It used to be a super cool place in my perception of a naive little teenager. I mean there was tons of fresh diversity being brought in from the success of the halo series, which is still to me a fantastic game (before it turned into a franchise and more than a series). The website was a mixture of ridiculously strict rules, except really open minded mods who would let you get off of like 20 bans. It was really great because everyone would try as hard as they could to fuck around and there was just always funny. Then they updated the site which made it almost unusable. Now there's sep7agon and I hate most of the community, except the rules are way more relaxed and the mods are still cool (as far as I can tell. they haven't banned me yet haha). I just miss the glory days of bungie.net back in like 2010. all the private groups and stuff that would actually get people in them. I guess good things like that have to die out eventually though.

Have most private groups been destroyed? As in they no longer even exist? Or could I go back and access Lurulu?

Activision.