This is the <i>old</i> internet, and what got me addicted to urban exploration and other niche hobbies - it's still an active community, especially on UER.ca, if you ever wish to join but facebook really has decimated small websites like such and expanded reach.<p>I remember over a decade ago, there was a small chat on UER that you could hop on and chat with people and it was a really core, solid community, and 15 years ago it was much more, open and solid community. I personally can't believe it's been quite a while. You can still post photos/meetups on UER.CA but it is very reputation based, while the facebook side anyone shows up - and a few that I've attended have just turned out quite differently then older Urbex meetups.<p>RIP ninjalicious :(<p>The internet back 15-20 years ago was much much more decentralized then it is today, and while no one is actively preventing you from creating your own forum/site - the network effect is not the same as using your Facebook to join a group and going from there, unfortunately. And for fringe hobbies, the harder it is to <i>get into</i> or <i>find</i> the more active the community is, simply because the people involved are much "content creators" or passionate about it.<p>And trespassing and possible tangible legal issues, and risk - Urbex was about exploration, one could describe learning about network vulnerabilities, or walking open directories or even guessing FTP passwords, or, SSH passwords.<p>I remember reading similar posts in the same time frame about older Internet users about the heydays of IRC and BBS's and thought "heh, that's cute" but now seeing this come full circle. Just wow.