alt Hacker NewsI think there was also planetquake. Loved these sites and frankly, they are beautifully designed. It shows the age, but apart from not being accessible and not being able to scale, the UI was really structured and easy to navigate. I miss these communities.
Yep, they all had their own look and feel.
I still have around 20 PSDs of all of the different Quake clan / gaming ladder sites I put together back in the day.
I think that's why these sites all looked unique. The design started with a blank image in Photoshop because you used to slice up the PSDs into images and stitch it together in code afterwards.
Today you can easily design a site without ever touching an image editor since it can be all CSS rules.