Gainesville Sun Newspaper brings back their sports forum

[GMDGator]

Uh oh. You can change the theme over there at the bottom. Changing it to IP board looks similiar to the header here, in terms of layout. And has a mobile version as well.

No matter... They lost too many fans forever... F them!

 

[WillGetIn]

They don't. That's insane.

Part of me thinks this may actually help us, not hurt us. At any rate, there's always going to be competition, you just have to try and have a better product. It was always in the back of my mind that they may pull this stunt. I know for a fact there were several people at the Sun that strongly disagreed with the order to pull the forum in the first place. They must have finally won their argument.....or the declining numbers changed some minds at the top.

When the board was up I would occasionally click over and read some of their mediocre articles. I haven't done that in months. I know I'm not the only one.

Since I'm a local boy, I would click over and read all kinds of articles. They've lost a hundred page visits a week just from me...

 

[URGatorBait]

No matter... They lost too many fans forever... F them!

Oh I agree. Just noticed you can change it there...however, it doesn't change it very much. Though the mobile version would be nice if Ox could make something like that work here.

 

[URGatorBait]

Nice post over there Wobble

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Reptiles ?

 

[oxrageous]

No matter... They lost too many fans forever... F them!

Oh I agree. Just noticed you can change it there...however, it doesn't change it very much. Though the mobile version would be nice if Ox could make something like that work here.

Our true mobile version is on ForumRunner. Other than that, Gatorchatter is fully "responsive", meaning it automatically shrinks to any size screen. You don't need a dedicated "mobile" version.

 

[-THE DUDE-]

My log in still works. :happy:

Mine too...we can finally go home

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

The new look for that board is simply atrocious. Good grief.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

So they axed the political forum? Does that mean that I killed the GSMB?

Alex.

Yes. Thank you for that.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

My log in still works. :happy:

We're gonna miss you.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

No matter... They lost too many fans forever... F them!

Oh I agree. Just noticed you can change it there...however, it doesn't change it very much. Though the mobile version would be nice if Ox could make something like that work here.

Their mobile site is actually lightning fast like forum runner is for this site. But forum runner is not usable because you can't see comments like this one.

 

[WillGetIn]

FYI, its not the Suns IT department doing the moderation...

Quote from their Forum Rules thread... https://forum.gatorsports.com/topic/30720-forum-rules/

********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Moderation:

All moderation will be handled by The Gainesville Sun Sports and Online departments. There is a Site Admin and one Moderator account for multiple people on staff.

For violating the terms of service you will receive a warning. If you have a second violation your account will be suspended for two weeks. After a third violation your account will be banned. Spammers will be banned without warning.

All questions can be emailed to [email protected].
*********************************************************************************************************************************************************************

Soooo, you can have an unlimited number of chuckleheads using the one SiteAdmin and the one Moderator account moderating rather anonymously. Read the rest of the rules. If Ox were a mod there, in just a matter of hours he would pull out what little hair he has left...

 

[AlexDaGator]

From their Admin:

Wobble and Gatorbythebay, In the GSMB absence Oxrageous created the site https://gatorchatter.com/ He provided a place for many displaced GSMB members to go. I have great respect for Aaron and will happily post the Oxrageous podcast if he continues to record it. He has a great voice for podcasting.

Alex.

 

[ufgator812]

They have officially given you a plug Ox. Cool.

 

[Ray Finkle]

 

[-THE DUDE-]

From their Admin:



Alex.

He's got a face for podcasting too

 

[NavetG8r]

From their Admin:

Wobble and Gatorbythebay, In the GSMB absence Oxrageous created the site https://gatorchatter.com/ He provided a place for many displaced GSMB members to go. I have great respect for Aaron and will happily post the Oxrageous podcast if he continues to record it. He has a great voice for podcasting.

Alex.

That sounds like Crucial to me.

 

[ufgator812]

From their Admin:



Alex.

He's got a face for podcasting too

I almost commented, but I resisted the urge.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

Wow. I had 227 posts on that forum in 2 years.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

Just imagine how much it would have sucked if they had just switched it to an over-moderated board without ever shutting it down. We never would have been able to migrate everyone here and we'd be stuck in lameness.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

Ok I totally suck. It's 583 pages of members haha. I saw Member List and 583. Reading is fundamental.

It says they have 11,721. So our new goal is 12,000.