RPGDot says 'Goodbye'

A sad end for Rendelius' baby. Don't ever sell the watch, ya hear!
 
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What a loss ! All of this information in the forums !!!

I wonder whether I should try to make a kind of "backup" via HTTrack ?

But I fear it would be too much stuff, perhaps ...
 
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Quite the shame. I think Jolt kinda did it to themselves, but it's still sad to see the Dot die. Rendelius has got to be heartbroken.
 
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To be honest, i'm surprised it held on for so long in a state of frozen euthanasia, it was obviously inevitable. It would have been better pulling the plug when the dotter's migrated en-masse.

I've just had a strange thought, if Jolt had put up a "for Sale" sign and the "Watch" re-aquired it, we could all have migrated back again en-masse....a kind of forum musical-chairs. :lol:
 
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Goes to show, a site is nothing without its members, and we are all here! :D
 
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Kinda sad that, after 2 years of near-inactivity and removal of all the NFG posts, I'm still #8 on their post count list, down from a peak of #5.
 
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Wow-so was this the forums closing, or everything that used to be on the Dot?--when I lurked there, I used the games database and reviews a lot, but since this site opened I've rarely been back.
 
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Since it's posted on the news page, as well as the forums, I'm guessing the entire site is going boink.
 
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Sad. In it's prime it was one of the best, if not *the* best, rpg sites on the web.
 
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It was the best for many years, then Jolt slowly choked us to death. Thus the formation of the Watch!! Sad, but inevitable.
 
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That is a sad passing, but it was really on terminal life support for the past two years,
 
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I go on vacation for a month and come back to the death of the dot, but like you guys already said it's been dying for a long time. They still kept up with the news but the forums were emptier than Fallout's wasteland.

If Rpgdot dies, do all the other network sites die as well? I suppose it does but it would be a shame to lose all that info on all the networked sites.

Edit: Nevermind, I got my answer. The goodbye message is on all of rpgdot networks. I have some downloading to do before the sites disappear.
 
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Goes to show, a site is nothing without its members, and we are all here! :D

That is the turth. Another site I post regularly on is about Texas Longhorn Athletics. The main site, Hornfans, had an amazing community for close to a decade, but the mods went overboard, permabanning people for the smallest offense. I'm friends with the owners and I got permabanned for something that wasn't even against the rules! Well, enough people got pissed off and formed a near clone site where the mods are totally hands off. Within about 2 months the old site is dead and the new site is rockin'!
 
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Wow, this is definitely sad news for me, even though I barely visited the Dot over the last few years. I was a member there for a long time before the Watch opened, it was one of my favorite sites.
 
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That's a shame. I admit, though, that I've only checked back there once or twice since the Watch opened.
 
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