Share your OTF origin stories

I’m pretty new to otf but I thought it would be cool to see all of your first experiences with otf, how’d you discover it in the first place, and what you wanted to get out of it.

I was bored and scrolled a little too far down on the forums.

I literally started as a troll.

I kind of just clicked 'More' on the app and scrolled down.

It went downhill fast.

Here’s mine! So one day I had been messing around with chess.com more section. Checking out things like solo chess vision and clubs. I had also noticed that there was a forums tab as well. Naturally I was curious and so I had to check it out. What I saw is what you see on otf now. Troll fun topics m, but most importantly community engagement. I am a part of a lot of clubs and activities where community engagement is key to success such as Deca. I thought it would be good to try to get the hang of talking to people online and see what makes otf work. Furthermore quite recently I’ve noticed that my texts are quite bland so I really enjoy otf for getting to practice my texting skills. Yup that’s my motivation La for otf. Have a great life! 😁

My texting is as dry as a funeral home.

#6 my entire dictionary of my texts only have the works yes, kewl bro, nah that’s wild, lol, and of course the classic Ok.

I spice it up by putting an ay at the end of okay.

#8 yeah that’s spicy. but it’s only for special event like a wedding, birthday or a big funeral right

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scrolled too far down as well.

i was just bored and decided to join, and since chess was the main thing i did otf was the community of choice.

#10 Yeah, I pretended to be a flat earther.

#4 same

I was told by a mystical magical seer about OTF!