(September 20, 2016 at 8:49 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(September 20, 2016 at 8:40 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: I've been meaning to ask this, what made you want to set up AF? I mean there's already a couple of atheist-orientated forums out there from what I have seen.
Did you fall out with management on the other sites or something?
This site is 8 years old, but the original community is from an older site atheistforum.com (not related to atheistforums.com). I was the head admin and co-creator of atheistforum.com along with a casual acquaintance who owned the domain and handled the server side of things. Long story short, one day the admin control area stopped working, and when I emailed my acquaintance to get it fixed, he bluntly told me that he sold the site to someone.
Anyway, the community didn't want to stay on a site which we couldn't control properly, so we all collectively abandoned ship and I set up atheistforums.org.
So yeah there was a kind of falling out, but not between us and one of the more popular sites. Also, back then, there weren't as many atheist forums out there.
It is quite old indeed:
https://web.archive.org/web/200601310852...forum.com/
