O&M ends... and then?

[osprey]

OSPREY. OSPREY. OSPREY.

Now I'm going to pluck my own heart from my chest cavity. This should be interesting. Updates tomorrow at dawn...

[Sage]

Trillian

I never figured out how to add IRC to Trillian.

Too late now, I use something else for IRC


EDIT: I'll go to IRC maybe

[osprey]

OSPREY. OSPREY. OSPREY.

Now I'm going to pluck my own heart from my chest cavity. This should be interesting. Updates tomorrow at dawn...

Oh no, I'm getting no blood flow. Please call for a paramedic...oh wait, you can't, you're dead...

[Tai]

I would get on the IRC channel, but whenever I do, people whine about my use of coloured font

I whine because I love it :3

[GeorgiaCoyote]

colored font is cool. or should I say...color font is cool!!!

[datherman]

I would get on the IRC channel, but whenever I do, people whine about my use of coloured font (something I can't do anything about in Trillian).

I wasn't aware you could even have a default text color in Trillian. I used Trillian for IRC for a while before giving up and switching to mIRC, which makes for a much better experience. You can mess with the colors to make them resemble Trillian if you'd like.

[Softpaw]

I would get on the IRC channel, but whenever I do, people whine about my use of coloured font (something I can't do anything about in Trillian).

I wasn't aware you could even have a default text color in Trillian. I used Trillian for IRC for a while before giving up and switching to mIRC, which makes for a much better experience. You can mess with the colors to make them resemble Trillian if you'd like.

Well, I like to use bold purple font in all my IM chats, and in Trillian 3, the font settings are applied to all protocols, including IRC. So, unless I change my system-wide settings every time I connect to IRC, which I consider highly unreasonable for a medium I seldom use, my font will be purple.

And, every single time I've gotten into this site's IRC channel, someone always complains about it. Thus, I've stopped joining in. And, I'm well aware of mIRC, and have used it before, but I don't really use IRC enough to justify putting it on my main desktop machine. Might put it on my laptop, though.

[Doc Sigma]

I used to be an admin at a board which was devoted to an online game. (Arloest was, too.) As time went on, the board stopped focusing on the game and became a haven of general nonsense. But, that's when it was at its BEST. We were a close-knit community and had some amazingly fun times. Eventually the game pretty much died, but the forum stayed around. People left, and new people came, although the former happened faster than the latter, and eventually the board died. But dammit, it was a heck of a ride. It was literally like the board went through a full, human-like life cycle, complete with angsty teenage years, middle age, a happy peaceful retirement, and a painless death.

I envision something similar happening here... and I have NO problem with that. In fact, I look forward to it.

[Sage]

I envision something similar happening here... and I have NO problem with that. In fact, I look forward to it.

I'll miss you guys then =(

Well, some of you at least.

[Baconsticks]

I can see that happening here too. It happened at another board I moderated, though on a much larger scale.

[Arloest]

I used to be an admin at a board which was devoted to an online game. (Arloest was, too.) As time went on, the board stopped focusing on the game and became a haven of general nonsense. But, that's when it was at its BEST. We were a close-knit community and had some amazingly fun times. Eventually the game pretty much died, but the forum stayed around. People left, and new people came, although the former happened faster than the latter, and eventually the board died. But dammit, it was a heck of a ride. It was literally like the board went through a full, human-like life cycle, complete with angsty teenage years, middle age, a happy peaceful retirement, and a painless death.

Actually, I remember the whole board being divided near the end over a big conflict involving Spencer and the architects. There was lots of yelling and Becky was making a fuss and everything was hostile. The conflict eventually subsided, but the board never really recovered.

So I see it more like the board having a heart attack, recovering somewhat and then dying.

Also I was an 'effin horrible admin at those boards (when I was for those 2 days) back in 2002.

[optiMITCHprime]

I personally believe this forum will not die. we'll tell our friends about this place, we'll tell strangers about this place. As, long as we've got the archived Ozy and Millie strips, hope, and possibly stumbleupon ( which is awesome if you've never heard of it), we will not go down! (at least not without a fight)

[Arloest]

I personally believe this forum will not die. we'll tell our friends about this place, we'll tell strangers about this place. As, long as we've got the archived Ozy and Millie strips, hope, and possibly stumbleupon ( which is awesome if you've never heard of it), we will not go down! (at least not without a fight)

Nein. Every board dies eventually.


How's THAT for a pessimistic slap in the face.


Edit: Haha, this was my 3,000th post.

[optiMITCHprime]

I guess you're right, but I bet that they'll be no signs of death till 2020

[Fritz]

we'll tell our friends about this place, we'll tell strangers about this place.

No we will not.