!! We've built a New Forum at writingforum.org (no S) !!

Okay. It's working for me but might take time to propogate.

Jeez, where were you an hour ago? Just kidding. Love you, buddy. GoDaddy had me delete one of the A records and that seemed to fix it... at least for now. There were two listed, not three. The tech support was, well... never mind. There were telling me random shit and I was like, what's this A thing and why are there two of them? After a minute they were like, oh, yeah, delete that.

 

Earnest made the best wieners. Until he went out of business. Poor prick.

Get it? Prick? Wiener?

 

Okay I got in and my admin account all works as it should and it looks pretty vanilla... however its half past midnight now in the uk and i have to be up at 7 so I'm going to leave the build out stuff til tommorow

If I can get some time away from the day job (hah) we ought to be able to open for business soon (we got a bunch of beach awards in the day job, and subsequently i'm busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest)

 

What's that? Drop the S, and now we're talking. Just like with writingforums.

Don't worry about it, bruh. I can slap forum scaffolding in easy. Let's worry about getting the rest of the mods over and the general user permissions.

 

You will need to register. Nothing carries over. Stay tuned to these boards for updates.

 

That's a bit of an inside joke. There is a sort of wiener war occurring here in Providence, with one massive wiener chain encroaching on the territory of an erstwhile massive wiener chain. Big time money. Like tens of millions big as to who can sell the most wieners at $4 a pop. Millions and millions of wieners being sold a $4 a pop to get into the $15 million range. It's a thing around here.

Aside from what we're doing now? I'm open to suggestions.

There will be plenty of notice. We'll probably set a hard date, roughly a week before the May 28th/29th potential shutdown, to get membership open regardless of where we are at. We will do what we need to do to make that date possible. I can't understate the fact that we haven't discussed word one about what the new forum will look like. Not even a brain fart.

 

I've been noodling with some thread creation in the new joint. Mainly to learn the software and practice. One thread idea I created and want to keep is an oral history of writingforums.org. Kind of like a progress journal, kind of like a New Member Introduction, kind of like Who are you and what do you Write. Kind of like a little guest book for everyone to document their journey and experiences with .org. It has been a unique experience for me. And I imagine for a lot of you as well. It would be great if we can get that down on paper while the memory is fresh.

And it will give the new forum a lot of character. We will need to grow membership. Like, a lot of new membership. I think it would very cool if we can get that recorded with an oral history vibe so everyone who comes aboard later knows who we are, how we got here, and why we're still together. All that shit. Not to get too flowery about the whole thing, but I think it's an interesting story in a world replete with boredom.

We are definitely unique. I'm not sure I've ever seen so much anonymity and intimacy assembled in one place before. I think it would be cool to write about.

 

It's a crazy story. And everyone has a different piece of it to tell. People from all over the world intersecting randomly.