I'm the same.

I even bought the magazine a few times because of links on the forum about the mag.

100% correctomundo there!

Thanks.

This throws a lot of light on issues that were nebulous for me.

Agreed.
I wouldn't have anything to do with the fourfourtwo brand without the forums. The only cool things they do outside the forums are the lists, like 'top 10 players outside the A-League' and stuff like that.

-PB

You can't kill something which has no life.

To be fair, the forums would bring extra UVPMs to the site, which in turn allows FFT to charge more for online advertising.

The extra numbers may not be huge, but I myself visit this website purely for the forums.

Forums were on the chopping block because they don't make $$ for the site.

The PTB thought it was a good idea to amalgamate the servers with the UK 442, hence the huge overhaul of the 442OZ website. But by doing this, the forum link was severed.

People should :-$ :-$ :-$ and not draw attention too much about the forums. Because the PTB will end up doing another cost/benefit analysis one day and realise that the forums cost money but make none.

Don't forget, they tried getting everyone to create a new account for the website side of things so comments can be made on the articles. But they don't link with the forums like the old days.

Those were the days :lol:

I had fun with my fellow bitter brothers.

-PB

Do we need another good Benjamin vs Ton.of.Bricks or a.league.addict or paulc fight to pep things up?

Because ad revenue from those god awful stetch ads lol.

-PB

I believe there was something of a campaign from several people in the staff and/or moderation group to keep it alive.

I can't remember how I found this forum, but I'll assume it was through the article link thingy as well.

The osaussies coverage by voice of reason was a big loss
moofa doing a fine job taking his place

Yep

Same here.

ditto

ditto

Will admit the reason I made it onto these forums in the first place was from the article-forum link.

Because nobody can truly delete/ban JoFFA.

-PB

How was it kept going then?

The new owners/head office wanted to close the forum entirely.

Very much agree with this comment.

In nearly every thread in Australian section, I came across at least one or more posters I'd never heard of before. It added diversity of opinion, thought and ideas. This stimulated more responses, hence more participation by more posters on 442.

442 Forums seemed to be growing quite quickly all the time. Also, some guys who seem annoyed by each other's company probably came across each other a lot less frequently, creating greater harmony and less friction.





Edited by Decentric: 14/5/2015 01:36:21 PM

The article disconnect really hit the forums hard.

-PB

Yeah the forums are a shadow of their former selfs.

Poor 'forum atmosphere' adds to this as well.

I can create some multis to spice things up if yall like?

What a waste of time deleting spam. Others ought to appreciate some thankless work that mods do.

I never post here on Saturday or Friday mights. There is always social activity on.



Edited by Decentric: 13/5/2015 10:11:52 AM

Wasn't so much new owners, just moving things back to head office overseas.

-PB

That last wave of spambots was the worst I've ever seen. I think it's fair to say there were AT LEAST 50 whole pages of spam threads, if not a lot more. And there's no easy way to delete threads, so the mods needed to go in one-by-one to delete. Not exactly the ideal Saturday night for any of us :lol:

Shame.


Also, Spambots are a worry too.