What if Gilby got badly sloshed or depressed and deleted the forums?

ivan · 2007-07-28, 11:40 AM

Imagine... One day you try to log on to unicyclist.com and it's not there. The page just doesn't open. You say okay, maybe the server is down. You try a few hours later, the same result. Next day - no luck. You come back a week later and unicyclist.com still doesn't work.

What would you do?

Jerrick · 2007-07-28, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ivan

Imagine... One day you try to log on to unicyclist.com and it's not there. The page just doesn't open. You say okay, maybe the server is down. You try a few hours later, the same result. Next day - no luck. You come back a week later and unicyclist.com still doesn't work.

What would you do?

Unicycle and use the phone more.

UniBrier · 2007-07-28, 01:06 PM

rec.sport.unicycling would still be in place.

Victory · 2007-07-28, 01:46 PM

There's always Facebook. (well maybe not with what's been going on in the news lately..hehe)

thejdw · 2007-07-28, 01:50 PM

I'm sure somebody else would start a new site, hopfuly

Ganon · 2007-07-28, 01:57 PM

I would run around crying.

dudewithasock · 2007-07-28, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by UniBrier

rec.sport.unicycling would still be in place.

What he said. I'd probably start using the newsgroup.

But I'd definitely not use it NEARLY as much...probably would get more done in Blender/learning to program, maybe read/game more, and most likely unicycle more.

uni57 · 2007-07-28, 04:15 PM

Currently, I don't read or post here much. So it wouldn't affect what I actually do on a day-to-day basis. However, I would very much be upset at the loss of our community. The good people here would not have a place to gather. I would miss everybody. And THAT would be quite a loss to me.

This is a good thread because it forces us to think about what we have -- and to appreciate our good fortune.

monkeyman · 2007-07-28, 06:24 PM

Someone should bake Gilby a cake.

It would suck if the forums weren't here...like Dave said, losing the community would be one of the worst parts.

I'd probably...be on the computer just as much, only doing other things.

gkmac · 2007-07-28, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by UniBrier

rec.sport.unicycling would still be in place.

...but not Just Conversation, or the webspaces, or the gallery, or the unicyclist.com e-mail service, or...

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Originally Posted by tomblackwood

The much more likely scenario is he gets sick of paying paying paying and pulls the plug so he can start saving for retirement.

...unless he finds ways of saving money. For instance, he could switch from vBulletin to free bulletin software like PHPBB, and save $85 a year.

Or maybe he could drop the gallery, that would save masses of bandwidth and storage needs. At the time unicyclist.com was started there were no sites like flickr or youtube, but now quite a lot of people don't bother with the gallery anymore.

dudewithasock · 2007-07-28, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by gkmac

...but not Just Conversation, or the webspaces, or the gallery, or the unicyclist.com e-mail service, or......

Out of those 4 things, I only really use Just Conversation...the gallery never works for me, the webspace I never messed with (same for most people), and the e-mail service is always flooded with posts from threads that I'm apparently subscribed to against my will.

It'd probably help me manage my time better if just conversation were gone.

joe · 2007-07-29, 03:09 PM

Good point GK, mate! I havnt used the gallery for ages. Since it was 'updated' maybe a year or so ago, I never got to grips with it...

If r.s.u was no more, I'd use the UK newsgroup

Gotta love Gilby for all he has done for us...
Three cheers!

Joe,

gkmac · 2007-07-29, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by joe

If r.s.u was no more, I'd use the UK newsgroup

Joseph, I didn't know there was a UK specific unicycle newsgroup.

What can one find it?

dunawan · 2007-07-29, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ivan

What would you do?

Cry.

Hazmat · 2007-07-30, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivan

What would you do?

Use MSN.

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Originally Posted by Jerrick

Unicycle and use the phone more.

Well i'd do the 1st more then the 2nd.

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Originally Posted by thejdw

I'm sure somebody else would start a new site, hopefully

Yeah, that might happen. But how would we know of its existence???

2007-07-28, 11:40 AM	#1
ivan Non-Danish Girl Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Prague, Czech Republic Age: 25 Posts: 7,210	What if Gilby got badly sloshed or depressed and deleted the forums? Imagine... One day you try to log on to unicyclist.com and it's not there. The page just doesn't open. You say okay, maybe the server is down. You try a few hours later, the same result. Next day - no luck. You come back a week later and unicyclist.com still doesn't work. What would you do? __________________ Did you know that lighter flame smells like burnt nose hair? Entropy isn't what it used to be.

2007-07-28, 01:06 PM	#3
UniBrier Time To Ride Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Brier, WA USA Age: 53 Posts: 4,232	rec.sport.unicycling would still be in place. __________________ Steve Hop Drop & Roll “If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.” – Homer

2007-07-28, 01:46 PM	#4
Victory It's like doing a wheelie forever! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cornwall, ON, Canada Age: 34 Posts: 398	There's always Facebook. (well maybe not with what's been going on in the news lately..hehe) __________________ My Gallery "I think they make unicycles with training wheels. They're called BlKES!" ~captainkrunk61 Last edited by Victory; 2007-07-28 at 01:47 PM.

2007-07-28, 01:50 PM	#5
thejdw elcycinu Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK Age: 23 Posts: 5,472	I'm sure somebody else would start a new site, hopfuly __________________ I didn't spell it wrong, you just read it wrong!

2007-07-29, 03:09 PM	#12
joe The Social Unicyclist Join Date: May 2002 Location: Newcastle, UK Age: 25 Posts: 1,522	Good point GK, mate! I havnt used the gallery for ages. Since it was 'updated' maybe a year or so ago, I never got to grips with it... If r.s.u was no more, I'd use the UK newsgroup Gotta love Gilby for all he has done for us... Three cheers! Joe, __________________ VoodooUnicycles.Com - Extreme Unicycle Display Team

2007-07-28, 01:57 PM	#6
Ganon Is da bomb Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 75	I would run around crying.

2007-07-28, 04:15 PM	#8
uni57 Dave Lowell Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Here, being nice to the vegetarians Age: 48 Posts: 3,284	Currently, I don't read or post here much. So it wouldn't affect what I actually do on a day-to-day basis. However, I would very much be upset at the loss of our community. The good people here would not have a place to gather. I would miss everybody. And THAT would be quite a loss to me. This is a good thread because it forces us to think about what we have -- and to appreciate our good fortune.

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