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Discussion in 'AfterDawn feedback & suggestions' started by nrautava, Oct 14, 2005.

  1. nrautava

    nrautava Guest

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  2. dRD

    dRD I hate titles Staff Member

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    There are two main reasons for it:

    1) People are sheep in some ways -- particularly "top lists" have the effect on directing what people download, thus eroding the possibilities for new tools to get into charts or at least making it extremely difficult.

    2) Sometimes tools' URLs change or they get removed and its a pain in the a*se to go through the old news to edit the links accordingly.
     
  3. weazel200

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    I have 3 questions for you dRD.

    1) What year did Afterdawn start?
    2) How many mods and admins are there in total and what are there names?
    3) Who's the person below you authority wise?
     
  4. nrautava

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    [bold]1.[/bold] Year 2001 (or not, I found old post from that year)
    [bold]2.[/bold]
    [bold]3.[/bold] Now it is dRD`s turn...
     
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  5. dRD

    dRD I hate titles Staff Member

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    nrautava: 1) Wrong. 2) Slightly wrong.

    Correct answers:

    1) June, 1999.

    2)

    English forum mods:

    jnihil
    A_Klingon
    Pio2001
    loaded
    HomerJ
    herbsman
    VCDjunkie
    aldaco12
    vurbal
    Oner
    darthnip
    Shoey
    Nephilim
    tigre
    Praetor
    flip218

    (in order of their joining dates to the aD as newbies, oldest first)

    Finnish forum moderators (some of them occassionally visit English forums as well):

    Khauron
    petrau
    chopper
    Jake
    mika
    jannejt
    pkaksp

    Our DVD X Copy forum mods:

    ireland
    whompus
    Jaybo
    dpsmith
    baldbear

    3) Ketola is the 2nd in command. And in addition to nrautava's list, Dela is our news writer in English site nowadays (thus, not in mod list).
     
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  6. nrautava

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    Almost... (damm Dela) lol

    Is here any post from that time? (1999)
    Oldest I can find was in 2001.
     
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  7. dRD

    dRD I hate titles Staff Member

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    The current format of forums wasn't launched until 2001, before that, in AfterDawn v1, we had quite different forum system ("tree-view" forum). I think we had about 20 posts in our forums when we scrapped the old system and launched our "v2" layout (those of you who've been using our site before December, 2003, probably remember the constant complains about "pink"..). In v1 we had various weird sections, like MP3s from indie artists (nowadays in MP3Lizard.com), TV schedules for Finnish TV channels, WinAMP skins, etc.

    Best way to check what happened on our site in old days is to look into our news archive. Back then, until 2001, we didn't have any real ways for users to participate to our site -- no news commentary option existed until 2002 or so, nobody used forums, software reviews weren't added until 2004, etc.
     
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