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Neither of which crossed my mind, you understand. Not at all. ;-)
But at least now I get a better username, and a kickass Jerry Lewis avatar.
The change is a shock to the system, after all those years it's going to take time to get used to.
But on the plus side, it gives us a chance to start afresh.
We can start new threads.
Make new discussions.
We can build a new forum, with all the best bits of the previous one.
This is not the end.
It's just a new beginning.
There will be those who we lose along the way, but hopefully not all, and there will be new friends who will join the fun.
Full steam ahead, and let the good times roll.
This is gonna take some getting used to.
Just to clear up, who's left the forums altogether?
Some have claimed to, we'll see in time, for some the shock may have been a lot at first.
Glad you're here G!
I read a few Fleming's novels even before they were filmed and was thrilled to see Dr No on the screen then. It was a long time ago, then I was a university student, and we the university students were hooked onto Flemings novels.
This forum is thrust upon us I guess. I could not use my old user name (fleming's007).
Any way, I will visit this site from time to time.
Later: After trawling through this site, it is not bad after all! Let us get used to this site.
But what people are most upset about was the lack of warning. They may have looked very differently at this new set up if they, we, were told about the change and could still link to the old archives. If not forever (to enhance the fun here) but just for a few weeks to save some posts. I've got my own reasons but certainly the fan fic guys who write their stuff on the forum only have lost a tremendous amount of work.
I suppose after so many years of being promised an upgrade, this kind of a change was a surprise and I'd go so far as to say slightly thoughtless. I know the admins don't have as much to do with the forum and so won't have memories caught up in it, but they know the rest of us do.
And now I go to spend some time this morning searching the old forum, willing to do it page by page.... and it's linking to commanderbond.net. I don't know, it just seems to say... Fit in or f*** off. Maybe they really do want to cull the herd and start fresh. A little warning would have been nice though. Even a message by email saying that the format has changed and will be better suited to younger members... though surprising, would have been appreciated.
Do you get what I'm saying?
I do appreciate the admins. I've always stuck up for them and been grateful that the site ran as smoothly as it did and that it was free of ads and such. I suppose I'm worried that ads are what the space on the page is for - eventually. I'd rather make this a pay site if that were the case. And I'd certainly not have scoffed at that suggestion had it been discussed previously.
That said, we should be honest with ourselves and remember that a lot of the old forums were spam without any prompting from the site's design; c'est la vie. In a way, you might say that the new site design just serves to highlight the spam-tastic traits in many of us. Old members are already posting old threads. For now, it's difficult to say "boo" to any of that; restarting old threads is comfort food for those jarred by the change. But I can't help but wonder if this behavior will result in bringing forward the best of Keeping the British End Up (as someone suggested somewhere around here; @Benny, maybe?), or just a caricature of Keeping the British End Up.
Of course, one man's shameless self-parody is another man's greatest hits album (see also: Chandler Bong, Die Another Day), so it may be impossible to fairly evaluate this change without a good deal of hindsight… …and after some of these glitches (which, to be honest, feel a little more like functionality oversights) are dealt with. The twenty-four hour editing limit, for instance, makes it impossible to run a table of contents within a long-lasting thread.
I guess there is no way to delete a post entirely like before?
Just wonder, is the old forum saved somewhere or is it gone forever?
It's gone - forever.
Anyway, at least I've been able to keep my original name.
Some problems that may not be evident to the regular user have to be fixed. If your house has termites or mold in the walls you won't be able to fix it by adding a new coat of paint. I hope that analogy makes some sense.
Will any of the reasons for the sudden changeover be made public? It may help some members understand why it had to/has happened.
Anyhow, lets keep this as an appreciation thread and forward all other feedback/suggestions to the feedback thread, eh? :)
I get the analogy and am not opposed to the new site... It's just that, like so many, I used the old site as reference. Sometimes I'd go and just read old threads in which I wasn't even involved just to learn more about other members and, get this crazy idea, to learn about James Bond.
It was like having a library to hand.
Thankfully, I never invested that much of my limited knowledge (due to that fact) into the old site but it must be awful for those who did.
My comment however was referring mostly to the reason why the MI6 Community happened and not how it happened. I've been getting the vibe that some people think the only reason this was done was so that we could get a working search function. I just wanted to clear that up.
Or am I still going to get a PM from a mod telling me to be a good boy?
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1/community-terms-conditions-of-use