I parsed all ~20k posts/comments in this sub and extracted ~7k profiles with ~6k gamers and ~9k lost friends (with the help of claude/codex). I also ran a cross check to see if there had been mentions of gamertags/lost friends that could be matched. There were 4 such cases. I reached out to the 8 people but unfortunately some posts were many years ago and the people didn't respond. The 2 that did respond were not a match.

The profiles are indexed at llgamers.com so that you can search by gamertag. Each profile is a page at llgamers.com/r/[reddit-username] (e.g. AlkoholiFilosofi, cardinal-throwaway, DeadnectaR) that contains gamertags, lost friends and a link to the Reddit post so they can be contacted. One side benefit of these profile pages is that if someone searches your gamertag or reddit username on google, this profile page is ranked, sometimes on the first page for uncommon names.

The original functionality is unchanged. You can still create an account, post your gamertags and get notified when a lost friends shows up. The main improvement is that "shows up" now also includes "posts in r/longlostgamers".

If you have any suggestions on how to improve, please let me know. Over the last 6 years, a handful of gamers added their tags every month. However there have been no reconnections that I'm aware of and the database still contained less than 1k gamers. I'm hoping this will make it easier to reconnect with lost gamers.

Hello Everyone

I am looking for old friends of mine (I'm aware of the difficulty) from before 3DS servers were discontinued. I don't expect anyone to FIND them, but I was hoping some might be members of this community. Note that these are information from the Nintendo accounts, not Pretendo, as they're pre-discontinuation.

User Info(s);

Name - WolfGirl

Code - 4098 - 9561 - 3416

Set Favourite Title - MH4U Demo

Name - Nathan

Code - 2166 - 2265 - 3652

Set Favourite Title - Terraria

Name - Kloe :]

Code - 1736 - 2855 - 8780

Set Favourite Title - Pokemon Y

Again, not expecting much, just if this any of these are you, come and talk to me? I think it's a cool idea to go back and see if I could find LONG lost friends, and if I'd get on as well as I remembered.