What's up with the old site?

[psycledelic]

I have been cruisin the net trying to find some exhaust info and have tried a couple of links to the old site.  I keep getting that the site is corrupt.  I tried to go directly and got the same error.  Have I just been super banned or did all of the flickering and flashing from the advertisements finally kill it?

[Jobu]

I have been cruisin the net trying to find some exhaust info and have tried a couple of links to the old site.  I keep getting that the site is corrupt.  I tried to go directly and got the same error.  Have I just been super banned or did all of the flickering and flashing from the advertisements finally kill it?

The internet gnomes finally realized that VS is, indeed, corrupt.

[DucHead]

I have been cruisin the net trying to find some exhaust info and have tried a couple of links to the old site.  I keep getting that the site is corrupt.  I tried to go directly and got the same error.  Have I just been super banned or did all of the flickering and flashing from the advertisements finally kill it?

Yup, page won't load...got a corrupt error.

Poetic justice.

[needtorque]

I have not been able to get it to load for months.  I finally got some info that a firewall somewhere was blocking it but it must be one built in by my ISP b/c my firewalls are off.  Either that or the old site does not like vista.

[Oldfisti]

Same here...


The encoded file /usr/sites/ducatimonster.org/www/htdocs/forums/includes/scirev_init.php is corrupt.

[Speedbag]

VS took over a V-Rod site I used to enjoy, now it locks up all the time not to mention the flashing ads spark off my Tourette's.

[superjohn]

There;s an old site? 

I must have blocked it from my memory.

[Goat_Herder]

There;s an old site? 

I must have blocked it from my memory.

I must have joined after the fact.  So what's the back story with the "old site"?

[Slide Panda]

I must have joined after the fact.  So what's the back story with the "old site"?

Long story short:
The Old Boad (ToB) aka the DML was what the DMF is.  The DML was purchased by a corporation Vertical Scope.  VS promised to only make some minor changes blah blah... Well, they lied.  The DML was plastered with ads all over, even in posts.  They started a censorship program, editing or deleting things that people said that VS didn't like.  VS also started blocking links (at 1st links to here) and then they went so link block crazy, they were even blocking links out to ther boards THEY owned.

Basically... they ruined ToB.  So of the folks from there (aka our 'Flounders')  got together and created this broad.  The bulk of folks left ToB and came here.

[Keld]

Just tried; got this:
The encoded file /usr/sites/xxxxxxxxxxx.org/www/htdocs/forums/includes/scirev_init.php is corrupt.

 [moto]
The x'es is there not to give them higher rates on Google.

[Randimus Maximus]

Long story short:
The Old Boad (ToB) aka the DML was what the DMF is.  The DML was purchased by a corporation Vertical Scope.  VS promised to only make some minor changes blah blah... Well, they lied.  The DML was plastered with ads all over, even in posts.  They started a censorship program, editing or deleting things that people said that VS didn't like.  VS also started blocking links (at 1st links to here) and then they went so link block crazy, they were even blocking links out to ther boards THEY owned.

Basically... they ruined ToB.  So of the folks from there (aka our 'Flounders')  got together and created this broad.  The bulk of folks left ToB and came here.

That is pretty much it, except.  The ending was telegraphed to the Flounders and all the Mods well in advance of the switch.

The day they made the changes, we all left.

[Spidey]

Long story short:
The Old Boad (ToB) aka the DML was what the DMF is.  The DML was purchased by a corporation Vertical Scope.  VS promised to only make some minor changes blah blah... Well, they lied.  The DML was plastered with ads all over, even in posts.  They started a censorship program, editing or deleting things that people said that VS didn't like.  VS also started blocking links (at 1st links to here) and then they went so link block crazy, they were even blocking links out to ther boards THEY owned.

Basically... they ruined ToB.  So of the folks from there (aka our 'Flounders')  got together and created this broad.  The bulk of folks left ToB and came here.

The video version:  VS headquarters on the DML

P.S.  If you're interested, the TOB blew up in May (the 5th IIRC).  If you go back and look at the dates on this board, you'll see that it was being prepared for five or six months in advance, just in case it was necessary.   

[Slide Panda]

That is pretty much it, except.  The ending was telegraphed to the Flounders and all the Mods well in advance of the switch.

The day they made the changes, we all left.

Yeah I know this baord was in the works as a let out in case the sky did fall... and it did - just figured that was a little extraneous to the narrative.  But yeah folks knew 'the man' was coming an set to work to on this board

Ahhh, Chipos little film dub. 

[Monstermash]

So the admin on the old board finally opened the email I sent him with the virus in it. It's about time! 

[Oldfisti]

BRAVO!