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Yeah, I half agree. Aemon Send a noteboard - 18/09/2010 05:36:33 AM
With Wotmania gone (and arguably before, depending on your priorities), Dragonmount was unquestionably the premier WoT fansite. From that perspective, it makes sense to direct wotmania's traffic there. From a community standpoint though, I'm right there with you. It surely would have been nice for Mike to give US the domain. On the other hand, didn't the Dragonmount landing page have a link to our site? Can't remember. That would mollify me a bit.

Anyway, I honestly didn't care too much about this. What I was really upset about was Mike not following through on his promise to provide some migration tools. In particular, for the noteboards. I never cared, but a lot of longtime members lost a lot of important stuff, or spent a long time copying hundreds of old notes. I tried to help out with some website scraper programs, but they were tricky to get working, and I'm not sure how many people managed.

I was one of the people trying to defend Mike right till the end, but man. . .the way he handled the site closing really soured me on the guy.
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www.wotmania.com no longer leads to a Dragonmount page letting people know where we are. - 18/09/2010 01:07:47 AM 1255 Views
Thankless bitches. *NM* - 18/09/2010 01:10:31 AM 343 Views
Yeah, I can't say I'm impressed with how they handled that. *NM* - 18/09/2010 02:23:33 AM 356 Views
Honestly, it's probably an oversight, or a temporary measure. EDIT - 18/09/2010 03:03:51 AM 809 Views
I still think Mike was a total asshole for not having it link to this site anyway. Whatever. *shrug* *NM* - 18/09/2010 03:12:08 AM 343 Views
+1 *NM* - 18/09/2010 03:21:21 AM 328 Views
What was his reasoning for that, anyway? *NM* - 18/09/2010 04:59:26 AM 357 Views
Yeah, I half agree. - 18/09/2010 05:36:33 AM 981 Views
Me, too. For a long time I was like it didn't matter, we owed the guy for the site, blah blah blah. - 18/09/2010 05:43:11 AM 907 Views
Re: Me, too. For a long time I was like it didn't matter, we owed the guy for the site, blah blah - 18/09/2010 06:10:07 AM 900 Views
Was it you who came up with that exporting software? Worked fine for me, once I figured it out. - 18/09/2010 10:54:11 AM 808 Views
I was the one to post the initial thread about it, yeah. - 18/09/2010 05:54:51 PM 962 Views
It worked for me, too, eventually. - 20/09/2010 01:46:54 PM 770 Views
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I saved all of mine - 20/09/2010 09:08:29 PM 810 Views
Same here, so thanks, Aemon! *NM* - 22/09/2010 05:31:23 AM 328 Views
Re: Yeah, I half agree. - 18/09/2010 11:21:07 AM 847 Views
Indeed. *NM* - 18/09/2010 12:31:47 PM 318 Views
Quite. I never considered him part of the community. Ever. - 20/09/2010 11:25:44 PM 836 Views
Yeah, he checked out and then was definitely phoning everything in at the end. - 20/09/2010 11:33:19 PM 780 Views
Agreed. - 21/09/2010 05:25:04 AM 785 Views
Instead, it was eaten by a Trolloc. *NM* - 18/09/2010 02:00:16 AM 334 Views
Aww *NM* - 18/09/2010 12:30:59 PM 332 Views
And it now goes to something called Argonaut Entertainment. *NM* - 29/09/2010 01:47:43 AM 345 Views
Interesting. - 29/09/2010 02:16:14 AM 832 Views
Weird. - 29/09/2010 02:38:43 AM 787 Views
Oh , awful. *NM* - 29/09/2010 04:28:20 PM 333 Views
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's back now. - 10/10/2010 03:48:28 AM 740 Views
Re: Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's back now. - 10/10/2010 07:07:03 PM 788 Views
If I offer to hug your sad panda - 10/10/2010 07:27:11 PM 1011 Views
Tough question. It sounds dirtier the way you say it. *NM* - 10/10/2010 07:55:51 PM 332 Views

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