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TrappedinCalifornia:
For those who don't already know, here's a concise post from Librarian on the 'other site' regarding what happened...


--- Quote from: Librarian ---
--- Quote from: IncognitoArms ---I was on that forum for years! What exactly happened to it? Can barely log on there now
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Really don't know?

Summary: At the end of 2022, the hosting service for Calguns.net decided to get out of the business. The software was moved to another host about December 2022, but it was running incompatible software that vbulletin uses. So for about a year, the forum would run, but had a collection of weird behaviors.

In 2024, at the end of April, the forum was migrated to vbulletin 6, on the cloud service hosted by VB. There were Conversion Issues, one of which was the loss of iTrader, which was an add-on for the old VB 3.x.

Apparently the costs for the data the forum used were high for the cloud service, and performance was sometimes odd, so the forum was moved to another hosting service (https://www.inmotionhosting.com/) at the end of August 2024. (Just three months of this pain? Seems like forever.)

And, the problems with that are what this thread is about.
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He's got 'badges' which indicate he's a supporter and contributor to that site; but, he's been remaining fairly even keeled.

No.  I won't link to the thread it's from as there are a goodly number of accusations being thrown around regarding Kestryll in addition to the usual "he should sell it" as well as 'instructions' on how to discontinue your financial support of .net.  Let's just say that if our continuing loyalty to Kestryll is misplaced, so be it, we'll find out soon enough.  If it's not, well... Let's agree that some of these people should not be all that 'welcome' back at .net so far as I'm concerned.

saudade:
I "joined" that site a while ago but don't really participate.  Aside from the marketplace (I'm not in the market) and the CGN bashing, there's not much else there. 

Speaking of CGN, performance is dazzling at this moment.  I've been on for nearly 10 minutes and no errors.

kyle1886:

--- Quote from: saudade on November 21, 2024, 07:50:59 AM ---I "joined" that site a while ago but don't really participate.  Aside from the marketplace (I'm not in the market) and the CGN bashing, there's not much else there. 

Speaking of CGN, performance is dazzling at this moment.  I've been on for nearly 10 minutes and no errors.

--- End quote ---

When you limit a site to a narrow field as "that" site, especially where the politics of firearm ownership is as important as the arms themselves, the chances of it staying vibrant are slim.

There is another site I used to visit regularly that "no politics" was in force.  The site at that time focused mainly on hand guns and ammo.  At that time the focus was mainly the Browning/FN and such.  You can only talk about handguns so much and I wasn't into reloading.  That site may have changed but I have not been back in years.

I'm afraid that may happen to Caguns. 

Kyle

Bar-Ang:
i suspected it's not as simple as others were saying "do this, do that" otherwise it would have been done long time ago.

zatoh:
I was able to get in today with only one instance of a 504 error. It's slow but it's working. Yay! :D

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