Sillyverse

Sillyverse was a Miiverse clone created by SRGNation. It used Ultima code.

History

On September 12, 2023, SRGNation created a new version of her former Miiverse clone Ciiverse using Ultima code, under testly.srgnation.com. The site was renamed to Sillyverse on October 1 and moved to silly.srgnation.com. testly.srgnation.com became a developer-only instance of Sillyverse that non-developers could not post in. Users are able to create their own communities on Sillyverse.

Advertising and Growth

On October 10, 2023, SRGNation made a post on her Instagram account that advertised Sillyverse, and also ran the post as an ad on Instagram. This caused an influx of new users to join the site, leading to Sillyverse becoming one of the most active Miiverse clones of late 2023 and 2024.

Sillyverse contained several unique features. These included:

• Square (rather than triangular) badges, that were displayed to the right of a user's username rather than on the top left of their profile picture on posts. They still displayed to the top left of the user's profile picture on their profile page

• The ability to embed TikTok videos in posts

• The ability to upload almost any type of file to the site, including audio, video, and .zip files

• "Story communities" that would be used for roleplay purposes, which included "actors", serving as a user's pseudo-profiles with different names and profile pictures that were unique to that community

• The ability for users to mark reasons for why their post is being marked with spoilers

• The ability to put tags on posts. Moderators and donators could enable an "auto-tag" feature that automatically assigns tags to a post based on its content

• The amount of people who have favorited the community is displayed on top of the community's title and description

• The ability to set different profile pictures to be displayed when using different expressions, similarly to how Miis would make different faces depending on the expression set

Planned features for Sillyverse included "CiiNotes", which would be similar to communities except posts made on them would't display on the users' profiles, and automatic comment summaries that would summarize the type of comments being made on a post.

A select few users were able to switch from viewing Sillyverse to an archive of Ultima.

As of February 2, 2024, donators of Sillyverse were able to upload bigger files with a 100MB limit, and had a 10,000 character limit on posts. They were also able to remove their donator badges.

Shutdown

On June 2, 2024, SRGNation banned a well-known user known as Hero, and deleted the community that he created known as "Girl Hell", which was one of the most popular user-created communities on Sillyverse. Several users made posts questioning this decision, as Hero did not seem to violate Sillyverse's rules and was a supporter of SRGNation, so the reason for the ban was unclear. Shortly after, Hero was unbanned and the community was restored. SRGNation made a post apologizing for the ban, stating that she would personally discuss the situation with Hero.

Shortly after this occurred, Sillyverse went down, with the message on the Sillyverse page stating that the site was experiencing issues, and that users should try visiting the site later. This message was eventually changed telling users to "try visiting the site again NEVER!!! No more silly!! >w<", implying that Sillyverse's shutdown was permanent. The message was removed shortly after, with only the header, logo, and background remaining on the site page. A new message was put on the page, stating that Sillyverse would be "put to rest, possibly forever", but that the "idea" of Sillyverse "may continue to live on for centuries". Over 1200 users signed up for Sillyverse, with over 8000 posts being made before its shutdown.