Bye Bye Forums

YEAH! It would be fitting to get in a last round from him.

I think they should unban everyone, especially Prok, and let us go out the same way we came in.

A glorious finish for sure.

Agree......I wasn't here when the forums 'came in' but certainly agree about unbanning Prok, who I find very interesting, I read the blog regularly.

Oh that would be a hoot. Although the length of any posts Prok might make could just be the final stake in the heart of these forums.

Or how much flames they would emit.

I had a recent run-in with Prokofy on Twitter. I blogged about it here:

The Prok Block!

One of the many things the forums have over the SLA is that bag of jackass is there and not here.

Some are truely good. Others, not so much.

I'd say last one out turn out the lights, but I've seen enough venues close to know the seats and fixtures will have already been carted off by the time Elvis leaves the building.

Next to being in Second Life itself, this forum (RA), the Animation Tips,
Building Tips, Scripting Tip and Movies and Machinima forums have been
and continue to be a huge and invaluable part of my overall "second life".

They are irreplaceable.

I could see adding other avenues for resident interaction (shiny new
blog-style forums); but why close this place?

I've been running RL forums like vBulletin for over 15 years on the net
and they're not that difficult to maintain. Even for one person.

When and if they close these venerable forums it will simply further
diminish my interest in SL overall.

But like with other changes implemented over the years that I didn't
agree with and have endured, I suppose I will just lower my expectations
and accept it until I reach a point of total disinterest due to what I
perceive as various failures of LL management to tune in and
appreciate resident's hearts, minds and experiential wisdom.

- Infrared

Just FYI. Lexie Linden has been explicitly referring residents to these forums for long threads/debates. Why would Lexie be doing that if they were about to close this resource?

If LL wanted to close it they would. Most likely would have long ago.

She'd tell people to stop having long threads and debates.

It's the equivalent of telling us to go out and play in traffic.

Left hand, right hand, lack of attachment points.

I'm still not convinced that they aren't going to relocate, rather than merely kill us. For the reason that Ann mentions, plus the fact that Wallace has promised a blog announcement. You don't post a blog to announce that you are merely killing a feature if you can help it: it's bad PR. You just quietly kill it, and hope no one notices.

I think it will be a breathlessly excited announcement of new shiny for the forumites.

Whether it's a shiny we like is another matter.

How can they kill the best ad for sl in these web pages - me. Moi. La Jig. The Queen of RocknRoller. The Ice Pack of Desire. The Temple Whore of Zindra.

Jiggy Chippewa herself. SL's finest avatar.

Nope. Forums will stay.

I think people have read my original post a bit wrong. They are going to close these (vbulletin) forums in favor of whatever they are going to do via Clearspace (the blog software). The intent is to archive the existing content. As to the exact organization of any new sections and whether there will be any sort of one-to-one match for current board structure, that remains to be seen. Keep in mind that when they migrated the old XStreet SL / SLX forums over to the blogrums, Linden Lab essentially smooshed about 12 sub-boards into 2 or 3 depending on how you look at it.

Since when does LL care about bad PR, that's been their middle name.And as far as what has been promised...........

If LL was going to kill this forum they would have their troll accounts in here accosting everyone on every thread. Then people would be calling for this forum to be closed. The same way LL does everything by building mob reactions. Like they did with xstreet.

Well they have their trolling accounts over in the blorum attacking everyone at every turn. The very same accounts that appeared at xstreet when LL took it over and commenced the attacks to make everyone want the forums closed. Exact same trolling accounts. They are obviously trying to make the blog forums look bad. Doing a fine job of it too. Part of it is a rather obvious effort to get the mob to demand disclosure of all identities. But that is backfiring so they are getting nastier and more blatant.

Interestingly the only person they are succeeding in making look bad is their CEO.

For some reason they are staying out of this forum. Curious.

I don't see them closing this resource. I suspect LL might force it onto the jive forum system. It looks like a real forum system. Not like that blog thing.

Damn, I've been outed!

Well vBulletin is pretty neat when configured properly.

But The Providers paid Big Spaceship all those Quatloos to spiff up the place. They can't just keep using the same forum software. That wouldn't hip and edgy and all.

That's fine with me as long as whatever they replace it with actually works.

I doubt they spent that many Quatloos.