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[Nubs]

Mort is shutting down the site so I will be putting up a new blog at
http://pkerorg.blogspot.com/

Mort, would you be willing to give me the domain or do you plan to sell it?

[WinnebagoWarrior]

:-(

[GhostCow]

What? Why didn't he tell anyone? We should all pitch in for ownership. If I owned the domain I'd try to turn this into a big site with a lot more content.

[DesertedSoul]

ive been here for a real fucking long time. those who've been here as long as I have, can tell its been going downhill.
i stopped posting as much as i used to. now i just come on and swear at one of the newer guys for being a dolt every once in a while.
honestly, i can do that anywhere.

[bonedead]

This last week was probably the busiest of the whole year, which isn't saying much. I mean shit, it outlived SB, and I know that was pretty much Mort's main goal. Goal accomplished. Sure I'm losing my e-home, but I enjoyed it while it lasted, and it isn't something I'm going to be forgetting anytime soon.

But, if Mort wants to put up a paypal donation thing with one of those fancy "this is how much money donated this month" dealies, I'd gladly donate 10 sometimes 20 bucks a month to keep er up and runnin.

If we must say goodbye, you can always find me at muh blawg, http://bdadv.blogspot.com It sucks and all that, but it's got comments, so you can make fun of me. I joined the PKerorg group Nubs created on google, so I'll be there too! Plus there is always bonedead at gmail dot com, for those who want more intimate conversations.

[WinnebagoWarrior]

ive been here for a real fucking long time. those who've been here as long as I have, can tell its been going downhill.

Really, this is most of the problem. There isnt anyone new. We have all been here forever. Ive been here for like 5 or 6 years and im not really even "old crew". There isnt even anyone new to make fun of or anything. I hope that Mort gives/sells the domain to one of you guys because I'd hate to see this place disappear. This is the last forum that I have been at long term that hasnt gone under.

[Mortikhi]

Yeh I'm thinking about shutting it down. It's no longer fun.

Hardly any posts.

The whole forum/portal web layout seems dated.

Only a few people come here to jibba jabba.

I put up a blogging system that goes with this forum software and it doesn't seem to be utilized.

Basically I think this is about 20-25 bucks a month that can be used elsewhere.

Any and all opinions are welcome.

[mven]

I can put the site up on my webhost as well if Nubs doesn't want to bother. It's not like it's high maintenance with our whopping 15 or so users haha. Just let me know what you want to do with it. I'd just like to see some sort of forums remain at this address so we can all be gay together and older faggots that show back up every few years can still find the place. I don't mind paying for hosting/registration and/or purchasing/installing whatever software you guys want. Hell it'd be cheaper than the 8 or so MMO subs I pay for but don't use at any given time lolol.

Whatever you guys decide to do let me know if you need any help and/or cash.

La de da~

[Darthus]

I can put the site up on my webhost as well if Nubs doesn't want to bother. It's not like it's high maintenance with our whopping 15 or so users haha. Just let me know what you want to do with it. I'd just like to see some sort of forums remain at this address so we can all be gay together and older faggots that show back up every few years can still find the place. I don't mind paying for hosting/registration and/or purchasing/installing whatever software you guys want. Hell it'd be cheaper than the 8 or so MMO subs I pay for but don't use at any given time lolol.

Whatever you guys decide to do let me know if you need any help and/or cash.

La de da~

Yeah, the whole point is this is a small community of people who've been hanging out at this place for years. It's like shutting down a small community bar. I don't want to go to Nubs' site or whatever, I want to keep coming to pker. You've been largely out of the community most of the time Mort, so why not hand it off, take it from owned to sort of open source? Give the site to Jil to put on his webhost and then Jil could allow some of us longer people to help upkeep the thing. If I felt some sort of ownership here, I'd definitely keep up a blog and help with advancing the site with programming.

If it does die, I think we should all set up another similar forum, I don't want another situation where we're all camping on one guys' site or forum like barnacles.

[Mortikhi]

Yeah, the whole point is this is a small community of people who've been hanging out at this place for years. It's like shutting down a small community bar. I don't want to go to Nubs' site or whatever, I want to keep coming to pker. You've been largely out of the community most of the time Mort, so why not hand it off, take it from owned to sort of open source? Give the site to Jil to put on his webhost and then Jil could allow some of us longer people to help upkeep the thing. If I felt some sort of ownership here, I'd definitely keep up a blog and help with advancing the site with programming.

If it does die, I think we should all set up another similar forum, I don't want another situation where we're all camping on one guys' site or forum like barnacles.

Well what if we ditched the blog and went just straight forums. thats around 15/month I believe, and it comes with the forum software. Otherwise, you have to buy the software, which ain't cheap.

[Erratic_Knight]

Whatever happens just let me know where we are all moving, without you guys I don't know if I'd be able to talk about all of my homo errotic fantasies and how much ever mmo that comes out sucks worse than GC's haircut sooo long ago...

sob... i'll miss this place, almost as much as I miss the political forums...

[DesertedSoul]

I never saw the point in the blog anyways. Rather useless for me. But hey, you wanna throw up paypal donation i wouldn't mind tossin in 5$ here n there.

its not like i talk much anymore, i still come here every day (almost) i just dont post much cuz well, after being here what....6-8 years? i just pick n choose the threads i wanna post in.

[bonedead]

Where do I throw my money at?

[Nubs]

Yeah, the whole point is this is a small community of people who've been hanging out at this place for years. It's like shutting down a small community bar. I don't want to go to Nubs' site or whatever, I want to keep coming to pker. You've been largely out of the community most of the time Mort, so why not hand it off, take it from owned to sort of open source? Give the site to Jil to put on his webhost and then Jil could allow some of us longer people to help upkeep the thing. If I felt some sort of ownership here, I'd definitely keep up a blog and help with advancing the site with programming.

If it does die, I think we should all set up another similar forum, I don't want another situation where we're all camping on one guys' site or forum like barnacles.

That is why I asked if he was willing to give me the domain so we don't have to type in a different address. The site I set up has the ability to use domains. Anyway I don't really care who owns it let's juat keep it going.

[Mortikhi]

I put a paypal donate button on the front page. http://pker.org/forums/index.php?autocom=portal

Do we all agree that we no longer need the blog? If so, then I will let that go.

[Nubs]

I have no problem with getting rid of the blog. No one uses it regularly. Also put up a subscribe link for pay pal for like 5 bucks or maybe less but that way I don't have to remember to donate

[Siddhartha]

Blogs are free in so many other places.. why pay for it here? You could just set up a forum of links to our blogs on other sites if we want to keep that in the spotlight.

[Gukag]

I thought getting the blogs in the first place was a bad idea. Really not justified considering how many people regularly visit the site. Maybe I should have said something. But yeah, I still check in from time to time, so it would suck for the site to go down.

[mven]

Well what if we ditched the blog and went just straight forums. thats around 15/month I believe, and it comes with the forum software. Otherwise, you have to buy the software, which ain't cheap.

Mort what is the going rate on just purchasing the software? It looks like the standard IP Board is like 150$ w/ 6 months of support/upgrades? I'm not sure on the blogs etc.

I can just buy you the software if you wanna host it, or I can buy it and put it on my host, assuming everyone wants to keep this board style. I am indifferent. Either way is fine by me I don't really care who owns the site so long as it is up so I can cyber Darthus on those cold winter nights.

Thoughts?

[sturmur]

Fuck, give me the domain and I'll update the layout, make it look nice and try to stimulate the community.

Cheap web hosting + Open source shit makes keeping up a site super easy and cheap.