Ist Poly Kaputt?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I am just asking questions.

[loinburger]

The poly I joined seventeen years ago is kaput, but so is pretty much everything else that I was a part of seventeen years ago and so I'd have to be an idiot to think that poly would be an exception

Whether today's poly will be a suitable replacement for yesterday's poly is highly dependent on the number of database corruptions we face in our immediate future [smilie to indicate that I'm sort of half joking]

[Berzerker]

I hope not, I'd definitely miss our Poly fantasy sports leagues

golf and baseball are coming up

[Jon Miller]

About half of the apolytoners that I still see and care about, I see much more often (in some cases solely) on FB. At some point, if I don't see anyone on apolyton that I care about that I don't see on FB, I will stop visiting apolyton.

JM

[Aeson]

Whether today's poly will be a suitable replacement for yesterday's poly is highly dependent on the number of database corruptions we face in our immediate future [smilie to indicate that I'm sort of half joking]

Is there any particular database corruption you're hoping for?

[loinburger]

I'll donate twenty bucks if everybody's avatars were "accidentally" replaced with dickgirls

[OneFootInTheGrave]

[OneFootInTheGrave]

On the main topic - it feels that there is nothing to discuss, we already know what everyone else thinks. Few people are still getting a kick out of Ben or Kid - otherwise, looks like it has all been decided.

Pro/anti religion, Trump, Clinton, gay marriage, war, Russia, super duper surveillance state, food, drinking and Civ VI (crap).

It's sort of a shame, as I much prefer this format to anything else on the net, not to mention that the people here are better informed/intelligent than internet average which is closer to Ben level, who is kind of an outlier here.

[loinburger]

I just can't get on board with the "facebook is making forums obsolete" zeitgeist even though it seems to be ubiquitous. My idea of a good time is being able to post a thread about a dream I had where I farted myself to death that then gets hijacked into a discussion about who the worst Pope was, and facebook is the wrong media for that sort of thing to happen.

[Aeson]

... plus my family and customers read my Facebook posts ... so I have to behave

[Egbert]

Trump will make everything great again, including Poly.

[ZEE]

About half of the apolytoners that I still see and care about, I see much more often (in some cases solely) on FB. At some point, if I don't see anyone on apolyton that I care about that I don't see on FB, I will stop visiting apolyton.

JM

This is what happened to Forumwarz. Skype, Facebook, and other off-site venues took the entire poasting commmunity away. The Forums are now a graveyard and the game is broken and not supported anymoar. As users formed into klans they got together off-site and eventually left the Chat-room and forums altogether. Not to mention the owners gradually banned all the popular and interesting poasters for stupid infractions (DL's were a permaban offense with no possibility of parole.) I had a long-standing argument with the main owner that it was the community and not the game that kept the site active, yet my warnings went unanswered.

I was right.

[ZEE]

It's probably not even safe to poast there now as their version of Ruby on Rails was last updated in 2010 or so.

[Egbert]

This is what happened to Forumwarz. Skype, Facebook, and other off-site venues took the entire poasting commmunity away. The Forums are now a graveyard and the game is broken and not supported anymoar. As users formed into klans they got together off-site and eventually left the Chat-room and forums altogether. Not to mention the owners gradually banned all the popular and interesting poasters for stupid infractions (DL's were a permaban offense with no possibility of parole.) I had a long-standing argument with the main owner that it was the community and not the game that kept the site active, yet my warnings went unanswered.

I was right.

facebook

[Bereta_Eder]

nein das poly nicht kaput.

das ist faulsche

todaugh ist wewy shiny

aber das ist genralus strikus und weir was largehgh traffica