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Hello, Infolink. I have something to show you behind the shed.
TDA will be moving to a new server later this summer, and the hacks that need to be done to keep this ancient mess of PHPNuke/PHPBB working just don't seem to be worth it anymore, not to mention the security risks this site exposes us to.
Just half an hour ago, I've merged all of Infolink's news stories into TDA, so those will live forever.
I'm going to look into turning the Infolink Reviews section into a TDA Feature.
...as for the forums? Well, I don't have any plans. If you haven't paid attention lately, this isn't a very frequented forum anymore. And hasn't been for the better part of a decade. It won't be missed. But on the other hand, it WILL be missed.
Let's figure out how to cope and/or preserve together. _________________ My old sig was too long.
Sat Jul 04, 2015 8:23 pm
Nobuyuki
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
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It's been expected on my end. I'm glad that TDA will continue.
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It won't be missed. But on the other hand, it WILL be missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGslvYmEYyA _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP
Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:17 am
AdmiralGreer
Joined: Nov 08, 2002
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Well. Dang.
...I guess it was inevitable. _________________ Ice cream has this erotic sense to it- kinda like the one choclate and strawberries have.
-Me
Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:31 am
vince220
Joined: Jul 09, 2015
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I left this comment on one of the posts, but I figured I'd leave it here as well.
I've been lurking on Toonami Infolink since 2005, but I'm just now making an account. I'd come in every few months when I ran out of places to web surf and read all the posts I missed. I don't even know why since I haven't watched anime since 2006 - maybe it's just nostalgia. Anyways, just wanted to say that I'll miss this site and the old poll that I've probably voted at least a hundred times on. Thank you for keeping it alive for so long!
Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:13 pm
gfpaperboy22
Joined: Oct 31, 2002
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End of an era, sadly. I remember when this used to be the TDA Forums and my favorite hangout in highschool. Regrettably, age and responsibilities have a way of catching up with ya and I never found the time to come back, aside from periodic check ups. I'll always miss this place but will forever hold on to the memories of it. _________________ I'm getting too old for this. :SNAP: OH GOD, MY HIP!
Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:01 am
Zechs
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
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As I told AdmiralGreer when I found out, "OMG THE FEELS! "
Forums existed long before TDA and will be around long after, but this was OUR forum. The first one I ever joined and the only one I still check. It was like clubhouse you could come home to after school/work and there was always someone there.
When TDA began, the Internet was much smaller and slower. The global anime fandom was just starting to take off and we were part of a huge movement of people trying to fill the Internet with AMVS, Fanfiction, reviews, news, video clips, radio shows, gifs, and anything anime we could find. Everything was new and interesting.
As the anime fandom became more mainstream, our little club started to dissipate. There were easier ways to get your anime fix and fewer things to debate and speculate about. Still, in those few years, many of us formed bonds that have lasted a decade or more. We still remember the excitement and the anticipation when CN would announce a new show. We remember staying up late that one night to catch a show called "Cowboy Bebop" and how we were so blown away we HAD to get on the Internet and talk to some about what you just saw.
Back when you were the only kid in your neighborhood who even knew what anime was, you could depend on the people on TDA to know exactly what you were talking about. That was huge. That's what got me through high school.
Preserving that feeling is all that truly matters, and that's up to the individuals who experienced it. If the site goes away, so be it. While I like the idea of being able to go back, it's predicated on a plan that I will someday go through and re-read all the old posts. That's not likely to happen so there's not much sense in keeping things going.
What was most important to me was what we did outside of the forums. Dougisfunny and I created a website together that started my interest in IT. A bunch of us formed gaming clans and spend a good few years blowing stuff up in TFC and CounterStrike. We started jobs, got married, and had kids (oh yeah, I'm a daddy now too!). If we can, we should keep in touch somehow through games or chat even long after TDA is gone. _________________ Bang.
Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:46 am
AdmiralGreer
Joined: Nov 08, 2002
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Yep. All the feels.
I've heard of a few early-to-mid-2000s message boards that died and later created groups on social media networks to keep in touch and act as something of a memorial to their departed forum. If anyone's interested... Nothing's impossible. _________________ Ice cream has this erotic sense to it- kinda like the one choclate and strawberries have.
-Me
Mon Jul 20, 2015 11:26 pm
Andromaton
Joined: Nov 17, 2003
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Since my last post of substance in this forum (Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:33 pm) I've done work on over 20 hollywood films doing visual effects and compositing (including Marvels Ant-Man, now in theaters). I even gotten myself into the credits for a few (not Ant-Man). When I made the decision to put that industry behind me it didn't hit me as hard as hearing this place was going away.
I'm so happy for the times we've shared here, the community we shared was always a blast. I joined Nov 07, 2002 on TI's launch date along with 70 other people. I honestly can't put into words how much this place felt like a digital home.
Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:02 am
Daikun
Joined: Nov 02, 2002
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Andromaton wrote:
Since my last post of substance in this forum (Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:33 pm) I've done work on over 20 hollywood films doing visual effects and compositing (including Marvels Ant-Man, now in theaters). I even gotten myself into the credits for a few (not Ant-Man).
They excluded your name from credits? Unless you specifically requested it, is that even legal? _________________ Toonami visual schedule - UPDATED AUGUST 2, 2015
Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:05 pm
TylerL
Joined: Oct 10, 2002
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Daikun wrote:
Andromaton wrote:
Since my last post of substance in this forum (Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:33 pm) I've done work on over 20 hollywood films doing visual effects and compositing (including Marvels Ant-Man, now in theaters). I even gotten myself into the credits for a few (not Ant-Man).
They excluded your name from credits? Unless you specifically requested it, is that even legal?
Maybe he's in there as Alan Smithee? _________________ My old sig was too long.
Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:24 pm
Andromaton
Joined: Nov 17, 2003
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Because I worked for a visual effects company, the number of credits is part of the contract negotiations the visual effects company I worked for had with the studios each and every time.
Sometimes they would get 300 named credits into a film, sometimes they would get 7. We were not guilded/union workers so unlike actors and pretty much everyone who was actually on set we get left out quite a lot (not just our company but a lot of vfx companies can have this issue).
Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:02 am
gfpaperboy22
Joined: Oct 31, 2002
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I completely agree that this really felt like a family. There was always a new post to look forward to, new insider info from those who had contacts, and friends I actually looked forward to playing TFC with. Some of my fondest memories are of Zechs, Greer, Dread, Doug, and I, playing Badlands on TFC and just rolling servers. Do you think it would be possible to archive this site? Maybe throw the whole folder into a large .rar file? I think I'd like to keep a copy of my history. _________________ I'm getting too old for this. :SNAP: OH GOD, MY HIP!
Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:37 pm
goku262002
Joined: Jul 22, 2006
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Dang it, I can understand the main site but do we really have to remove the forums from existence too?! I would really love it if we could just close this place and just make it an archival historical forum, I really don't feel that purging almost 13 years of history is the right thing to do.
Where are all of you going to migrate to? I would like to follow as well.
Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:13 pm
TylerL
Joined: Oct 10, 2002
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A year or two ago, I tried doing some fancy-ass wget work on the forums in an effort to preserve them (the thought to get rid of Infolink wasn't a recent one), but wasn't successful. It would require converting all links to be query less.
If any of you are smart enough to figure out how to make an offline archive of the Infolink forums, that would be wonderful.
Continuing to host the site in some sort of scaled-back VM would work too, as long as it doesn't interfere (either security or performance) with the rest of the server. _________________ My old sig was too long.
Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:21 pm
CNF1
Joined: Jul 24, 2015
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Hi there,
New member to the forum, but have been lurking here ever since Toonami returned in 2012 (some of you might also know me as Looney Tunes Fan on ToonZone). I'm sad to see this place go, as I mainly checked out this place to look back at the old Toonami schedules that were preserved here as well as other threads.
I mainly registered to offer up a way to archive the forum. While I'm not smart enough to migrate this forum in an online state, I can offer a way to keep the forum around for personal use (as well as possibly keep it up online in a different manner).
I've been using Chrome's "Save Page As" feature to archive a few threads that I had interest in keeping (mainly schedules and new show acquisition ones). However, this method can be applied to practically anything. It also saves the forum in a better state than Internet Archive does, as the .HTML files show the forum in practically the same state as it is online, with no broken files whatsoever. Since the files are .HTML based as well, they may be able to be used to put the website back up in an archival state, with a few minor coding fixes.
While I'm not up to the task of archiving the entire forum through this method, I'd be willing to help if a few of you are up to the challenge of archiving certain sections of the forum and then pooling them together through a file-sharing host or something like that. Of course, that's all up to the staff of the site.
Overall, I just wanted to help the few of you loyal members here possible keep your rich history intact in some form, and I thank all of the members and staff here for keeping this place around for 13 years, even if I wasn't able to experience a fraction of those years.
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