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Considering our ties and where we all came from, I thought it appropriate to note what Avatar-Forums is doing now with the website:

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All will notice, the forum layout has completely been changed to the regular, default look of any other vBulletin forum, where all other options have been removed.


....I love how the words are inserted: "Thanks for your understanding and continued support!" as if the changes were agreed upon by everyone.



...Thoughts?

I wonder if it will actually only last 30 min...last time that was said it was messed up for days

There is a reason why I left that site awhile ago...

I do seem to remember mentioning this would happen quite a while back.
Also, AF now has in-text ads? eurgh... :shock:

I think they've had those for about 3-4 months now. They were explained as "helping the website" alongside the picture ads when the donation system was done away with. :facepalm:

Fortunately, the donation system is back, but it's more like a counter system now, detailing how much more needs to be made for one month, instead of just representing a humble, charitable system that wasn't shown off...

...AF's come a long, long way.

Yep, this is why I'm personally happy with ToS.

I actually see hardly any ads on AF thanks to the adblocking of my browser, but nevertheless I still like this place more. The people who post here make it great too.

This

I don't go to AF any longer, but it's kinda sad to see what it's become :( At least we have ToS.

Yeah, it's been months since i've signed in there too. (I actually just decided to, just for some arbitrary reason.)

I think there are still a whole load of good people over there 'waiting to be discovered'. ( so to speak). I don't dislike the community or the people over there, I just can't contest the image of the site and it's layout in my mind. It's just too disheartening, remembering what it was like for those first amazing, brilliant months and seeing what it's become now. :(

Still, ToS is here now, and that feeling still largely remains preserved here as far as i'm concerned.

^Actually, as much as that feeling is here, the only way I'd ever have the *perfect* feeling of the former AF is if the header were the old, heartwarming side of Neytiri's face.



I'll never forget it. Those first months... were pretty much like you just described, Fkeu'itan. Those first few months when I was completely taken by Avatar to the point that holidays like Christmas were somehow bland if Avatar wasn't involved.

*Sigh* Yeah, exactly... Those first heady weeks and months were truly something to be remembered.

Hopefully though, they will help blossom into something altogether more memorable and amazing. :)

He's a guy trying to make a living, and at this point, probably regrets buying the site. If you want somebody to be angry at, get angry at the old admins who dropped the site for a quick buck.