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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:18 pm 
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And that's it. Time of death, 13:11 BST

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:22 pm 
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And I see they haven't actually redirected it anywhere (thus far, anyway); so anyone wandering in will just be baffled.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:23 pm 
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:36 pm 
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The Last Shot 12:10:41 GMT:
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:25 pm 
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Just headed there and got an error 404. Sad times.

Many thanks for preparing for the moment Tao!

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:35 pm 
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Yep i took a screenshot too,and one of all online users on the final night.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:43 pm 
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It will be interesting to see if they suddenly decide to bring it back in a few years. They had an SFX forum back in '99/'01 that got canned for financial reasons. It was a much simpler affair back then though.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:49 pm 
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Yup - just discovered it.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:13 pm 
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Ho hum. End of an era - a sad day indeed.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:16 pm 
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RIP SFX forum, my first online home. :cry:


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:30 pm 
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Goodby SFX Forum. You served geekdom well.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:26 pm 
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RIP SFX forum, my first online home. :cry:


Yes, this completely, the SFX forum was where I learnt how to be online. And it was a relatively safe environment to do so. Now the youth of today are launched onto FB/Twitter/Instagram etc, which is like shouting into the void at times, with added creeps.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:31 pm 
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The SFX Forum is dead. Long live Offtopica2!

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Have to admit, got a little lump in my throat when I logged in this afternoon with my iPhone to find the old page still in the cache, but then when reloading the page to update it finding an internal server error. The old girl will be missed.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:47 pm 
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Its impossible to guess whether this will have an impact on the magazine at all. But I note all the comments are gone under articles.

Postscript: And now we know why the forum was pulled.

Seriously, no bullshit. I just pulled this off their facebook feed. Anyone else know about this?

'IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! A New Direction For Total Film And SFX Online

We're in the process of launching a massive new entertainment portal! SFX.co.uk, TotalFilm.com and GamesRadar.com are teaming up for a new destination for all your film, TV, games, comics and books needs. We wanted to give you plenty of notice. From this November, TotalFilm.com and SFX.co.uk will join up with gaming giant GamesRadar.com to bring you all the up-to-date film and game exclusives, reviews and offers in one place. More details on the site here: bit.ly/1pDPHuL

NB: No changes will happen to SFX magazine or Total Film magazine. You'll still be able to enjoy all our print creations as normal!'

So there you go. People are already asking if there will be a forum. Frankly I'm a little bit annoyed and no I can't put a finger on why. I just am.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:57 pm 
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Seriously, no bullshit. I just pulled this off their facebook feed. Anyone else know about this?

'IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! A New Direction For Total Film And SFX Online

We're in the process of launching a massive new entertainment portal! SFX.co.uk, TotalFilm.com and GamesRadar.com are teaming up for a new destination for all your film, TV, games, comics and books needs. We wanted to give you plenty of notice. From this November, TotalFilm.com and SFX.co.uk will join up with gaming giant GamesRadar.com to bring you all the up-to-date film and game exclusives, reviews and offers in one place. More details on the site here: bit.ly/1pDPHuL

NB: No changes will happen to SFX magazine or Total Film magazine. You'll still be able to enjoy all our print creations as normal!'



Yeah, they've had this up on the SFX website since yesterday, and sent an email newsletter thingy too.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:04 pm 
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Any word on what this hub site will be?

I can't see myself wanting to visit to be honest, but maybe I'm being obtuse, stick in the mud. After all its a brave new world. I wish them well, I really do. But it doesn't feel like an SFX choice so much as a moneyman boardroom lets cut costs and IT payments choice. We'll see.

Good luck to em. There are a lot of people out there and many to potentially enjoy.


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You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:42 pm 
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You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!


Exactly!


So - who did get the last post on SFX?

I had to go and work, so missed the end.

Goodbye SFX, it was fun.
And here we can refer to the people who shut it down as the fuckwits they truly are!


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:47 pm 
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You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!



So - who did get the last post on SFX?



Me, apparently. Woo. Yay me, I killed the forum!


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:53 pm 
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Well congratulations

Wish I could have been there for the end.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:02 pm 
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'IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! A New Direction For Total Film And SFX Online"

That sounds suspiciously like 'Great news readers!' we're mergin your favourite comic and then cancelling its ass.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:38 pm 
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I managed to get one last look in just before 1PM as I was popping out for something to eat. When I came back 20 minutes later it was all gone.

Guess I was wrong about someone logging on with Dave's username to play a prank.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:45 pm 
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Farewell, SFX Forum. You taught me to be the online person I am today, I'll always be grateful for that.

Shame I couldn't be there for when it finally happened.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 12:04 am 
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The old girl's been gone for less than a day and I miss her already :cry:


Just popping in to to say hi and a HUGE thanks to Tao for providing a safe place for all of us (and also for doing so for many years already!)

*waves*

(also, just because it's such a great icon --> :EvilMonkey: hee hee hee)

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:07 am 
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Been spending some time online before heading to college for Swedish class, and I really don't know what to do with myself. I've been to Twitter, Farcebook and here, but it just doesn't seem right without visitng the old forum. Even when I wasn't posting at all, I always used to check in on some favourite threads and whatever.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:38 am 
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Out of force of habit the first thing I did when I turned on Ruby the laptop this morning was hit the old forum link. The error message was like realising it was gone all over again! Guess I shall have to remove it at some point but the link has been in the same place on my favourites bar for years now!

So farewell old forum and hello new!


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:03 am 
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Have they disabled the comments facility too?

All articles on the site have 0 comments now & I can't see a way of logging in...

Damn shame they pulled the plug, guess I'll frequent this and see how it goes...

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:20 am 
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Have they disabled the comments facility too?

All articles on the site have 0 comments now & I can't see a way of logging in...

Damn shame they pulled the plug, guess I'll frequent this and see how it goes...



They've switched the comments system to Disqus, you can log in to that with Twitter or basefook, but you then have to complete a simple profile. You do get notifications of replies though.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:07 am 
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Been spending some time online before heading to college for Swedish class, and I really don't know what to do with myself. I've been to Twitter, Farcebook and here, but it just doesn't seem right without visitng the old forum. Even when I wasn't posting at all, I always used to check in on some favourite threads and whatever.


This. It's like moving house. It's all new and exciting but you miss the familiarity of the old place. And all of it's memories.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:13 am 
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You know I never get attatched to places, people and things this way. I don't really worry about moving house, changing jobs or people emigrating. I don't even cry at funerals. This feeling of loss and fear of change is something a bit alien to me and feeling it here, over a forum, is very strange :frown:

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