10-27-2022, 12:13 PM
Good to see other CA peeps here (although I've seen several post about CA here through the years since I've been here)
I lurked on CA for a LONG time before I felt confident enough to sign up and start posting. After my CA SB grew to a dozen pages or so — someone there took one of my images and altered it and posted it in their SB. They let me know it was a 'tribute' and I said ok just post a link back to my SB and credit me and they never did.
For several years I stopped posting there because of that but in the year before it shut down I created a new SB because all the links in my old one were broken by then and all that was left on most pages was the text — AND it was starting to be hit or miss finding it up or down, and sometimes it would take a week for it to reappear.
I remember a guy from Poland with a SB that was well over 100 pages and who was always there commenting in other SBs had a massive freak out and began cursing a moderator out because most of the images they had posted in it were gone.
It wasn't long after that that it closed for good. Later, Jason M posted an appeal for money ($8,000 as I recall) and said the demise was because of personal issues he'd gone though.
But I'd be very interested to hear Black Spot's back story about CA's long slow death.
Like others have said I grew a lot there and was sad to see it go and now CD scratches that itch for me.
I lurked on CA for a LONG time before I felt confident enough to sign up and start posting. After my CA SB grew to a dozen pages or so — someone there took one of my images and altered it and posted it in their SB. They let me know it was a 'tribute' and I said ok just post a link back to my SB and credit me and they never did.
For several years I stopped posting there because of that but in the year before it shut down I created a new SB because all the links in my old one were broken by then and all that was left on most pages was the text — AND it was starting to be hit or miss finding it up or down, and sometimes it would take a week for it to reappear.
I remember a guy from Poland with a SB that was well over 100 pages and who was always there commenting in other SBs had a massive freak out and began cursing a moderator out because most of the images they had posted in it were gone.
It wasn't long after that that it closed for good. Later, Jason M posted an appeal for money ($8,000 as I recall) and said the demise was because of personal issues he'd gone though.
But I'd be very interested to hear Black Spot's back story about CA's long slow death.
Like others have said I grew a lot there and was sad to see it go and now CD scratches that itch for me.