Reisal Posted July 14, 2015 Does this mean there would be an exodus to the ZDoom and Zandronum forums until the site comes back? 0 Share this post Link to post
raymoohawk Posted July 14, 2015 should we post less during this process? 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted July 14, 2015 raymoohawk said:should we post less during this process? Just you 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted July 14, 2015 FireFish said:The one thing which seems to be the worst would be the loss of all wads, and even every gaming related file hosted by atomicgamer in general (demo's, mods, etc.). Maybe one could try to contact ARCHIVE.org as a serious option to archive all the wads as a complete ftp dump... The /idgames archives are safe, AtomicGamer has nothing to do with those. What's at risk are files that are linked to Doomworld's info pages and various hosted sites, a dump to archive.org is a nice idea but I don't know if anyone here has ftp access to all of the files. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted July 14, 2015 Like I said, everything important has been backed up already. Barring catastrophe, little to no web data should be lost. 0 Share this post Link to post
Breezeep Posted July 14, 2015 That's good to hear. Otherwise, we could have lost all of the Post hell Gems to laugh at. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted July 14, 2015 Linguica said:Like I said, everything important has been backed up already. Barring catastrophe, little to no web data should be lost.Thank God, the heh thread is safe. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted July 14, 2015 You're not gonna do that in this thread, thanks. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted July 14, 2015 raymoohawk said:should we post less during this process? Post less, sprite more. Be amazing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Flesh420 Posted July 14, 2015 I'll donate every month if you guys make that possible. 0 Share this post Link to post
Havoc Crow Posted July 14, 2015 Phendrena said:Had a poke around on CivFanatics & No Mutants Allowed - no news or forum posts about a looming shutdown..... Good point! This is a confusing situation. If AtomicGamer is indeed quitting its hosting services, why didn't it notify anyone besides Doomworld? And if it did, why didn't their admins seeingly react in any way? Almost all of those hosted sites are still active after all. I quickly checked all these sites and their forums, and found no word at all of AG's shutdown. The Atomic Gamer website itself contains no news about it, either; neither does their Twitter (their Facebook doesn't seem to be working.) 0 Share this post Link to post
gaspe Posted July 14, 2015 Glaice said:Does this mean there would be an exodus to the ZDoom and Zandronum forums until the site comes back? I was thinking to learn russian and move to iddqd.ru. 0 Share this post Link to post
kalinus Posted July 14, 2015 Gez said:I think Patreon would be more appropriate. I agree with you to a point It's more of subscriber based thing right? If so I believe we should have a paypal button as well or maybe there's more options than I realize. I could do a small monthly donation. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted July 14, 2015 gaspe said:I was thinking to learn russian and move to iddqd.ru. Or French and go here: http://doomfrance.forumactif.com/ kalinus said:I agree with you to a point It's more of subscriber based thing right? If so I believe we should have a paypal button as well or maybe there's more options than I realize. I could do a small monthly donation. Kickstarter and similar services (like IndieGogo) are for getting a lot of cash for one event. Web hosting is more a relatively small, but recurrent cost, so Patreon is the more appropriate equivalent. Like you use Kickstarter if you want $10000 once, but you use Patreon if you want $100 every month. 0 Share this post Link to post
kalinus Posted July 14, 2015 El Oshcuro said:Do a Patreon, I'll throw in on day one Ya know I didn't mention you in my earlier post but your one of the Devs I thought would help. :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted July 14, 2015 JudgeDeadd said:Good point! This is a confusing situation. If AtomicGamer is indeed quitting its hosting services, why didn't it notify anyone besides Doomworld? And if it did, why didn't their admins seeingly react in any way? Almost all of those hosted sites are still active after all. I quickly checked all these sites and their forums, and found no word at all of AG's shutdown. The Atomic Gamer website itself contains no news about it, either; neither does their Twitter (their Facebook doesn't seem to be working.) It's a conspiracy! 0 Share this post Link to post
Phendrena Posted July 14, 2015 Quasar said:It's a conspiracy! Something doesn't quite add up to me. As the other sites don't appear to scrambling to inform their community about the impending apocalypse are we the only folks being nudged out? If so, why and by whom? It is rather fishy. Dave 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted July 14, 2015 DW admin are quite literally the only people paying any attention whatsoever right now. We don't particularly think it's a false alarm. 0 Share this post Link to post
Buckshot Posted July 14, 2015 Arioch said:DW admin are quite literally the only people paying any attention whatsoever right now. We don't particularly think it's a false alarm. I doubted it would have been posted if it were to be taken lightly. But what it seems, you guys are trying to make a smooth, seamless transition that will go unnoticed to us, but a casual forewarning just in case. Just out of curiosity, when would this be occurring? days? weeks? months? 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted July 14, 2015 JudgeDeadd said:Good point! This is a confusing situation. If AtomicGamer is indeed quitting its hosting services, why didn't it notify anyone besides Doomworld? We're the 'B' ark. 0 Share this post Link to post
Soundblock Posted July 14, 2015 Good luck with the transition, I hope the domain name sticks. Quite a few users seem to have lapses where they don't doomworld for a while, sometimes for a year or more. I'd hate to have done that, come back to a newdoom site, without a clue as to where the old site went... I'll tag along wherever Doomworld ends up though, and would gladly donate if it's of any help (and not just an added bureaucratic burden in the midst of all this). 0 Share this post Link to post
The_MártonJános Posted July 14, 2015 Well, I could have seen this one coming. Even before I could release anything in the past 5 years I've spent here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted July 14, 2015 fraggle said:We're the 'B' ark. now that i actually come to tell this story to someone else 0 Share this post Link to post
SavageCorona Posted July 14, 2015 Breezeep said:That's good to hear. Otherwise, we could have lost all of the Post hell Gems to laugh at. http://www.doomworld.com/vb/post-hell/73704-message-to-65-of-doomworld-community/ This will always be my personal favourite from hereon out. 0 Share this post Link to post