Foolproof business plan:
- Start an online forum.
- ???
- There is no step 3.
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While Iām not at all happy about this change, I do have another tier of relief to share;
I chatted with Ken one on one tonight; and according to him, we will still be able to access the site including our DMs, for some time to comeā¦ we just wonāt be able to actually interact on the interface.
Considering how much content and imagery I have posted there, this is a tiny bit of a silver lining: I have plenty of time to copy and save the content that I donāt already have in my archive.
Once again, I cannot be grateful enough that the regular mutants saw this day coming a long time ago, and prepared for it.
I know this stings, but here we can be together as a community without risking the well being and safety of our most imperiled members.
@Tammi_2.0 @KathyPartdeux @danimagoo @womanhood_deferred @the_borderer @AnnaPhylaxis in case you needed to hear the affirmation aloud:
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RatManās on here. Dunno how old their last posts are.
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HUGE hug.gif
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Welcome and good to see you. Good to see so many regulars migrating this way!
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Hello everyone!
Iām really happy that this place exists. BoingBoing BBS community was one of a kind, and itās awesome to see so many regulars here.
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'Sup, dude?
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Very briefly: are there any objections to inviting atteSmythe? Heās been a solid member on the BBS for over a decade, and an old acquaintance of mine from Puzzle Pirates even further back.
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In case you or anyone else arenāt/isnāt aware, you can export all of your data from Discourse.
Under Preferences ā Account, almost all the way at the bottom of the page:
I was able to do this just now at BB, and it included, among other things, every post I think Iāve ever made. The whole archive was just ~350K, but I suspect for many of you it will be significantly larger.
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For me the moment i realized that the Authors really did not care was (i hope iām recalling htis correctly) an article years ago where they talk about some kind of festival, maybe in India, where someoneās on a platform people are carrying, and the thing theyāre on hits some powerlines. It was reported as a āHey look at this crazy thing happen!ā but i did the bare minimum amount of checking online to find out that person died. So youāre literally watching someone die on video and i was absolutely horrified. I called it out on the comments hoping the article would be changed but nope. It was ignored and i decided to let it go but it left a bad taste in my mouth.
There had been small similar moments since then that i had taken note of, things getting reported incorrectly or with a bias that did more harm than good. Overall i still enjoy checking the BB articles otherwise i wouldnāt have stuck around but iāve been hoping things would improve and the Substack move is like a stake through the heart.
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If there are, folks may not be happy with expressing them, in effect, here in publicā¦
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My only engagement over the past 7 years was the pets threads and I somehow garnered an inviteā¦
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Just requested my anonymization over there. Been a member there since practically the beginning.
Sad.
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I do understand at a logical level why they are doing this but I would have been happy to put some money on the piggy bank if they left the BBS open, in addition to substack, even if the threads about articles are not created.
/rant on/
It reminds me when my favourite chinese restaurant did a complete overhaul of the decorations, reduced the menu and upped the prices. I congratulated the owner (longtime friend and occasional client of mine) but I told her that, even if I understood the necessity of this to compete with the other restaurantsā¦ the move alienated people like me, who loved the difficult-to-find-elsewhere dishes and the affordable pricesā¦ and for which the decoration spoke of āgeneric chinese chic restaurantā ā good for attracting the more affluent customers, but not me 
(Iām happy to say the restaurant thrivesā¦ and the only one that lost was me - it is now a place to order very occasionally instead of going there twice a week)
/end rant/
In any case Iām happy to see so many known faces and thanks again for inviting me. I second (third? fourth?) gaghalfrunt, doctor_faustus, teophrastus and I would add if they are not here already or in any list Simon_Clift, bakanekoā¦ I donāt know how invites work and how secret is this place so for now I havenāt said anything to anyone (who doesnāt love a good cabal of conspirateurs? 
)
Anyway, thanks again!
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A perfectly understandable response.
This really is a very emotional investment for me - contacting good 'uns re: Elsewhere. It really hurt to lose a lot of online friends when stumbleupon suddenly became an unrecognizable thing that was not what weād signed up for. They also warned us a V short time in advance of the radical changes - āThe gorgeous, informative blogs you worked on so hard & enthusiastically, communication with other users, the art you created and posted, the fantastic websites & media youāve collected and shared all go POOF! in just [insert minuscule time frame]! Isnāt it exciting?ā (cue sad trombone noise from The Price is Right) Not all of us were able to DL our blogs, either!
I still miss a āWeāll need to rent a hall!ā partyās worth of wonderful ppl from all over the world whom Iād met there. My coping mechanism when I remember them is thinking/saying, āI hope theyāre well and happy!ā
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Unless they change something, literally 5 days 
More like 2 days
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Who? Me? Lol? Wut?
Iām here, I just havenāt been here much lately. Indeed, there is a private channel a few of us have and I was just mentioning that very thing and now Iām going to have to go back and correct myself. It seems like this place has exploded with the BBS move to substack, and Iām all for that! Iāll make an effort to log on much more often than I have been.
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Weāll still be able to send each other messages, but I donāt know whoād be around to catch & read them!
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Deleting this one.
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