The end of kristensboard.com and ravishU.com one year later

[Blue]

Yes, until a few years ago there were many sites with really good stories. Unfortunately, almost all of them went offline one after the other.

The cleanup operation on Ravishu was a monumental task. I helped clean up the German section. That alone was almost impossible. Well, and then the site vanished into thin air.

There was another site where an author only published his own stories. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name. There were also a few brutal stories there, covering a wide range of topics. Perhaps someone else remembers it?

aaaah, I found the name of the autor: DOGHEAD 2000!!!!

But there must be another autor like "convic"

[Claire]

Thanks to everybody who replied. This is really helpful!

As for rapeboard, that site used to have a lot of stories. I saved some of them over the years, but that site was borderline cancer. Not so much the content, but the amount of ads and shitty code that was used. The forum and story posts were good in the mid 2010's, but by the end of the decade the forum was deprecated and next to impossible to use. There was a time for like a year where no one responded to account creation requests. Last I checked it out, the forums were pretty much wiped out and all that was left was pics and vids.

This is interesting, thanks. But was rapeboard also a site like RavishU or RapeCage where the community came together? I'm not really interested that much into places that have/had a lot of stories but in what I would consider the rape fantasy community forum eco system that sees a lot of overlap in its members. For example, when TBV went down it seemed to be the natural thing for people to do to migrate to RavishU. They knew of the site's existence. However, if for example Literotica went down tomorrow, I wouldn't expect a lot of noncon readers and authors to be aware of our forum here. In my mind, Literotica and AO3 are different communities, different ecosystems from ours. But RavishU, RapeCage, TBV, RapeDesires, Kristensboard, I see a connection there. And I'm wondering whether rapeboard was ever a part of that forum ecosystem or whether it was more of is own thing similar to how Literotica and AO3 are not connected to us.

Actually TBV was started, as it became apparent, that Rapecage might be going down. Which had absolutely nothing to do with the community, but both owners had been absent for considerable time. Addie was working in the health care sector, and that was the height of covid. And RayPistonprowl, who sadly passed away a few years ago, had health issues. In that partnership Addie was the technical brains of the operation, and Ray said he just paid the bills.

When there absences grew longer and longer two of the users now going by the usernames Enchantress and Ziptiesthatbind, began building a backup which became the black van. Of those two I know that one had to deal with personal tragedy and couldn’t spend the time keeping the forum running. The other, perhaps to other unrelated issues couldn’t do it alone, so they decided to close the doors.

This is really interesting. So TBV was a response to RapeCage's decline.

So if I understand you correctly, the owners/admins of RapeCage basically disappeared from the forum but left it running and then one day in 2022 the forum was just no longer reachable?

And Enchantress and Ziptiesthatbind then started TBV and carried a lot of stories (and other content?) over to TBV?

Do you by any chance remember when RapeDesires went down and whether RapeCage was started as a successor to RapeDesires similar to how TBV was a response to RapeCage disappearing?

not knowing if they really fit into the narrative you are trying to create.

I wouldn't say I have a particular narraive in mind. I can only echo what I said in response to @LtBroccoli. I'm not trying to list all places on the internet that featured noncon stories at some point. I think there is a connected web of noncon/erotica forums that had RavishU at its core as the biggest and longest running of these communities. Even in the brief time that I was active on RavishU sites like rapecage, TBV and Kristensboard came up naturally as if they belonged to the same family. Basically, I'm trying to identify which sites were a part of that ecosystem, when they launched and ended, and why. Of course, the line where something is part of our larger ecosystem is somewhat arbitrary. But at least in my mind forrums like RavishU and RapeCage occupied a similar space and had a significant overlap in their community members whereas RavishU and Literotica didn't have that.

I'll look into the sites you mentioned and see what I can find, thanks!

Ravishment University was started because of Rapeboard drama. I joined RB in 2007, so I only know a minimal amount. But essentially, 3 friends: Lois, T, and J had a fight about something. T and J remained friends with each other, but Lois was no longer friends with them. Lois gathered a few remaining friends and started RU.

That's interesting! Maybe you can tell me some more about that in discord some time. I didn't know you were a member from day one essentially!

[Shocker]

@Claire
This is really interesting. So TBV was a response to RapeCage's decline.

It wasn’t so much the decline of RC which had been busy at that time, but that we hadn’t seen any of the site owners for months. Enchntress and Zip had planned TBV in case something went belly up, and no-one on the owner side would be able to respond. All we knew was that the url was suddenly leading to something entirely different.

Also at it’s core RC and TBV were made up of largely the same people, the survivors of rapedesire, which simply was a great community. Largely with likeminded people having fun with each other. Stories were strong, my reason for being there, but not the living heartbeat of the community. Which largely was the chat, the separate section for the “silly” games.

Edit: I learned to play D&D on RC

[Shocker]

@Claire

Now in response to your question about transitions.

Rapedesire suddenly shut down without warning, I honestly don’t remember who owned that forum. Addie and Ray who both were members at RD stepped up and created RC, nothing was ported over, but the site quickly filled with familiar names. And pretty soon we were back to full strength. RD must have shut down years before covid, because RC went strong till the middle of covid.

As I stated Addie was working in the medical field, and Ray was lovingly known as silverfox. So yes covid fucked up their lives enough, so they couldn’t take care about the website. Especially as i said Addie was the tech savvy one.

So Enchantress and Zip grew increasingly concerned that the vanishing of RD could repeat and started building up TBV, behind closed doors. They reached out to various members, in hope to get them to move some of their work also onto TBV, which was by invitation only, till the day that RC shut down. So they never competed for attention, but considered themselves the plan B.

[RapeU]

Ravishment University was started because of Rapeboard drama. I joined RB in 2007, so I only know a minimal amount. But essentially, 3 friends: Lois, T, and J had a fight about something. T and J remained friends with each other, but Lois was no longer friends with them. Lois gathered a few remaining friends and started RU.

That's interesting! Maybe you can tell me some more about that in discord some time. I didn't know you were a member from day one essentially!

There's really not much more I could tell. I joined RU probably about a year after it was founded, maybe two after I became friends with Lois. This was nearly 20 years ago, and the only thing I remember was three friends had a fight about something.

[Claire]

@Shocker Thank you for the confirmation!

[HistBuff]

Thanks, @RapeU! I know next to nothing about the genesis of RavishU, my erotic alma mater.

@Claire is right about AO3 and Literotica being completely different ecosystems, with no forum community and only readers of stories, and very little feedback, albeit the feedback I do get can sometimes be unexpectedly heart warming. For example, this one on SexStories69... "This is just real art and articulation. Keep going on histbuff amazing piece of writing im a fan."

SexStories69 is hands down the shadiest site I was ever on. It became a go-to site for me after the under-18 purge on RU. There's no forum, it's filled with porn ads, but it still has readers who like my writing style --- The most popular stories there are stuff like "I finally fucked my niece". My stories offer something different. Literotica is very nice for me since it's the only place I can write stories in my native French... and get views by the thousands. GaggedKitty still writes over there--- she was a star writer on RU.

As for TBV, to me it was always an extension of RapeCage. A big difference from here is TBV allowed extreme stuff, but this has a lot more to do with our web host than anything else. Like Shocker pointed out, there was a very lively chat space too.