Current Pulse of HCL--counts, and other data

[Haertig]

One thing people could try, say, if this forum were to get sold and go to the dogs:

When several users have found (or created) a new forum to call home, on that new forum create several posts that mention "What happened to homesteadingforum.org?" In fairly short order Google and the other robots will have picked this sentence up and indexed the thread where it is being repeated over and over. So anybody doing a Google search on this question should get hits to the new forum. Since the old forum would not have administrative control over the new forum, they couldn't silence or ban the people involved in advertising the new place in this roundabout way.

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You could maybe even make things more streamlined by posting something with the text "Did homesteadingforum.org move to xxx.yyy.org?" Then the new place would potentially pop up right there on the Google results page, without the person doing the search having to do much of anything at all. You're posting the answer by posing it as a question.
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[Supervisor42]

My read on it, at that time, was that PS got bought out. They replaced the admin, that everyone loved, with an admin that few got along with. I often wonder how nobody was injured in the stampede. A handful of members stayed but when I visited, to see how things were, it was like walking into an empty stadium with one player on the field.

Someone may own the forum but the members are the lifeblood. Without the members the forum is a cold carcass.

Don't even get me on the soapbox about CMG (carbon media group, a Canadian company) that bought up many American forums and destroyed them .
Their motto should have been: "if we can't talk about this stuff, neither can you!"
KTOG is a great example. Today, at the bottom of their page, you will find this:

• The Fora platform includes forum software by XenForo.

• Outdoor Hub, LLC (d/b/a Carbon Media Group), 30800 Telegraph Rd, Suite 1921, Bingham Farms, MI 48025 USA

Once, dozens of posts per day... today, 4-8.
Many of us members, Phideaux, Haertig, myself, and others fled to the Talk Firearms forum, and later to here when it was 'combined'.

 

[Supervisor42]

Don't even get me on the soapbox about CMG (carbon media group, a Canadian company) that bought up many American forums and destroyed them .
Their motto should have been: "if we can't talk about this stuff, neither can you!"
KTOG is a great example. Today, at the bottom of their page, you will find this:

Once, dozens of posts per day... today, 4-8.
Many of us members, Phideaux, Haertig, myself, and others fled to the Talk Firearms forum, and later to here when it was 'combined'.

... A snip from the PS forum website homepage today:

• The Fora platform includes forum software by XenForo.
• Outdoor Hub, LLC (d/b/a Carbon Media Group), 30800 Telegraph Rd, Suite 1921, Bingham Farms, MI 48025 USA

Does that look familiar? (See above)
The last post on it was 4 days ago .
Is this beginning to make sense yet?

 

[Weedygarden]

It wasn't the first time that someone bought out a great business and then proceeded to destroy it.

 

[Haertig]

It wasn't the first time that someone bought out a great business and then proceeded to destroy it.

Lesko Brandon!

 

[havasu]

BTW, I am member #2 to be registered here. Has anyone else figured out how to get your member number?

 

[Bacpacker]

Not me

 

[havasu]

Not me

You're #47

 

[Bacpacker]

Cool. I guessed somewhere in the top 100

 

[Spikedriver]

How do we find our member number?

 

[Neb]

Let me guess. Mine is

2791

?

Ben

 

[Weedygarden]

BTW, I am member #2 to be registered here. Has anyone else figured out how to get your member number?

I did see someone's number recently but I have no idea how to find it now.

 

[Neb]

How do we find our member number?

Guessing

140
?

Ben

 

[Neb]

I did see someone's number recently but I have no idea how to find it now.

Gold down on a user icon then select

Copy link address

Paste that into a text box.

Read the number after the user name.

Ben

 

[Spikedriver]

Must not be it. Mine said 140 also when I did that. @havasu ?

 

[Pearl]

I was a late party crasher, April 2021! Doesn't it feel like I have been here forever?!

 

[Supervisor42]

Must not be it. Mine said 140 also when I did that. @havasu ?

Yeah, mine said 468.
Hard to believe we went from 2 members to over 450 in less than a month

 

[elkhound]

mine is 110.... i joined Dec 11-2017

 

[elkhound]

I was a late party crasher, April 2021! Doesn't it feel like I have been here forever?!

you are 3079

 

[Pearl]

you are 3079

My new lucky number

 

[backlash]

Mine says 33. Joined Dec. 3rd 2017

 

[Spikedriver]

Mine says 33. Joined Dec. 3rd 2017

How did you find it?

 

[elkhound]

How did you find it?

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/spikedriver.140/

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/backlash.33/

 

[Spikedriver]

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/spikedriver.140/

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/backlash.33/

That doesn't make sense. I joined November 27 of '17, Backlash joined December 3rd. I take it the numbers aren't chronological?

 

[Peanut]

How did you find it?

Right click on your avatar, select open in new tab... look at the address bar. The address will end in your number...

That doesn't make sense. I joined November 27 of '17, Backlash joined December 3rd. I take it the numbers aren't chronological?

Agree... i'm 155 but signed up the same day as Sup42. His number is 468.

Did 300 bots sign up in between us?

 

[Pearl]

Geez, Swing needs some math tutoring from Neb!!

 

[Pearl]

Are y'all looking at the " who is getting kicked off next" list??

 

[Tommyice]

I'm shocked that I joined before @Pearl. I could have sworn I saw posts of yours when I first posted.

 

[LadyLocust]

Still not getting anything that shows me a number but it’s okay because I don’t want to be older than @Pearl

 

[elkhound]

That doesn't make sense. I joined November 27 of '17, Backlash joined December 3rd. I take it the numbers aren't chronological?

man made computer and program is all i can tell you =glitches

i bet its because multiple forums were combined and it shuffled numbers accordingly...just a guess. sorta like when threads are merged together and it shuffles all posts according to time posted thing.