>>7838
>This website used to be known as ponygoons
One last thing for tonight. I tried to find some screencaps or archived pages from the ponygoons era. Managed to locate URL from desuarchive and... let's just say it took me awhile to figure out that I had to click on the Celestia, LOL!
https://web.archive.org/web/20110401060152/http://www.mlponies.com/forums/
Oldest one in wayback machine. Unfortunately the Jefferson Starship itself does not appear to be archived here.

Also, poster from 2012 /mlp/ saying something that could go with what you said pretty well:
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/1491506/#q1491678
>The closest place I've found to discuss ponies without the general meanness/creepiness of /mlp/ and the pure hugboxery of ponychan is ponygoons, and even then, they can be a bit uptight about things.
>>7838
>Anyway in that kind of atmosphere, the sort of person who would genuinely love MLP and post about it on the forums would either have to have a thick skin or would be really sensitive and neurotic and self-conscious.

Early on, both counterbalanced?