10-15-2022, 10:17 PM
Yeah, I’m still alive. I should come here more often as I miss chatting to artists and having my butt kicked, but I find the contrast of text hard to read. Last signed on in 2013, but I have read a few threads every so often while lurking.
I’m still friends with a load of the old members on FB from all sides. One day I’ll write the backstory of the demise, as I kept all the emails, chat logs etc. I’m also quite happy that I’m not spending all my time banning spammers, nagging Jason, while trying to help the remaining members as much as I could. Happy, because I can spend more time now actually painting.
If it’s of any interest, I managed to save nearly all of Art Discussion (albeit with some images missing), a load of tutorials (mainly those I was interested in), my sketchbook, a couple of my friend’s sketchbooks, but I ran out of time. I did try to rope a few people in to save as many pages as possible, as I knew the forum would be lost, but sadly, they didn’t.
There was a backup done before the last upgrade, which came in handed when the forum got deleted by a rogue programmer after being sacked, chased by the FBI etc. Did I mention that the backstory was fascinating?
I’m still friends with a load of the old members on FB from all sides. One day I’ll write the backstory of the demise, as I kept all the emails, chat logs etc. I’m also quite happy that I’m not spending all my time banning spammers, nagging Jason, while trying to help the remaining members as much as I could. Happy, because I can spend more time now actually painting.
If it’s of any interest, I managed to save nearly all of Art Discussion (albeit with some images missing), a load of tutorials (mainly those I was interested in), my sketchbook, a couple of my friend’s sketchbooks, but I ran out of time. I did try to rope a few people in to save as many pages as possible, as I knew the forum would be lost, but sadly, they didn’t.
There was a backup done before the last upgrade, which came in handed when the forum got deleted by a rogue programmer after being sacked, chased by the FBI etc. Did I mention that the backstory was fascinating?