A Request Regarding The .COM Site

[nomadh]

So, I used to frequent another guitar forum called Bluestalk back in the day and a similar thing happend there as our Momo invasion. I just visited the site to look around and here is what it looks like now:
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Gone Just a placeholder now. I expect the old .com site to meet the same fate sooner than later...

And yet they keep doing it? I wonder if it ever works so that it's worth the try? Thing is if they did it right, leave the main system alone then add their overhead as an alternate front door and slowly moved a feature at a time and of course not have the new interface suck suck suck! Maybe it could work?

[nomadh]

Well, I'm a few months off and the site's gone... lol

I did glace through some of the posts before it happened. What triggered all this, if that's okay to discuss?

Welcome aboard sir!

It all began on a previously unannounced "transfer" the day after Memorial Day, May 25, when site owner, "Tom The Traitor", and some MOFO Dweedoid announced a new Owner, a new Mod and moving ALL user board info over to a site that somewhat resembled a failed attempt at a "Mobile" version of AGF which bore absolutely no resemblance to its current iteration and was designed by Illiterate Millennials trying to do a Data Mining Grab.

A Sheetstorm ensued. I contacted "The Traitor" and offered to take over the hosting costs and was told control of the site and domain had already been transferred. Shortly thereafter it was revealed that "The Traitor" had been working behind the scenes to pull off this Coup for months.

In my final contact with "The Traitor" I actually told him in writing I was going to set up a new board and never heard back from the WIMP again.

While everyone else on the board was in total shock and completely whizzed off, I contacted my ISP, bought the domain name "aguitarforum.NET", yes the idiots never bought the other extensions to cover their butts (Thank God), Hosting for TWO YEARS and had a NEW AGF up and running in less than 5 days...warts and all. I made daily progress updates and with the help of the Old Mods, Tobijohn and Mickey along with Rich in the U.K., who helped out YUGELY with quite a number of the technical issues, the NEW AGF was launched.

During all of this, Old AGFers NUKED the old board in all kinds of ways to get folks over to the NEW AGF which worked spectacularly. The gits on the old board even wrote custom code to "intercept" posts referring the new .NET site and replacing it with the old .COM extension. WEASELS!

Yes we have lost YEARS AND YEARS of amazing content but we are all here, committed to rebuilding and keeping the flame of AGF burning brightly.

The "CORE CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS" of the old AGF are all here. The NEW AGF is owned and operated by its members and always will be.

As a result of our "Rebellion" the transfer of the soul of AGF FAILED MISERABLY and so...We Be Where We Be.

The MOFOs and "Tom The Traitor", on the other hand, have been left licking the soiled rim of an Old Soviet Union Toilet....

Googling a pic of that.

SU Toilet.jpg

Here are "The Stats" for our first 45 days of existence. Most impressive.

Number of posts: 9200
Posts per day: 173.55
Number of topics: 669
Topics per day: 12.62
Number of users: 220
Users per day: 4.15
Number of attachments: 1489
Attachments per day: 28.09

Patrick

If we could have this kind of spirit and push back to most of the government, not just last year, but the last 10 I would actually have hope for the future.

[LightWingStudios]

NEVER give up my friend.

[pdcorlis]

They are dead to me.

[Manco53]

Seems like most of the regulars are still around here?

I haven’t been on for awhile. What’s the good word!?

[nomadh]

Seems like most of the regulars are still around here?

I haven’t been on for awhile. What’s the good word!?

Just looking for content to post.

[mickey]

Seems like most of the regulars are still around here?

I haven’t been on for awhile. What’s the good word!?

Just looking for content to post.

That's what she said last night!

[Tonray's Ghost]

Seems like most of the regulars are still around here?

I haven’t been on for awhile. What’s the good word!?

The Good Book is always a source of inspiration:

[glasshand]

The Good Book is always a source of inspiration:

It's never been the same since they took the squirrel-skinning instructions out, though.

[nomadh]

Seems like most of the regulars are still around here?

I haven’t been on for awhile. What’s the good word!?

The Good Book is always a source of inspiration:

I prefer the unexpurgated version. With the naughty bits.

[Tonray's Ghost]

Seems like most of the regulars are still around here?

I haven’t been on for awhile. What’s the good word!?

The Good Book is always a source of inspiration:

I prefer the unexpurgated version. With the naughty bits.

Bacon bits are about as naughty as I get these days.