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I'm thinking of reviving it with Darren's help, and would like feedback from posters here. Darren's idea of music downloads is good, and it's fine with me. Any other suggestions will be appreciated.
Thank you.
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<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ March 21, 2005 09:01 AM: Message edited by: JayForSure ]</font>
Not even one reply?
We'll probably have to undertake some sort of user
feedback about including broadband-speed video
streaming, because it would obviously be pointless
if the majority of people are logging in on dail-up,
but hey, the option's there at least.
What's the DR URL?
D.
I should also mention, I suppose, that I'll produce
all the video content. I'm set up to capture/encode
every format - DVCAM, VHS, NTSC, miniDV, DVPRO, etc.
- so it should be good laugh, digitizing old promo
vids, rare material, anything which takes our fancy,
for public reconsumption. If people would like to
mail me video for inclusion, that's cool.
D.
Wasn't this the board you two started in an attempt to usurp glitz? It, of course, failed when you two started to fight. Hence, everybody came back here (including you two).
Wow, yeah, I remember that. No, again, I am not planning on going there. Peace.
Okay. My bad. I stand corrected. Sorry.
I hit too many damn sites, so I will have to pass more than likely. I know how devastating this news is for you guys, but I am sure you can get by without my wonderful input into it. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Firstly, Cotton:
Glitzinet has re-emerged. Bravo. More power to
it. It's still slow and crap though. I can't stand
sitting here, with my state-of-art ADSL2 connection,
waiting for its beleagured bollox to download all
the necessary emoticon graphics. DR wouldn't do
that, I hope.
Secondly, Carl:
DR will be cool enough not to care about the hoi
polloi's tedious opinon, and will generate
so much exclusivity, that it'll practically
demand the hoi polloi's tedious opinion?
D.
Actually Lycan, you was right.
The DR board wasn't started when Gnet was between the old URL and hostboard, it started when there was an air of contempt over the censorship which led to FoxKids.
From what I recall, it was already done by the time Gnet was in limbo, circa May '03, when everyone was on Glitzitoo.
Actually, it was one of the boards started when Gnet was between...whatever it was between, when its fate was up in the air. People left when Gnet reappeared in its new URL.
If I had any inkling of it becoming like, say, JJ's board became, I would pull the metaphorical plug on the whole idea.
I said it would be heavilly moderated.
Another thing, the DR board was to be more of a general board, as it was/is EZ. That means people could visit without having to register especially for that board. It would have been an addition to Gnet, not a usurpation.
You're right, the Fox-thing did have something to
do with things, if I remember rightly.
It always amazed (and humbled) me when people
paid for DR to continue for a year or so.
Times have changed though, and I don't think
a text-only web-board thing is enough anymore,
if only because broadband has become so prevalent,
and as a consequence, people have become more
multimedia savvy, and moreover, more multimedially
demanding, hence the Quicktime idea.
D.
I think you're right there, D.
The lack of bells and whistles has always been a factor. That was another reason for the birth of DR. It's all a matter of choice; simple bare-bones, or functional bloat.
I think the multimedia features you're proposing sound interesting, considering the amount of interest the gmail drives attracted lately.
Cool. If we do do this DR V.2 thing, hopefully it'll
be justified in some kind of USP (unique selling
product) way. Maybe we can also incorporate within
it Raggitz's idea of revamping the Glitz-gallery,
but suavely, of course, with a quickly-downloaded
Flash production (or something).
D.
<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ March 22, 2005 10:40 AM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>
Excuse me, but the limbo of Gnet, due to fallout from the Foxkids redirect episode, did spawn DR, as it spawned JJ's board, G2.
There was some arguing, plus some of the antics from a certain Ohio-based alcoholic caused a lot of trouble as well, but they were carry-overs during the crossover era between Gnet and $!_)({ .
I was not hoping to open old wounds, but I guess other people wish to. I will say this, there would be special forum for people who wish to be argumentative for its own sake, and if it would stray outside of that forum....
Hopefully enough people who are not familiar with the old wars from that other site would show up and help to prevent new ones from starting. I would trust the "old-school" Gnetters not to bring up that era except as a positive reference.
I think it's a viable proposition.
...and there would hopefully be aspects to it that are not available here.
Carry on.
The limbo was when Andreas's brother was no longer able to use his work's server, if I recall. Some months after FoxKids.
Whatever [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
A complimentary site to this one, as opposed to a competitive one, sounds fine, imho
I'd say it wasn't one thing in particular, but a combination of things. The redirect, the cross-board arguing, plus a few others. No matter.
Anyway, yes, it would be a board in addition to this one, not an attempt at usurpation.
Grunt...Grunt...
here is is on top again...
*whew*
A note: the next week and a half for me (academic
Easter vacation) is going to be spent on Spark
related stuff, and birthday bollox, so my creative
production (video encoding, etc.) for DR will have
to wait.
I'd like to hear some feedback first, though,
before anyone starts dedicating time to this.
E.g.:
What do people think is missing from other BBs,
music portals, etc? Is there anything missing?
Are they optimized for broadband? Are they too
broadband-centric, and dial-up people are be-
coming to feel more and more ostrisized? - almost
made to feel guilty even?
Are they too cliched? Are they too contemporary?
Would simply getting hold of the old Glitzinet
HTML code and reusing that (with a few multimedia
extra to help stimulate thread topics) be people's
ideal choice - because I can't see a reason why
Andrei would be precious about it.
There's plenty to discuss before investing a size-
able amount of time in it.
D.
<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ March 23, 2005 04:38 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>
Darren I'll be honest the idea of a board like the old gnet is a great one, sometimes the advances create something which ends up being very flash, but slower and more unwieldy than the older versions. I think there are a lot of people that found the old board ran quicker and was easier to post on.
I agree completely, the chat side of things should
be click-click quick, as is chit-chat in real
life. Then again, it would be very old-fartish
to rally against the Internet's evolution of
course, and the so-called 'big' goundbreaking
broadband application is still unfound, as yet.
(Somebody has approached with one great [I think]
idea, but it would take a couple of years to
develop.)
I am surprised nobody's mentioned actually using
the old GNet code though.
D.
I agree i am also surprised no one else mentioned re using the old code, and yes it is old fartish, but I think broadband will only really work for everyone when the damn servers can handle the traffic, the bigger files create. For chatting the old code was the best, the emoticons are beautiful and always create a mild giggle, and the avatars are cool too, but they all seem to strangle the bandwidth.
[img]graemlins/devil.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/bat.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/star.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/sheep.gif[/img] = [img]graemlins/snail.gif[/img]
Carl - contacting Andrei for his assistance would
make life a bit easier for Dan?
As for the servers not handling broadband appli-
cations, it's ISPs not providing a decent down-
load service that creates the most problems. All
the user/host can do is pay extra cash for his
server to work better - which is invariably crazy
money, alas. Also, most website producers can't
be arsed optimising their sites for Quicktime
(for example) and just slap their content up
there badly compressed for download. If I eh,
borrow access to my 40 GB Quicktime server for
DR use, this won't be an issue. (Not until the
server falls over and I'm caught red-handed and
told to report to the Head Mistress for a good
spanking - I hope.)
D.
<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ March 24, 2005 03:39 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>
LMAO at Daz, nice headmistress at your place eh? and yeah it always boils down to the more cash, better service doesn't it
Currency and information, mate, that's all that
really matters nowadays, even the Iraq war was
about the changes in global currency issues -
China, Iran, the dollar - and not oil, he says
tediously.
Our 'Head Mistress' is actually a Head of Depart-
ment who looks not unlike a Santa Claus. A handsome
man (who you just know that women of a certain age
find adorable), but not really my type. [img]smile.gif[/img]
D.
I agree on the Santa Claus ideal I think that's why my dad likes having the white hair and the beard.
Yes unfortunately everything these days is all about information and currency. Information I can get by with or at least find out, currency unfortunately I seem to have a deficiency in, can't seem to improve on that one either, but hey a 50% hit rate is at least better tahn zero
<font size="4" face="Arial">Not so sure about that one. I think you stand more chance at contacting God.Quote:
Originally posted by Deviant D:
Carl - contacting Andrei for his assistance would
make life a bit easier for Dan?
<font color="#FF0000"><font size="1">[ March 24, 2005 03:39 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font></font>
Dan (Glamfly) has been after recreating the old board for quite sometime now, and has told me that if he ever figures out how to do it he would like to rebuild it. But his problem is he doesn't have the time nor the computer knowledge. But he has spoken of this many times.
Jonni - I ain't talking about personal currency,
mate, I'm (boringly) talking about global issues,
such as China's and Iran's pending decisions vis-a
vis intergrationalism with the US dollar. The
repercussions are endless (for economics), but
for us lipstick-lovers, rather irrelevant - for
now at least.
Carl - Why so, man? Is Andrei dead?
D.
<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ March 25, 2005 05:52 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>
I don't think he has been in touch with this place for quite sometime now. Heck man, even Spice has vanished. But I know Andreas has very little time anymore for this joint. Not in a bad way, but literally just has no time at all.