Welcome to the new Commodore USA Forums

Apparently similar to Hyperion moving to a corporate forum, although it does not seem product purchase is necessary here.
For those who noticed the talk of a name change previously, this seems to be the result.

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Yawn

No mention of Amiga anymore. Even more reason to ignore them now.

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@ddni

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the actual forum itself is owned and managed by terminals

@terminills

I'm sorry, but this reads like:

Thank you for your years of service, but we couldn't be bothered to check the spelling of your name or nick.

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The staff of Commodore USA, LLC will no longer be participating on commodore-amiga.org

Eh?
The link is redirected back to Commodore.net.
The statement, however, indicates no longer participating on commodore-amiga.org as if you could still go there with that link.
What am I missing here, besides no one doing any proof reading?

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@number6

This made me laugh.

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Since we are not the actual owners of the forum, it placed restrictions on our ability to fully monitor and implement corporate policy and other features that will now become integrated into this official Commodore USA forum.

Thats a load of bull as they edited posts, deleted posts and waved CUSA's policy in everyones face all the time. But hey oh atleast we will get a true view of how many will actually view the forum. Where once it would say 100 - 200 guests where online it now only has 10. And the old URL forwards to the new one so it's not as if people won't get to it.

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Oh well as many know that site has been on cruise control for a while. I let it run itself.

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@CritAnime

That's the very first thing I did when I saw the change was to check how many actual users were online. I KNEW that 150+ number they always showed was BS. It would always show something like 3 members and 150 guests... yeah right. Now we see how many people are really there... which is around 15 total. That is much more accurate from the post numbers. You're not going to have 150+ and 1 post a day.

The most obnoxious thing about that company is there attempt to deceive people. It's makes them feel untrustworthy.

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Thats a load of bull as they edited posts, deleted posts and waved CUSA's policy in everyones face all the time. But hey oh atleast we will get a true view of how many will actually view the forum. Where once it would say 100 - 200 guests where online it now only has 10. And the old URL forwards to the new one so it's not as if people won't get to it.

True, and now all the promises have gone "offline". Niice, fresh reboot 2012.
Sadly, Terminillis with all censorship wasn`t "corporate control" enough.

20+ soulds max there at the moment, 3 C=USA employees and few fans active.

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Please do me a favor and don't speak to or of me again. I have no use for your vendetta.

Thanks.

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@terminills

I am speaking of some public issue, you will never recieve a PM, thanks to your own culture (and moreover family and bussiness culture of Barry, Leo, Spammy ...)

Care to elaborate why C-A.org had to disaapear like Rome under Nero?

Also, Syntek, the new guy, seems to be complaining on your behalf ...

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There were quite a few great posts on the old forum. Tim (Terminills), the admin from the old board was supposed to get me database access last night so I could attempt to migrate as much over here as possible, but I still have not heard anything from him. Regardless, if we do manage to import the old posts and users into the new forum, or continue with it as a clean slate the bottom line is that this forum is much faster and actually ran by the staff of CUSA. Genuine support questions should be answered here with a much quicker turn-around then before.

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It would always show something like 3 members and 150 guests... yeah right. Now we see how many people are really there... which is around 15 total. That is much more accurate from the post numbers. You're not going to have 150+ and 1 post a day. The most obnoxious thing about that company is there attempt to deceive people. It's makes them feel untrustworthy.

Its now 39 minus 3 C=USA employees. However is the smallest Amiga board.

Its interesting they have instantly deleted C-A.org so now will have to do a rework of C-A.org links using TimeMachine to show the past. They indent to burn n crash and pretend some things never happened, but it will remain visible in number of forum users and real customers (since its C=OS forum number of forum users might exceed number of C=USA customers, these are the Linux ways)

So far video of one C=USA Amiga Mini on YT

And a vague promise of MInt 13 as Fusion, that will not be upgradable from previous Vision (Mint 10). Nice continuation ...

Back on topic, big news is published at AntiCUSA blog
http://anticusa.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/cusa-support-forum-is-moving-to-httpforums-commodore-net/

Its the only place you can vote was this a smart move or "biography cleaner"

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you will never recieve a PM

Oh but you did PM me. When you spammed my and many other peoples inboxes with PM's about your vendetta site.

Since you won't follow my first request here's a new one. Seek help.

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Yes I did informed all the people that have previously been in PM communication with me about the blog and I will never do that again. Yes, I did use the spammy tactics that looses some peronal credit.
No, you will not get any PMs after you have politely asked for it.
No, I don`t need professional help, thanks for thinking of my health.

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@thread

I remember CUSA had a nice looking (well, nicer than the actual one, ain't that difficult) temporary website a while back, grey/green in tones. It had almost like a retro design. Do you know what happened to it by any chance?

@Shufflepuck

Was that the short-lived corporate website you refer to?

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@Shufflepuck

I remember that too... it was a nice retro beige looking site. Now that they are on the verge of dethroning Apple, the look is all about flashy modern. I'm surprised they don't add dub-step music to the site somewhere.

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@Shufflepuck Was that the short-lived corporate website you refer to?

Has anyone saved offline the original designs (not the corporate good one) the one OSnews were talking about?

Sadly, Way Back machine hasnt cached it.

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Don't remember if it was the corporate site or not, the graphics were consistent with the C64 case lines, don't think the URL was commodoreusa.net maybe it had a different domain? However it was definitely better than the "Geocities-inspired" one they're using, at least it had a much professional look.

While I don't like to join in the C-USA bashing (I prefer to just leave them to their own devices), some things are too hard to resist - and this is a semi-serious question.

When the new forum was created, they created a poll to hear about how great it was:
http://forums.commodore.net/showthread.php?6-How-do-you-like-the-new-forum

According to Dammy etc., there are tens of thousands of Commodore "fans" out there.
So how come after 5 days so far, the total number of votes in the poll is ...
21.

I still reckon that probably most of the Commodore buyers - because it's such a geek/niche product - will look at the official forums, especially as they're the only method of "support".
So if they're working on 21 members in 5 days.... I wonder how many they really sold...

I'd love to see the real sales figures....

@Spirantho

Well they always used to lie about high numbers. C=USA boards are low traffic non Amiga related "Amiga" boards with about 30 souls.

And even now, with heavy censorship

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I've noticed that Barry has even already edited Jermey's (syntek's) posts. Personally, I would find it super creepy if suddenly my post said "editied by digitex" at the end, even if I worked for CUSA.

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