History of the NoHomers board

This page outlines the history of the No Homers forum (NHC). This is a work in progress.
=== 2001-2010 ===
The forum officially launched on August 27, 2001. Eric Wirtanen (eric) was its creator, and he was assisted by Jonah Flynn (Tomacco) and Tino Persico (Datoupee). Originally launched at club.nohomers.net, which was part of the Evergreen Terrance Fansite, the forum moved to simpsonsfoum.com a few days later. Around the end of October 2001, the forum moved software from Yet Another Bulletin Board (YaBB) to vBulletin 2. This move did reset the board, deleting all pre vB posts and members, only saving mod profiles, and the design of the board. 11 months after the board launched, they became independent after a C&D ended up in the closure of Evergreen Terrance. In the following months, the board migrated back to nohomers.net. 
The Simpsons section and the off-topic sections thrived in this period, and some notable members included those in the "Essay Dork Krew," such as Veryjammy, Nebuchanezzar, and TheForbiddenDonut. 
As the years went on, many veteran members began to lose interest in The Simpsons and switched to the off-topic section of the board. This led to some members solely using off-topic and other, usually newer members solely discussing Simpsons. This reached a boiling point in 2010, when Eric decided to make the forum an off-topic-focused board while keeping a Simpsons section, only in a smaller capacity.
Numerous users of note created accounts at this time. This includes users such as Dark Homer (2001), Kupomog (2002), Ryan (2002), goodfella (2005), Financial Panther (2007), and many more.
=== 2011 ===
Eric soon made a different decision. The NHC returned to being Simpsons-focused in 2011, and the off-topic group was split into another board, called Nerd Groupies, later renamed Boards and Recreation. The main mode of off-topic communication on the NHC was the Lounge. A notable NHC member from this time period was Bleedin' Gums Murphy, a controversial poster who often attacked others' opinions and was eventually banned. He came back under several duplicate accounts, but they were usually banned fairly quickly.
This year had perhaps the most well-known thread outside of the NHC. "Maude Flanders was a sociopath" was a thread made by Diversity Pumpkin that garnered fairly significant media attention over the years as well as a multitude of thumbs-up. It's unknown exactly how many it had because thumbs were lost in a board revamp around this time, but it would be among the top posts of all time had they remained. An approximate guess would be 94, as prior to the revamp, it has 44 thumbs (this is according to the Most Well Liked Posts page), and after it, it had 50.
=== 2012 ===
This year was the beginning of the Hurt & Heal threads. The modern Hurt & Heal was created by The Spruce Moose, and they became the standard format for Noiseland Arcade tournaments. A prominent member at this time was N, later known as Johnny Deformed. He racked up posts very quickly, resembling the member Walid's posting habits in 2009. They were often of little substance, however, and N was eventually banned for his poor posting and eventual constant complaining. 
This year also saw the first of many attempts at Board Survivor, created by Dobbie. The first winner of the competition was vriskatime, whilst 1010011010 created an alternative ending to the game. 
Another thread made national news this year. The user BartvstheSpaceMutants made a thread asking if Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder was the basis for Parks and Rec. character Ron Swanson, and it was soon scooped up by the media. 
Jims began his 60 Second Simpsons series beginning with a review of the episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home" and has since introduced other series such as Simpsons Histories, Simpsons Mysteries and Season Retrospectives. 
=== 2013 ===
A new era for the NHC dawned in 2013 when the user OldSchoolerSimpsons (OSS) joined the forum. The board soon became inundated with sex-related threads and legendary tales, and edgy humor was rampant. A notable moment this year was when the user lolcats posted a fake picture of himself and captivated the board with the appearance of the man in that photo. However, his crowning achievement was when he made thousands of posts under the account of then-dormant user goodfella. 
The user Professorfrink also posted frequently in 2013 and became a "whipping boy" of the forum for his posts that lacked quality and seemed to be from a very young person. The administrator kupomog also had her baby, Amy, in 2013, making her the first known user to have boarded while in labor.
=== 2014 ===
One of the most iconic threads within the community, "How do you act when you have a crush on someone?" was created. The thread primarily focuses on OSS and the various infatuations he had with women. This year also marked the start of a change in communication: The user Dobbie introduced Tinychat to the board. While it was meant to be a place for video or voice chats, members soon flocked to Tinychat regularly to discuss topics via text in a faster-paced environment. 
A notable member who joined this year was pkkao, originally a Simpsons superfan who became immersed in the forum's culture and emerged out of it a very different person. ThatsAPaddlin also joined this year and began moving the NHC away from its edgy nature, although this wouldn't be seen in its entirety until 2016. 
A memorable but fairly short-lived poster was zachbigmac, a user who became legendary for his attacks and comebacks toward other members. Especially notable was his introduction thread where he delivers multiple retorts against Swoony.
One day, former Simpsons showrunner Bill Oakley visited Tinychat to converse with fans. Later that year, in a scandal dubbed "Oakleygate," the user Sam, then known as Handsome B. Wonderful, impersonated Oakley for in Tinychat for four hours, fooling a select group of people. 
This year also saw the ban of D'ohmer, a user who was from 2007 to 2014 and a big fan of Modern Simpsons who was banned for misogynistic comments and trolling. 
Finally, the NHC Movie was created, a project spearheaded by jameselliotbrown81. It was released to mostly negative reviews.
=== 2015 ===
Tinychat continued to be a regular presence in 2015. Jetthead, a well-liked member who had a falling out with others when he revealed some questionable and controversial opinions, was a noteworthy ban. 
In one incident, Zombies Rise From the Sea called Eric, the site owner (but reached Eric's father), to complain about the board. Enraged, Eric wiped out Zombies' entire account. 
=== 2016 ===
Prominent member Financial Panther was exiled in 2016 for a poorly thought-out Tinychat post. He was forced to leave the forum, but he was accepted back later that year, albeit without the ability to post in the Simpsons section. He received that permission back in 2017. Many members now championed very liberal causes and called themselves "social justice warriors (SJWs)." OSS also had a YouTube video about his hatred of the word "feminazi" rebuked by a YouTuber named Tom Sequitur. This drew significant attention on the NHC and resulted in many defending OSS. He was later rebuked by a woman on YouTube, which received another thread.
Xaiv was another member who fell from grace. As the presidential election came closer, he transitioned from an off-topic-focused user whom people enjoyed to a diehard Donald Trump supporter with fairly radical right-wing opinions.
Tinychat began to fall out of favor in 2016. People who were either irritated with Tinychat's problems or who simply wanted to talk more would post short messages on the wall, later known as the Live Feed, leading to the wall's peak in popularity. In December, the members decided to switch from Tinychat to Discord, and the forum fell off in a big way.
Xander hosted the first Sheep game which has since become a board tradition. Financial Panther became the first Sheep champion.
Egg released his debut album, “Up the Down Escalator,” to mostly negative reviews.
=== 2017-2019 ===
These can be called the Dark Ages of the NHC. Very few posts occurred and little of note happened in these years as Discord became the main mode of communication for most members. It was common to see 5+ hours without posts. One member, Welcome to Moe's, attempted to revive the Simpsons section with many threads, but he eventually became fed up with the community's treatment of him and left. He created a short-lived forum called "Everything Simpsons" after his departure. Although several notable regular or semi-regular users, such as cam (although much of their tenure has been spent within the site's Discord server), purple, owo, bboynexus and Captain Wacky joined or became active during this period, the emergence of new permanent NHC fixtures likewise declined from previous years, with the emergence of notable threads (save for occasional highlights such as foose/tyler's "Treehouse of Horror" reviews) dwindling similarly.
Due to the lower activity of this period, many of its “noted” users were frequently trolls, sockpuppets of banned users (such as the short-lived “$impson”) or something else entirely. The headlining denizen of this final category was probably Monsterland Buddies, a former (banned) redditor who gained notoriety for his rambling posts incoherently articulating his hatred of the minor characters Sherri and Terri, to the extent of unleashing a wave of threads essentially exacerbating this to the level of trollposting (with one thread focused on the posting of “Sherri and Terri hate propaganda”) until his banning in the spring of 2019. He made many alt accounts to get around his ban, but they were banned quickly.
On January 1, 2018, OSS released the pilot episode of his animated sitcom “Father in London,” which featured some NHC members in voice acting roles. A second episode is in production, but has yet to be released.
OldSchoolerSimpsons also became alienated with the forum and left on February 14, 2018. He eventually returned little over a year later, though it would take some time before he became a regular again.
=== 2020 ===
2020 saw a fairly significant resurgence in activity on the NHC. In January, the member Road Rage exploited the forum's outdated software to perform a hack, logging users out whenever they tried to view a thread. Some other members contributed to the Simpsons section, such as The Abominable Dr. Lenny, Trab Pu Kcip, Sandurt, and various other users. Although far from its golden years, the forum looked to be getting back on track.
Toward the end of the year, TheMusicDewd18 returned to the forum and proceeded to make various posts and threads pertaining to baseball, the early 2000s, and conflicting opinions toward The Simpsons. He, as well as various alt accounts of his, has since been banned.
=== 2021 ===
The Abominable Dr. Lenny stopped posting after seeing what people said about him in Discord, and the activity wilted for a bit.
In January, a user called Simpson Guy decided to spam the forum with trolling that involved insulting other users, sexual references, and use of all caps. The sheer volume of posts by this user, as well as the user’s numerous alt accounts, led to registrations being turned off. The user who made the accounts was given a 25-point infraction; however, he remains unnamed outside of Bart's Treehouse.
On January 28, Financial Panther was given the position of Global Moderator, finally achieving his childhood dream. Along with Panther, Sam became a Global Moderator, sonic dvd 4 the sega cd became a full moderator, Trab Pu Kcip got modded into the Simpsons sections, tormented also became a Global Moderator, and Tomacco's forum mod permissions were extended to include Itchy and Scratchy Studios and the Noiseland Arcade.
On a quiet day, on March 3, the announcement was recieved that the board will finally move to Xenforo, but at the big cost that it would result in a clean state, meaning that all of the posts, all of the members, all of the blogs (they managed to survive through 2020), and everything else WILL be deleted. Gone. However, Peyrin plans to archive the board, so maybe all is not lost... That was, until Eric then announced two days later that the data will be kept internally, although some will not make it onto the new board.
On July 20, the beginning of the end of the vBulletin era started. When some one tried to access the forums, they would get the error message "The No Homers Club is currently shut down. Our return will be announced at a later date." This meant that the transition had finally begun.
=== 2022 ===
HomerFan1998 came into his own in 2022. Frequently posting episode speculations in the seasons 33 and 34 information threads, HomerFan also pioneered the trend of asking Al Jean and various Simpsons writers inane topics such as which characters will appear in certain episodes.
Another notable user was Duderocks5539, an unabashed Sarah Wiggum lover who defended her at every turn. After expressing anger at the episode “Uncut Femmes” and calling Sarah’s guest voice actor, Megan Mullally, a “slutty bitch cunt,” he received several warnings. Nevertheless, the outrage against Sarah and later the entire forum persisted. After he threatened a lawsuit against the board, he was banned.
=== 2023 ===
2023 saw the advent of D'ohnut King, who later used an account under the name D'ohboy. D'ohboy attempted to flirt with female users, especially I Love Lisa, who had returned to the board after a hiatus of over a decade. Despite I Love Lisa's discomfort and members' attempts to put a stop to his actions, D'ohboy continued his pursuit for love until he was banned. 
Another notable termination was Butt-Head, who frequently posted lewd images on the forum and alternated between using that account and the account of a user whom members deemed "Homerface" because of the style of his username. Controversy had ensued over whether Homerface and Butt-Head were siblings, but when Homerface failed to provide an image of him and Butt-Head together, he was banned.
=== 2024 ===
MisogiKurakawa's frequently self-promoted Simpsons meta analysis thread was the story for much of the first half of 2024. Misogi and other members shared many thoughtful insights of the show within the thread.
A staff shake-up occurred in 2024, with Financial Panther promoted to Administrator and Brad Lascelle bumped to Global Moderator. CousinMerl was also brought onto the mod team, receiving the Global Moderator position. Brad Lascelle soon found himself alienated from the forum after making comments suggesting that certain members' Simpsons opinions were not up to par with those of famed former user Jims. The situtation spiraled when it was revealed that Brad had accused many of his detractors of harboring sentiments toward Russia, and his reluctance to apologize for his comments continued to fan the flames.
This year also saw former forum stalwart Diversity Pumpkin make a return. Pumpkin, the creator of the "Maude Flanders was a sociopath" thread, was befuddled by the sensitivity of the current forum, and a conflict emerged between newer members who were not used to Pumpkin's trolling and more seasoned members who recalled the older days of NoHomers and relished in the blast from the past. Pumpkin eventually lost patience with the more friendly environment and left the forum once more.