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Post by elmar on Sept 17, 2012 11:40:49 GMT -8
YAY! Spongie's here! TEMPORARY housing, Spongie...just until renovations are completed at AFB1. Renovations would have to include some new site admins for me to go back. +1
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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 17, 2012 13:06:20 GMT -8
131 registered members.
Welcome to all. We're doing great and better by the minute.
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Post by downunder on Sept 17, 2012 21:06:01 GMT -8
Thank you, Is nice to be home again... and long still !!!
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Post by onemoreanimal on Sept 18, 2012 3:02:46 GMT -8
Hello AFB 2! Nice to see all the familiar faces.
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Post by capablanca on Sept 18, 2012 8:34:26 GMT -8
Hello, everyone. Thanks again to all who create the great content.
I used to carry my weight: Some 2,500 posts over six years. I'll try to pick up the pace again.
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Post by lovemyipad on Sept 18, 2012 8:38:23 GMT -8
Hello, everyone. Thanks again to all who create the great content. I used to carry my weight: Some 2,500 posts over six years. I'll try to pick up the pace again. Capa, we'll take what we can get from you! I learned a TON from your archived posts at AFB1.
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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 18, 2012 8:47:37 GMT -8
Welcome to about a dozen arrivals of the past 12 hours: capablanca, appledoc, onemoreanimal, down under, double rainbow and more. 172 registered. Insert pic. The Mice Galaxies, one of my favorite desktop pix.
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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 18, 2012 10:17:14 GMT -8
Welcome dreamraj, nano, princessgrace, chinacat, shorter, rosie, bernard, shorter, since84, jumar, nwjade, coma, hellojapan, yudonomi, leonb, fariba, elmar, mstefa, mtjs, Rupert, alxyz, calvinav, sazerac and many more.
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Post by mbeauch on Sept 18, 2012 10:32:31 GMT -8
Welcome dreamraj, nano, princessgrace, chinacat, shorter, rosie, bernard, shorter, since84, jumar, nwjade, coma, hellojapan, yudonomi, leonb, fariba, elmar, mstefa, mtjs, Rupert, alxyz, calvinav, sazerac and many more. Do you like shorter that much? I have to say, if there was ever a topic I belonged in it is this one. ;D
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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 18, 2012 10:44:10 GMT -8
You got it. Welcome MBeauch,
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Post by mbeauch on Sept 18, 2012 11:05:14 GMT -8
Beautiful, I bet that is one smooth ride.
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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 18, 2012 13:24:18 GMT -8
Welcome to mjuarez, theirishguy, roni, probe, williamjames, ermh1572, nocturno, Ultrarunner, appleaddict, davidblythe, dmiller, henri, tonirocker, mw1, richlo, trainspotter, wernerh, tiggs2012, jcaron, nontekkie, nwmoll, vitalogy80, macglenn and many more. gz to all longs -- all time closing high 701.91 gratuitous picture. The iOS Mushroom cloud
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Post by nwjade on Sept 18, 2012 13:42:43 GMT -8
Welcome dreamraj, nano, princessgrace, chinacat, shorter, rosie, bernard, shorter, since84, jumar, nwjade, coma, hellojapan, yudonomi, leonb, fariba, elmar, mstefa, mtjs, Rupert, alxyz, calvinav, sazerac and many more. I so appreciate that AFB2 has been established. I was a member of AFB1 since 2007 and read/gained a lot from it daily but didn't post very often. Thanks so much to all the regular posters that were over there coming here and even some that had drifted away for various reasons returning. It's just fantastic.
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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 18, 2012 15:18:04 GMT -8
Welcome orneryjeff, rale, Ultrarunner, bud777, payrolldude, greyfox, henri, jacmobile, kevinhernandez, burtonair, madmaxroi, ellsab, ommaipadmehum, tonitheboz and audriosculpture12 183 registered. Tremendous enthusiasm and plenty peaceful at the same time.
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Post by Mav on Sept 18, 2012 15:41:21 GMT -8
And at the moment, still ad free. AD. FREE! You hear that, Mercel?!
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Post by Dave on Sept 18, 2012 16:26:16 GMT -8
What a nice place you've built LoveMyiPad. You were great as a mod at that other place, what was its name, I forget. But you have truly worked a miracle here. Thank You. ;D
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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 18, 2012 18:57:10 GMT -8
Welcome DrewBear, Dave, macwire, ghobi, rev0, balesfam, scottyterp, stevereel.
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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 19, 2012 5:36:09 GMT -8
Welcome Wile E. Coyote, zebrum, Odd-Lot Richard, rizki, zzen, fariba and incorrigible.
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Post by Lstream on Sept 19, 2012 5:39:19 GMT -8
Sure would like to see Horace and Falkirk show up.
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Post by Lstream on Sept 19, 2012 18:40:42 GMT -8
We should offer TMO exclusive advertising rights, which would provide a link back to their featured stories. In turn, they use the revenue generated to keep us otherwise ad free. Just kidding.
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Post by lovemyipad on Sept 19, 2012 18:40:48 GMT -8
Okay, it's official...we are STAYING here, with TMO's blessings.
Dave and I had a very nice, gracious email exchange. While he was prepared to be as accomodative as possible to try to meet our "hosting" needs, he completely understood when I explained that what I originally intended as "temporary lodging" had wound up suiting us far better than expected. He left the decision to me and said he would support my choice either way. He only asked that if -- and only if -- I chose to make this temporary lodging permanent if I would please remove the public redirection links from TMO's AFB (since TMO is a business) which I have done and ask that you too honor Dave's request in the public TMO domain.
Unfortunate circumstances may have brought us to this place, but I for one am really happy to be here. So I ask that everyone please, in the spirit of goodwill, put the brouhaha behind us and enjoy our lovely new home!!
xoxo Lovey
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Post by prazan on Sept 19, 2012 19:00:14 GMT -8
I appreciate the great times I had at TMO, and so I give my thanks to the TMO management for hosting the board for many years. I regret that the split was acrimonious for a time, and do not wish the last few weeks to tarnish the good work you've done over the years.
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Post by rosie on Sept 19, 2012 19:04:05 GMT -8
Condoleezza Rice and Hilary Clinton couldn't have handled things better.
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Post by capablanca on Sept 19, 2012 19:10:48 GMT -8
Circumstances may have created another opportunity: There are quite a number of former quality contributors to AFB who for one reason or another have gone silent. Reasons were varied, but TMO was cited at least twice that I recall. Without mentioning names, because I would forget too many worthy people, some of these guys and gals were very valuable indeed.
If current members have the means to connect with any of our old friends, should we not attempt to let them know about our new home? I have a few email addresses from the old days and intend to urge a few of my favorites to re-emerge.
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Post by Zeke on Sept 19, 2012 19:26:24 GMT -8
Circumstances may have created another opportunity: There are quite a number of former quality contributors to AFB who for one reason or another have gone silent. Reasons were varied, but TMO was cited at least twice that I recall. Without mentioning names, because I would forget too many worthy people, some of these guys and gals were very valuable indeed. If current members have the means to connect with any of our old friends, should we not attempt to let them know about our new home? I have a few email addresses from the old days and intend to urge a few of my favorites to re-emerge. I remember an 18 year old with some pretty decent results and some interesting posts.
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Post by pauls on Sept 19, 2012 19:28:24 GMT -8
Condoleezza Rice and Hilary Clinton couldn't have handled things better. +1 Thanks, iPad!
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Post by Lstream on Sept 19, 2012 19:38:50 GMT -8
Circumstances may have created another opportunity: There are quite a number of former quality contributors to AFB who for one reason or another have gone silent. Reasons were varied, but TMO was cited at least twice that I recall. Without mentioning names, because I would forget too many worthy people, some of these guys and gals were very valuable indeed. If current members have the means to connect with any of our old friends, should we not attempt to let them know about our new home? I have a few email addresses from the old days and intend to urge a few of my favorites to re-emerge. I remember an 18 year old with some pretty decent results and some interesting posts. Depends on the definition of interesting. He almost convinced me to leave AFB for good, before he got banned. I for one never believed all those claims for a minute.
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Post by Zeke on Sept 19, 2012 19:58:24 GMT -8
Condoleezza Rice and Hilary Clinton couldn't have handled things better. +1 Thanks, iPad! Yes indeed! Thank you, Lovey. If I were an admin at either site I'd be obligated to be diplomatic too. I'll try to be diplomatic from this point forward, but no guarantees. ;D I will say this, and then I'm going to shut up about the split: Yes, TMO is a business, and that business benefitted from numerous hits driven by the content on AFB/TMO, which was created by some of the best and most forward thinking tech sector and investing minds out there. What I'm hearing is that somehow we at AFB owe something to TMO, but not vice versa. Has any other part of TMO gotten them a mention in Forbes or the WSJ? Will they get such recognition going forward now? Doubtful. Do they even recognize what they've lost? Not from what I've read. The expressed ingratitude on the part of TMO is what astounds me. If they truly wanted an amicable split, if they truly felt that AFB was a negative for them, or at least not a positive, I would think they would be happy to see us on our way, and to assist us in making sure that all of our folks could find the new location. That doesn't seem to be the case. Anyway, I'm done with commenting on TMO now, and I'm not going to be back at TMO for any reason.
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Post by Lstream on Sept 19, 2012 20:07:05 GMT -8
Alls well that ends well. Many things strike me about the move.
1. How fast and responsive ProBoards is.
2. The iOS app. Especially on the iPad. It makes catching up so much quicker.
3. The dramatic uplift in posting volume. Is this explained by the better user experience?
4. The return of posters we had lost.
5. The discourse. Hopefully the improvement is not fleeting.
All good.
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Post by Apple II+ on Sept 19, 2012 20:07:18 GMT -8
Thanks for the info, ipad. So it turns out those links/posts were deleted by ipad in her TMO moderator role because of an agreement with them. That's fine by me. Frankly, I always believed the blacklisted links were just part of their filtering system, and it seemed out of character that TMO would delete the links. So that's good, I guess. Out of respect for the agreement, I've deleted a link that I posted over there before seeing this post. And I've posted some conciliatory remarks over there, too, just because it's how I feel. The key point from that post for us and our future here in our new forum is this excerpt: Here'e a link to that post: www.macobserver.com/tmo/forums/viewthread/85053/P60/#651594
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