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I see a lot of talk about asking for help. A lot of us used to donate to the Org monthly, that's how I became a Grayskull Warrior (see my sig). Out of the blue, the payment system was dropped what feels like a few years ago. Maybe that could have come back? IDK. I'm sad it's gone, especially the wealth of content but life goes on. Live the journey 😉
I see a lot of talk about asking for help. A lot of us used to donate to the Org monthly, that's how I became a Grayskull Warrior (see my sig). Out of the blue, the payment system was dropped what feels like a few years ago. Maybe that could have come back? IDK. I'm sad it's gone, especially the wealth of content but life goes on. Live the journey 😉
I love that's your sig bro!
You think the payment system was stopped because he knew he was close to hanging up his cleats and knew he needed to give at least a years worth of working org to anyone who donated?
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Cant believe a simple board can cost hundreds of dollars a month. The content was mostly text and there were a couple hundred active users, not millions.
Plus probably a few hundred gigabytes of attachments, but yeah with a suitable hosting arrangement storage/bandwidth shouldn't have been that.
But at some point in the past hosting really was that expensive, and if contracts just roll over costs don't come down.
And getting a new hosting arrangement with old versions of software to support running outdated forum software does add complications, the site did need some work doing on it.
Plus probably a few hundred gigabytes of attachments, but yeah with a suitable hosting arrangement storage/bandwidth shouldn't have been that.
But at some point in the past hosting really was that expensive, and if contracts just roll over costs don't come down.
And getting a new hosting arrangement with old versions of software to support running outdated forum software does add complications, the site did need some work doing on it.
This can potentially be a huge issue. I know from personal experience that often it is less time consuming to start from scratch. Sometimes repairing the wall is no longer an option and you just have to replace the drywall.
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In this case the options would have been upgrading vBulletin (financial cost + time cost) or converting the vBulletin install to something else, probably most practically phpBB and with the additional step of archiving part/all of the existing forums first to make a conversion easier (software free but greater time cost). Definitely not a five minute job either way.
It was very abrupt. I was shocked that we only got a 7 day notice. I wish Val had something earlier so a solution could have been found.
It was very abrupt. I was shocked that we only got a 7 day notice. I wish Val had something earlier so a solution could have been found.
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Honestly, the piss poor way he handled it tells me that he didn't want a solution.
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So by now everyone who didn’t join here or the other site went to social media?
@brasco Facebook groups. I also heard there is a forum still running on He-Man.org for select group but I don't know if that's true.
That sounds like BS.
@longtooth Dude you don't believe in secret societies? They're real! I bet @jukka is a part of it!
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@brasco It's hard to tell right now. Fan interaction slows down during the holidays.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron
@elder True but it never will be like it was. It's one reason Val closed it or so he says.
@longtooth The problem with social media groups is no proper archive for historical research.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron
@elder There is no archive either when the webmaster shuts the website down.
In one of the followup posts, Val reassured everyone trying to archive the site that the site was being archived officially. Did anything actually come out of that? I kept waiting for elaboration on how it was going to be set up and how to access it before everything got shut down and communication got cut off. But that didn't happen, and it's just been radio silence since. I know most of the individual thread pages have backups on waybackmachine, but that requires you to have the url to the page you want, as waybackmachine can be somewhat finicky to navigate websites through.
Does anyone know if the official archive has already been posted anywhere? Or where news of the release would be posted?
@river Things were unclear. I was confused if closing day meant we had all day on closing day or up to 23:59 the previous day.
So does anyone know if Val is ever going to speak on what happened ? Can any of the old mods share if they can?