantasy Island (SAS sub)
163 - The Game Dump (Review dump)
171 - Post Your Request (PYF sub)
173 - ALoD Discussion
174 - BYOB (Jun 2006)
178 - The Comment Box (Jul 2006, larval version of QCS)
184 - The Cheat Trough (Games sub)
185 - The Photo Fill (short lived showcase of goon photography)

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay house

Inept posted:

This Wayback page has some of the lost early forumIDs https://web.archive.org/web/20010217172551/http://forums.somethingawful.com/

they seem pretty bad

"The Awful Forums > DPPH > Olsen Twins Sex Stories - TRUE!!! (Pages: 1 2 )"

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot
i knew i could count on GBS to crowdsource the forumids i am too young to remember browsing :cabot:

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

I just want Hot Topic: Hurricane Hoedown to come back SO BAD

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
why was the OG BYOB debleeted?

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Khanstant posted:

why was the OG BYOB debleeted?

According to the Book Of Yob (ty saclopedia):

quote:

On December 5th, 2007, the BYOB mod team was replaced with new BYOB posters. New mod SpankinSteve started banning people who were sassing him and being a nuisance, leading to much whining amongst other 'yobbers, so much so that all mods were removed.

As of December 6th, 2007, as a result of the incredulous whining of the forum's members, BYOB has been moved out of the Main forums index and stuck all the way at the bottom of the page, under a heading that reads "Retarded Forums for Fags"

quote:

December 5th - 6th have basically been a huge clusterfuck in 'yob without the moderators. Realistically if there were no moderators BYOB would still be a pretty tame place with a lot more "POST TITS ITT", but the power and freedom to troll took over and anarchy began...

quote:

As of 5:30 PM Pacific Time December 8th, BYOB is closed. Perhaps permanently.

BYOB XP opened five days later, then was closed again along with FYAD on May 3, 2011. BYOB was reopened as "BYOB 8.2" on March 4, 2014. There isn't really a whole lot in there about when nu-BYOB closed and the BYOB we know today was opened, one entry says April 1, 2019 but who knows if that's true!

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO
Feb 28, 1985


Nice work op. Shame about forum 22.

Dick Jones
Jun 20, 2002

Number 2 Guy at OCP

The question on everyone's minds: where is the HOOBDWARP: TWAL forum in all this?

GRECOROMANGRABASS
May 14, 2020

R.L. Stine posted:

"The Awful Forums > DPPH > Olsen Twins Sex Stories - TRUE!!! (Pages: 1 2 )"



That just reminded me of the uniquely creepy early internet website that featured a countdown in Hours, Minutes, and Seconds until the Olsen twins became legally old enough for the webmaster to not have sex with.

GRECOROMANGRABASS fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Mar 3, 2021

Inept
Jul 8, 2003

GRECOROMANGRABASS posted:

That just reminded me of the uniquely creepy early internet website that featured a countdown in Hours, Minutes, and Seconds until the Olsen twins became legally old enough for the webmaster to not have sex with.

i remember back in 2003 someone had a countdown avatar to emma watson turning 18. she was 13 in 2003

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


It was only uniquely creepy because you didn't realize how commonplace things like that would be now.

DamnCanadian
Jan 3, 2005

Perpetuating the stereotype since 1978.
I remember there was a Propesting/Fauxtesting sub but I don’t remember the ID

lil bip
Mar 13, 2004

That ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Ahh such future sight

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itry
Aug 23, 2019




Bookmarked :tipshat:

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot
just remembered one of these has to be the Derek Smart Star Citizen sub that used to be in games. anyone who can recall the forumid for that one gets a firm handshake

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
24 - General Bullshit - Comedy Goldmine
29 - Geno: Follow the Path
30 - SA's Photoshop Challenge! (SAPC)
45 - Cliff Yablonski: Freedom Fighter

Thanks for adding an SAclopedia entry of your own thread, op!

edit: found another unlisted

225 - Warhammer Online

and some rediscovered hidden forums:

114 - The TCC Contact House
212 - Grand Theft Auto Forum
254 - Rift: Goon Squad HQ
256 - 3rd Street Skyrims: Elder Saints The Fifth

Freakazoid_ fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Jun 13, 2021

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humpthewind
Jan 8, 2007

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
This thread is fascinating.

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