What did you love about 'old' TGC?

[Danster]

I loved how easy it was to get involved. There were always plenty of open threads in The Battleground that you could jump into without feeling like you were intruding, and generally it would have moved on a good few posts between visits which meant that you'd always have something unexpected to come back to. Once we got rid of the complicated fleet-building rules, it also became pretty relaxed from a rules perspective so you were not having to get caught up with timeline issues and worry whether you'd broken one of the community's five hundred rules.

There were some fun moments in chats as well, and in the 2020 revival, in Discord.