Aww fabulous!
I used to run a website which had a popular forum (with a serious purpose at the time), did calendar shoots for charity and sold merchandise (all designed by a group of 3 of us). This included hoodies with our logo and forum nicknames on.
We ended up organising big get togethers in Birmingham - as central as anywhere.
We all stayed in a hotel, brought goodies - helium baloons to inhale, pink cowgirl hats etc and went out for the night, had great fun and was so successful we repeated that several times.
Firm friendships made and we also had gatherings in some of our homes, generally being silly & having a laugh.
There was an on going joke about mini sausages
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(remind you of anyone?) so cocktail sausages always featured & we invented a bespoke cocktail called a "Fat Frog' = Orange Bacardi Breezer/Vodka Ice and Blue Wkd! It was green & tasted like Refresher sweets!
When we initially met up after a couple of years on the forum we all hit it off like old friends!