Emergency Backup Site

[Zed Clampet]

There are a number of things that have me concerned about the future of this forum. If you wake up one day and Future has shut this forum down and not replaced it with anything, give me a moment and I will create a replacement site at my username (dot) com.

I want to emphasize, if any admin are reading this, that there is no alternate site. I'm not trying to lure anyone anywhere. I simply want to let people know that I will make a place where we can regroup if corporate decisions lead us to suddenly having no forum. There is no way of notifying members of this after the fact, as this sort of post isn't allowed at the main site.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I may reserve a better name, but using my username as an emergency is probably the easiest thing for everyone to remember. I have to make sure that, against all odds, it hasn't been bought by someone else.

 

[BeardyHat]

Funny and a bit apropos. Way back when I was a fixture of the Planet Half-Life forums. Eventually they migrated over from a forum technology, which I think was called Lithtech. A bunch of the regulars hated the style (which was basically this, as all forums have become), so one of the regulars created their own site and mocked-up a forum based on that same Lithtech and it's a place we all haunted for a decade or more.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Funny and a bit apropos. Way back when I was a fixture of the Planet Half-Life forums. Eventually they migrated over from a forum technology, which I think was called Lithtech. A bunch of the regulars hated the style (which was basically this, as all forums have become), so one of the regulars created their own site and mocked-up a forum based on that same Lithtech and it's a place we all haunted for a decade or more.

I had a friend banned for life from a sports forum for making an alternate forum, which is why I tried to emphasize that this was an "only in an emergency" type situation.

 

[Pifanjr]

I've been on a forum where a couple of members decided to make their own because they didn't agree with certain moderator decisions. In my opinion those moderators were some of the best I've ever seen, so it was really just a bunch of troublemakers leaving. I think most of them ended up returning or staying active on the main forum anyway.

 

[Colif]

i have been on a forum where half the mods left and made their own website/Playstation Clan... after a few years they all came back, power struggles can do that to people. You can never tell how someone will react if given power.

I won't predict the future of Future... I mean, they have plenty of websites. Here isn't the only game website even. I let you find the others... I randomly find them and ID them from website appearance.