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Forums Shutdown

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:29 am
by Mr Baseball World
Sporting News has announced on the mlb forum here that these forums will shut down April 6th. I assume all strat parts will go there..........does it mean the transfer will be done then?????? Many of the unused for some time forums disappeared today.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:13 pm
by Palanion
Yeah, I just saw that too.

[quote:f9a84b31d3="sn-moderator"]The MLB News forum will be closing on April 6. Sporting News has continued to operate this forum site in support of our Strat-O-Matic players, but as that game is moving to strat-o-matic.com, we will be shutting down the forums entirely when the move is completed.
[/quote:f9a84b31d3]

This seems to imply that the move to SOM.com will be completed by April 6.

Good for the game, but bad for me.
My company has blocked all "games" sites, so any sites that include the word "games" in its keywords or URL are blocked. Apparently, however, if games is within a word (e.g., fantasygames, like here), it's not blocked.
So, no more SOM at work for me... :(

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:17 pm
by ADRIANGABRIEL
[quote:b247873045="Palanion"]So, no more SOM at work for me... :([/quote:b247873045]
Time for a smart phone...

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:52 pm
by Mr Baseball World
.....I suppose though they could shut the other forums down on the 6th and continue to run the strat forums for a bit here before transitioning them over there.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:27 pm
by Palanion
I only have a dumb phone (tracphone with a broken antenna).
Maybe someday I will get up to speed and have a real mobile phone.
But I would probably have to give up my Strat addiction to afford one.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:28 pm
by bkeat23
[quote:28726c957e="Palanion"]Yeah, I just saw that too.

[quote:28726c957e="sn-moderator"]The MLB News forum will be closing on April 6. Sporting News has continued to operate this forum site in support of our Strat-O-Matic players, but as that game is moving to strat-o-matic.com, we will be shutting down the forums entirely when the move is completed.
[/quote:28726c957e]

This seems to imply that the move to SOM.com will be completed by April 6.

Good for the game, but bad for me.
My company has blocked all "games" sites, so any sites that include the word "games" in its keywords or URL are blocked. Apparently, however, if games is within a word (e.g., fantasygames, like here), it's not blocked.
So, no more SOM at work for me... :([/quote:28726c957e]

Beer for the Firewall Guy opens access.

Your's truly,
(not your) Firewall Guy :D

PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:36 pm
by macnole
[quote:b8edf9e911="agabriel"][quote:b8edf9e911="Palanion"]So, no more SOM at work for me... :([/quote:b8edf9e911]
Time for a smart phone...[/quote:b8edf9e911]

Time for work! :wink:

Wow--I'd have to work a 24 hr day to do anything like this at work. impossible.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:03 am
by Palanion
Lunch break!
At least, that's what i use my lunch break for - Strat!

PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:14 am
by Valen
It would be nice if they provided a transition period where the current forums stayed up while we migrated to new forums.

Also wonder about the significance of that post only being made on the MLB News forum. Is it only that forum that is going away or all forums on this site? If all why not a notification on all. Also note that I have posted on the MLB News forum this morning so it is not shut down.

It will be interesting because I have heard the moderators on the strato forums are less tolerant than those here have been.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:52 pm
by Valen
The MLB forum is definitely gone. Sad. It was fun to talk baseball there.