Goodbye Fusetalk

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Rufus12
Will all the previous bans still be in place?

god, I hope not...

see below
:heart:

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Greenman

Originally posted by: Evadman
everything will be fine.

The Vet patted our pet goat on the back and said that, then castrated him.

I don't think everything will be fine. I think there will be pandemonium. I think there will be a great deal of whining and angst. I think people will post bitter denunciations of everyone involved with the project and leave the AT forums in anger. I think lives will be ruined by reset post counts. I think there will be thousands of posts by people fighting valiantly to defend their join date. I think the issues forums will be overflowing with the outraged ranting of thousands of pale friendless virgins who's very existence is threatened by a software change.

I think it's going to be the most fun I've ever had here.

It was more fun a couple of years ago when ?upgrades? were done and people were logging into someone elses accounts

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: BeauJangles

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: BeauJangles
One of the reason these forums are so popular is because the members are generally intelligent

You kid right?

I know, I died a little inside when I wrote that

i am willing to bet that the majority are above average intelligence.

You on the same forum?

hey i didnt say all!

just seems if you tune out all the noise there are some great post.

 

[geno]

Can we bring back the old school, cartoon-ish smileys? Yes, I'm still griping about that

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: geno
Can we bring back the old school, cartoon-ish smileys? Yes, I'm still griping about that

Eh? These smileys rule!

KT

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: BackFlow
Fusetalk has been a pain for AT since they moved to it, and the system seems to break every update. The moved to Fusetalk was to have more control over the large user base/thread (such as butter) by take advantage of the registration system & multi forums.

I hope that AT spend more time this round on research so that they don't repeat their past mistakes, by be a technology lemming that constantly strive to have new shining toy/beta testers.

WWYBYWB?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

If they didn't import threads, how long would it take ATOT to fill up the front page, and how long would it take for a repost to occur?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i'd like:

jpeg avatars in addition to these
no pics in signatures
no gif's
no colored text, except for links
link to post number
working search

 

[BackFlow]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak

Originally posted by: BackFlow

Originally posted by: Quiksilver

Originally posted by: Quintox

Originally posted by: Greenman
This should prove to be the mother of all cluster fucks.

Yup. Why the change? I love Fusetalk -- VB is so generic IMO.

This sucks - and I better get to keep my briefcase.

...because Fusecrap is like $5 grand to license and is still buggy as fuck( I mean come on the last patch they tried to use killed the forums for a few hours a few months ago...).vBulletin is like $500 max. permanently. and $60 for updates per year after the first year.

I rather have some generic board (that AT will be skinning out--they already said this in another Vb thread a while back--). On top of that VB makes it a lot easier for the mods when it comes to taking care of spammers, trolls , etc.

Overall, this will be better for AT... and I support it.

Fusetalk has been a pain for AT since they moved to it, and the system seems to break every update. The moved to Fusetalk was to have more control over the large user base/thread (such as butter) by take advantage of the registration system & multi forums.

I hope that AT spend more time this round on research so that they don't repeat their past mistakes, by be a technology lemming that constantly strive to have new shining toy/beta testers.

WWYBYWB?

Never been banned, I occasionally register new user name/account.

Applle was the very first alias that I use in 1997 here.


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[TehMac]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: TehMac
So...when is the switch?

Proposed: by year end.
Actual: by 2013.

It's September 2008. It's nowhere near the year's end.


Why are you all even talking about this?

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: TehMac
So...when is the switch?

Proposed: by year end.
Actual: by 2013.

It's September 2008. It's nowhere near the year's end.


Why are you all even talking about this?

How old are you?

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: TehMac
So...when is the switch?

Proposed: by year end.
Actual: by 2013.

It's September 2008. It's nowhere near the year's end.


Why are you all even talking about this?

How old are you?

He's 17

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: TehMac
So...when is the switch?

Proposed: by year end.
Actual: by 2013.

It's September 2008. It's nowhere near the year's end.


Why are you all even talking about this?

How old are you?

:laugh:

 

[Walking in Circles]

The people that haven't been around for 10 years perhaps aren't educated on how FuseTalk came to be...

The developer for FuseTalk (Zuni, a Canadian dude) worked for AnandTech and built FuseTalk around AT's needs. It ran in tandem with UBB through the summer of 1999, a test phase in which users could join and test post and troll freely and whatever. The slate was wiped clean on October 9, 1999 and everyone had to register again and start anew.

FuseTalk moved from ColdFusion to ASP years after and kind of lost its charm after becoming big and expensive. It should have been vBulletin from the get-go.

To restart all the users and threads again seems to be a good idea, clear everything out every 10 years or so.

The only problem is, WWYBYWB?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Walking in Circles
The people that haven't been around for 10 years perhaps aren't educated on how FuseTalk came to be...

The developer for FuseTalk (Zuni, a Canadian dude) worked for AnandTech and built FuseTalk around AT's needs. It ran in tandem with UBB through the summer of 1999, a test phase in which users could join and test post and troll freely and whatever. The slate was wiped clean on October 9, 1999 and everyone had to register again and start anew.

FuseTalk moved from ColdFusion to ASP years after and kind of lost its charm after becoming big and expensive. It should have been vBulletin from the get-go.

To restart all the users and threads again seems to be a good idea, clear everything out every 10 years or so.

The only problem is, WWYBYWB?

:Q

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Walking in Circles
The people that haven't been around for 10 years perhaps aren't educated on how FuseTalk came to be...

The developer for FuseTalk (Zuni, a Canadian dude) worked for AnandTech and built FuseTalk around AT's needs. It ran in tandem with UBB through the summer of 1999, a test phase in which users could join and test post and troll freely and whatever. The slate was wiped clean on October 9, 1999 and everyone had to register again and start anew.

FuseTalk moved from ColdFusion to ASP years after and kind of lost its charm after becoming big and expensive. It should have been vBulletin from the get-go.

To restart all the users and threads again seems to be a good idea, clear everything out every 10 years or so.

The only problem is, WWYBYWB?

Hmm.

 

[secretanchitman]

while im still going to be posting on AT after the switch, im going to have to say that its going to look like CRAP. ive always liked AT for its nice clean fusetalk powered forum. i have yet to find a site that is very polished and professional looking like it. every single VB forum that ive joined never ever makes an attempt to look decent. i either have like 20 posts in the last few years (compared to over 7000 here starting from 2001) on them or less...it just sucks, and its really hard to navigate as well (imo).

although i welcome change, and with that being said, i hope AT makes the right ones.

 

[BuckNaked]

I am hoping I can get the underscore back in my username....

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: BackFlow

Originally posted by: mjuszczak

Originally posted by: BackFlow

Originally posted by: Quiksilver

Originally posted by: Quintox

Originally posted by: Greenman
This should prove to be the mother of all cluster fucks.

Yup. Why the change? I love Fusetalk -- VB is so generic IMO.

This sucks - and I better get to keep my briefcase.

...because Fusecrap is like $5 grand to license and is still buggy as fuck( I mean come on the last patch they tried to use killed the forums for a few hours a few months ago...).vBulletin is like $500 max. permanently. and $60 for updates per year after the first year.

I rather have some generic board (that AT will be skinning out--they already said this in another Vb thread a while back--). On top of that VB makes it a lot easier for the mods when it comes to taking care of spammers, trolls , etc.

Overall, this will be better for AT... and I support it.

Fusetalk has been a pain for AT since they moved to it, and the system seems to break every update. The moved to Fusetalk was to have more control over the large user base/thread (such as butter) by take advantage of the registration system & multi forums.

I hope that AT spend more time this round on research so that they don't repeat their past mistakes, by be a technology lemming that constantly strive to have new shining toy/beta testers.

WWYBYWB?

Never been banned, I occasionally register new user name/account.

Applle was the very first alias that I use in 1997 here.


--------------------------------------
Multiple accounts are not allowed.

This one is now locked out.

You need to reuse an old one.
Creating a new account will result in a permaennt loss of access.

Senior Anandtech Moderator
Common Courtesy

WAYAYWB?

Who are you after you were banned?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: TehMac
So...when is the switch?

Proposed: by year end.
Actual: by 2013.

It's September 2008. It's nowhere near the year's end.


Why are you all even talking about this?

When did Noah build the Arc, TehMac? Before the rain. BEFORE the rain.

 

[mekon]

Dammit! We need an Arc?

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: Common Courtesy

Originally posted by: Greenman

Originally posted by: Evadman
everything will be fine.

The Vet patted our pet goat on the back and said that, then castrated him.

I don't think everything will be fine. I think there will be pandemonium. I think there will be a great deal of whining and angst. I think people will post bitter denunciations of everyone involved with the project and leave the AT forums in anger. I think lives will be ruined by reset post counts. I think there will be thousands of posts by people fighting valiantly to defend their join date. I think the issues forums will be overflowing with the outraged ranting of thousands of pale friendless virgins who's very existence is threatened by a software change.

I think it's going to be the most fun I've ever had here.

It was more fun a couple of years ago when ?upgrades? were done and people were logging into someone elses accounts

I remember that, I never managed to hit a different account, though I'd have had a ton of fun with it.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Originally posted by: SampSon
See my sig.

Yep, and I'll vouche for that too!

BTW, When the HELL did RossMAN get banned?? And for WHAT?? That guy was a 'Made Man' around here.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer
BTW, When the HELL did RossMAN get banned?? And for WHAT?? That guy was a 'Made Man' around here.

He pissed me off.

 

[Shawn]

So he did get banned?