Zztop Is Ok

Missed this as not as "active" on here as I once was. Echo TuT's message, how's he doing?

Best wishes ZZ and hope you're well on the road to recovery mate.

 

Same as Cude here, I'd not seen this news as I'm not on here all that often.

I hope you're doing okay zz. All the best.

 

Any news @NorthHarrowHornet ?
Did he get to watch the game today ?

 

Any news @NorthHarrowHornet ? I see he's not been on the forum for > 2 yrs so I'm not expecting great news but would be good to hear anything....

 

Perhaps we need to also ask if NHH is ok?

SCG (aged 66)

 

I’ve often said it would be interesting to see occasional lists of posters who hadn’t posted/visited for say 3 or 6 months but had regularly posted before that. Some lose interest of course. Many familiar names from a few years back have disappeared as posters. Always concerning when a regular poster like ZZ suddenly stops posting with no warning.

 

Yes it would have been 2003/4 when the official WFC Forum was suddenly pulled, something to do with a certain centre forward if I remember correctly!

 

Nah, the official website forum went in about late 2006 or early 2007. I joined here in 2006 (almost 17 years ago now!!) just before the official forum shut it doors. It was a little bit tumble weeds on here initially, then when the official board closed this place took off.

I echo thoughts on here too hoping ZZ is getting on ok.

 

I agree. It's pretty obvious tha

 

Ah ok, I remember where I was working nights posting on it 2003/4 but you are correct it was a few years later when Boothroyd was manager it stopped!

 

RIP m8.

 

Yes I think it's possible with most posters to see "last seen on x" data so you know someone is fine but found something better to do with their time. Maybe interesting to see a list of posters who've not been on the site for 6 months rather than a list who've not posted, or both ? I'd have thought all useful info for the forum owner (one of us but we don't know who) to try to check on / retain his/her customer base. Perhaps a few "Welcome back" offers like "Be a Moog poster for a day" "50 free likes" "block any poster you like from posting for 48 hrs" etc etc

 

Don't think so, would mean they'd have to moderate it which I imagine most clubs don't want the hassle of doing/organising.

 

Surely they could just outsource and pay a handful of moderators £30k a year like they do on this forum ?

 

Why do you think I was in a position to make such an offer...?

 

Our moderator is Idi Amin?

 

ps Amin is dead. Or Idi ?

 

Too slow, loser.

 

Was way ahead of you but lost vital seconds in digging out the pic as I wanted to avoid making a bland, dull post like yours

 

I was never on the official forum, I was on BWL, which was a hoot. I think a number of people here were on that forum, when rivals.net got bought out it slowly died and eventually closed. I did then register an account on Glory Horns but I never posted on there; I first came across this forum in 2012 during the takeover but didn't register until the summer of 2014.

 

This has been posted somewhere else previously but this place opened in September 2006 and the official club forums, (shudder), closed suddenly in November 2006.

That means that this forum is able to apply for it's provisional driving license this September.

 

It was the mythical Marlon King chip shop fight that was the final straw for the club if I remember correctly.

 

That was one hell of a thread.

 

I think the whole rivals.net set-up got excessively sanitised after that buy-out and the fun went with it. The infamous Friday invasions of other clubs' rivals.net boards, the increasingly virulent spats with pseudo-Yank boards, the at times sheer anarchy of some of the threads....but apparently some clubs' fans took it all WAY too seriously. Compared to just about every forum now, BWL was like the Wild West. The sc*m's 'Outlaws' boeard can be a bit like that, but they've taken the whole Wild West vibe way too far by actually using a 19th century format.

 

I got a life ban from Sheffield Wednesday's rivals board but I think we all did. I wasn't on BWL when that lovers' spat made the national news though, I can't even remember what it was all about.

 

Right.

Given the prevalence of free/low cost hosting options nowadays, along with services like Reddit and Discord, why take on the cost and the potential legal issues? In the early days of the internet it made sense, but we're long past that now.

 

Classic.

 

Sigh,,,BWL, Official boards…seems a lifetime away now! who was that raving looney postman?

 

Ray Bloom!

 

It was to do with someone called Brian having porked a goat behins his girlfriend's back I believe.