Dead Forum Stars in the WWW?

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davey

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I once joined a small colourful ; interesting forum that had its heyday and some in-fighting and then almost died but staggered on for a while and then the owner died [fully confirmed by family contact]. We the remaining 6 were saddened and mopped around a bit. Then the talk came to 'what to do'? notify the "parent body" of the forum group or just keep going for a while?

We debated of course whether one of us would like to take over management - officially via the parent body? but all declined. So here we still are mopping around ; chatting ; exchanging news and unless the site itself has a major glitch of some sort that halts its actions so it may continue. I am sure the great ether of WWW out there must be littered with possible dozens if not hundreds of such phenomena? floating in www space and like the universe capable of going on for ever until a bolt gets stuck in the cog wheels?? wot to do? carry on or throw in the towel?
 

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I once joined a small colourful ; interesting forum that had its heyday and some in-fighting and then almost died but staggered on for a while and then the owner died [fully confirmed by family contact]. We the remaining 6 were saddened and mopped around a bit. Then the talk came to 'what to do'? notify the "parent body" of the forum group or just keep going for a while?

We debated of course whether one of us would like to take over management - officially via the parent body? but all declined. So here we still are mopping around ; chatting ; exchanging news and unless the site itself has a major glitch of some sort that halts its actions so it may continue. I am sure the great ether of WWW out there must be littered with possible dozens if not hundreds of such phenomena? floating in www space and like the universe capable of going on for ever until a bolt gets stuck in the cog wheels?? wot to do? carry on or throw in the towel?
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I used to be a member of The PC Club forum, when they folded up I started a forum for PC Club members to migrate to. So, for people that want to "carry on" sometimes you got to be the one to do the carrying.
 
I guessed someone would say that eventually but this early in the piece?? and in the end your support forum folded too ? - so the sequel to the story is??
 

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There are so many abended sites like that. Many of them do just get shut down but some can still be accessed by the Wayback Machine but you can't do much except read some of the old posts from that selected time period. There are a few sites like the Wayback Machine that let you explore more but most of those are Geocity websites. Fun place to explore for nostalgia but not much content there.


Newsgroups are a different story though. I used newsgroups a lot before the internet really developed and many of those newsgroups are still around. I guess users (new and old) still do visit newsgroups for a variety of different reasons. I was tempted to subscribe to a service for a month just to go back into time but I really am not sure if I want to find out the reasons why people are still using them :sneaky:
 
the site of which I refer is of course still alive and fully functioniong with no captain at the helm so feels like the Marie Celeste on a dark night! but I few of us still meet and say hello but a lot of the topics don't get used - still sad really
 
You process your grief and move on just like life an internet forum is a living entity and changes constantly so if you don't want to pick up the task leave it to others and let nature take it's course.
 
The WWW is transient. While it's content may be archived, it's best to assume everything has a relatively small time span. Just enjoy it while you can.
 

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