Refugee thread!

[The Grand Nudger]

So the choice is "or cake"..........? 

[Nakara]

It's a shame but not entirely unexpected.  I joined a few years ago but I don't think I ever posted.

Personally I think it's bad management not to give more notice to the members and staff.  To me it feels like a case of "I can't be bothered anymore and everyone can just lump it."

I'm not sure about the notice time. Appears they got at least 10 days. What do you think is appropriate?

(killing me is not an option)

We were initially given 3 days, though it was very vague.

He didn't even bother to leave a message himself, that had to be done by a mod.

It was only after some prodding and begging that we're now at 10 days.

I can't believe this is how he's decided to handle an 8 year old established online community--a community he's played virtually no part in aside from giving it a domain, and has given us no say in the matter. The only thing he has given us is a little more time to say goodbye and figure out where the heck to go. This fucking sucks.

[The Valkyrie]

It's a shame but not entirely unexpected.  I joined a few years ago but I don't think I ever posted.

Personally I think it's bad management not to give more notice to the members and staff.  To me it feels like a case of "I can't be bothered anymore and everyone can just lump it."

I'm not sure about the notice time. Appears they got at least 10 days. What do you think is appropriate?

(killing me is not an option)

For a community that has grown over a number of years, I would have said at least a couple of months notice.

[brewer]

I'm not sure about the notice time. Appears they got at least 10 days. What do you think is appropriate?

(killing me is not an option)

We were initially given 3 days.

He didn't even bother to leave a message himself, that had to be done by a mod.

It was only after some prodding and begging that we're now at 10 days.

I can't believe this is how he's decided to handle  an 8 year old established online community--a community he's played virtually no part in aside from giving it a domain, and has given us no say in the matter. The only thing he has given us is a little more time to say goodbye and figure out where the heck to go. This fucking sucks.

If he "played virtually no part" then why should anyone be surprised or upset?

I don't want to talk out of turn as I was never a member at TTA but have another question. When you say "given us no say in the matter" what does that mean? Did anyone try to step up and take it over?

I understand it sucks.

[Nakara]

We were initially given 3 days.

He didn't even bother to leave a message himself, that had to be done by a mod.

It was only after some prodding and begging that we're now at 10 days.

I can't believe this is how he's decided to handle  an 8 year old established online community--a community he's played virtually no part in aside from giving it a domain, and has given us no say in the matter. The only thing he has given us is a little more time to say goodbye and figure out where the heck to go. This fucking sucks.

If he "played virtually no part" then why should anyone be surprised or upset?

I don't want to talk out of turn as I was never a member at TTA but have another question. When you say "given us no say in the matter" what does that mean? Did anyone try to step up and take it over?

I understand it sucks.

By that I mean he rarely ever posted. In the 3 years I was there I saw a grand total of 1 post from him, and that was when he was telling us he wanted nothing to do with forum politics. Which is fine, I never blamed him cuz things could get dicey there and I was thankful he 'd made the place possible. But then he doesn't even have the decency to bother to tell us himself that he's shutting down an obviously established community and only gives us a vague 3 day-ish window of when that would be. We were told Thursday and initially had anywhere between Friday to Monday to say our sudden goodbyes and salvage our resources.

We're upset because that's a pretty shitty thing to do.

We had people reach out to him offering to take over, but all he's done is given us more time--he wants to move his brand a new direction, and that's fine, but I'm more than sure a name change and a change of hands would have been possible--nope, whole forum is being deleted.

I'm surprised someone who's built up the atheist community as a whole is willing to do this to his own.

[arewethereyet]

I'm just happy that the membership here has been so welcoming.

[Nakara]

I'm just happy that the membership here has been so welcoming.

I am too. I've lurked over here for some time and the people are great! They took in the Amazons with open arms, and I can't thank them enough for welcoming us here.

[The Valkyrie]

I'm just happy that the membership here has been so welcoming.

I am too. I've lurked over here for some time and the people are great! They took in the Amazons with open arms, and I can't thank them enough for welcoming us here.

We're hoping to find some more virgins to sacrifice yo the Dark One.

At the moment there are no conventions where virgins gather in numbers...

😊

[Nakara]

I am too. I've lurked over here for some time and the people are great! They took in the Amazons with open arms, and I can't thank them enough for welcoming us here.

We're hoping to find some more virgins to sacrifice yo the Dark One.

At the moment there are no conventions where virgins gather in numbers...

😊

Well, we are in your debt...

[brewer]

Shhhhh, they're not asking about the strings yet. Wait till they're good and hooked.