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GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: Shockwave on September 13, 2006

Title: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Shockwave on September 13, 2006

Jim Shaw, the admin of the Homebrew forums, quite a long established but sadly fairly quiet community has decided to re-direct members of the homebrew forums over here. This means that we may start discussing things like development on consoles amongst other things.

Basically Ezboard, who are the service providers are going to migrate all the Ezboards over to something even worse than Ezboard called Yuku.
Yuku is very bad.

Since Jim doesn't have time to start a new site and there aren't that many active posters over there any more, don't be surprised if we get some new registrations from there in the near future. Quite a few of our members are already members of both places (including myself) anyway, so there has always been a fair bit of common ground.

New forums to cater for some of the exra languages over there may be added as needeed.

Cheers :) And welcome to any homebrew people who find their way and are brave enough to register here.

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Clyde on September 14, 2006

WTF is a Yuku?

:hi: Jim and cronies :)

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Shockwave on September 14, 2006

Yuku is the future replacement for Ezboard and looks to me to be even worse :(

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: MrP on September 15, 2006

well to be fair I dont think theres a better place they can end up in. This site really is everything that the old dbf was and then some. Having somewhere to post your stuff is one of the mian things that keeps me coding. And to be honest I can't think of a better place than here, to the future then and whatever it may hold......

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Shockwave on September 15, 2006

Thanks Mr.P :) All compliments are a reflection of everyone here, you people make this place what it is :)

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: combatking0 on September 19, 2006

All of us migrating - it's like mass immigration!

Thanks for opening your borders, Shockwave!
Hopefully, we'll add even more variety to your magnificent forum.

I'll stop with the ***  :-* now, it's probably getting on your nerves.

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Shockwave on September 19, 2006

Lol, you don't have to *** your swear words out here, but that's the only differnce, you'll find the same degree of help is availabe.  :-* Back atcha Homebrewers! <3

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: slinks on September 27, 2006

Finally made the effort to switch. I'm just lazy like that. I've been here 10 seconds and I'm already eyeing up that bananadance emote. This explains so much...

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Shockwave on September 27, 2006

 :hi: Slinks, have fun with the emotes! :mince:

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Jim on October 02, 2006

http://p205.ezboard.com/byabasicprogramming
I've put up the referral notice.

Jim

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: ninogenio on October 02, 2006

what a really well thought out notice jim  :cheers:

it says pretty much what we were all thinking im sure :)

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: slinks on October 02, 2006

exactly what I was thinking, except maybe a 'jackasses' at the end so it would read;

Your incompetence at running forums is only exceeded by your arrogance towards your customers. Goodbye, jackasses.

but, a well thought out letter all the same.

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Shockwave on October 02, 2006

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To EzBoard:
Your incompetence at running forums is only exceeded by your arrogance towards your customers. Goodbye.

---

Amen.

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: combatking0 on October 23, 2006

It needed saying.

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: slinks on October 23, 2006

It took you three weeks to find this?

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Jim on October 31, 2006

Quote

Unscheduled Downtime Oct 29, 2006 - Update 
A series of network events that began around 3:30 PM PST resulted in hardware failure in multiple networking devices. Many of these devices required replacement. All ezboard servers with the exception of the payments processing server are now back online.

All Gold boards have received one day of credit for this unscheduled downtime. We apologize for the inconvenience this unscheduled downtime caused for you and your community members.
-The ezboard Team

Remind me again how that happens?
I call bullshit.

Jim

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: slinks on November 01, 2006

Hardware failure. Read: Employees were having water pistol fight in server room.

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Jim on November 02, 2006

Sounds like.  Or perhaps someone plugged the CAT5 into the mains?

Jim

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: Shockwave on November 09, 2006

Shame that they didn't plug themselves into the mains, it might wake them up perhaps.

Title: Re: Ezboard shafting of board owners.
Post by: combatking0 on November 14, 2006

Maybe they plugged a cat into the mains.

Don't try that at home!