Q: What do you think?
Personally I kind of looked at all of the stuff, went on a nostalgia trip, aaand kind of lost interest in looking at everything, pretty shortly.
Even the project I knew was farthest along, Openverse^2, is still a skeleton of what a Miiverse clone should be. There’s probably some good code in it and all other projects, but… the fact of the matter is that it’s all using libraries and versions from 2019, and plenty has changed since then.
Probably the biggest disappointment has to be the fact that Closedverse’s database is mostly rendered useless by the lack of images. More on that to follow.
Either I had a false perspective on what life would be like after I got my machines back, or it’s really hard to satisfy me, I’m most likely just taking everything I’ve seen for granted.
Since uhhh my entire life 2015 onwards is oriented towards Miiverse, a literal dead service that people care less and less about with each coming year, I just get the feeling that everything I’m looking at is irrelevant, and its ship has sailed.
For the most part, it really was better to push forward without looking back.

Q: Will Closedverse return?
NOPE!
I wouldn’t discount any chances of rehosting the database for a single day as a joke, or letting users access their own archives, maybe kinda sorta not really…
…but Closedverse as we knew it is permanently dead.
Staying dead is the right thing for the site, not to mention I’m sure literally everyone who used the site stopped caring and the only ones who do care either never used the site to begin with or didn’t use it enough.
With all that being said, the fatal flaw is that all of the images in the database, each and every single one, has been erased, forever, and it has been like that for a few years now. This happened in 2020 and there was nothing I could’ve done about it. The database without images, it takes a lot of the fun away from it.
It may be possible to scour only some of the images from archives and the WayBack Machine, but, thing is that I went out of my way to block archive.org near the end of Closedverse’s life and I highly doubt that any dump has remotely enough content.