Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.

[Karlos]

Well, if some bugger I've never met wants to label me a "sad retard" for deriving pleasure from the maintenance and use of old computer hardware, that's his bang. Frankly, why should I care?

[Karlos]

Your sig.  LOL.

Ah sweet irony. Like coppery, 'cept made of iron!

[Karlos]

Ah yes, 2003, the great purge :lol: Those were funny days, dead butterflies and burst boing balls a plenty...

Yep, the inspiration for these old avatars



Alas there was a brief armistice

[Karlos]

@Franko

Now? This is nothing! Everything is zen now compared to years gone by online. If I had to put a finger on the worst, most ugly year, it would have to be about 2003. That said, probably every year from about ~1998 to ~2007 were pretty ugly. The few really hardcore camp minded folks have migrated off to (insert camp here) minority sites.

Sure nowadays we get some slagging here and there amongst ourselves, but it is nothing you won't find on any other discussion forum on the internet with membership of this size.

^ this.

[Karlos]

It's not just the polls...

I guess I can't put my finger on it. Perhaps it's the lack of interest or support for any new Amiga developments.

It seems like Amiga.org has become the joke forum of the Amiga community. I guess it could be worse.

We are a tough audience, to be fair. Don't interpret wariness and lack of immediate enthusiasm for lack of interest.

I've lost count of the number of times I've been let down by developments that came to nothing. A-Box, BoXeR, BlizzardG4 (I would have happily sold organs for one of those), AmiJoe G3, Shark, ColdFusion and Dragon to name just a few hardware items alone.

Dennis had the right idea with the minimig. He didn't announce it until it was almost finished and he delivered a product that was based on a realistic target and avoided falling into the trap of adding more and more stuff to it. Thanks to other people taking up where he left off, it looks like the AGA version will come to light. Which is just awesome.

Consider the NatAmi. I've said a few times that I worry this project suffers from feature creep. Does that mean I don't support it? Not at all. That criticism is on how the project appears to be managed, not what their motivations are. It is vapour until I have it in my grubby paws. Am I excited by it? It's touted to be a machine that picks up where AGA left off, with greatly improved speed and improved features. What's not to be excited about? It's exactly the sort of thing I wanted, ever since the  boxer was first announced.

I can't speak for anybody else, but I'm cautious. Not uninterested.

[Karlos]

Never understood why people have a problem with "off topic" threads and chit chat, thought we were all here because we share a common interest? Who cares what we talk about. Remember, if you don't like what you see, don't read it. Simple

I completely agree. I think complaints of the form "there's too much discussion of " underlines a serious misunderstanding of what sites like amiga.org exist for.

This site is for the Amiga community. What makes a community? People. And oddly enough, people do not want to sit and talk about the same subject area day in and day out.

This site has a broad range of forums from highly Amiga-specific for discussing software, hardware, development, audio and video down through more general areas of discussion involving other systems, right through to the coffee house where any subject is catered for.

The fact that we seem to talk more about non-amiga stuff simply reflects the fact that not that much is happening in the Amiga world at large. Sure there are interesting developments and plenty of threads on each one.

Important note to the disenfranchised:

If anybody feels that the existing forums are too full of "useless" threads, they can create their own specialist mini-forums right here on the site and even be in charge (within limits) of what goes on within them and who is allowed to view and participate.

They are called social groups and can be found under the community section. So, stop complaining and create your own discussion group today!

[Karlos]

One thing I can sympathize with is that there is a lot of off-topic crap going on outside the coffee house. As it is now, CH is only a pale shadow of it's former self, and there's all kinds of crazy stuff going on in the main forum.

I think that's partially because the CH topics don't show up on the front page any more. There were valid reasons for that change (SEO for one, I imagine), but it does seem to have made them a bit forgotten about.

There's a link on the front page to the "latest coffee house posts", but I guess it might be a bit nicer if the most recent top 10 coffee house threads appeared in their own block under the "Recent Threads" section.

[Karlos]

Another wahoo with no sense of humor, I'll gladly send you some of me happy pills but I don't think they'd help you...

The Coffee House is one of the best places on Amiga.org unless you dead or something...

Chill out and join in the off-topic crap, you must have some sense of humor somewhere or you wouldn't have joined in the silly avatar fad that's suddenly appeared...

Being relatively new here, you can get away with scurrilous remarks like that with a plea to ignorance. At least once.

Be under no illusion, Whabang is a long-time amiga.org character with a well-established sense of humour
Ein... Zwei... Drei... Knäckebröd!

[Karlos]

New or not the old boys club don't scare me matey... :lol:

There are quite a few old farts here who need a sense of humor transplant...

So prood! So cock-sure, prancing aboot with your heed full of eyeballs! :lol:

[Karlos]

We need to ban the bugger before he gets to the first page of the AO rankings!

You should have been here in the old days, Franko. The political and religious flamewars were epic, and would put forums like Something awful to shame!

True, prisoners were most assuredly not taken :uzi::destroy:

[Karlos]

Last time I did that I ended up in soapy bubbles...

I dunno, everything went better than expected

[Karlos]

True, but at the time I thought my membership here was about to be as short as my time at Oxford...

Can't have been much shorter than my time there

If you are looking for an example of a heated CH exchange of yesteryear, http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30675

Try not to necromance it.

[Karlos]

Another fabulous necro?

Also, just browsed a bit and found the thread where ima started a rant about lesbians and then got derailed into a discussion about male genitals :lol:

LOL, I think I remember that one. He was a weird bloke and no mistake.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26468

:lol: Some of that was gold!

[Karlos]

Whoah... too heavy for me that one, best left in the vaults for the historians to ponder...

That's far from being the hottest potato in there.

(PS:After a 14 hour drive my time at Oxford was just under 45 minutes...

Ah, well my tenure was slightly longer. Just not long enough to complete my degree there :lol:

[Karlos]

I miss PMC

Yeah, whatever happened to that guy?

And yes, this was pretty tame compared to some of the stuff of that era.

Fun times.

Still, one for entering into the order of the sock scrolls...