User blog comment:NedWolfkin/A Bit of Nostalgia/@comment-2240864-20181106000205/@comment-36627132-20181106020254

I think it was actually good the first few years when it was more like /x/.

Almost all of the stories posted were enjoyable, even the bad ones. Unfortunately quality standards had to be raised because everyone was posting their Jeff OC, Lost Episode (usually Squidward's Suicide and Dead Bart rip-offs), Haunted Video Game (BEN and Sonic.exe rip-offs), and My Little Pony fanfiction (yeah, good luck making MLP scary!).

I will admit I enjoyed the bad stories. Somehow even they were better back then, their low quality, poor writing, and apparent plagiarism made them enjoyable, if not comedic.

Even the appearance was better. Not knocking on the theme or anything, but the darker appearance made it feel more like a horror literature website (I am referring to both the gray, white, and orange theme from 2010/11 and the black and white one from 2012).