When Nintendo shut down Miiverse, many people, including myself were curious as to where to go. Eventually, a lot of people stumbled across Closedverse, a pretty popular (at the time) basic clone of the service.
The Closedverse 'logo'.
Since I logged on for the first time I made countless posts and had a lot of fun, but after a while it got old and pretty toxic, to be honest.
So since I'm done with using it, I'm going to give a review. It's not going to be based on the owner and what he did, it's just mostly a plain review on how I see the site and it's userbase as a whole among other things.
#1, About the Communities.
There are only a handful of communities to use nowadays, but there used to be a lot more. This is because administrators lost a lot of their permissions and communities they made due to them being untrustworthy or messing with the database for the site, most likely because they do it for fun.
There aren't really any memorable communities, especially now, besides the main hub, being ''Anything Goes Community", where, as the name suggests, you can talk about anything. There's also specific rules to it. This is the banner for it.
Some other communities include an art community, a Super Mario Bros. Community, and some for other popular franchises like Kirby.
#2, The userbase
The userbase consists of mostly teenagers unfortunately and it makes for a really bad experience sometimes. This isn't to say all teenagers are bad, no, but most of the userbase constantly seeks drama and pointless arguments almost every day. The creator of Closedverse, Arian, has started drama sometimes as well.
Also, a lot of great people have left the website because they were either treated wrongly continuously for no reason, or have been IP banned by bad administrators. This in turn leads to even more arguments.
A couple of users for unknown reasons have faked suicide. Yeah, I don't know.
#3, Features.
Closedverse showcases some very small, basic features that are mostly carbon copies from its not-so-popular ''predecessor", Openverse, which has ended. This includes posting with an image, using your Mii via Nintendo Network ID, having a dark mode and light mode, etc. Nothing really special, but I like the emote feature, it's just I wish they had some documentation on the images you can put in your post, for example,
makes it so that you don't have to put in text in your post, only an image.
There's also not a lot of compatibility with most of the consoles this website was aimed at. The 3ds can run the website but you won't be able to log in. The Wii U does a good job at loading everything but does it slowly and in a very glitchy manner. Even on PC, it would be reccomended to use at least Windows 7 with this, otherwise you'll get some bugginess.
#4, administration.
Administration on the website is terrible, if I'm going to put it lightly. Some of the admins have secretly looked through people's Private messages, messed around with other's IP addresses, unfairly banned others, wrote hate posts to others without consequences, and many other things. It'd be too long of a list if I had to list them all.
#5, the site as a whole.
The website itseld isn't bad. But for God's sake, could you get any worse when it comes to the userbase? Some even drew Anime hentai for admin privileges, which isn't even low compared to some of the other things they have done for those privileges.
If I have to guess I would say it is the owner's fault for not managing the website as well as he should, which has led to so many people leaving. He also has done some really shady shit that I won't discuss here because I don't attack anyone.
Well, that's it for the review. Here's a tl;dr for those that don't want to read everything.
I think the website itself is great and could have a lot of potential if it weren't for the user base and the administration plus the owner, so in my ranking for the review I'll give the website a four out of ten, and let's be honest, I'm being generous with a four.
Peace, and thanks for reading.
The Closedverse 'logo'.
Since I logged on for the first time I made countless posts and had a lot of fun, but after a while it got old and pretty toxic, to be honest.
So since I'm done with using it, I'm going to give a review. It's not going to be based on the owner and what he did, it's just mostly a plain review on how I see the site and it's userbase as a whole among other things.
#1, About the Communities.
There are only a handful of communities to use nowadays, but there used to be a lot more. This is because administrators lost a lot of their permissions and communities they made due to them being untrustworthy or messing with the database for the site, most likely because they do it for fun.
There aren't really any memorable communities, especially now, besides the main hub, being ''Anything Goes Community", where, as the name suggests, you can talk about anything. There's also specific rules to it. This is the banner for it.
Some other communities include an art community, a Super Mario Bros. Community, and some for other popular franchises like Kirby.
#2, The userbase
The userbase consists of mostly teenagers unfortunately and it makes for a really bad experience sometimes. This isn't to say all teenagers are bad, no, but most of the userbase constantly seeks drama and pointless arguments almost every day. The creator of Closedverse, Arian, has started drama sometimes as well.
Also, a lot of great people have left the website because they were either treated wrongly continuously for no reason, or have been IP banned by bad administrators. This in turn leads to even more arguments.
A couple of users for unknown reasons have faked suicide. Yeah, I don't know.
#3, Features.
Closedverse showcases some very small, basic features that are mostly carbon copies from its not-so-popular ''predecessor", Openverse, which has ended. This includes posting with an image, using your Mii via Nintendo Network ID, having a dark mode and light mode, etc. Nothing really special, but I like the emote feature, it's just I wish they had some documentation on the images you can put in your post, for example,
makes it so that you don't have to put in text in your post, only an image.There's also not a lot of compatibility with most of the consoles this website was aimed at. The 3ds can run the website but you won't be able to log in. The Wii U does a good job at loading everything but does it slowly and in a very glitchy manner. Even on PC, it would be reccomended to use at least Windows 7 with this, otherwise you'll get some bugginess.
#4, administration.
Administration on the website is terrible, if I'm going to put it lightly. Some of the admins have secretly looked through people's Private messages, messed around with other's IP addresses, unfairly banned others, wrote hate posts to others without consequences, and many other things. It'd be too long of a list if I had to list them all.
#5, the site as a whole.
The website itseld isn't bad. But for God's sake, could you get any worse when it comes to the userbase? Some even drew Anime hentai for admin privileges, which isn't even low compared to some of the other things they have done for those privileges.
If I have to guess I would say it is the owner's fault for not managing the website as well as he should, which has led to so many people leaving. He also has done some really shady shit that I won't discuss here because I don't attack anyone.
Well, that's it for the review. Here's a tl;dr for those that don't want to read everything.
I think the website itself is great and could have a lot of potential if it weren't for the user base and the administration plus the owner, so in my ranking for the review I'll give the website a four out of ten, and let's be honest, I'm being generous with a four.
Peace, and thanks for reading.
