Just call me Lady Queen

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That's good to know. If you ever write up a wiki for it, be warned there's a zetaboards one with some drama from some random trolls talking about shiz. XD Any who, the whole thing about Mickey is that I didn't know him as well as sirvenom did. He knew the guy from before he stopped being active on the forum & even when he was active on the forum he still had this disconnect from how it felt to me. More like, 'the forum is just here for amusement & cause it's something I do on the side for funsies'. I have no idea when he started wiifuse as a forum, sirvenom would probably know that far better then I would, but I haven't seen him online in years. Even if he is online in some fashion I have no idea even where to begin looking for him.

[/changing subject] I know this might sound odd.. But my gut keeps telling me to stay away from jcink. I still don't understand why yet, & it's the main reason I decided to go the self hosted route. My gut feelings have never been wrong & I hope in a way this time I am.. but I can't keep getting this weird vibe of 'you better not' when I was considering using jcink for my fan fiction forum. I instead decided to go with creating a forumotion account for it. I sort of had to since a lot of my members would turn my fan fiction idea's into role plays. Let's just say that it was always a thing & I stopped writing fan fiction on my forum for a long while due to it. I love my friends don't get me wrong, but it got kind of ridiculous after a while, thus why I made a separate forum for my fan fictions away from my forum.

As far as Jclink, a few days ago I went on their support forum and registed just as a "hey maybe I can move over to that support board as something to do"

The first thing I realized was that it was just there for support, no community or anything. That is disheartening Its the route TapATalk also took, which IMO is bad for a forum provider as there is then a disconnect, with out an active community or encouraging a actual community on the support forum you do really understand the needs of the boards you host or why people might be requesting a feature. You are removing your self from being able to be in their shoes.

The second thing I realize is that there are only 2 staff members both admins and they seem to be a couple. Which is fine, but it adds extra risk if the relationship turns sour. Also only 2 staffers for a decenly sized forum host is also disconcerting in the fact that if shit goes south in terms of an DDoS Attack or an outage or anything else you only have two people who can handle that AND handle the community. Brandon made the mistake of being the only dev and system admin on the team, but at lease he could count on his other staffers to help keep the community under control and act as messengers back and forth.

During the great S13 outage of 2005 I was just a week or two of being a community mod, me and Sam (who was hired the same time as me) spent hours and hours purging topics and the one official topic and trying to keep the peace, other help as they were able but I was in that topic with out breaks for way too long every day.