Goodbye Worlds.com

It's been 4 years since I watched that load of clickbait bullshit from Nexpo about this strange 3D chat that is still online. I wasn't interested for the weird and creepy claims, but for the old and obscure chat program still working to this day. I'm fascinated by tech and Internet history, but Worlds.com propelled that interest into actually doing something about it. The community, while overcrowded by this recently released video, was nice and welcoming. Soon, I found myself invested into this weird 3D chat program and the people still in it.

It didn't take long before I found myself in drama. At the time, most of the community was interacting via Discord when they weren't online. The current popular group at the time had an owner imcompetent at moderating at best, and a small group (including me) built our own group as an alternative, which ended up with more drama and me splitting with them only after a month. Drama is a consistent factor in this community, and this was only the start.

It was only a few month when I first started Wirlaburla.site, the first domain and iteration of what would eventually be known as Worlio. I was messing with Shaper at the time (the built-in world editor in Worlds.com) and wanted to host my own worlds. While Jetts' site did the job, it had the cost of a wait time. I wanted to improve this so I made my own server and gave FTP access. This was how the site first got its start back in 2020. Eventually we became Wirlaburla.com and then officially rebranded and released as Worlio.com to become a community hub for this interest and era of Internet technology.

Unfortunately, not everyone was happy with my creation and efforts. It's infamously known about the rivalry between me and AEE-Kath. My efforts to preserve Worlds.com and its content was met with angry words from AEE-Kath, accusing me of copyright infringements, stealing others work, and taking credit when absolutely none of this is true. Until very recently, the battle was still ongoing. You can read all about this mess on the Worlio forum thread.

I developed a lot for the community, enough so that I gained a very advanced and technical knowledge of Worlds.com and its workings. I could be asked any question about how Worlds.com works and give a detailed answer. I created advanced mods that made the client usable with fun features which some considered a necessity, made tools and utilities to make simple things like editing your worldsmarks a breeze, and started community projects to help reverse-engineer and learn the proprietary formats.

Some disgusting and unfortunate users stuck around or returned from the past to cause trouble. It was because of that that in 2021 I started Worlds Core, a private and secret group with a dozen regulars with the goal of driving out the evil and protecting the Worlds community. This group lasted quite awhile doing the job, and ended up becoming a fun friend group before I left due to a unexcusable dispute and pulled the plug on its secrecy.

It is no doubt I did a lot for Worlds.com and for 4 years, it was my home. If I wasn't on Worlds.com, I didn't know what was going on. I wasn't with my friends, I wasn't chatting about a subject, I wasn't helping newbies learn to use Shaper, I wasn't doing anything. Worlds.com was the place I was when it came to online socializing, and I cannot deny it helped me grow through some tough times. I've become somebody because of this obscure chat program, somebody I feel comfortable with and can be. To that, I have my ultimate appreciation for Worlds.com, but you know that isn't why this post was made.

I'm tired. If you've noticed a consistent with me and the community, it's been a constant uphill battle. You'd think someone dedicated to making a platform and archiving everything about a simple chat program for its community would be welcomed by everyone, but it's been almost the opposite. I've been pushed out, framed, threatened, slandered, cancelled, the list goes on.

I'm tired, and I've done all I can for this community so it's time to go.

I'll be focusing my efforts primarly on working on Worlio and archiving other platforms and services. A lot of things need some love and Worlds has gotten the spotlight for too long. I'll be opening the sources for projects still a work in progress that I was working on soon.

Goodbye Worlds.com. It was a wild ride.