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The Real Picard Newbie

The Real Picard

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Ok, been here a few days (still have to go pee and am going after this post)... please tell me more about Forum Central, history, the real story here, what's this place all about? Did it exist during the days of VIE? Has Jeff Peterson or Blackie ever been here? What is the state of the union here? Who's in charge? Is there a Staff list? Can I get a biggie fry here too?

 

I'm lovin this place!

TRP

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PoLiX

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History eh...

 

In 2002 me, cybe, and rowen ran all 3 of the main ss websites. Subspace.net was mostly all about major news and features; Downloads.subspace.net we decided to split off, as ssnet and sscentral we're both pumping out a lot of bandwidth to downloads (only 25-300gbs for us, compared to their 300-400ish) and made a domain for it; and sscentral was all about hosting and lots more active on news. Well, we all 3 had a forum setup, and one night round 2am (Me and Rowen always came up with ideas at this time) we thought of 1 centralized forum system. We told cybe our idea in the morning, and Sept 2, 2002 SSForum.net was born. Within 5 months, we had 100,000+ posts, 5,000+ members, and probably 60-70 subforums.

 

Than !@#$%^&*spawn1440 was talking to me one night, and talking bout Cybe, and how he was so inactive and wanted control, subspace.net was down and had been for months, blah blah (same talk got him the name SVS from me), and so being dumb and nieve, I talked to Cybe about removing himself as admin. He had no major plans to revive the domain at the time, and so I saw no need for him. I removed him and in a big blah blah, I guess it was the last straw, and he sold subspace.net. Cybe had been pretty much me and rowen's main connection, and the 2 of us slowly parted, and sold off SSForum.net, and SSDownloads.com. SSForum's db went corrupt, GodSpeedJAM bought ssnet, and said he had the VB license, also, so we tried to convert, and corrupted the db. IT chased off many zones/squads, and eventually almost killed the forums.

 

Swift didn't have as much time as he wished to devote to SSCentral, and the site kind of just died off. Then almost a year ago, he asked me to give him a hand with some things, and I kind of just made my way back in, and have since redeemed full control, and currently am finishing a new site for SSCentral (http://www.sscentral.com/polix/ - just a slight design overlook), and moved SSForum.net to forums.sscentral.com to be more uniform, as no other sites are alive and use it, beyond SSDL, who we now work closely with anyways (will be closer in coming months I hope).

 

Swift has quit the game, and I myself don't have a lot of time for it anymore, but I do as I can, and have revived these forums a lot, and plan more to come, as much of the council has bugged me about needing the last central site back up and running.

 

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So there is a brief overview for ya.

 

Edit: Oh, and yes all 3 of us are cool with each other again since. Me and Cybe have talked a lot, and all is fine between us, almost back to normal if you'd say as much. As it was only a few months after all of this, as he said he was finally freed from the game with the loss of that domain. All funds from the sale went to pay back payments owed on the servers he had, and next to no profit was made from it. Mine went back into hosting sscentral/ssforum (and then some), and Rowen has looked to pay back the community many times, not sure if he has yet been able to.

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One nice thing is that when SScentral died SSforum (now forum central) stayed live and kicking. The activity wasnt what it is now but there was a core community that stayed and kept life in the place.
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