- Joined
- Feb 11, 2009
- Messages
- 23,107
- Reaction score
- 18,769
- Location
- NJ (The nice part)
- Guild Total
- 112
If it's not yet obvious, there have been changes 'round here.
In December of last year after a bad outage, I had a talk with Don and offered to move the site to my server and to act as an admin for the site since the then current hosting company wasn't cutting the mustard. As Don and I continued to talk, I broached the idea of buying the site outright, and after some negotiations we came to a a deal that resulted in letstalkguild.com now being owned by me, or more accurately, GAD Technology (and yes, that's a real thing). :encouragement:
I offered Don the chance to post a message himself, but he's got some stuff going on, and lets just say that sometimes the Internet is the least of our worries, so I decided to take a moment and make things official.
My goal is not to change anything, or at least not to change anything for the sake of change. Why? Because this site is pretty darn great the way that it is. I love LTG and aside from some of the things I've done like turning on photo uploads, I only want to make things work better. My primary goal in obtaining this site was to make sure that the amazing resource of information doesn't get lost. For example, with access to the database I was able to save QVart's amazing S100 post in the solid body forum and the mods and I are working on fixing the reference post in the amp thread. If you know of any other threads with bad links to the old site, let me know and I'll fix them.
There may be some minor fixes here and there as time goes on, but one of my goals is to not make the mods' lives more difficult, a goal that you could see in action when I did just that in the photo upload thread after making a draconian rule about photos on the fly. :nightmare:
Honestly, I kind of still consider the mods to be in charge, and I encourage them to give me a talkin' to if I get out of line. I'm just here to keep the gears turning and to act as a steward for all the great content that's here.
To close, here are some fun facts about LTG:
It was first started in 2003 as The Guild Pages and looked like this:
The LetsTalkGuild domain was first registered on June 1st, 2005 and looked like this:
The first non-admin user was none other than Hans, followed by Walter Broes.
From what I can tell, the first posts were these:
https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?141750-First-Post!!!
https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?141758-About-the-move
The first non-Don thread? From Hans! https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?141751-Old-Guild-parts
I came along in February 2009 with this post: https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?152524-Greetings! And I'm happy to say that my photo links still work!
There was a move in there from phpBB2 to VBulletin, and between hosting companies as well. There is talk about the earlier board before 2005, but that was before my time. Anyone care to fill in that history?
Anyway, that's the story. Finally I'd like to give a HUGE thanks to Don for making this place in the first place and for all the work that was done to keep it running for all those years! The Internet is a better place for your efforts!
In December of last year after a bad outage, I had a talk with Don and offered to move the site to my server and to act as an admin for the site since the then current hosting company wasn't cutting the mustard. As Don and I continued to talk, I broached the idea of buying the site outright, and after some negotiations we came to a a deal that resulted in letstalkguild.com now being owned by me, or more accurately, GAD Technology (and yes, that's a real thing). :encouragement:
I offered Don the chance to post a message himself, but he's got some stuff going on, and lets just say that sometimes the Internet is the least of our worries, so I decided to take a moment and make things official.
My goal is not to change anything, or at least not to change anything for the sake of change. Why? Because this site is pretty darn great the way that it is. I love LTG and aside from some of the things I've done like turning on photo uploads, I only want to make things work better. My primary goal in obtaining this site was to make sure that the amazing resource of information doesn't get lost. For example, with access to the database I was able to save QVart's amazing S100 post in the solid body forum and the mods and I are working on fixing the reference post in the amp thread. If you know of any other threads with bad links to the old site, let me know and I'll fix them.
There may be some minor fixes here and there as time goes on, but one of my goals is to not make the mods' lives more difficult, a goal that you could see in action when I did just that in the photo upload thread after making a draconian rule about photos on the fly. :nightmare:
Honestly, I kind of still consider the mods to be in charge, and I encourage them to give me a talkin' to if I get out of line. I'm just here to keep the gears turning and to act as a steward for all the great content that's here.
To close, here are some fun facts about LTG:
It was first started in 2003 as The Guild Pages and looked like this:
The LetsTalkGuild domain was first registered on June 1st, 2005 and looked like this:
The first non-admin user was none other than Hans, followed by Walter Broes.
From what I can tell, the first posts were these:
https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?141750-First-Post!!!
https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?141758-About-the-move
The first non-Don thread? From Hans! https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?141751-Old-Guild-parts
I came along in February 2009 with this post: https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?152524-Greetings! And I'm happy to say that my photo links still work!
There was a move in there from phpBB2 to VBulletin, and between hosting companies as well. There is talk about the earlier board before 2005, but that was before my time. Anyone care to fill in that history?
Anyway, that's the story. Finally I'd like to give a HUGE thanks to Don for making this place in the first place and for all the work that was done to keep it running for all those years! The Internet is a better place for your efforts!
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