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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 1076 Views
Thankless bitches. *NM* - 18/09/2010 01:10:31 AM 274 Views
Yeah, I can't say I'm impressed with how they handled that. *NM* - 18/09/2010 02:23:33 AM 296 Views
Honestly, it's probably an oversight, or a temporary measure. EDIT - 18/09/2010 03:03:51 AM 662 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 280 Views
+1 *NM* - 18/09/2010 03:21:21 AM 266 Views
What was his reasoning for that, anyway? *NM* - 18/09/2010 04:59:26 AM 284 Views
Yeah, I half agree. - 18/09/2010 05:36:33 AM 822 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 750 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 743 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 642 Views
I was the one to post the initial thread about it, yeah. - 18/09/2010 05:54:51 PM 745 Views
It worked for me, too, eventually. - 20/09/2010 01:46:54 PM 614 Views
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I saved all of mine - 20/09/2010 09:08:29 PM 642 Views
Same here, so thanks, Aemon! *NM* - 22/09/2010 05:31:23 AM 263 Views
Re: Yeah, I half agree. - 18/09/2010 11:21:07 AM 698 Views
Indeed. *NM* - 18/09/2010 12:31:47 PM 256 Views
Quite. I never considered him part of the community. Ever. - 20/09/2010 11:25:44 PM 677 Views
Yeah, he checked out and then was definitely phoning everything in at the end. - 20/09/2010 11:33:19 PM 617 Views
Agreed. - 21/09/2010 05:25:04 AM 644 Views
Instead, it was eaten by a Trolloc. *NM* - 18/09/2010 02:00:16 AM 271 Views
Aww *NM* - 18/09/2010 12:30:59 PM 263 Views
And it now goes to something called Argonaut Entertainment. *NM* - 29/09/2010 01:47:43 AM 278 Views
Interesting. - 29/09/2010 02:16:14 AM 651 Views
Weird. - 29/09/2010 02:38:43 AM 612 Views
Oh , awful. *NM* - 29/09/2010 04:28:20 PM 266 Views
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's back now. - 10/10/2010 03:48:28 AM 590 Views
Re: Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's back now. - 10/10/2010 07:07:03 PM 630 Views
If I offer to hug your sad panda - 10/10/2010 07:27:11 PM 859 Views
Tough question. It sounds dirtier the way you say it. *NM* - 10/10/2010 07:55:51 PM 262 Views

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