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Post by admin on May 28, 2015 12:08:36 GMT
I have just been spending the last 4 days solid messing around with the main site, adding a few new articles, completing the responsive theme etc and just noticed something..
I know the site in question was never that big to begin with, but it had been there for years and I am really sad to see what has replaced it..
netsword.com/
The site is still there, but a one page wordpress crap thing on life insurance has eaten all the old content..
Wayback machine can't crawl it even - so all the gold in its pages is gone for good..
It has been at least a year since I looked at anything there myself, but crap.. Not good, anyone else know when it went kaput? Went with a whimper rather than a bang, but I for one am saddened to see it disappear..
- Paul
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on May 28, 2015 13:17:20 GMT
There's still a site called netswords.com but their prices are real high. Then there's a swords.net which is stiil going.
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Post by admin on May 28, 2015 14:10:37 GMT
Netsword wasn't a seller - they were a forum, much like our own..
Never got very big, but the info there was pure gold..
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Post by aussie-rabbit on May 28, 2015 14:31:11 GMT
Netsword wasn't a seller - they were a forum, much like our own..
Never got very big, but the info there was pure gold.. Go here before it too disappears - archive.is/www.netsword.com
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on May 28, 2015 14:33:35 GMT
Oops, didn't know that. It seems like a good number of forums are dying out. I'm on a Viking Age forum that is all but dead. I still post on it hoping that it might pick up some new members. It's too bad when a good forum dies out, a lot of lost information and ideas.
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Post by Robert in California on May 28, 2015 15:47:48 GMT
Eventually we have bought our last sword. Eventually we run out of stuff to talk about. Years ago, I had a small chat site for another hobby. But after a while, I felt like "Henny Penny" as only about 1 in 10 visitors would comment or contribute. And eventually, I ran out of new and interesting stuff to say...so the site got stale and died a quiet death. sigh...
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Post by randomnobody on May 28, 2015 16:16:03 GMT
My first forum was an anime forum, well, I call it that but it was more geared toward the, er, more explicit branches of the genre, but had loads of members discussing all branches and contributing loads of content and there was always lively discussion in any number of threads. I was also active on the IRC channel, which was never lacking in activity. Eventually, though, the admin just moved on in life, disappeared one day, stopped paying the bills and the lights went out on us. A couple other forums popped up, started by some of the other members, but that never got as big and the last I checked (several years ago) had all pretty well died. I think, part of the growing internet and subsequent spread of such formerly niche interests, where only the most dedicated could be bothered to trudge through the jungles in search of the next piece of civilization in hopes of finding like-minded folk accepting of outsiders has simply been replaced by the new highways connecting big cities where, somehow, the increase in population density of any hobby has not provided any increase in productivity within the community that hosts it, save a few small pockets of the new "urban explorers" left in the hobby. This is actually a growing group in our subset, more folk breaking out on their own and making their own swords, boosted by the much-easier-now access to information and learning materials, plus the ability to share thoughts, ideas, experiences, triumphs and failures alike with the Big Boys of the craft. Most online contact having moved to Facebook and like sites has certainly not helped the forum model, either. I was having a rather nice chat, in fact, via telephone if you believe it, with a friend I made on that old anime forum, some eleven years ago. We noted the death of the forum in wide use, the transition to IRC for "instant" communication, until cell phones evolved to the level that they were getting their own, much better, truly instant forms of messaging, and always-online functionality meaning one didn't have to be at their desk to participate anymore (I'm writing this on my phone right now) and our personal social group moved from forums to IRC to Google Messenger (which became Hangouts) to Facebook Messenger to WhatsApp Messenger back to Facebook Messenger and now use an app called Telegram that is cross-platform (PC, Mac, Android, iOS, etc. all have versions) but is based on your cell phone number and functions as an SMS/MMS client (text messaging) based on internet connection ie. you have to be online to send and receive messages, but with modern smartphone tech, the only time you're NOT online is when you forget to plug the thing in. In short, the forum is, quite sadly, a dying format. Even a Facebook group somebody added me to sees more activity and discussion from its other members in a given day than this forum does, and this is pretty active for a forum. Nowhere near as busy as it used to be, but a lot of that comes from the simple fact that has already been covered: when everything has been discussed to death, there is nothing left to discuss; this includes the idea that everything has been discussed to death. Still, sad to see the information go down with it...
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 17:04:31 GMT
Netsword was abandoned by Wizard some years ago. There was a brief refrain before that but most had moved to other boards. archive.com may yield a lot of the old conversations but much is gone, as the links and photos are dead. A haven for some, in later years a haunt of Bill Tsafa. The last big discussion was 9/1/1 conspiracy and the last board modifications by Wizard. Someone else bought the site and pushed up some old threads. That only lasted a few months, with some of us re-registering to the "new" board. There are times one can't go back home. The first board I had visited is still in business. www.vikingsword.com Then Netsword before the Highlander (the beginning of SFI). Netsword had splintered off of the Highlander clique. The Bugei board died about the same time, a couple of years ago or so.
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