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I've had 2 major forums that I visited on a regular basis shut down basically out of the blue (Etiquette Hell and Trolls with wooden spoon), and several more that are now defunct. |
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Yeah, Bad Manners is the one the Dame endorses and joined- it's run by AudreyQuest/JoieGirl. When she went all kerbonkers Manners World and Polite Paradise started up.
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Oh man, I used to love that site. |
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Wow..I missed all of that. Sounds unpleasant. |
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Good news; I got this response today:
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Oh wow. I just a took very brief look at it, that will be, very different. In a way it's more like what the board used to be, before UBB and vBulletin.
I mentioned Reddit earlier because people were starting to ask about some alternatives as well as where to go if this place vanishes. I initially began reading Reddit because this place was so quiet and I missed conversation. And frankly, I spend more time there and don't think to check here as often anymore. It's an option that people can use as little or as much as they want. |
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New platform, new mods.
I'd say probably time to make sure we all have anything we want to save backed up, just in case they opt to start with a clean slate. |
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Discourse? -- I'll have to go find out what Discourse is.
But at least we're finally getting some attention to the situation. Thanks, snopes and Vinny! (Does anybody here know Vinny?) -- hmm. The Discourse page has Car Talk's site linked as an example. Maybe I'll try reading a bit over there to see what it's like. snopes moved the boards before, and that seemed to work out OK, though I gather there were changes -- I don't think I ever logged on the old boards (though I read them occasionally) and don't know how much of a wrench the change was. But the old boards are still archived, so everything didn't just disappear. |
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Vinny is apparently a big-shot at snopes these days:
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I'm somewhat familiar with Discourse as a platform, and it's not a bad one or anything. I just wouldn't count on anything we currently have transferring like we were able to do with the phpBB move.
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Discourse looks interesting - the "see who's active in the thread by user icon" feature on the CarTalk forum is kind of a nifty feature. I really wasn't too enthused about the Reddit-or-Facebook-as-unofficial-replacement option.
I wonder whether they would maintain this forum as a closed, but viewable/searchable entity like the old message board post-migration. In any case, nice to see that someone out there is listening! |
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Wasn't there a Facebook group at some point? I could have sworn I was a member but I don't see it listed anywhere now.
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At which point Linkedin will repeatedly spam everybody in your address book; at any rate, judging by the amount of such junk I keep getting from them. Given the last name, however, there seems to be quite a bit about him elsewhere. But I was mostly wondering whether he'd otherwise been involved with the boards. ETA: Astra, there's a link to a Facebook page on the main snopes page; but several people have reported that they've been there and it's nothing like these boards. |
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I should have been more clear. I thought that several years ago there was a FB group for members of this board. There are several newer ones, including the more recent fan group that's linked from the revamped site, but I couldn't find anything that looked familiar. I know we had to have had something because it's how I ended up friends with a handful of board members.
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Astra, there was such a group because that is also where I became friends with many board members.
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Some of us, however, are determinedly avoiding Facebook.
-- Facebook just accidentally set everybody's private posts to public for two days. When they're already in the middle of a commotion about privacy. |
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Astra, was it this one? snopesters (part deaux)
There are a couple of Lisas on the membership list, but I don't know if any of them are you. |
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It sounds more like they've been planning on starting up some new forums for some time so they just stopped moderating the current forums these last 6 months.
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