rpg.net forums down

[kregmosier]

http://forum.rpg.net/ as of 12:20 CST on 2/1/07

Our forums have gotten too big! We're doing some repair work to resolve this, but because of the aforementioned size of the forums, it may take all day.

Here's a thought:   NUKE TANGENCY FROM ORBIT.

make those retards go use Something Awful, like the rest of the uh retards.

[NYTFLYR]

http://forum.rpg.net/ as of 12:20 CST on 2/1/07



Here's a thought:   NUKE TANGENCY FROM ORBIT.

make those retards go use Something Awful, like the rest of the uh retards.

Thats the first thing I thought of, its an RPG site, and the Tangency portion is double or triple the size... Keep other media, keep other games, becasue they are at least somewhat related to the site... pictures of your pets is not

[O'Borg]

Yep, my first thought was that Tangency is the culprit too. Pruning the gorram thing down would be the sensible option, but from the breif announce in Trouble Tickets earlier today, it looks like they're trying a fix/hack to get it going.
I guess there's something to be said for the accusations that RPGNet is being run by Tangencites if the site admins dare not nuke the off-topic forum.

[Balbinus]

The trouble is, despite the name, it is not primarily an rpg site.  It's a Tangency site with a very active rpg forum attached.

But yeah, it's obvious that Tangency is the problem.  Personally I think they should split it into tangency.net and rpg.net.  Give the Tangency guys a home, collect their membership fees, but make it a separate site not dedicated to gaming.  You could have a link one to the other on the homepage of each.

[Balbinus]

Nytflyr, have you ever considered publishing Dirty 30's?  It really is tremendous.

[NYTFLYR]

Nytflyr, have you ever considered publishing Dirty 30's?  It really is tremendous.

I put it down on paper and it was a whopping 30 some odd pages, so not really enough for anything published (except pdf which is being considered.... once Im done finding things to add... like  1935 - Beer in a can!!!)

[Akrasia]

...  Personally I think they should split it into tangency.net and rpg.net.  Give the Tangency guys a home, collect their membership fees, but make it a separate site not dedicated to gaming.  You could have a link one to the other on the homepage of each.

This would be a very good idea.  I hardly ever go to Tangency, but whenever I do, I don't recognise 90 percent of the names there.  It really is a separate community from the RPG board.

[Balbinus]

I put it down on paper and it was a whopping 30 some odd pages, so not really enough for anything published (except pdf which is being considered.... once Im done finding things to add... like  1935 - Beer in a can!!!)

Under resources, you should consider adding the excellent Astounding Tales! by Howard Whitehouse, which is available for sale but I can't remember where.  It's a fairly rules light but very good pulp miniatures ruleset, although really it's an rpg aimed at those who don't think they play rpgs.  

Similarly, To be Continued by G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. is another pulp minis game, a bit like .45 in terms of genre.  Astounding Tales! IMO is entirely playable as an rpg, so probably could be To Be Continued and .45 but AT! very much so.

[NYTFLYR]

Under resources, you should consider adding the excellent Astounding Tales! by Howard Whitehouse, which is available for sale but I can't remember where.  It's a fairly rules light but very good pulp miniatures ruleset, although really it's an rpg aimed at those who don't think they play rpgs.  

Similarly, To be Continued by G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. is another pulp minis game, a bit like .45 in terms of genre.  Astounding Tales! IMO is entirely playable as an rpg, so probably could be To Be Continued and .45 but AT! very much so.

excellent, I will add those in the next day or so.

[Kester Pelagius]

This would be a very good idea.  I hardly ever go to Tangency, but whenever I do, I don't recognise 90 percent of the names there.

Well part of the problem might stem from the fact certain users, whose names I don't recognize, have post counts higher than mine.  IOW: People keep changing their handles!

It really is a separate community from the RPG board.

Not really.  It's just the off-topic forum that's, uhm, sort of like, well, this forum!  

[Consonant Dude]

Yeah, nuking the cesspool that is tangency would solve the problem but, as Balbinus said, the official position of the administration and moderators over there is that they are not a roleplaying community.

I cannot see a day where they will separate the two communities. I think they like the pathetic outlook of users telling each others what they had for dinner and exchanging secret geek handshakes like it's actually something you should be proud of, while that Curt continues to mis-moderate the place like it's a freaky gay advocacy forum.

On another note, when the forums crashed there was a note over in Trouble Tickets saying Jared Sorensen was "gone for good". I assume this means permabanned. I wonder what that clown did this time.

[Dominus Nox]

Damn, wouldn't it be funny if the truth was a banned user came back and hacked that rotten tree down?

I kinda hope that's what happened, it might take the echogods there down a peg or two.

[Kyle Aaron]

So that's what's happening to the place, eh? Just yesterday I went there to hunt up an old Roleplaying Open thread of mine, and saw that the oldest post there was December 12th, 2006. They did a clipping? I thought, but of course as a banned user can't enquire.

As well as having more posts in Tangency Open than the rest of the forums combined, Tangency Open takes up a lot of bandwidth because it's where most of the images get posted. All those h4wt chixxorz threads. Sure, the images aren't hosted on the rpg.net server, but the remote linking sucks up processing power - more than just text. And of course paid-up members can attach images to their posts directly, which many of them do.

The real test will be if they also clipped all the Tangency Open posts from before December 12th, 2006. That'll show what they think is important

[NYTFLYR]

the official position of the administration and moderators over there is that they are not a roleplaying community.

so what doest the RPG in RPG.net stand for?

[Christmas Ape]

so what doest the RPG in RPG.net stand for?

At this point?

Domain squatting, basically, without intent to sell.