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Post by coke & comics on Apr 4, 2016 12:56:33 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 13:01:35 GMT -5
I just posted this over in the Meanwhile thread a few minutes ago. Congrats to Jonah, but I wonder for the future of CBR, especially the forums-those always seem to be one of the first casualties of such transitions. PS if the Hellboy hosted forums go away, see if you can get them to join the Usagi forums here  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 14:43:54 GMT -5
The CBR site's been virtually dead to me since the great forum immolation - I used to be on there every day, now I barely look once a week. The thing they used to have was a link from the news stories to the forums which made discussing the news so easy (albeit, I recognise that they did have a large number of complete flarknards who could made it a painful process at times) - once that link went, the site lost 90% of the attraction.
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Post by Pharozonk on Apr 4, 2016 14:47:20 GMT -5
Unfortunately, this sale almost feels like a mercy killing. CBR lost a lot of personality since the reboot and the conversations there really reflect that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 14:50:16 GMT -5
I left when this site was founded, I think I visited once since then early on, didn't like what I saw. Another forum I was a very active member on was bought out by some company. The moderation staff, which had originally been members of the community, had been replaced with some cubicle workers in some other state who were absolutely not into our hobby. They started banning people who had been on the forum for ten years, prominent members of the community. It would be like CBR banning Jim Lee or something. So the site is still around, it's dead, I still visit about once a month to see the two active threads. This site used to have like 100,000 members or something, and was the premier source of information for the hobby. Now it's just Instagram.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 4, 2016 16:24:11 GMT -5
Congrats to Jonah. I found CBR sometime in 97 or 98 and was there until the immolation. I made a lot of good friends there. But I have only been back a handful of times since...and never for very long.
The old order changeth.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 16:29:12 GMT -5
It's all become clear. Shax created this forum with the intention of being able at some point to sell out to some online entity for megabucks & retire.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 4, 2016 16:40:08 GMT -5
Unfortunately, this sale almost feels like a mercy killing. CBR lost a lot of personality since the reboot and the conversations there really reflect that. Boy howdy. |
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Post by Pharozonk on Apr 4, 2016 16:51:35 GMT -5
It's all become clear. Shax created this forum with the intention of being able at some point to sell out to some online entity for megabucks & retire. Are you implying that actually think our discussions are worth money? |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 4, 2016 18:15:17 GMT -5
I never got to know Jonah despite my long stint as a mod over there... but right from the start I had been in awe of his turning his love for comics into a career, and an impressive one at that. Respect, Mr. Weiland! I wish you all the best in your future activities.
CBR hadn't been doing much for me since the reboot, though. I never went back to the boards (apart for securing the RR identity once again, just in case) and the increasingly ad-filled articles struck me as less and less inteesting. Most galling of all were the fake hyperlinks that led you to more publicity... yuck.
The good years, though? To me they're like the Claremont and Byrne years of the X-Men. They ran their course and are no more, but were the best while they lasted.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 4, 2016 19:23:32 GMT -5
In recent months, I've only gone to CBR to read The Buy Pile column, as most of the news I would give two cares about makes it here eventually. I re-registered for the forums after the Crisis, but I think I have posted there fewer than a dozen times since then; the forums have become a very angry, agenda-driven place in the time after the reboot, to the point I can barely find anything remotely interesting or insightful to read.
Congrats to Jonah for making something out of his passion, but that site, by and large, has been of no interest to me in a very long time (due in large part to all of the awesome folks here).
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 4, 2016 20:39:23 GMT -5
I never took it personally when the Crisis struck . Thank God and shax that they prepared CCF so us old timers could have a home. I only check out the cover contest in Cbr which I feel has been lackluster for some time now.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 4, 2016 21:06:13 GMT -5
It's all become clear. Shax created this forum with the intention of being able at some point to sell out to some online entity for megabucks & retire. Do you know of a buyer?  |
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Post by Spike-X on Apr 5, 2016 0:36:46 GMT -5
The CBR site's been virtually dead to me since the great forum immolation - I used to be on there every day, now I barely look once a week. The thing they used to have was a link from the news stories to the forums which made discussing the news so easy (albeit, I recognise that they did have a large number of complete flarknards who could made it a painful process at times) - once that link went, the site lost 90% of the attraction. They still have those. But yeah, the place is just an empty shell of what it once was. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 3:28:20 GMT -5
The forums still exist(ed), but without all the historic content and a load of the posters, what's the point? After the nuclear suicide button was pushed on the forums, you had to re-register and re-start, and even after registering, my login would never work. The forums were full of vapid "... appreciation" threads, and many/most of the news stories didn't have a link to a forum thread (I think they eventually fixed that, but it was too little, too late for me). And as for the Classics / Collections forum...  . Shaxper did us all a huge service in rapidly setting up this place as a sanctuary - that community could so easily have been completely lost, like the Newsarama forums were, or only survived as a pale shadow of itself on some crappy platform like Facebook. |
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. Shaxper did us all a huge service in rapidly setting up this place as a sanctuary - that community could so easily have been completely lost, like the Newsarama forums were, or only survived as a pale shadow of itself on some crappy platform like Facebook.