The Off-Topic Thread

KvlT · September 17, 2019, 11:35pm

No, the official story just said something else. Like 50x over… and for what?
I don’t think anyone would care, but it would be awfully strange for there to be a ‘story’ at all.

Jayson · September 18, 2019, 12:06am

wayne:

wait hold on Levi @IO_Madness … that wasn’t an “HD crash”. the admin/mod team moved to a new software which just meant not taking the old conversations or profiles with us. there was no other way to do it. I was trying to switch to a better software the entire time I was admin but it never happened. they made it happen. they knew the price and saw it as a way to keep this place up to date. I’m glad they did. the vbulletin software we used was from 2008 or some shit like that. it also had serious security issues.

lesbihonest, this platform is way fucking better. it looks the same but it’s congruent. we all wanted to take all the old posts with us but we couldn’t, there was no way. they knew the price, they knew it would cause a rift, it was a big decision. but hey man, you’re still here. tbh I’m stoked on that. I love to drop into the off-topic thread and see that you’re still posting. love you dude.

there’s never been an “HD crash” where information was lost or corrupted.

there have been two major deletions, based on user error by two different users (one a mod, one an admin) over the last 13 years. the first one was a moderator who didn’t know what he was doing and he cleared a bunch of shit out but it was easily recovered. the second one was where a previous admin did the same thing thinking he was clearing out old threads but literally hard-deleted tens of thousands of posts from the admin panel without knowing what exactly he was clearing – some of them “historically” and to me personally valuable. it was a mistake. I personally lost like 5,000 of my own maybe more. that was years before we transferred to this new platform, at least a year or two after he was long gone because he cried and rage-deleted his own profile not realizing all of his posts would still remain. that last part was comical. at the time, both events sucked but to be honest, it’s given this community an opportunity to grow in different ways and overall I see it as a good thing.

we said some really cool things on the old platform, but we also said a lot of really, really stupid things. they’re gone. i’m at peace with it.

just correcting the semantics/cement-dicks there. no biggie.

The confusion likely comes from this series of posts on Facebook which directly present a narrative revolving around technical failures and rebuild for resolution.

In order…

–continued

Cheers,
Jayson

Jayson · September 18, 2019, 12:11am

Cheers,
Jayson

nose · September 18, 2019, 12:17am

Yeah you know

I’m just glad this place is here. Lol

Also I guess to fids point, I am glad all the fucking weird old posts are gone.

Although who didn’t like graciously going into the old weird 2012 threads as a flash back?

Roo_Stercogburn · September 18, 2019, 6:42am

There was a crash but there were some backups. So some data would have been lost but a restore could have taken place. However the decision was made to take it on the chin and move to the new platform, instead of Stu putting in many hours of unpaid work to get things back up and running on the old platform. We’d been wanting to move the forums for aaaaaaaaages but the mangled data format of the old platform was a massive barrier.

So we took it on the chin and did the move. Stu got the platform up and running then the team got to work on the look and feel. And here we are.

Sorry to everyone for the grief of the move but the URL/DNS point here and anyone returning should be able to find their way. Whether they want to stay or not is another matter but I hope so

bfk · September 18, 2019, 10:08am

Not ragequitting speaking truth I mean come on remember when I first posted here as I shit rainbows, seriously…anyways in the decade I’ve been posting here… idmf helped prevented me from becoming a brainwashed fox news/ msnbc consuming red pill/blue pill pop psychology meme generating ignorant fucktard that primarily lives in a virtual reality who does nothing but consume bullshit…by helping me via administering the vaccines called practicalism, critical thinking, and common sense so for that there is not enough thanks I can I give to idmf for that…so yea I’m fucking off to make room for the new generation…and because the internet can be a soul destroying black hole…and because the internet is my equivalent of alcoholism/drug addiction…

Tl:dr so thank you all for tolerating me…and for your indirect intervention…

Yea I know this is like the second goodbye, it’s because I’m italian which means guidos like me have to say goodbye 20 to 100 times and spend a half an hour of saying goodbyes in trying to leave before actually leaving and parting ways

Blah blah blah

Sincerely,
Random person

st3aLth · September 18, 2019, 4:38pm

Funny video i found

Tsachi · September 18, 2019, 5:53pm

B-bye bfk… we’ll miss u

IO_Madness · September 18, 2019, 11:16pm

Ah, so it seems it DID crash, and the info wasn’t completely lost, but the decision was made to start anew with a fresh slate and a new site.

Jayson · September 19, 2019, 12:22am

That’s my read of it.

Cheers,
Jayson

KvlT · September 19, 2019, 3:37am

Shit happens. This place is still gud in my book. Sometimes you just have to do it all for the nookie.

EndQuote · September 23, 2019, 8:09pm

that seinfeld dude is a huge cunt

pianowillbebach · September 23, 2019, 11:44pm

I got an email - hopefully they’ll run another promo again soon for ya

IO_Madness · September 24, 2019, 1:45am

I don’t see what that has to do with my post. I just posted some confectionery deliciousness.

Jayson · September 24, 2019, 2:28am

Cheers,
Jayson

Entropy · September 24, 2019, 4:44pm

Welp, this has changed.

wayne · September 27, 2019, 2:36pm

pissing myself fucking laughing

wayne · September 27, 2019, 2:38pm

bfk:

Not ragequitting speaking truth I mean come on remember when I first posted here as I shit rainbows, seriously…anyways in the decade I’ve been posting here… idmf helped prevented me from becoming a brainwashed fox news/ msnbc consuming red pill/blue pill pop psychology meme generating ignorant fucktard that primarily lives in a virtual reality who does nothing but consume bullshit…by helping me via administering the vaccines called practicalism, critical thinking, and common sense so for that there is not enough thanks I can I give to idmf for that…so yea I’m fucking off to make room for the new generation…and because the internet can be a soul destroying black hole…and because the internet is my equivalent of alcoholism/drug addiction…

Tl:dr so thank you all for tolerating me…and for your indirect intervention…

Yea I know this is like the second goodbye, it’s because I’m italian which means guidos like me have to say goodbye 20 to 100 times and spend a half an hour of saying goodbyes in trying to leave before actually leaving and parting ways

Blah blah blah

1roomstudio · October 4, 2019, 3:11am

Interesting ancient forum lore…

st3aLth · October 4, 2019, 5:46am

If i’m broke i’m back to learning synths.