I'm new here, but was this place more popular, like was there a "Glory Days"?

The early years - '05 to '08, when we were still figuring most things out, and had the promise of the new movies. Things then stabilised and then eased off during the long drawn out release of that series.

I heard from the first members that the golden age was around until 2008 or 2009, but I also know people that'd ascribe that to 2009-2013 or so, or even 2013-15. You have to remember that in 2005 Eva was already 10 years old, it was already somewhat legacy, but that also coincided with the likes of Toonami making the show explode in popularity in the US and other Anglo markets. So then we have Rebuild getting anounced, then 1.0, then 2.0, then 3.0, and all of those have distinct peaks of popularity. It even varies massively with how much those impacted the fandom in different spheres like the chans, fan sites, facebook, twitter and tumblr.

Anyway, I'd say the "hugely and consistently active" phase passed in 2017 because that's around the time when forums started to die out to Web 2.0 and modern social media. Then we have a few months of big activity with the Netflix release in 2019 and 3.0+1.0 in 2021. So you also have to take into account how much the overall fandom grew (look at Reddit, which now has over 1 million subscribers and was founded by one of the co-founders here, and even shares several active members with us even today). The weird thing about this forum is that it and the wiki are so massively influential that it still retains a big viewership but I've talked to so many people that never posted anything here because they think forums are weird and intimidating. And it's been 20 years. This already puts Evageeks far off the curve for internet longivity. It's quite an achievement, I think.

Yeah, not just EvaGeeks but forums heyday overall are mostly gone. Social media and other platforms are more popular.

But well, this place will likely be here for a very long time, so why not check it and post from time to time? Many social networks will come and go and this place will likely be here, with some spikes of popularity from time to time.

I'm also new. Since I just binged the new film series yesterday, I came to this section looking to learn more about the manga and other Evangelion content.

I'm still figuring out what I think of the Rebuild movies. Right now I don't plan to do more than flip through the manga.

All of this is because I rewatched the whole original series lately and realized I have a higher opinion of the original than I did the first time I went through the whole thing a few years ago.

Previous to that, I had only fragmentary exposure to Eva although it intrigued me.

I hope to discuss the whole thing with people who are active now.

When I first arrived here, around 2020, this place was still quite popular. We were all very excited about Shin and still had plenty of free time, I think. It was very common for threads to spread across at least six or seven pages. This only got better when Shin was released in March 2021. It took almost 6 months for us to be able to watch it and people were very excited about it.
After that, starting in 2022, popularity began to decline. It's only natural. Evangelion is apparently over for now and this site is "hardcore" by definition. Other franchises like Dragon Ball and Sonic still have active online forums because they are bigger and always have some kind of release.

I just found out about this place from the “official” discord server. I’d been there since 2022 and never knew it was a server for this forum. Cool though.

ive been joining anime forums from the 2000s lately and im honestly getting nostalgia over old online spaces!!!! im so sad forums dont exist anymoar! we have discord servers nowadays but it doesnt compare. . . i remember being on pokemon forums when iwas like 8 but they were already dying )))):

Wel i think it's cuz people still like to talk about Evangelion and also to get info maybe.
Evangelion is soo dense that it takes a month or 2 to fully grasp it.I have watched and read every official thing related to Evangelion except Anima cuz I saw people had bad review and yeah I have probably read every fanfiction till now.
It took me like a month to understand what even is eoe or NGE.
To be honest the best way to sharpen it views about Evangelion is to debate imo.for eg if u read my first thread u would think "what type of dumb guy is this" compared to noe,where i still might write dumb but better.all thanks to rigorous research I had to do because I had to debate many times.
I had no proper view about misogyny in Evangelion until I had a debate with someone(though i said there I would edit my post but I was too lazy ).

Yep so that's why I am here to gain knowledge and give my views and eitherway it's fun to read theories people make it other things in general chit chats.
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Though i guess most people come here to gain knowledge or stuff they wanna know or talk about like game etc.
Though it's pretty boring now tbh...
Cuz yeah after watching Evangelion so many times u just get bored and don't want to.but you still wanna get more Evangelion and this is a perfect place for that i.t.