terenceandphilip Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Once one of the busiest football forums on the internet, now a kind of disused dairy yard. Where did it all go wrong for the ab-madders? Link to comment
Foster14 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Tup left and that was the beginning of the end. Idiots. Link to comment
RAZOR Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Not enough first to last name ratios. Link to comment
BWG Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Shite fucking free-hosted website that looks like a proboards forum from 2005. Also full of sycophantic fucktards that love Jamie Langfield. Link to comment
tup Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Disappeared up their own arses. Banning me for nothing without explanation was a morally bankrupt thing to do. I destroyed SFE in revenge. He even had 'Oh Jimmy Jimmy' come on here begging me to call off the dogs. Had he provided the explanation asked for, there would have been no problem. So he personally is to blame for the shit state of the website. Link to comment
daytripping Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Its format and its posters and editor, all pretty much made it self implode, though Tup claims the credit I truly believe banning me was the start of the decline, just never recovered and is now on life support soon to be admitted to Roxburghe house, dead by Christmas I predict. Link to comment
daytripping Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 SFE Ed will lose a fair wedge every year, his posting philosophy as he put it has been the end of him, dweeb. Remember he came here crying and trying to have us banned off here as well, was really strange, I expected better from a ginger, they usually know their place. Link to comment
Admin Bebo Posted October 30, 2015 Admin Share Posted October 30, 2015 I don't read the board so i can't comment on the content itself, but i can critique the running of the network. The majority of the issues are outwith Ab-mad's control. Fundamentally, ab-mad does not control the underlying site. It's part of a network which is run by a for-profit media company. Besides from the moderation of the local board and some content freedom, ab-mad has no control of their own board. We have complete creative freedom. The lack of foresight or unwillingness to invest, develop, update, improve, reinvent and redesign is a major part. We've gone through as many as 3 style changes and complete redesigns and complete software upgrades while the footy-mad network stood still in the 1990's. The network was an eye-sore for so long. It was difficult to read, post and navigate. You want to make it as easy as possible yet Footy-Mad managed to get those fundamentals backwards. Footy-mad was too late to finally come into the new millennium which was too late for many. They had stupid simple issues plaguing the site like being unable to upload a profile picture for months if not a year, to something essential to a forum like a search function that didn't work The Hat has the advantage of being an independently run forum. We make just enough to pay the server bills and licensing costs and that's it. We don't care for profit which is why you don't have mobile pop-up's hijacking your browser opening up the AppStore, or paid-for-content at the bottom of the page. We're constantly updating and adding things. Look at our problem and suggestion sub-forum. Issues are fixed usually within a day and feature suggestions are added frequently and timely. In comparison, ab-mad's Editor can't make additional features or make additions to the underlying code. He can't fix issues posters are having. He has to forward complaints or bugs to the guy running the place and hope he's not counting his money from all the ad revenue to get a reply. It's not Ab-mad's fault. It's their platform. Footy-mad were too inactive to fix issues and too ready to exploit their boards for profit. 3 Link to comment
terenceandphilip Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 Blimey. Link to comment
Ke1t Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I don't read the board so i can't comment on the content itself, but i can critique the running of the network. The majority of the issues are outwith Ab-mad's control. Fundamentally, ab-mad does not control the underlying site. It's part of a network which is run by a for-profit media company. Besides from the moderation of the local board and some content freedom, ab-mad has no control of their own board. We have complete creative freedom. The lack of foresight or unwillingness to invest, develop, update, improve, reinvent and redesign is a major part. We've gone through as many as 3 style changes and complete redesigns and complete software upgrades while the footy-mad network stood still in the 1990's. The network was an eye-sore for so long. It was difficult to read, post and navigate. You want to make it as easy as possible yet Footy-Mad managed to get those fundamentals backwards. Footy-mad was too late to finally come into the new millennium which was too late for many. They had stupid simple issues plaguing the site like being unable to upload a profile picture for months if not a year, to something essential to a forum like a search function that didn't work The Hat has the advantage of being an independently run forum. We make just enough to pay the server bills and licensing costs and that's it. We don't care for profit which is why you don't have mobile pop-up's hijacking your browser opening up the AppStore, or paid-for-content at the bottom of the page. We're constantly updating and adding things. Look at our problem and suggestion sub-forum. Issues are fixed usually within a day and feature suggestions are added frequently and timely. In comparison, ab-mad's Editor can't make additional features or make additions to the underlying code. He can't fix issues posters are having. He has to forward complaints or bugs to the guy running the place and hope he's not counting his money from all the ad revenue to get a reply. It's not Ab-mad's fault. It's their platform. Footy-mad were too inactive to fix issues and too ready to exploit their boards for profit. So what you're saying is it was banning tup what did it? Link to comment
BillyStarkDivinHeeder Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Where's Stav22? Link to comment
Poodler Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I love it here, it's everything a forum should be. It's my most visited page and i don't know why anyone would use another dons one. Other than Tup scaring them off 1 Link to comment
Ke1t Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Where's Stav22? 6 yards offside if I had to guess. 1 Link to comment
BillyStarkDivinHeeder Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 6 yards offside if I had to guess. Who was the boy that wanted to cave your face in with a claw hammer? He was funny. Link to comment
Ke1t Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Who was the boy that wanted to cave your face in with a claw hammer? He was funny. Forgot his name, but not my proudest moment. He had problems in real life involving his family, I think (I later discovered), and me being a cunt to him didn't help. Nowadays I tend to keep in mind that there's a real person on the other side of the screen, so now I just stick the worst offenders on block rather than ripping on them. Link to comment
Admin Bebo Posted October 30, 2015 Admin Share Posted October 30, 2015 Just jumped across to have a peek.Cults Academy thread. Major local story, national news. Massive interest. 6 replies. 1,000 views. AFC-chat's equivalent thread: 270+ replies. 9,000+ views. Fkn' hell. I didn't realise it had fallen that badly. Link to comment
360 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Hats off to Footy Mad for somehow managing to make that shitey website worse. Link to comment
SheepieBaaBaa Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 A high volume of idiots, happy clappers, delusional fuds and just assorted dispays of retardation. Haven't been over there recently as I detected a steep descent into the depths of ridiculousness. .....So, that really.....oh and I was banned at one point. Link to comment
The Cockney Don Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Mason, ya BDO darts loving wurzel that ya are Link to comment
looksgoodinred Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I got banned umpteen times. are you a rabble-rouser, BM? Link to comment
looksgoodinred Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I don't read the board so i can't comment on the content itself, but i can critique the running of the network. The majority of the issues are outwith Ab-mad's control. Fundamentally, ab-mad does not control the underlying site. It's part of a network which is run by a for-profit media company. Besides from the moderation of the local board and some content freedom, ab-mad has no control of their own board. We have complete creative freedom. The lack of foresight or unwillingness to invest, develop, update, improve, reinvent and redesign is a major part. We've gone through as many as 3 style changes and complete redesigns and complete software upgrades while the footy-mad network stood still in the 1990's. The network was an eye-sore for so long. It was difficult to read, post and navigate. You want to make it as easy as possible yet Footy-Mad managed to get those fundamentals backwards. Footy-mad was too late to finally come into the new millennium which was too late for many. They had stupid simple issues plaguing the site like being unable to upload a profile picture for months if not a year, to something essential to a forum like a search function that didn't work The Hat has the advantage of being an independently run forum. We make just enough to pay the server bills and licensing costs and that's it. We don't care for profit which is why you don't have mobile pop-up's hijacking your browser opening up the AppStore, or paid-for-content at the bottom of the page. We're constantly updating and adding things. Look at our problem and suggestion sub-forum. Issues are fixed usually within a day and feature suggestions are added frequently and timely. In comparison, ab-mad's Editor can't make additional features or make additions to the underlying code. He can't fix issues posters are having. He has to forward complaints or bugs to the guy running the place and hope he's not counting his money from all the ad revenue to get a reply. It's not Ab-mad's fault. It's their platform. Footy-mad were too inactive to fix issues and too ready to exploit their boards for profit. probably more to the point (from an outsider's point of view, since i'm not a Mad user), the admins here are, as you've noted, responsive and technically proficient and get shit done, and the mods don't over-moderate.you all do a great job. Link to comment
Ke1t Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 The Hat could merge with Ad-Mad like comics used to back in the day. Like Starlord and 2000 AD. Obviously The Hat would be 2000 AD, let's be realistic. Link to comment
Woolenrouge Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I was posting there for a good while but have pretty much given up on it. A few genial old time posters asides, the site has been overrun by a small clique of hectoring self rightous fuds. A lot of folk have deserted the place because they can't stomach interacting with them. The only pass mark I would give is the long running hun threads, as there are a few folk in the know posting good stuff there. Even then the clique fuds spent half the last one berating the OP because the thread title wasn't 'cool enough' Fucking twats. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 The Hat could merge with Ad-Mad like comics used to back in the day. Like Starlord and 2000 AD. Obviously The Hat would be 2000 AD, let's be realistic. Comics Link to comment
The Cockney Don Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Buc`s a good fella on there(never met him though), didn`t agree with some of his views but he`s harmless enough.ASC`s former top boy "Swordy" posted on there, another good lad.Hilton`s me old china. Most of the rest can do one. Link to comment
Redforever86 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Buc`s a good fella on there(never met him though), didn`t agree with some of his views but he`s harmless enough.ASC`s former top boy "Swordy" posted on there, another good lad.Hilton`s me old china. Most of the rest can do one. Buc is one of my mates da. Boys a legend. Used to leave creates of beer in his teenage son's bedroom for storage. Que us drinking half of it on the not so sly. Link to comment
The Cockney Don Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Buc is one of my mates da. Boys a legend. Used to leave creates of beer in his teenage son's bedroom for storage. Que us drinking half of it on the not so sly. Only needs a couple and he`s "seek" Link to comment
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