miiverse

January 4, 2018

Miiverse Is Back — In Archive Form

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2017 was the year Nintendo pulled the plug on most Wii U-era services, including the console’s exclusive social media hub known as Miiverse. With the loss of the server might have come the erasure of thousands of crazy, mindless posts and drawings — but have no fear, the obsessive archivists of the Internet have come to your rescue. Before the service went offline, volunteers at the Archive Team website (which is devoted to saving the data from websites about to expire) went into overdrive. They scooped up every last post on the service — no easy task. When Miiverse died, it carried a grand total of 133,003,599 posts, 216,901,986 replies, 75,955,135 screenshots and 72,135,190 drawings, created by 8,278,693 users in all. It took until today to sort it all out and get it stable on its own website, but here at last is Archiverse, the place where every meme, incomprehensible scribble and “Expand Dong” drawing will exist forever. Someday when you’re old you’re going to appreciate this. (Or not.) We

August 29, 2017

Nintendo Will Shut Down Miiverse This November

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If anything signals that Nintendo is running away from their Wii U era as fast as possible, it’s this: Miiverse is about to be shut down. The unique social messaging service was created for the Wii U gamepad and later ported to 3DS. The move was confirmed for Japan yesterday, and confirmed globally today. It’s understandable why this is happening — now that Nintendo has a much more successful product on the market, they’d prefer not to spend any more resources on a failure. That doesn’t mean it isn’t sad. Not only will the Wii U’s opening screen, directly tied to Miiverse, feel empty now, so will a lot of games that took advantage of the service. Effects range from the simple absence of user comments to the disappearance of entire features. Super Mario Maker (Wii U): Users will still be able to share levels, but will no longer be able to comment on them. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (Wii U, Nintendo 3DS): While users will still be

July 2, 2015

Miiverse On Wii U To Be Redesigned Soon

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Nintendo’s message board service and meme-spreader known as Miiverse has been disorganized since its inception. Usually you make a post, it drops down a hole and only two or three people see it. Maybe they comment on it. Then your post is buried under the pile of newer posts. Thankfully, they’ve been working on a fix. Nintendo has announced that Miiverse will be getting a redesign later this summer. Sometime soon, you’ll open Miiverse and it’ll be divided into sections: Play Journals, Drawings, and Discussions. Comments on the game you’re playing will go into the Journals. Drawings will be the home of art created with the Miiverse drawing tools. Most importantly, now that there’s a place specifically for Discussions, users won’t be buried in memes and weird scribbles before they can get a single response. Your Miiverse account is also getting a private section only you can access called “Screenshots.” If you take a good screenshot from a game, you can caption it and save it in an album. You’ll be able