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PeterMollenburg
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 Message 17 of 178
23 July 2015 at 4:34am | IP Logged 
Well you can catch me on the new site ;) Like beta/vhs (am I showing my age?) it looks
like the inevitable poorer version (ok, debatable) but more popular could survive.
Inevitably vhs died in place of new technology eventually. Let's hope a decent solution
will arise out of this, reply from FX or otherwise. I think from the reading I've done
that it makes sense to get the whole community to a new version of the site somehow. As
for Greece and and the EU, what a joke. Some democratic decision that was! (Just had to
throw in a bit of classic PM political commentary that no-one wants to hear/is irrelevant
;) )

PM
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PeterMollenburg
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 Message 18 of 178
23 July 2015 at 4:36am | IP Logged 
vell wrote:
I've found some useful information here over the years, but quite
frankly this website is garbage and I don't
see why anyone cares to save it. It looks like it's from 1996 and it's run by some
administrator who seems to
want to keep an iron grip but not give any attention to it. It's slow, not user
friendly, and even the registration
is awkward -- it took like a week for my account to even be activated when I made one.
Some of the rules and
the "remember our motto 'if you can't spell it, don't write it'" are pretty
unwelcoming too and not exactly the
norm these days or helpful for gaining members.

I don't particularly care about the fate of this community because I just read stuff
here from time to time and I
can do that anywhere (all of the above is keeping me from becoming active), but it
seems to me that you will
have no future if you do nothing. Nobody wants to put up with this kind of bs when
they can use another
forum or Reddit instead. I think if you want to continue to exist you need to cut your
losses and move on with
a new site. It's likely just a matter of time until the forum dies or it happens
anyway.


I couldn't agree more
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mrwarper
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 Message 19 of 178
23 July 2015 at 4:48am | IP Logged 
1e4e6 wrote:
There seem to be no compromises because a real compromise would be to use software similar to the new site and somehow upgrade the old site to that level. This being impossible, [...]

This is NOT impossible.
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hrhenry
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 Message 20 of 178
23 July 2015 at 5:06am | IP Logged 
mrwarper wrote:
1e4e6 wrote:
There seem
to be no compromises because a real
compromise would be to use software
similar to the new site and somehow
upgrade the old site to that level. This
being impossible, [...]

This is NOT impossible.

Unless/until we get a definitive reply
from FX, yeah, it is pretty impossible.

R.
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mrwarper
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 Message 21 of 178
23 July 2015 at 5:22am | IP Logged 
hrhenry wrote:
mrwarper wrote:
1e4e6 wrote:
There seem to be no compromises because a real compromise would be to use software similar to the new site and somehow upgrade the old site to that level. This being impossible, [...]

This is NOT impossible.

Unless/until we get a definitive reply from FX, yeah, it is pretty impossible.

It is technically possible, period. Whether an agreement with FX to do it can be reached is an entirely different matter. Please let's keep the difference in mind.

Edited by mrwarper on 23 July 2015 at 5:23am
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basica
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 Message 22 of 178
23 July 2015 at 5:24am | IP Logged 
1e4e6 wrote:
basica wrote:
Well, I think if a majority chose to stay here the best
choice to me
seems that the other
site shuts down and puts a message referring back to people here.


That is part of the problem--some already would prefer to go to the new site and never
return to the old site, some even said that they would prefer to not post at all if
they had to use the old site again.

A poll in this case is useless, because unlike for example, voting for Prime Minister,
the Prime Minister is the one who has the majority amount of votes. In this case, both
voting camps would do what they want. Effectively this would be like having two Prime
Ministers A and B, and splitting a country in two; those who want PM A have PM A, and
those who want PM B get PM B, wherein the two new countries have both less people than
the one previous country as a whole.


It doesn't really matter what they want if the person running the site decides to shut
it down in order to ensure people come back here - with no alternative most people
would come back here and perhaps a minority will just go screw it and live without,
though I reckon it'd be unlikely.
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hrhenry
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 Message 23 of 178
23 July 2015 at 5:27am | IP Logged 
mrwarper wrote:

It is technically possible, period.
Whether an agreement with FX to do it can
be reached is an entirely different
matter. Please let's keep the difference
in mind.

Of course. Also keep in mind that any
technical possibility is moot without FX's
approval.

The two matters are entirely intertwined.

R.
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SladeWilson
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 Message 24 of 178
23 July 2015 at 5:47am | IP Logged 
basica wrote:
It doesn't really matter what they want if the person running the site decides to shut
it down in order to ensure people come back here - with no alternative most people
would come back here and perhaps a minority will just go screw it and live without,
though I reckon it'd be unlikely.

Anyone can create a domain name and run a website for a low cost. And there are alternative forums, just nobody has bothered to make a move.


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