Members flguy Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 So the other site's owner is shutting down the forum for the month of December. Probably not the smartest thing to do when you are begging for money because your reserves are down to 16 percent. Get ready and fire up the reserve computers, things are going to get busy here. Latbear4blk, OneFinger and tassojunior 1 2 Quote
Members jbsjbs991614502761 Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 How do you become an "active participating member" here? Quote
TotallyOz Posted November 29, 2018 Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 12:28 PM, jbsjbs991614502761 said: How do you become an "active participating member" here? Expand 10 posts. Quote
TotallyOz Posted November 29, 2018 Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 11:04 AM, flguy said: So the other site's owner is shutting down the forum for the month of December. Probably not the smartest thing to do when you are begging for money because your reserves are down to 16 percent. Get ready and fire up the reserve computers, things are going to get busy here. Expand Why shutting down? Quote
Members SoCal Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 2:02 PM, TotallyOz said: Why shutting down? Expand >>The message forum will not be available for the month of December so that we can do a major upgrade and to give the Staff some much needed time off.<< Quote
Members buttnovice Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 an entire month??? Tartegogo 1 Quote
Members JKane Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 He never gave a shit about anything but himself, certainly not what it does to the community every time he'd pull that shit, or people that may need to reference the posts in the travel sections at that time... Quote
Members RA1 Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 2:39 PM, SoCal said: >>The message forum will not be available for the month of December so that we can do a major upgrade and to give the Staff some much needed time off.<< Expand They have a staff? I guess I won't be reading there in DEC or JAN through NOV either. Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members Tartegogo Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 I guess that means Marylander will be in withdrawal mode and will come back here. Good thing we have the private clubs. Latbear4blk and OneFinger 2 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 29, 2018 Posted November 29, 2018 Lots of people will come here and then disappear when that forum opens again. Quote
Members JKane Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 3:28 PM, BiBottomBoy said: Lots of people will come here and then disappear when that forum opens again. Expand One of these times he'll either not come back or they'll get tired of his shit... Quote
Members RockHardNYC Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 11:04 AM, flguy said: So the other site's owner is shutting down the forum for the month of December. Expand That's one way to keep the Grinch at bay. On 11/29/2018 at 11:04 AM, flguy said: Probably not the smartest thing to do when you are begging for money because your reserves are down to 16 percent. Expand No board can truly survive if the board's owner is broke, his health is failing, his volunteer "staff" are idiots, and there's never been a viable, reliable plan to build financial resources. In my neck of the woods they call this: bad business. On 11/29/2018 at 11:04 AM, flguy said: things are going to get busy here Expand Thank goodness and merry Christmas there's an option. On 11/29/2018 at 2:39 PM, SoCal said: >>The message forum will not be available for the month of December so that we can do a major upgrade and to give the Staff some much needed time off.<< Expand LOL! I really enjoyed that laugh. Daddy claims to be this I.T. genius (who can never seem to find enough work). His board is run by vBulletin software. It doesn't get more basic than that. You'd think he was running Tesla. Daddy uses the word "upgrade" as a smoke-and-mirror shield to make it look like he's working to earn donations. In the meantime, can you see these upgrades? Can you feel them? I didn't think so. He doesn't even know how the Time-Outs appear to users. LOL! Daddy reminds me of the old fat guy with a huge beer gut, who complains when he drops something because he's too fat to bend down and pick it up. The "staff" needing "time off" is SO LAUGHABLE. These drama queens take themselves so seriously. On 11/29/2018 at 3:28 PM, BiBottomBoy said: Lots of people will come here and then disappear when that forum opens again. Expand Many of us are creatures of habit. Bad habit. It's human nature. But once you discover the joy of "no begging," and the joy of x-rated photo uploads, not to mention the joy of no deej, there really is no looking back (except to poke fun and steal a little chuckle). citylaw1 and AdamSmith 1 1 Quote
Members RockHardNYC Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 4:04 PM, BiBottomBoy said: One can hope. Expand The cynic in me says it could be a ploy...to get more money out of members who fear losing their playpen. SoCal 1 Quote
Members jbsjbs991614502761 Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 2:02 PM, TotallyOz said: 10 posts. Expand Thanks for the info. Quote
Members tassojunior Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 I suspect they just had a huge drop without all the catfights. Marylander keeps trying to pick one and I see Kenny lasted 1 day. I dont know how they plan to start back up after a month .Never happened afaik SoCal 1 Quote
Members FluffPersian Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 9:09 PM, tassojunior said: I dont know how they plan to start back up after a month .Never happened afaik Expand IIRC there was a significant break a few years ago. Remember the "gone fishing" message? That's when I first registered here. AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members RockHardNYC Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 9:09 PM, tassojunior said: I dont know how they plan to start back up after a month .Never happened afaik Expand They've shut down numerous times. For us old-timers, and I can't believe I'm calling myself that, the term was "meltdown." I may be mistaken, but I think the meltdowns began while Hooboy was alive, nearer to the end of his life. There were several in the early Daddy days. The Rico blog and that disaster EscortSpeaks made fun of the meltdowns, and it was funny reading. Once again, it seems like that board has a troll problem. This time in their Politics Forum. You can probably blame it on Trump, who is the QUEEN of TROLLs. There's an easy way to fix a troll problem, but that requires work. Daddy is way too lazy and disinterested to work that hard. Ditto for the mods. So it's the same old, same old tired routine. With very little profit dollars to justify the frayed nerves. And the beat goes on... Quote
Members smoothpubes Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 it's vbulletin, dump the db, upgrade and fucking restart. They actually have good support and well baked procedures. Absolute worst case, just setup a new instance of it and load the DB. It's not like he's running [H]ard|Forum and limited by IO or CPU. A damn PIII would serve that site just fine. Quote
Members Latbear4blk Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 11:04 AM, flguy said: So the other site's owner is shutting down the forum for the month of December. Probably not the smartest thing to do when you are begging for money because your reserves are down to 16 percent. Get ready and fire up the reserve computers, things are going to get busy here. Expand I just signed in to make the announcement, and was going to title the threat "BE READY FOR ANOTHER WAVE". You were faster. Quote
Members Latbear4blk Posted November 29, 2018 Members Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 2:02 PM, TotallyOz said: Why shutting down? Expand Daddy shared in La Cabana (a forum with access restricted to those of us who support the site financially) a link to the upgrade he is working on. Nothing radical, but a significantly more contemporaneous design. He may also be baking something else in the oven. During the gathering in Palm Springs he shared about widening the scope of Daddy's Reviews beyond escorts. He was envisioning something like a yelp for older gay men (my analogy, not his) with reviews of spas, hotels, bars, restaurants, etc. This week he posted this in his home page: "Las Vegas, NV — Yesterday I told you that traffic is down about 20% and my theory of what is happening. It's time to start doing what I've wanted to do since I took over the website. If you look on the very first page it says: "Dedicated to reviews of interest to Mature Gay Gentlemen." I fit in that category, and all my life I've had problems finding good places to visit. When I first started out, being Gay was illegal in every single state and territory in the United States. Now that I'm an old and slow moving Gay man, I find that I still want to go visiting. But most of all I need to know that I'll be safe and comfortable. That's where you come in. I reviews on places to go. The resorts in Palm Springs. The infamous P-Town, The exciting Florida Keys. Your favorite Website. I know that the submit form is more oriented to our favorite hobby but just make it work for now and know that my plans are to have three types of reviews (or more if we need them) Escorts, Venues, and Websites. If we can start building a library of these types of reviews then hopefully I can start attracting the LGBTQ advertising that is needed." Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 30, 2018 Posted November 30, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 3:08 PM, RA1 said: They have a staff? I guess I won't be reading there in DEC or JAN through NOV either. Best regards, RA1 Expand 'Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.' Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 30, 2018 Posted November 30, 2018 On 11/29/2018 at 4:00 PM, RockHardNYC said: That's one way to keep the Grinch at bay. No board can truly survive if the board's owner is broke, his health is failing, his volunteer "staff" are idiots, and there's never been a viable, reliable plan to build financial resources. In my neck of the woods they call this: bad business. Thank goodness and merry Christmas there's an option. LOL! I really enjoyed that laugh. Daddy claims to be this I.T. genius (who can never seem to find enough work). His board is run by vBulletin software. It doesn't get more basic than that. You'd think he was running Tesla. Daddy uses the word "upgrade" as a smoke-and-mirror shield to make it look like he's working to earn donations. In the meantime, can you see these upgrades? Can you feel them? I didn't think so. He doesn't even know how the Time-Outs appear to users. LOL! Daddy reminds me of the old fat guy with a huge beer gut, who complains when he drops something because he's too fat to bend down and pick it up. The "staff" needing "time off" is SO LAUGHABLE. These drama queens take themselves so seriously. Many of us are creatures of habit. Bad habit. It's human nature. But once you discover the joy of "no begging," and the joy of x-rated photo uploads, not to mention the joy of no deej, there really is no looking back (except to poke fun and steal a little chuckle). Expand Yes yes yes. in today's DevOps world, a successful 'upgrade' implementation is instantaneous. 'Daddy' is living in the Age of Steam Power, computationally speaking. Tartegogo 1 Quote