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There are only like 10ish people (if that many) who regularly post in the boxing thread which is all I do here, but should all of this disappear suddenly I'd like you guys to know it was fun bullshitting about things when I stopped by every now and then.
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DarkstarIV posted:Breaking my self imposed posting hiatus to say that those wanting a new forum will probably have to chip in to cover the costs. A license for Xenforo is $160 (+$55 a year for updates), and in order to set up a paywall, an additional $75 for that functionality (not counting the $49.95/yr update cost). So the startup cost just for the licenses would be $235 or so. That's not factoring in hosting or a custom theme, which would increase the cost. I was looking at vBulletin, since it's the software SA is based on, their cloud service starts at $15/month: https://www.vbulletin.com/en/vbulletin-cloud Of course you could use myBB and host it on a $5/month DigitalOcean droplet, but that would be less like what goons are used to. You could do it for free on ProBoards but that'd be pretty lame.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:32
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RealFoxy posted:In almost every instance of a forum shutting down because of management I've personally experienced, off-shoot forums are not very successful at all. You get about a tenth of the posters that were around before at best, and after that tapers off you end up with just a handful of small cliqs of friends and rarely any new posters. I'd love to add you folks to my twitter account - here's mine. https://twitter.com/Sherndon226
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El Generico posted:I was looking at vBulletin, since it's the software SA is based on, their cloud service starts at $15/month: https://www.vbulletin.com/en/vbulletin-cloud Yeah, I would avoid vBulletin like the plague these days. They are pretty much on their last legs (they've lost almost all of their market share to other premium providers due to numerous scandals and other situations). Their forum software right now could give Radium a run for its money in terms of code/optimization. Not to mention the usability of the software is awful beyond compare.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:40
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lets all just make xangas, imo
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DarkstarIV posted:Yeah, I would avoid vBulletin like the plague these days. They are pretty much on their last legs (they've lost almost all of their market share to other premium providers due to numerous scandals and other situations). Their forum software right now could give Radium a run for its money in terms of code/optimization. Not to mention the usability of the software is awful beyond compare. Well, that sucks. It would've made things more familiar for people. I kinda like how the forums aren't modern looking with tons of useless whitespace and poo poo. We should just post on RSPW. EDIT: We should also have an IRC channel where you have to use Microsoft Comic Chat. EDIT2: Don't actually go to RSPW. That's a mistake. El Generico fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Jun 24, 2020 14:42
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If this is what kills SA, I'm out. Fragmented offsites are so loving sad. I have no idea what I'd even do on the internet without SA.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:53
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Fight Island/PSP as well as the CineD Horror Thread are two places that have generally productive and non-toxic discussions about things that have really toxic fanbases elsewhere on the internet. Those are the two parts of the forum I'd really miss if SA went down. That's not to minimize the toxicity that does seep though here in Fight Island but I think our mods are generally well intentioned and do their best. I would also like to apologize if I've ever contributed to that toxicity or made anyone uncomfortable.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:07
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bradzilla posted:If this is what kills SA, I'm out. Fragmented offsites are so loving sad. I have no idea what I'd even do on the internet without SA. Same. For 15 years now I've used SA for the perfect time waster. But all things must end. Entropy is the nature of life.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:07
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El Generico posted:In my opinion Discord is an excellent platform that is in no way a replacement for a forum. 
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Jun 24, 2020 15:09
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As a long time lurker, lack of good content provider. I really hope the board find a way to continue. Im too old now to learn how to use discord. This is the best place on the internet to get a good overview of all wrestling news.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:10
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This blows and sucks. I like Fight Island and want it to continue on. We made an MMA Discord if people wanna go there and talk MMA, Martial Arts, or just shoot the poo poo. I hope we could make a mega Fight Island discord so like, all the real fight people who watch AEW & New Japan can come bully us fake fighters from time to time.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:11
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Man, I really do not want to lose FIGHT ISLAND. I couldn't give less of a poo poo about the other subs, but this place is the only (relatively) sane place on the internet to talk about wrestling. I honestly wouldn't have grown my tastes as a fan without this place.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:15
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bradzilla posted:I have no idea what I'd even do on the internet without SA. Same
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Jun 24, 2020 15:16
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This has been the only good place to talk about wrestling online and as someone who has mainly been lurking for a decade+ I'm gonna miss it but I also thought it was dead as a doornail when fatherdog tore poo poo up so who knows I guess sa is a cockroach
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Jun 24, 2020 15:19
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I’m gonna be pissed if TNA outlives SA
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Jun 24, 2020 15:23
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Jun 24, 2020 15:26
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TNA is dead. Impact ate out its insides and wears it as a exoskeleton.
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I had times when I truly loved Fight Island (and its various names over the years) and times I wasn't so fond of it, but it has been the only place I've ever considered discussing my insane muscleperson fakefight fandom. Every other wrestling forum is garbage compared to this place. It feels a bit silly to seriouspost about an internet forum when the real world has so much going on more worthy of attention, but I've been reading the SA forums for nearly 20 years now, it's been a formative place for my sense of humor and an enormous resource for information on all sorts of topics, and with regards to wrestling I don't enjoy most of the 'alternatives.' I agree that discord is a great service that does not satisfy the purposes of a forum at all. For now I'll lurk there in hopes a new home is found, but it's still a bummer. With wrestlers being exposed left and right as monsters, and now the latest Lowtax news on top of it, it feels like my circuses are being taken away. Pretty soon they'll come for my bread 
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Jun 24, 2020 15:30
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I'm always out of the loop on forum events/drama. I just come to chat about video games or wrestling. I wouldn't even know about this if it wssn't brought up in the #SpeakingOut thread. I sure hope this place doesn't die. At this point it's the oldest forum I still frequent. People always mock it for being a "dying comedy forum" but it's far and away the most active forum I belong to. It has a certainly unique culture and history that I'd miss. And Discord really is no substitute for forums. I'm sad so many people have migrated to using Discord chat instead of message boards.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:31
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I uhh made some of the best friends of my life here in PSP. I don't wanna think of what my life would have been like the last eight years without the friends I made. If I leave here today I leave with no regrets, except that Cavauro never played Mario Kart 8 with me, or that Hulkamatt probated me for an entire day for posting the word cum.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:35
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this sucks so loving bad, these forums are the only anime, wrestling and gaming forums not crawling with straight up neonazis and the owner who hasn't given a poo poo about it for like 10+ years ruining it for everyone is so typical.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:37
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As a longtime lurker, I'll miss creeping over all your shoulders while you type. Godspeed.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:42
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Is there a discord list or something? I like fight island. I love the AEW/NJPW/WWE live reaction threads and other sub forums I read too.
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Miching Mallecho posted:Is there a discord list or something? https://goondiscordnetwork.com/
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Jun 24, 2020 15:45
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As somebody who only recently started to post more I would be sad to see this place go.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:47
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Seams posted:I’m gonna be pissed if TNA outlives SA This is like the one thing I expected honestly TNA will outlive all of us. online and offline ed: flashy_mcflash posted:Fight Island/PSP as well as the CineD Horror Thread are two places that have generally productive and non-toxic discussions about things that have really toxic fanbases elsewhere on the internet. Those are the two parts of the forum I'd really miss if SA went down. 
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Jun 24, 2020 15:49
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The only thing left after the apocalypse will be the cockroachs and TNA
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Jun 24, 2020 16:00
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Over in CSpam they're talking about a forum that was started after Lowtax's last accusation (which I somehow heard nothing about). I've registered there pretty much sight unseen. No idea if it's actually any good. I'm only mentioning it here because if people migrate I think it would be cool for migration to occur to a single place rather than a fight island replacement and a cspam replacement and a batmans secret replacement, etc. Anyways that's breadnroses.net. This post should not be taken as a recommendation for that particular site since I don't even know if it is good. I'm just posting so the various different subgroups I look at have at least a chance of landing in the same place.
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While I enjoy posting here I know that it also contributes to a lot of my bad and unproductive tendencies. But I probably also shouldn’t pretend I’m gonna automatically get my poo poo together if I don’t have a forum to read anymore. Anyways, I’ve enjoyed the wednesdays and the frogs y’all.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:10
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Jun 24, 2020 16:10
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Give us back the spine, lowtax.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Fight Island/PSP as well as the CineD Horror Thread are two places that have generally productive and non-toxic discussions about things that have really toxic fanbases elsewhere on the internet. Those are the two parts of the forum I'd really miss if SA went down.
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Jun 24, 2020 16:13
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Whatever the future holds, I hope mobn comes back. She got an unfair shake at the end
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Jun 24, 2020 16:15
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Gonzo McFee posted:Give us back the spine, lowtax. Wasn’t there an episode of Aeon Flux like that?
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Jun 24, 2020 16:17
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I hope FatherDog is doing alright, living his best life
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he's on twitter still and says to tell everyone this (this was a few days ago before lowtax decided to practice his backhand) "anyway I'm 100% not going to read SA threads again but if anyone asks about me specifically, you can let them know that I occasionally miss talking with them in the PSP that was, but I don't regret seeing the back of somethingawful as a venue."
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Hellblazer187 posted:Over in CSpam they're talking about a forum that was started after Lowtax's last accusation (which I somehow heard nothing about). I've registered there pretty much sight unseen. No idea if it's actually any good. I'm only mentioning it here because if people migrate I think it would be cool for migration to occur to a single place rather than a fight island replacement and a cspam replacement and a batmans secret replacement, etc. Anyways that's breadnroses.net. This post should not be taken as a recommendation for that particular site since I don't even know if it is good. I'm just posting so the various different subgroups I look at have at least a chance of landing in the same place. its not good, fam
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsdQYWs3nM4
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MotU posted:its not good, fam dickeye’s off-site is bad?!?
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