In rememberance of Avatar Forums

[Eltu]

Originally Posted by Raiden

It seems to me that there are several options for resolving this event, based on what happens next with A-F.


1) If A-F is sold to another party and dismantled or otherwise destroyed, the members who were active there could come here and participate. A-F and ToS are more similar than A-F and Learn Na'vi, so it would probably work.

2) If we can get HNM or someone else to obtain archives and other content/materials from A-F and merge it with ToS, we could have old discussions, photo threads, and other important items from the early days of our community (yours truly has some old posts there under an alternate alias...) in a safe place to be archived away.

3) Someone outright buys all of A-F and restores it to normal, minus the useless garbage that Lon tried to shove into it. Alternatively, A-F could be bought and merged with ToS for improved interconnectivity, but these options are supposed to be for the benefit of members of that community, and they should have the final say.

Numbers two and three are arguably the best options, but make no mistake; A-F went down because Lon is an incompetent, greedy ****stain, and not because of something he couldn't control. Our forums/website hasn't had any funding problems yet, and we haven't shoved the donation button in user's faces or filled all the empty space on the side panels with ads.

Avatar-Forums would not be able to outright merge with ToS - we are using different forum software and combining databases in this manner is always a daunting task in the first place.

That being said, keeping AF archives here is not an impossible future!

In either case, it's somewhat of a separate issue and as for AF, I see two possible outcomes-

1) AF is either not sold, or sold and, as you put it, dismantled. Users who find ToS would have the opportunity to join up, and hopefully find a home in this community.

2) AF is sold and restored. Its community will remain as usual, while people who found ToS in the meantime may stick around if they so choose.


In either case ToS will remain the same - which hopefully is a good thing