grateful
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 30, 2025 at 08:14 PM UTC
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hutch wrote:
I think it’s a necessary change but it’s definitely bittersweet.
I think I sounded out half the regular boardies about how we could spur more traffic and we just didn’t have any ideas.
IMP Insiders!
kosmo
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 30, 2025 at 08:14 PM UTC
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grateful wrote:
kosmo wrote:
all i'm going to say is that Qobuz runs a really nice forum on Cicrle.so , and there is app
But do they potato?
well qobuz does Potato and your choices are a Spanish Pop/Ska band or a Thai rock band
Hutch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 30, 2025 at 08:14 PM UTC
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nkotb wrote:
Have we tried nudes?
hutch wrote:
I think it’s a necessary change but it’s definitely bittersweet.
I think I sounded out half the regular boardies about how we could spur more traffic and we just didn’t have any ideas.
What do you think all that “spam” was???
Sidehatch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM UTC
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So I think it is the admin's responsibility here to look at the top 20 threads, and just rebuild them from day 1
this has such a New Coke vibe
grateful
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 01:37 PM UTC
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savesanpHatch wrote:
So I think it is the admin's responsibility here to look at the top 20 threads, and just rebuild them from day 1
this has such a New Coke vibe
Completely agree, but I think there needs to be a quality dimension, and a recency consideration.
jeffml
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 02:32 PM UTC
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Agree. We need to emphasize quality like the integers thread and the potato thread.
grateful wrote:
savesanpHatch wrote:
So I think it is the admin's responsibility here to look at the top 20 threads, and just rebuild them from day 1
this has such a New Coke vibe
Completely agree, but I think there needs to be a quality dimension, and a recency consideration.
jrpa
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 02:46 PM UTC
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savesanpHatch wrote:
So I think it is the admin's responsibility here to look at the top 20 threads, and just rebuild them from day 1
this has such a New Coke vibe
If only there was some sort of user curated Hall of Fame they could work off of!
Oh god, all the links in that are gonna be broken, huh? Shit.
Sidehatch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 03:16 PM UTC
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Are we going to have to form a boycott protest over this!
I don't know if they can withstand 6 people not going for about 1 week
I'm going on a CD strike, I refuse to play a CD again until we get the forum back
who am I kidding, I haven't played a CD since the Aughts
Hutch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 03:42 PM UTC
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Savethe9:30forumHatch wrote:
Are we going to have to form a boycott protest over this!
I don't know if they can withstand 6 people not going for about 1 week
I'm going on a CD strike, I refuse to play a CD again until we get the forum back
who am I kidding, I haven't played a CD since the Aughts
Maybe it’s time to unionize?
Sidehatch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 04:47 PM UTC
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What do we want: The 9:30 Forum!
When do we want it: Forever!
jrpa
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 04:54 PM UTC
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I mean, I’m totally fine with Discord. I don’t think it’s going to lead to a bunch of new people joining IF the core people migrate over and we continue to be insular and unfriendly, but forum or Discord is all the same to me.
Sidehatch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 05:05 PM UTC
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Julian, wrote:
I mean, I’m totally fine with Discord. I don’t think it’s going to lead to a bunch of new people joining IF the core people migrate over and we continue to be insular and unfriendly, but forum or Discord is all the same to me.
I know that…I'm just being dramatic
although we will lose the prestige of the high post count and some of these great threads
Hutch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 05:34 PM UTC
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Prestige of high post count??? You have got to be fucking kidding me!
nkotb
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 05:44 PM UTC
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Yeah, that's a bullshit metric. Let's think of the true prestige, folks: Registration Date
hutch wrote:
Prestige of high post count??? You have got to be fucking kidding me!
Sidehatch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 05:53 PM UTC
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hutch wrote:
Prestige of high post count??? You have got to be fucking kidding me!
hey man, don't shit on my life's work
Sidehatch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 05:55 PM UTC
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nkotb wrote:
Yeah, that's a bullshit metric. Let's think of the true prestige, folks: Registration Date
hutch wrote:
Prestige of high post count??? You have got to be fucking kidding me!
my original FWB card was 422, but the card was made so cheap they couldn't scan it any more as the QR code was f'ed
I asked for a new card, but they couldn't retain my original number (then they went to the wallet option like a few weeks later of course)
jrpa
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 06:06 PM UTC
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hutch wrote:
Prestige of high post count??? You have got to be fucking kidding me!
This man’s life work is apparently futilely chasing a dude named Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK. He’s suffered enough — we don’t need to make fun of him.
skeeter
Joined: May 29, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 4011
Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 06:09 PM UTC
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BOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hutch
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 06:18 PM UTC
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Savethe9:30forumHatch wrote:
nkotb wrote:
Yeah, that's a bullshit metric. Let's think of the true prestige, folks: Registration Date
hutch wrote:
Prestige of high post count??? You have got to be fucking kidding me!
my original FWB card was 422, but the card was made so cheap they couldn't scan it any more as the QR code was f'ed
I asked for a new card, but they couldn't retain my original number (then they went to the wallet option like a few weeks later of course)
Damn dude…it’s been blow after blow for you….
Yada
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Re: It’s not goodbye, it’s see you soon!
October 31, 2025 at 07:42 PM UTC
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After further review… I think this is the end.
We have MAX 10 regular posters (members who post at least once a day), maybe 20 lurkers (people you see at the bottom as online but maybe never post or post once in a blue moon), and then an unknown amount of true lurkers without accounts.
Certain posters here are still learning how to post pictures on this forum and a new platform (especially discord) seems way overkill for this place. We will probably lose up to 40% of the 10 regular posters.
At any rate, it was a fun 20+ years. Take care, fam.