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Postby aysetb » Fri Oct 11, 2024 12:52 pm

juleic1123 wrote:oh wow, the AMOUNT of nostalgia for a game I barely played... I am speechless. :cry: :cry:~

I'm not fully opposed to create Gardenia Park someday, probably with a few things differently since I don't remember the game and it's all based in videos and screenshots but I really am considering one day taking the time to hire someone to help me develop the avatars moving, walking and recreate it. In a very distant future though so don't expect anything now, first winx adventure. :mrgreen:


OMG :shock: if you recreat a game like Gardenia Park my dream will come true! I remember playing it a lot but I know that it won't be for now.

Very excited for Winx Adventure too! /houra//

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Behind your beautiful web avatar game lies my biggest nightmare. The truth behind the magic, is pain. :cloud: :lol:



This reminds me of my high school years when I had coding classes! It was far from easy so good luck! :? don't hesitate if you need anything.
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Postby natie » Sun Oct 13, 2024 7:15 am

Omg, I had a dream during my nap today that there’s another web archive on the internet, where the old forum was saved so well that we could even go inside the topics. My brain is messing with me. :cloud:

Anyway, I created a topic for old web avatar images https://onlinewinxclub.com/centro-web/f ... f=10&t=482 :)

Maybe we should create a topic to store Gardenia Park images too? 8-)
I've never played it and, honestly, I don't feel as nostalgic about it as I do about WA. But everything connected to the 4th season feels very special to me and reminds of wonderful times. I'm sure that if I played Gardenia Park, I would looove it!
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Postby juleic1123 » Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:36 am

natie wrote:Omg, I had a dream during my nap today that there’s another web archive on the internet, where the old forum was saved so well that we could even go inside the topics. My brain is messing with me. :cloud:

Anyway, I created a topic for old web avatar images https://onlinewinxclub.com/centro-web/f ... f=10&t=482 :)

Maybe we should create a topic to store Gardenia Park images too? 8-)
I've never played it and, honestly, I don't feel as nostalgic about it as I do about WA. But everything connected to the 4th season feels very special to me and reminds of wonderful times. I'm sure that if I played Gardenia Park, I would looove it!


I feel more nostalgic towards WA as well since it's the one I truly played from day 1 almost. :lol:

But I feel so nostalgic towards everything I see of Gardenia Park, that game looked amazing. :) Yes, I'd create one for GP as well, if anything it will help people talk about it and for me, it might be useful in the far future! /houra//
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Postby Hallowinxer » Mon Oct 14, 2024 1:30 pm

Hi everyone! zao_zao
I'm Hallowinxer and my old nickname on the original site was Superpupu998. I'm from Finland.
I just wrote an introduction about myself on the Welcome section but I came to write here too so please add me on the list when you have time! /flowerpower/ I was an active user of from Winx's official website from the 2nd season themed version to winxclub online and the minigames, Gardenia park, the official forum and Winx Adventure were my childhood and super important to me <3 I can't even thank you enough for bringing back the full website and I was literally in tears yesterday when I saw the link to this site on some Winx facebook group :') The forum, Gardenia park and WA have been on my mind constantly since they're closed and I've really missed them! :( /flowerpower/ I'm super excited about all the nostalgia, avatar, WA and everything and if you one day bring Gardenia park back too I'll be in heaven! /houra// in_love_

Btw I found an old screenshot of the highscores of Flora's Garden and the 5th season themed website from 2012. These are from my old Finnish Winx-themed blog and you need to scroll down quite much to find them (I don't know yet how to post pictures here... :ehmeh:: ) They're after the date 13/10/2012.
https://superpupu.blogspot.com/2013/04/superpupun-kuulumisia.html

And if I remember correctly I saw some kind of re-creation of the Winx site couple of years ago but it got shut down or something?? Was it done by you or by different fans? They tried to bring WA also but the whole site disappeared or I just couldn't find it anymore.

I saw someone's screenshot of old moderators and I remember at least harpa and mariposaa! I don't remember if I talked to them but at least I kept seeing them on the forum all the time :mrgreen: And I also thought the mods were so cool and like super humans :lol: I had many friends on Gardenia park and WA but I don't remember their names anymore :( I should go through my old childhood diaries so maybe I could find something out! And I was really bad at English back then so I didn't talk that much :ehmeh:: But on the forum I was mostly active on the Fun zone and Chat zone, sometimes on Role play zone and School also. Someone tried to teach me Russian and Spanish and I tried to teach Finnish, which didn't go so well... :lol: Also some Finnish fans tried to make new topics in Finnish but they got deleted all the time :lol: And I remember that I tried to chat on Italian forum with google translate, without knowing ANY Italian lol...
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Postby juleic1123 » Mon Oct 14, 2024 11:21 pm

Hallowinxer wrote:Hi everyone! zao_zao
I'm Hallowinxer and my old nickname on the original site was Superpupu998. I'm from Finland.
I just wrote an introduction about myself on the Welcome section but I came to write here too so please add me on the list when you have time! /flowerpower/ I was an active user of from Winx's official website from the 2nd season themed version to winxclub online and the minigames, Gardenia park, the official forum and Winx Adventure were my childhood and super important to me <3 I can't even thank you enough for bringing back the full website and I was literally in tears yesterday when I saw the link to this site on some Winx facebook group :') The forum, Gardenia park and WA have been on my mind constantly since they're closed and I've really missed them! :( /flowerpower/ I'm super excited about all the nostalgia, avatar, WA and everything and if you one day bring Gardenia park back too I'll be in heaven! /houra// in_love_

Btw I found an old screenshot of the highscores of Flora's Garden and the 5th season themed website from 2012. These are from my old Finnish Winx-themed blog and you need to scroll down quite much to find them (I don't know yet how to post pictures here... :ehmeh:: ) They're after the date 13/10/2012.
https://superpupu.blogspot.com/2013/04/superpupun-kuulumisia.html

And if I remember correctly I saw some kind of re-creation of the Winx site couple of years ago but it got shut down or something?? Was it done by you or by different fans? They tried to bring WA also but the whole site disappeared or I just couldn't find it anymore.

I saw someone's screenshot of old moderators and I remember at least harpa and mariposaa! I don't remember if I talked to them but at least I kept seeing them on the forum all the time :mrgreen: And I also thought the mods were so cool and like super humans :lol: I had many friends on Gardenia park and WA but I don't remember their names anymore :( I should go through my old childhood diaries so maybe I could find something out! And I was really bad at English back then so I didn't talk that much :ehmeh:: But on the forum I was mostly active on the Fun zone and Chat zone, sometimes on Role play zone and School also. Someone tried to teach me Russian and Spanish and I tried to teach Finnish, which didn't go so well... :lol: Also some Finnish fans tried to make new topics in Finnish but they got deleted all the time :lol: And I remember that I tried to chat on Italian forum with google translate, without knowing ANY Italian lol...


Hey Hallowinxer! :ahhh: Welcome again! I’ve added you to the list, so you’re all set! /flowerpower/

It’s amazing to hear your story and how much this place means to you, especially knowing you were part of the original site’s community. Recreating this site has been a huge nostalgia trip for me too! :cry:

As for the previous attempt you mentioned, that was actually me and a friend, yeah. :) We tried bringing the site back on a free hosting platform (Forumotion), but it locked a lot of things behind paywalls in 2018, which COMPLETELY destroyed the website and made the experience pretty frustrating. :cry: They also cancelled the free domain they gave me back then.

My friend, who knew how to create the website and games back then, got upset when the site started falling apart and didn’t want to continue. He stopped paying for the server, and, well, life happened, and we ended up going separate ways. We're still friends but he's no longer interested.

But even after all that, I couldn’t give up on the dream of having it back. So, I decided to dive in deep – I went to university, took extra courses in web design and gaming, and kept pushing myself to learn everything I needed to make this happen. It took time, but here we are! :ahhh:
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Postby Hallowinxer » Tue Oct 15, 2024 8:32 pm

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Hallowinxer wrote:Hi everyone! zao_zao
I'm Hallowinxer and my old nickname on the original site was Superpupu998. I'm from Finland.
I just wrote an introduction about myself on the Welcome section but I came to write here too so please add me on the list when you have time! /flowerpower/ I was an active user of from Winx's official website from the 2nd season themed version to winxclub online and the minigames, Gardenia park, the official forum and Winx Adventure were my childhood and super important to me <3 I can't even thank you enough for bringing back the full website and I was literally in tears yesterday when I saw the link to this site on some Winx facebook group :') The forum, Gardenia park and WA have been on my mind constantly since they're closed and I've really missed them! :( /flowerpower/ I'm super excited about all the nostalgia, avatar, WA and everything and if you one day bring Gardenia park back too I'll be in heaven! /houra// in_love_

Btw I found an old screenshot of the highscores of Flora's Garden and the 5th season themed website from 2012. These are from my old Finnish Winx-themed blog and you need to scroll down quite much to find them (I don't know yet how to post pictures here... :ehmeh:: ) They're after the date 13/10/2012.
https://superpupu.blogspot.com/2013/04/superpupun-kuulumisia.html

And if I remember correctly I saw some kind of re-creation of the Winx site couple of years ago but it got shut down or something?? Was it done by you or by different fans? They tried to bring WA also but the whole site disappeared or I just couldn't find it anymore.

I saw someone's screenshot of old moderators and I remember at least harpa and mariposaa! I don't remember if I talked to them but at least I kept seeing them on the forum all the time :mrgreen: And I also thought the mods were so cool and like super humans :lol: I had many friends on Gardenia park and WA but I don't remember their names anymore :( I should go through my old childhood diaries so maybe I could find something out! And I was really bad at English back then so I didn't talk that much :ehmeh:: But on the forum I was mostly active on the Fun zone and Chat zone, sometimes on Role play zone and School also. Someone tried to teach me Russian and Spanish and I tried to teach Finnish, which didn't go so well... :lol: Also some Finnish fans tried to make new topics in Finnish but they got deleted all the time :lol: And I remember that I tried to chat on Italian forum with google translate, without knowing ANY Italian lol...


Hey Hallowinxer! :ahhh: Welcome again! I’ve added you to the list, so you’re all set! /flowerpower/

It’s amazing to hear your story and how much this place means to you, especially knowing you were part of the original site’s community. Recreating this site has been a huge nostalgia trip for me too! :cry:

As for the previous attempt you mentioned, that was actually me and a friend, yeah. :) We tried bringing the site back on a free hosting platform (Forumotion), but it locked a lot of things behind paywalls in 2018, which COMPLETELY destroyed the website and made the experience pretty frustrating. :cry: They also cancelled the free domain they gave me back then.

My friend, who knew how to create the website and games back then, got upset when the site started falling apart and didn’t want to continue. He stopped paying for the server, and, well, life happened, and we ended up going separate ways. We're still friends but he's no longer interested.

But even after all that, I couldn’t give up on the dream of having it back. So, I decided to dive in deep – I went to university, took extra courses in web design and gaming, and kept pushing myself to learn everything I needed to make this happen. It took time, but here we are! :ahhh:


Thank you so much! /flowerpower/

Oh I see, it's interesting to have an explanation because I was wondering what happened to the site! I really understand your frustration and it really sucks that you put so much effort on something that collapses later :( When I was a kid I followed many Finnish Winx blogs created by fans and some of them even coded their own fan blogs but later almost every single one of them had crashed and I think they had same kind of a problem than you did. It's sad because it'd be so cool to visit the pages but they don't exist anymore :cry: Maybe same happened with many international Winx fan pages, which I was following, because they disappeared too.

But it's so awesome that you kept going and I really appreciate all the effort you've put into this project!! /flowerpower/ It's so cool that you've taken so many useful courses, you're our next Tecna /houra//
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Postby juleic1123 » Tue Oct 15, 2024 9:47 pm

Yeah, that's the terrible thing about a free hosting website, they could be gone at ANY moment or change things completely without caring about you. I learned that the hard way.
Forumotion still exists, but they locked 80% of features behind a paywall, if I wanted to have the website with the previous appearence, I had to buy premium (which was in brazillian currency and weren't converted to euros???) and re-add every script back, since the lock made all those features become empty. A lot, and I mean a lot of forumotion forums died because of that. :cry: The appearence got destroyed, most scripts stopped working and it was futile to keep that dying website going.
A lot of free host forums also died like prophpbb, where all italian users migrated to back then with terminator85 (the minimod).
There was also this host back then with russian users, it stopped working as well: http://winxtest.tforums.org/

Overall... everyone is just gone because of a free hosting, even my old attempt and that makes me really sad, because my website at the time had more than 4000 users, and at least 30 active per day... now it's been 6 years and a lot of people lost interest... :(

The good thing is that this website is being 100% paid and it's 100% built from scratch by me, so nothing can happen to it. /houra//
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Postby Hallowinxer » Fri Oct 18, 2024 9:42 pm

juleic1123 wrote:Yeah, that's the terrible thing about a free hosting website, they could be gone at ANY moment or change things completely without caring about you. I learned that the hard way.
Forumotion still exists, but they locked 80% of features behind a paywall, if I wanted to have the website with the previous appearence, I had to buy premium (which was in brazillian currency and weren't converted to euros???) and re-add every script back, since the lock made all those features become empty. A lot, and I mean a lot of forumotion forums died because of that. :cry: The appearence got destroyed, most scripts stopped working and it was futile to keep that dying website going.
A lot of free host forums also died like prophpbb, where all italian users migrated to back then with terminator85 (the minimod).
There was also this host back then with russian users, it stopped working as well: http://winxtest.tforums.org/

Overall... everyone is just gone because of a free hosting, even my old attempt and that makes me really sad, because my website at the time had more than 4000 users, and at least 30 active per day... now it's been 6 years and a lot of people lost interest... :(

The good thing is that this website is being 100% paid and it's 100% built from scratch by me, so nothing can happen to it. /houra//


It's good to hear we're finally save here! /flowerpower/

But oh, doesn't sound like a good business if you can't even pay with your own currency :shock: //EHDOHEH/

I made a Finnish Winx forum on a free forum site (I don't remember the name anymore) and out of sudden the forum just disappeared and if you clicked the link you ended up into some really shady quickie loan site. I got really scared and tried to erase all of the broken links from my Winx blog as fast as possible. They didn't even give me a chance to pay, they just destroyed everything. My forum wasn't that active tho but I wasn't a nice surprise at all. :(

And it sucks that you lost so many users :( We need to share this site more to different Winx facebook groups and on winxstagram (probably you've already done that tho :geek: ) But hopefully we get more users after the reboot! /flowerpower/ Maybe Lola from the Winx Forever podcast would be also interested in making a podcast about the re-creation!
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Postby juleic1123 » Fri Oct 18, 2024 9:50 pm

I did announce it on a few facebook groups, but most deleted my message due to spam... :ehmeh::

And I did not announce it on instagram, so if you want to do the honors... :mrgreen:

Yeah, my old forum also had that issue until I made a new URL. But forumotion just wrecked everyhing... free hosts really are terrible. To this day I still fear my tears when I saw the website completely destroyed after the update. I felt so angry, and then my friend saying he wouldn't go over every single page fixing around everything that is broken because we literally were just finished... :cry: (and we were. This happened in June 2017, and we finished rebuilding the website in February of that year...)
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Postby Hallowinxer » Fri Oct 18, 2024 10:15 pm

juleic1123 wrote:I did announce it on a few facebook groups, but most deleted my message due to spam... :ehmeh::

And I did not announce it on instagram, so if you want to do the honors... :mrgreen:

Yeah, my old forum also had that issue until I made a new URL. But forumotion just wrecked everyhing... free hosts really are terrible. To this day I still fear my tears when I saw the website completely destroyed after the update. I felt so angry, and then my friend saying he wouldn't go over every single page fixing around everything that is broken because we literally were just finished... :cry: (and we were. This happened in June 2017, and we finished rebuilding the website in February of that year...)


Omg nooo, like, what could even be more Winx-related topic than to bring back the original Winx site?? //EHDOHEH/ But Facebook is weird. Luckily I got to see the post about this site in time!

I could do a post about this site on instagram since I've just been posting about the other nostalgic Winx minigames :mrgreen: Speaking of the minigames, I talked about Attack to Magix game earlier, and how it crashed after the flashplayer died. But couple of days ago I found Attack on Magix which is still working!! https://www.numuki.com/game/attack-to-magix/ There're also other Winx minigames from the original 2008 version, like pet's volleyball game and some minigames from the Gardenia park era. in_love_

Ahhh it's so awful that this happened to you after lots of hard work and I'm so sorry to hear that! :( Seems like the destroyers don't care at all how much effort people have put into the websites :cloud:
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