Day 7

[Homer Potvin]

Hey hey! I won't be posting these every day, but want to make it a semi-regular thing.

Not bad for a first week, huh? Again, thank you. I continue to be blown away by the Oral History. Please keep that thread free of comments. One log entry per member. It's a great story and everyone has their own piece to tell. We're going to convert this to a memorial to the OG. Now that most of our accounts have been deleted and the forums hidden from spammers, the Judgement Day server bills of May 28th doesn't feel very important anymore, but we can still do a watch-party. I think around 4pm EST would be the time to tune in. BYOB, unfortunately.

Great job with the lifeboats, everyone. 125 members with five days to spare. It's amazing what a little organization can do. Thank you for that. I have some mixed emotions about the OG going down, but to be honest, I'm not seeing much left there to be sad about. Our jam is our jam. Not 17 zillion words on a database somewhere. Or a pluralized URL.

 

[Set2Stun]

I'd lamented the loss of all that data, all those interactions, stories. But then I thought, to what extent are any of us taking a deep dive into ancient posts? The past can remain the past, outside of how we choose to remember it in the history thread. I only really cared about saving my journal when it came down to it.

Hell of a week, Homer. You and the Moose really did it, and we love yas for it. Cheers

 

[Naomasa298]

Daniel will be getting ready to receive your month wake-up call round about now.

 

[big soft moose]

The database and 60k members would have been good for persuading advertisers and sponsors to take us seriously but it makes very little day to day difference

Only 2973 of those 60k plus had ever made one post… there a strong chance that many of the others were bots ( all of the not quite 3k received a message asking them to join this site but of course many are dormant and won’t have got the word)

Of those not quite 3k less than a thousand had made ten posts and only a couple hundred had made 100 posts

Really the active members were about 150 people of whom we have 127 here

 

[Naomasa298]

The database and 60k members would have been good for persuading advertisers and sponsors to take us seriously but it makes very little day to day difference

Only 2973 of those 60k plus had ever made one post… there a strong chance that many of the others were bots ( all of the not quite 3k received a message asking them to join this site but of course many are dormant and won’t have got the word)

Of those not quite 3k less than a thousand had made ten posts and only a couple hundred had made 100 posts

Really the active members were about 150 people of whom we have 127 here

By the way, does the number of "guests" on the front page include bots?

 

[big soft moose]

Daniel will be getting ready to receive your month wake-up call round about now.

The 28th is server bill day for the old site, I suspect Daniel still thinks that Homer will ride over the horizon on his white charger on about the 30th and miraculously pay the bill

Assuming of course that he even realises that it due.

Daniel has a number of other websites and enterprises over the years all of which are dead and empty. WF the first survived much longer that the others because of its members and staff teams keeping it going in spite of the owner

I know Cogito ( RIP) wasn’t universally loved but WF would have died in its arse in about 2011 had he not stepped up when Raven had his wobbler

It also would have died in about 2013 had Wreybies not taken the Helm and in 2019 had komposten not stepped up ( modesty forbids my mentioning the heroic contribution of the last admin… bagsy Patrick Dempsey plays me in the film )

 

[Naomasa298]

I know Cogito ( RIP) wasn’t universally loved but WF would have died in its arse in about 2011 had he not stepped up when Raven had his wobbler

Cogito ergo sum? Cogito therefore we are.

 

[big soft moose]

By the way, does the number of "guests" on the front page include bots?

There’s no way to tell … guests is people visiting/ viewing without logging in so it could be bots, it could be unregistered people or it could be members who’re not logged in

There are Add ons that can tell but we don’t currently have them

 

[big soft moose]

Also bots don’t have to be sinister, the most common type especially for a new site are webcrawlers that index content for search engines

By and large those bots are our friends and we welcome them into the site excepting those areas like the workshops members don’t want work to be indexed

 

[Homer Potvin]

Daniel will be getting ready to receive your month wake-up call round about now.

Never heard of him.

 

[Naomasa298]

Also bots don’t have to be sinister, the most common type especially for a new site are webcrawlers that index content for search engines

By and large those bots are our friends and we welcome them into the site excepting those areas like the workshops members don’t want work to be indexed

I know, it's just interesting to know how many potential humans are looking at the board.

 

[Luxuria]

I love your updates. Please do them often. Maybe until the first year anniversary. I love having a log of this forums beginning.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I love your updates. Please do them often.

You say that now, but we're not far from: Jesus, Homer. Shut. The. Hell. Up.

 

[Trish]

I know Cogito ( RIP) wasn’t universally loved

Off topic, but I loved him and I was really sad to hear he's gone.