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Tom.W
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Tim in Phoenix
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It was on life support for a year or more, one or two posts a week..........
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Nashou66
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Tom.W
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| Nashou66 wrote: | I got spanked by the Founder Stuart Wright on that thread 
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Funny I never really wondered who started that forum..............
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Mr. Green
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Who cares, except the only thing I'm concerned with is the content. If they won't keep it for reference, maybe they'll offer it as an archive to this site. Too many great CRT greats posts from a declining tech knowledge base would be lost.
I joined AVS, but couldn't be bothered and won't be back. This is the home for CRT. Most electronic nuts are always looking for the newest and "best". They forget that there's always a niche for people who like to tweak.
Anybody who doesn't "whoa" every time a classic car show drives through town is seriously too self absorbed. Same thing with old electronics. You have to keep it alive if only as reference for a few enthusiasts.
I hope they'll keep the old posts around for reference.
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stefuel
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Look at AVS. That forum used to have more posts a day than is logged in a month now. That will be the next to go.
This thread should be merged with the CRT market thread.
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garyfritz
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| Mr. Green wrote: | Who cares, except the only thing I'm concerned with is the content. If they won't keep it for reference, maybe they'll offer it as an archive to this site. Too many great CRT greats posts from a declining tech knowledge base would be lost.
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Try the Wayback machine: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090420080629/http://www.avforums.com/forums/crt-projectors/
That should stay around "forever."
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mc86
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I stumbled onto the AVS archives via this site and was amazed to see how much ECP stuff is there. However, my time spent in the archives has taught me almost as much about you characters as it has CRTs. Man, you guys must all feel like brothers by now...neat to follow this community over the years and to start becoming a tiny part of it here.
Matt
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Jeremy112
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Anybody who doesn't "whoa" every time a classic car show drives through town is seriously too self absorbed. Same thing with old electronics. You have to keep it alive if only as reference for a few enthusiasts.
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I feel the same exact way Mr. Green! (that is why I have 3 of the beasts and a 4th on the way!)
Almost sounds like Im having3 eyed CRT Babies! 
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Spanky Ham
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How much info is on that forum that isn't duplicated here or AVS?
I think AVS will leave the CRT forum alone for now, but I could see it going away in the next year or two. As long as it is archived, I am ok with that. There is a lot of great info on AVS and that would be the real loss.
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CIR Engineering
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | How much info is on that forum that isn't duplicated here or AVS?
I think AVS will leave the CRT forum alone for now, but I could see it going away in the next year or two. As long as it is archived, I am ok with that. There is a lot of great info on AVS and that would be the real loss. |
Totally. But historically speaking AVS has done well with archiving.
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Spanky Ham
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I think the current archives should be fine, but you never know with AVS. It is all about the bottom line over there. The current forum hasn't been archived, so it could be nuked. It goes back to June of 06. I think most of the good knowledge is pre-2009.
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km987654
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | How much info is on that forum that isn't duplicated here or AVS?
I think AVS will leave the CRT forum alone for now, but I could see it going away in the next year or two. As long as it is archived, I am ok with that. There is a lot of great info on AVS and that would be the real loss. |
I really don't get why any CRT forum has to be removed lets face it its just some space on a server somewhere and while space does cost its really small. CRT projectors like other enthusiast driven areas will rise and fall in interest over time and its difficult to gain momentum if you have removed the forum.
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garyfritz
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Space is obviously an issue in some cases. Hell, Kal did a major nuking of "non-essential" (mostly off-topic) posts a year or two ago. Wish I'd known ahead of time, I would have archived a few of my own posts.  (Just so I could dig them up again for the same argument and not have to research them again!!)
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Nashou66
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | How much info is on that forum that isn't duplicated here or AVS?
I think AVS will leave the CRT forum alone for now, but I could see it going away in the next year or two. As long as it is archived, I am ok with that. There is a lot of great info on AVS and that would be the real loss. |
As long as Alan Gouger has a crt he'll keep the forum going.
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km987654
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| garyfritz wrote: | | Space is obviously an issue in some cases. Hell, Kal did a major nuking of "non-essential" (mostly off-topic) posts a year or two ago. Wish I'd known ahead of time, I would have archived a few of my own posts. (Just so I could dig them up again for the same argument and not have to research them again!!) |
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kal
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| garyfritz wrote: | | Space is obviously an issue in some cases. Hell, Kal did a major nuking of "non-essential" (mostly off-topic) posts a year or two ago. Wish I'd known ahead of time, I would have archived a few of my own posts. (Just so I could dig them up again for the same argument and not have to research them again!!) |
It's not the space (space is cheap as someoen pointed out) but because the larger the dataset, the slower the database is at returning answers. Same reason why AVS has "archive" forums. You simply can't keep that volume of data all available without having massive servers, so if basically nobody's reading the old stuff, it becomes a business decision: Spend 2-3 times per month on servers for content that only 1% of people read, or start nuking or archiving.
I don't know if that's the case over at AVforums however.
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