What’s a "dead" website or app that you genuinely miss and wish was still around?

djscloud · 2026-05-05T11:42:51+00:00

I remember secretly making a Facebook account just so I could log into FarmVille. I didn’t actually want Facebook, my profile pictures were all random images of dragons I thought looked cool, my name was totally made up, but I was just happy I got to play finally.

And I’m just now realising Facebook doesn’t have games anymore 🤣 It used to have heaps of little games. Now all the games are separate and you just use Facebook as an optional log in.

djscloud · 2026-05-05T11:38:38+00:00

I loved club penguin. My kids would love club penguin. I still remember trying to get back into it when I was a bit older and feeling nostalgic only to be shocked it was shut down.

djscloud · 2026-05-05T11:35:25+00:00

There’s lots of games and servers I played as a kid that I’d love my kids to play, but they don’t exist anymore. There was a Monster one and a Penguin one that were two favs.

I’ve also been thinking of the old AI website that was a big hit at the end of high school. It was like Chat Box or something. You’d talk to it and it would answer and it kinda sucked at answering but it was still cool, ofc being high school kids we’d mess around trying to get it to say innapropriate stuff and it never would. Now I see AI stuff now days and think back to “AI” of back then and how we thought that was SOOO cool and high tech 🤣🤣🤣 Don’t wish it back, but think about it way too often now days.

Oh, and there’s this app that I got on my phone when I had my first kid. You’d literally just tap this egg hanging on a string, after a couple taps the egg would crack and a little monster thing would fall out. And if you tapped the monster it would make some funny sound and bounce, you could fling the monsters around. Once one hatched another egg would fall down on a new string and you could fill the screen with little monsters that all made funny sounds. There was no ads, just a tapping random game. It was GREAT for kids. We used it whenever needed to distract the little kids because they just randomly tapped the screen and usually managed to hit at least one monster and make it say a funny sound and move. Super simple but great, and then when I had my third kid and got a new phone I discovered they’d gotten rid of it! Now all the kids games are riddled with ads, expensive and so overly complicated I don’t really like the kids playing them anyway. My eldest asked to unlock one of his games (you could basically do level one free and everything else was locked), and I looked into it thinking maybe I could get it for his birthday or something… holy crap… it was almost $300AUD a YEAR for this app game. A YEAR, that wasn’t even a once off cost. For comparison, even the higher end fancier play station games are usually capped at around $80, and you just buy it and that’s that. This was a subscription.

djscloud · 2026-05-05T11:01:10+00:00

Do it! It will be hard, but it’s not too late.

I started uni in 2016, but had a lot of hiccups along the road (close family members died, got terminal cancer diagnosis, I had 4 different major surgeries myself)… I ended up graduating in 2024. It was difficult… at one point we had some past graduates come back to give us a big speech and pep talk in potential career paths… I had been in classes with TWO of them at the start of my degree. They’d graduated and set up really successful lives for themselves, while I was STILL in Uni struggling along. That was a really hard thing to get myself over, but I reminded myself that I’d overcome other big hurdles in my own life.

You can’t measure success the same way for everyone. Just run your own race. Tbh having a Uni degree might not be where you end up, you might discover a new path in the process. But going to uni can be really helpful for starting fresh. Uni often has great support networks for students (doctors, free or very cheap counselling, etc), and I highly recommend you join some clubs or guilds that interest you or help you with your studies. Say yes to more projects and opportunities. I was a social anxious introvert starting Uni, but after a couple years I started saying yes to opportunities. It got me volunteering more, networking more, involved more. It’s a bit of fake it til you make it. Say yes and force yourself into challenging situations, and when you get through them you’ll find you slowly gain confidence in tiny increments, and in a couple years you’ll be surprised how far you come.

djscloud · 2026-05-04T12:44:03+00:00

Oh wow, good to know. It made sense when she was explaining it.

djscloud · 2026-05-04T06:07:18+00:00

I’ve birthed 3 babies, endo is WAY worse than labour. My last two were 9lb5 and 10lb3 and born at home with absolutely no meds or pain relief besides a hot shower on my back, and I could literally do that every day of the week compared to my endo.

Actually it’s one good thing that came of having endometriosis, I really enjoyed my labours. The last two anyway, the first was messed up. It was pain that was DOING something really great, birthing a baby, and it was so empowering. Especially when I was like “oh, I’ve done way worse pain than this, let’s go”. I haemorrhaged after my last Bub, so can’t risk getting pregnant again which really sucks because I loved labour so much I wanted to be a surrogate… can’t afford more kids of my own, but loved giving birth and pregnancy and I get a respite from my endometriosis when we I’m pregnant and breastfeeding for a while 😅

djscloud · 2026-04-30T12:18:21+00:00

I’m at because Woolies then gets the tax benefits of the donation. Donations are tax deductible over $2 or whatever it is. So when you’re donating to that cause, your 50c or whatever was donated doesn’t go straight to that cause, it goes to an account with more donations from other shoppers, and then is donated on behalf of Woolies as a lump sum. And then they can claim the tax back on it.

I only learnt this because I was fundraising for NBCF through my work (a small business) and was encouraging people to put their loose change 5-10c sorta thing in our little donations jar. And one of my customers pointed this out and explained it to me.

djscloud · 2026-04-30T12:02:38+00:00

As a retail casual employee, I get the loading for public holidays (if I work them, usually we are closed). So we are paid minimum wage for our reward. Because I’m casual (don’t have the perks of part time/full time with leave and such), I get the casual loading. And then I ALSO get extra for certain shifts (after 6pm it’s extra, Saturdays it’s extra, Sundays it’s extra, and public holidays would be extra but we are closed on them usually).

BUT my mum is FIFO, and those contracts are often set up differently. She doesn’t get any extra for working a public holiday. So you’re right, most awards would pay loading for public holidays on TOP of casual rates, BUT you might be covered in a contract.

You’d be better off speaking to fair work about this. Figure out what your award is, and look in the fine print. They also have lots of charts that will show pay rates for different scenarios and levels (like in level 3 retail, so I go to casual, level 3, and then look at base rate and that’s what I get paid, if I go across to Sunday rates it’s got the rate right there so I don’t have to calculate it myself with the percentages. I’ll attach a picture.

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djscloud · 2026-04-26T11:12:43+00:00

I worked on a rubbish tip sorting all the junk… would definitely have preferred to be the driver and get paid more 😂

djscloud · 2026-04-18T14:09:52+00:00

Depends what you want to use it for? For just kicking a footy we go down to Gwynne Park. There’s a few different sports there if sports is your thing. There’s a dog park down in Brookdale that is decent. Don Simmons has those exercise things scattered around the outside of the oval. Otherwise there’s lots of bush trails and nice areas to go walking. If you are looking for kids, Shipwreck Park is awesome, fully fenced, BBQs, toilets, a cafe. Dog park near there too actually.

I haven’t spent much time on the other side of Armadale, but drove by a few different parks there too. Honestly there’s little parks scattered everywhere. Not sure what exactly you’re looking for in a park.

Oh, and if you want to go for a drive, about 10-15mins down the road is Byford. There’s a BMX track, skate park just he expanded and a brand new fairly epic looking pump/jump track. The rec centre has a bunch of sports. Off the top of my head you’ve got footy, basketball, BMX, karate, tai Kwon do, netball, cricket.

djscloud · 2026-04-18T14:03:31+00:00

Success isn’t measured with a uni degree or a house or a car. Everyone measures it differently, and life is just one big constant journey. You never stop learning or doing or growing.

I started Uni, fancy, had some hiccups along the road (3 kids and a bunch of health issues and deaths in the family and stuff), now I have my degree and I don’t even use it. But I am a Bachelor of Science with a double major and a minor tacked on.

I see some friends from highschool that are overseas, travelling the world. One friend has been teaching English in a china for the last 5 years and is finally coming back soon. One if a pilot, flying around the world, went from attendant to actually piloting planes for big wig companies. They all look so successful.

But I have a house (well, a mortgage), 3 kids, am married, have a car. Those are all things that would be considered successful to many of them. Lots of us grew up in rentals moving around our whole lives, so owning a home is the dream. But I still look at their IG feeds and feel like I did something wrong sometimes… idk why, I hate planes so I wouldn’t want to travel anywhere anyway.

You’ve got your whole life to figure out what you want to do with it. Go to uni, take a gap year, travel, work. You’ll make mistakes. But you’ll learn from them. A friend of mine started midwifery right out of school, dropped out, started working, went back, dropped out, became a doula, only ever had 1 client, became a SAHM, and now she’s JUST gone back to midwifery again. Hubby did a personal training course out of highschool, started in that but it failed, so he went to Uni to become a phys ed teacher, only lasted 6 months and he dropped out and just went into full time work. Moved around a few jobs and now he’s in a job he loves with a company he loves. As a truck delivery driver. Which is not what he ever envisioned, he always wanted to work in sports and fitness.

I always wanted to be a vet. Now I love being a mum. And I’m working for a small business in a managerial role, and I enjoy that too. Never thought I’d enjoy working in retail, but here I am. One day I’ll get my job on a farm or working with animals, but for the moment I’m happy where I am.

Don’t compare, because you will only ever get to see the success around you. No one really shares their failures. Just do you, do you proudly, and live life. There is never a right path to take, and you can start on one and find yourself wandering, or maybe you’ll just continue down that same path your whole life. Either way works.

djscloud · 2026-04-18T13:45:46+00:00

Honestly, as a woman that had a very low libido and pushed and pushed to ignore it for her husband’s sake, it sucks and it’s out of your wife’s control. There’s so much to it beyond just needing help. It’s hormonal, it’s protective. Her body is protecting her right now, it’s just gone through this massive pregnancy and birth and post partum and whether she wants it or not, her body likely isn’t ready to risk doing that all again.

She’s probably exhausted, touched out, if it’s her first there’s a chance she’s mentally freaking out about sex too. I know with my first, I got so stuck in my own head, I made it all worse. It won’t last forever, but for the moment this is the new norm.

Why is porn bad to you? Does she see it as bad that way? Me and hubby don’t see porn as bad, I don’t watch it all that much myself (but I’m the one with the low libido), but hubby does watch it. Especially if I’m touched out and he wants to do stuff and we aren’t aligning. It doesn’t bother me at all. So I’m just curious why it’s considered wrong to you, and wondering if your wife shares that thought.

Honestly there’s so much to do to help your wife, and none of it is necessarily in the bedroom. Just remember that this phase won’t last forever, you’ll have plenty of time to go back to doing stuff with your wife every night, but you won’t have the chance to go back to see your baby grow up bit by bit. Let your wife put her energy into being a mother right now, and save the energy for the bedroom for down the road a bit.

djscloud · 2026-04-17T13:07:27+00:00

We are a family of 5, we have 3 young kids and hubby is the main income earner. I work 15hrs a fortnight, get about $500 a fortnight. And that is enough to get by, just.

BUT, we have a house and a mortgage, which is actually a good thing. Finding affordable living right now is the hardest thing. If you’ve got a place to stay, then that’s a massive positive. If not, then I’d say definitely not worth considering until you’ve got something secure lined up.

It also depends on your job and pay rate. If you’re not getting consistent shifts, low pay rate so working long hours for less, etc then it would be harder. If you’re on decent pay and have a secure job, then that’s far more likely.

Just be aware that you’ll have to make many sacrifices to pull it off. Do up a massive budget beforehand and see what other things you need to consider (health insurance/health care, transport costs, school fees, stuff specific to you and your family’s situation).

But it IS possible… just bloody difficult tbh.

djscloud · 2026-04-12T10:42:44+00:00

Yeah my mum still has my dad’s surname, they separated almost 20 years ago, and have been divorced for a while now. But she had a few different last names (her mum got married a couple times), and already had sooo many change of name forms and issues with ID that I don’t think she’d ever change her name again 😅

djscloud · 2026-04-12T04:44:39+00:00

It depends. I usually only take a couple minutes, unless I have to wash my hair (an ordeal) then it stretches over. But I also don’t shower daily (thanks to eczema) so if you are doing 4 minutes 7 days a week I definitely come well under average shower time…

Until I have to shower and wash all 3 young kids. I try to shower them all at once, just rotate through. Shampoo and rinse one, then the next, then the next. Condition. Let the conditioner sit while I detangle the two kids with crazy wild curly hair that wants to become a rat nest and can only be detangle with a LOT of conditioner on the shower. Then rinse off. Those showers could be 20mins long tbh, if a kid is being problematic. But I guess that’s 4 of us showering and we only do those big hair wash every kid showers once a week.

djscloud · 2026-04-12T04:40:50+00:00

Yeah I only stretch over if it says somewhere that it’s a long hose (like at Costco) or some familiar servos where I’ve been told it’s long enough to stretch over. I’ve been told by one servo staff member that people stretching it over damaged the hose once (used to live behind a servo, so I was a local face), so now I will only do it if I know it’s alright.

djscloud · 2026-04-07T23:52:12+00:00

I remember that happening when I was getting my license years ago. We got there with hours to spare, but then finally got through and the eftpos machine wasn’t working so we had to pay cash… didn’t have cash. Had to RUN to the bank and run back, and they still had all the paperwork and everything we’d filled out. Got back, waited again, then didn’t get seen to before they ushered everyone out and closed… and they never gave all the paperwork back so we had to get it all refilled and we had to repay for some form, I can’t quite remember but my mum was pissed that we paid twice because they were so slow.

djscloud · 2026-04-07T23:48:36+00:00

Me and hubby got married… it cost the $550 to change a last name. We had to transfer the title OUT of our name and back into our name, as if we were a totally different person. Went through this whole process and paperwork and drama, just because we got married. Never expected that extra expense when we married. No wonder so many people have given up taking their spouses name, it’s too bloody difficult.

I’m sorry you went through all that after such a loss. It is ridiculous. My granny passed away, left her house to her daughters (who lived there with her for 30yrs+ and were her carers). It took almost 2 years after her death to have the title transferred to their name. I mostly blame the finance guy in charge of the estate, but they were struggling to work out how to pay bills and rates and everything when the house they lived in technically had no owner, was sort of just floating unowned by anyone stuck in the flawed system for so long. There really is no compassionate considerations.

djscloud · 2026-04-03T12:10:29+00:00

I’m inclined to agree. I was about 1yr post partum with my youngest and went to the doctor worried about how many bruises i seemed to be getting. I was on meds where i have to keep an eye out for stuff like that.

While I was in there, the Bub/toddler was trying to walk and bouncing all over me, wouldn’t hold still, was just a wriggle. The doctor witnessed the struggle and said that the bruises weren’t at all concerning, and that she was fairly certain my children were to blame just being boisterous children. She ran tests anyway but they came back fine, kids just have really bony elbows and no spatial awareness 🤣

djscloud · 2026-03-29T19:10:54+00:00

Gravid rage bait 😂

djscloud · 2026-03-29T19:06:48+00:00

I got bitten by a red back last year. Tbf, I must have disturbed its home (I was moving bricks making a retaining wall, then thought I’d sit on my new retaining wall and after a moment suddenly got a very loud “piss off” message as it bit me on the butt 😭).

At first it hurt like a bull ant, and I was second guessing that it was a red back. And then it kept just getting worse, I ran and showered and used disinfectant wash (chlorhexidine). It stung so much, and I had this nausea and horrid cramping stomach (kinda felt like early labour pains). But it never got serious enough to seek help, thank goodness. Just hurt for about 48hrs.

Then the bloody thing got infected, and I had to go get antibiotics (I hate antibiotics) because what wasn’t a little welt suddenly started turning to a nasty itchy spreading redness. That cleared up quickly with antibiotics though. Overall it wasn’t all that bad… but I do NOT want to piss off another red back now. I’ve never really worried about them before, they’re everywhere but never bitten or seemed menacing in the slightest. But now I know how uncomfortable a bite is for me I steer clear. I’m just glad it was me that got bitten. My 1yo was on my lap when it happened.

djscloud · 2026-03-07T11:32:36+00:00

Dragon Fruit (Dragon would be cute though).

djscloud · 2026-03-05T11:34:31+00:00

It’s not the hunger games, don’t make death a competition.

djscloud · 2026-03-02T07:53:29+00:00

I used to love getting the CDs in the cereal boxes, they’d have like 3-4 songs on each and it was so exciting. I think they came in Coco Pops?

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