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Originally Posted by SamJ
You lost me.
You have a thriving community... then
You change things... then
Obviously, most didn't like the changes... then
people leave... then
you expect another thriving community.
Why was it felt that all of this nonsense was necessary? I was a member since April of 2000 and left for a year. I come back and its a shell of itself.
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Heh, this post pretty much sums it up IMO. Good one Sam.
Although, honestly, I will say for me personally anyway (since I was one of the few to register on the site when it was first established in the summer of 1999), I was more upset over not just by the fact that the site was being soldout to TI (which of course as we know had forced the changeover in the boards software from good 'ole classic vBulletin v1, to EZBoards)... But, the fact that when the changeover had officially occured; they had promised all of us users that the old posts (we're not just talking about the post counts here, but the ACTUAL threads & posts themselves!) from the pre-TI/Scout days would be ported over in some form to the new merged TI site... It seemed like we had been waiting out for ages for this to happen, until we all just figured and accepted that those posts would never ever be seen again.
Fortunately however,
www.archive.org did have some of those pages saved at the time. Not all, but some. And, I was lucky enough to save much of those archives onto a CD, before most of them would disappear. Personally, I was very heart broken over the whole changeover, as I was very much loyal, and dedicated to the original FanHome. IMHO, the site was undoubtably the best sports forums on the web (at the time). No one came close to the coverage FanHome had going. And, the userbase on there was just growing in the thousands! Ahh, the memories I tell you... :'(
Oh, and another thing I remembered that was promised but was never brought back (although, not something I really cared for, but alot of other users seem to) was the chatroom. Though I'm not 100% sure on this, since I don't recall much of the post-TI days, but if I'm not mistaken, I think I remember it being finally introduced after about a year or so into the new site?