Over the next week or so some things will be changing.

We are going to reduce the number of forums and condense them.
So if you notice differences this is why

You can give us any input or yell at us because we deleted your favorite forum here. No threads should be lost they will just find a new home. Once I have the initial Forum set-up fleshed out I will post it here.

Thanks for your patience,

Dyshade

Are you the new owner??? cool! Congrats!

no, that would still be Crowdgather.

did I miss something?

I thought that sanjay was the owner.

No that would be Sanjay and his crew called Crowdgather. But I have been left in charge to clean up and streamline and do other good stuff

Barebones this is what it is going to possibly look like.

WELCOME-
Introductions-
Friendship-

DISCUSSION-
Off-Topic-
Serious-
Entertainment-
Mayhem-

ART & LIT-
Poetry-
Stories-
Photography-
Art-

Very streamlined yet still containing all the fundamentals

During this time you may notice empty open forums or closed forums and all kinds of other fun stuff

Friendship is completed. Ways Of Life, Advice, Journals, The Playground have all been condensed into the brand new Friendship Forum in Welcome section. All threads have been moved, counters updated, and the old forums have been deleted.

Are you going to 86 the credits and other items of non-relevance in User description areas as well or just thread info?

And if we have attachements and other items in closed threads, are those going to be deleted or stuck as they currently are?

No plans yet on those.

All attachments should remain the same as I am not deleting any threads merely moving them

Cool... see, I've been gone too long, I apologize, had no idea who the new owner was and this seemed like the first sort of thing that I've seen since I got back that would be sorta 'owner' related but that's awesome that you're an admin at least

I don't know if I even know who Sanjay is lol (Sorry Sanjay etc)

I hope to see this place get back on track, I think its got heaps of love left in it. Or something.

This will likely go exactly like the long-promised T-shirts that have been on the front page for 6 months now.

I hope the next time this site gets sold we get a chance to bid for it.

No doubt eh? Imagine how cool it would be if say someone like ArSi ran it? LOL I'd quit my job, just to be here all day every day.

j/k. But I would spend more time here.

Also if you notice any wierdness it is because DF is being slowly moved to a better, faster, meaner, server goodness and as such stuff might go a bit wonky

Now lets get on to some more condensed goodness

Welcome, and Discussion are now done. Please watch the wet paint.

There will be some fine tuning-- new rule thread-- some other such stuff. Maybe some of the forums shuffled. Some threads may need to be restickied. etc etc

I dont understand why the forums get shuffled around every few years as if that is going to change anything, is it just like rearranging the furniture in the living room once in a while cuz you're bored or what? Seems like pointless work.

This is because the traffic around here has diminished and so we do not need all the forums and sub-forums sitting around stagnant.

I was able to get rid of several forums that were serving no purpose and condense several others that needed to be combined.

Once the server move is finally established crowdgather will work on the marketing end and we should see a significant increase in traffic

whats with the crazy vBulletin 3.6.8 Debug Information thing at the bottom - your code is fail.

Heh, that cose is keeping me from opening certain threads on this account..