Friends of the Amiga,
dearest dearest friends.

This Amiga World that David Doyle founded for us all, had already been a limping half cadaver for years, when the forces of darkness took over it (for god knows what reason) and let it further rot.

This Amiga World that David Doyle originally founded is now broken, with maintainers unwilling or unable to fix what falters.

PERMANENT AVATARS! UN-SETTABLE SIGNATURES! INVISIBLE LOGGED-IN COMRADES!
Just for starters.

HOWEVER!!!

However, w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶b̶u̶i̶l̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶r̶i̶c̶o̶p̶a̶l̶ during a casual analysis of these interweb pages,
I have realized that it is easily possible to scrape the entirety of each forum's posts.
All of the user profiles.
All of the other media such as news and the horrid pictures in that "image album".

so, WHAT IF!!

What if someone, perhaps this very tortured soul of yours truly,
re-created what David Doyle originally, lovingly founded,
with familiar colors, graphics, layout, a similar domain,
but a modern back and frontend
AND
populated it with its current content?

WOULD YOU MIGRATE?
WOULD YOU MARCH AWAY FROM THE ABSENTEE PHARAHOS?
WOULD YOU WALK INTO THIS PROMISED LAND keeping your username and posts?

WOULD YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





/mega

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I have a name suggestion for the proposed website clone: amoogaworld.net
It has a good ring to it. Include a red and white checkered cow as logo/mascot and you'll be on to a real winner. The sunny hills of Amoogaworld are sure to get everyone mooving!

Hans

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Numbers of posts and active members have decreased,
the problems on the forum software have increased.

There are a lot of other forums like amigans.net (that is mainly AOS4 centric) a1k.org (mostly German, mostly closed) eab.abime.net even moobunny.org is up again.

I would change or I would use them in parallel, it depends on further development.

- it should avoid avoid the name 'Amiga' (legal reasons) but Amoogaworld sounds like moobunny.
- it should be HTML 3.2 compatible no CSS, reduced GFX (iBrowse compatible)
- Avatars, and some basic formatting options (quote, bold, image link) would be nice
- deleting of users only via replacing the name in the database.
- a limit for posted text lines ( less tahn 100 )
- emoticons/smilies some people can't live without them.
- I like the color scheme here, it seems friendly, boing ball is not needed (legal reasons).
- the boards should be reorganized, some are hardly used others like like Linux, ARM, Windows, could be added.

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@OneTimer1

Friend OneTimer1,

the key is mirroring the old content, CONTINUING the legacy of David Doyle rather than just moving the ret-herd somewhere else.

What software, what additional boards - such things are mere afterthoughts.

The abhorrent truth is that we deeply care about the trash we piled up here theough the years. Yes, we want to carry over even cdimauro or ppcamiga1's posting history to that "next place".

As for the legal implications you hint at,
"LOL, ROTFL" as the youngsters type.

We may use amigaworld.org as much as commodoreworld.net or anything we please. We can make amigaos 3.1 sources mandatorily downloadable as a "prove you are human" check.


/mega!
(trevor-dickinson@outlook.com)

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Quote:

MEGA_RJ_MICAL wrote: What if someone, perhaps this very tortured soul of yours truly, re-created what David Doyle originally, lovingly founded, with familiar colors, graphics, layout, a similar domain, but a modern back and frontend AND populated it with its current content? WOULD YOU MIGRATE? WOULD YOU MARCH AWAY FROM THE ABSENTEE PHARAHOS? WOULD YOU WALK INTO THIS PROMISED LAND keeping your username and posts? WOULD YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In a heartbeat.

I toyed with the idea of doing the above myself, but it's way down on the priority list.

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LET'S JOIN THE FORCES
not kidding.

Among other things, this rogue migration would even recover years and years of threads and posts that our skilled admins decided for some reason to make inaccessible. HELLO ORWELL.






ps. god forbid they just handed over the database making the scraping unnecessary
GOD FORBID










/MEGA
thanks for your submission

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