Scrotnig

I'm intrigued. In the first of those links, Ozzy posts in a moderator-type of way, and the thread is also closed. Who closed it?

I may be stupid but I don't fully understand what this person is claiming this site has done. No database has been leaked. Then he says 'building a database of names and addresses' or something. Nothing like that goes on here so what's the beef?

It's ok on mobile at the moment

Seems he has TAZ completely fooled then. Why am I entirely unsurprised?

Oh it's "LancerForHire" is it? Brings back some, ahem, interesting memories. All makes sense now. All the more reason to stay away from TAZ, as I have done for many a long month now.

Is TAZ still a thing?

I should add, I wish TAZ well and hope they can recover, but based on every other forum in the known universe I suspect this will be unlikely now. I posted on my own site recently that the 'slow decline' of forums in recent years seems to have suddenly accelerated. Activity levels on every site I visit - including some busy ones - seems to have plummeted in the past six months. I know of many forums that have been historically exceptionally busy, and whilst they still are 'busy' by any standards, most seem to have anecdotally lost at least a third of their traffic in just the past few months, and all these sites now have at least one thread asking where all the posters have gone. It's astonishing and worrying in equal measure, especially given that Facebook is itself seeing a drop off in traffic. Even my own site, which has very slowly declined for years, has seen various people just 'disappear' in recent months and keeping it active is now more of a struggle than it was, with regular 'seeding' now needed, just as it was in the early days. Admittedly I don't promote my site anywhere so we're never going to attract new people, meaning some degree of attrition is inevitable, but the problem is fundamentally the same. Anyone any idea what may have caused the huge drop in the past six months? Or has anyone any evidence to refute it?

TAZ just alienated all the people who actually posted and made the site what it was, sadly. I had several tries at going back, and each time it was the same...delete, delete, delete, ban, ban, ban. Not just me but plenty of others as well. Ultimately they seemed to have two opinions eveyone had to have: 1. "Everyone hates vBulletin and Internet Brands is evil incarnate". 2. "XenForo is brilliant and absolutely nothing about it is bad". Anyone with conflicting opinions was in effect driven away from the site by the constant editing and deleting of their posts. Those that weren't driven away were banned. It was classed as 'trolling' to post any opinions that conflicted with the above. That then left a load of people agreeing with themselves, which quickly got boring and they all drifted away. Something I learned two decades ago now: CONFLICT. SELLS. FORUMS. Not only did TAZ fall down on this one, but so did other admin sites, notably AdminAddict who were going great guns until they decided to ban any discussion of the vBulletin situation in 2009. A forum admin site banning discussion of the most popular forum platform. You couldn't make it up. Now all these sites who tried to manipulate and control people's opinions are either dead or dying. Colour me unsurprised.

And to think Scott used to criticise vBulletin for slow progress with releases. Seems releasing software isn't as easy as he thought.

Fnaar

A site nobody can see and even if you find it, you can't sign up. In other news, I've decided to open a new restaurant. I'm not sure if I'll be any good at running it, but I'm not going to tell anyone where it is unless they PM me. Oh, and if you arrive, the door will be locked. It's just a test restaurant.

Immediately afterwards, this happened, after which time the shoutbox was removed. [ATTACH=full]1983._xfImport[/ATTACH]

Yes if I was anything like a decent php coder. :) Unfortunately I'm nothing like a decent php coder.

All this lot has just been wiped but I captured it for posterity. These are in the correct order as well. Enjoy a classic GTB meltdown. [ATTACH=full]1979._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1980._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1981._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1982._xfImport[/ATTACH]

Just a mockup for the moment, it isn't even there. If I do do it, it would have to be manual, in the templates.

The top three blocks there are real and live, it's just the "Who's Huffed Off" bit at the bottom I'm interested in. :)

My main forum has had so many sulky flouncy huffings-off lately, that I fancy making a new module at the bottom. This is a mock up of what it would look like. It would have to be manually created of course, I'm not messing about with new database entries and stuff. Just for a bit of a larf. [ATTACH=full]1978._xfImport[/ATTACH]

Gary just posted this:

Need a translation please: [ATTACH=full]1953._xfImport[/ATTACH]

Another good reason not to post on TAZ - being automatically treated with suspicion and mistrust in return for trying to assist. [ATTACH=full]1928._xfImport[/ATTACH]

Sorry Kent, Gary's rage wiped that now, so it doesn't apply.

After a review of his own operation, Gary has decided to go for more high end, intellectual content than he used to have. [ATTACH=full]1926._xfImport[/ATTACH]

I suppose it gets him attention when someone points it out. I've never known anyone quite like Gary.

He's doing it again. [ATTACH=full]1925._xfImport[/ATTACH]