ATS has now been down for over 20 calendar days.  I would say there's little hope of it ever coming back at this point.

That's too bad.  There was a huge repository of some really great information on that site, and a lot of really unique characters who posted there, some of them now passed on even.

Even if ATS came back tomorrow, I doubt there would be much interest anymore. A chapter in the life of the Internet is now closed.

(04-23-2025, 02:12 PM)FCD Wrote: ATS has now been down for over 20 calendar days.  I would say there's little hope of it ever coming back at this point.

That's too bad.  There was a huge repository of some really great information on that site, and a lot of really unique characters who posted there, some of them now passed on even.

Even if ATS came back tomorrow, I doubt there would be much interest anymore.  A chapter in the life of the Internet is now closed.

I feel the same way. I'll miss all of my bookmarked threads and so many of the people.

After the take-over and miracle 'fix' toget accounts back DI was created-modled after ATS, complete with mods and supermods. I knew then they were going to kill the site once enough members had transfered over. 

DI feels like ATS 2.0, complete with the systemic issues that long plagued the old site. No matter how well one self-scensers there's always some broken rule you can be targeted for if you aren't a favored poster.
On that note, I hear people miss your posts there, FCD. 

Quote:On that note, I hear people miss your posts there, FCD.

Heh, yeah, but not the owner of the joint!  He doesn't miss my posts at all.  And, as you noted, I wasn't one of the 'favored ones'.

(04-23-2025, 02:43 PM)FCD Wrote: Heh, yeah, but not the owner of the joint!  He doesn't miss my posts at all.  And, as you noted, I wasn't one of the 'favored ones'.

I don't mind rules-even stringent ones, but only if they're applied equally to ALL. When mods and a few select posters can break the rules with impunity it tends to rankle me.

There seems to be hints of a purging of 'less valued' members by staff if some of the comments are true.

At least here I don't have to worry about being sent to time out or having imaginary reward points being deducted because I didn't cross a T or dot an I...AND I can block posts by anyone who writes like they have someserious mental health issues! 

(04-23-2025, 05:34 PM)Nugget Wrote: I don't mind rules-even stringent ones, but only if they're applied equally to ALL. When mods and a few select posters can break the rules with impunity it tends to rankle me.

There seems to be hints of a purging of 'less valued' members by staff if some of the comments are true.

At least here I don't have to worry about being sent to time out or having imaginary reward points being deducted because I didn't cross a T or dot an I...AND I can block posts by anyone who writes like they have someserious mental health issues! 

There are definitely a couple folks there who are, in my opinion, on the fringe of sanity.  Of course, I'm just a 'dumb ol' country boy', so what do I know!  LOL!

I did a search on "Michigan Swampbuck" and came up with a lot of results for ATS posts I made. There are some that got preserved, one in particular was taken up by the Russians and saved on pages written in Russian. Some posts like that one, a dream I had, actually, got saved by others. The Wayback Machine is the only place to find the old posts. I saved all my most important posts and threads on a forum board I made for that purpose. I've been mentioning it a lot now that ATS is gone, and linking to it for reference.

Good idea of using the waybackmachine. I hadn't thought of that.

I'm not concerned over my own threads, I can remember the subject of those. But I did find a gem, The Language Of Vampyr. Baddogma's Astr0 thread is there too.

(05-19-2025, 10:06 AM)NobodySpecial268 Wrote: Good idea of using the waybackmachine. I hadn't thought of that.

I'm not concerned over my own threads, I can remember the subject of those. But I did find a gem, The Language Of Vampyr. Baddogma's Astr0 thread is there too.

   

"Black Hole in Russia" was also a great thread!  The author of that thread was, well, pure genius!

(Breathes hot air on fingernails then polishes on breast of shirt)  

(05-19-2025, 04:42 PM)FCD Wrote: "Black Hole in Russia" was also a great thread!  The author of that thread was, well, pure genius!

(Breathes hot air on fingernails then polishes on breast of shirt)  

ROFL (wink wink)

Do you still have that thread? I would like to read that one. You could post the OP here on MPP. I did that with one of mine that survived. The OP was just my work, so that was all I posted here on MPP. I wouldn't include anyone else's replies.

(05-20-2025, 09:38 AM)NobodySpecial268 Wrote: ROFL (wink wink)

Do you still have that thread? I would like to read that one.  You could post the OP here on MPP. I did that with one of mine that survived. The OP was just my work, so that was all I posted here on MPP. I wouldn't include anyone else's replies.

I don't actually, unfortunately.  The other problem is, a lot of the many photos I presented which were screen captures of the all the research I did were hosted on photobucket before they went crazy and changed their business model to a pure suicidal greed only model.

As I recall, someone had saved that thread.  I don't remember who that was though.  (Encia maybe?)