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How Melodramatic․com helped me find community on the early internet

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70% Informative

Melodramatic.com launched years before Myspace , Reddit , and Tumblr and around the same time as Blogger , LiveJournal , and Open Diary .

Most of Melo ’s active user base — which peaked around 300,000 “Melo kids” as we called ourselves — was in parts of Orange County and the Inland Empire in Southern California .

Melodramatic.com shut down in early 2010s .

Founder says the site was too popular and too expensive for her to continue self-funding.

Founder: "You can’t carry a $ 2,500 a month hobby for the rest of your life" Robertson says she never made a conscious decision to shut Melo down.

Today ’s internet feels too big and too public for another Melodramatic.com to exist.

Robertson points out that everyone goes through identity challenges.

Robertson : "It makes me happy to walk down memory lane and be reminded that there was a fun world that I was part of".

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