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  On 21/03/2022 at 01:25, Fluxmaven said:

What happened to ShawnB? I know he was on OCN at one point. 

 

Or maybe I don't want to know lol. depends on how bad it was 😅

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He's here on EHW, you can ask him yourself. @Outsider

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  On 20/03/2022 at 21:48, Alastair said:

How many of us are exOCNers? Just wondering because there were a fair lot of us before the V-Bulletin migration and the sell-off of OCN. 

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History lesson time lol. 

 

The initial V-bulletin migration honestly wasn't what damaged OCN. I mean sure, as with any change there was frustration and some losses. Huddler (the platform OCN moved to) was actually decent and the owners were community focused and were working with myself and the other management to bring back any lost functionality and fix bugs. They were actually exceptionally quick on fixing things and making adjustments. I cannot really find much fault with them. We were making some great progress. 

 

Then came our troubles. 

 

Huddler became EOL as a platform. It was a proprietary software that was no longer going to maintained. Bugger ! Huddler was then purchased and we became part of the Wikia group. This didn't mean a platform change....but we did see stagnation as dev work etc had come to a standstill.

 

Ironically it was only a short time after that Wikia re-shuffled their company portfolio and decided that tech forums such as ourselves were no longer a good fit....Sigh. 

 

Here comes ANOTHER move.

 

OCN was the sold to Verticalscope which was running its portfolio on...get this, the same super old version of V-bulletin we initially migrated away from. This meant OCN was migrated back to V-bulletin, but with that meant we lost EVERYTHING. All the features we had managed to get back thus far with Huddler...poof gone.  

 

This is were you would have started to see the mass exodus of users and slow down on OCN. To make matters worse, we couldn't get much work done to restore OCN after the move to Verticalscope as they were already planning to mass move their entire portfolio to a custom fork of Xenforo. 

 

So we stagnated for ages, with nothing unique that made OCN what it was, that was the REAL damage. We eventually migrated to Xenforo which is the OCN of today. The rest you can figure out (I cannot go into details)

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  On 21/03/2022 at 06:52, ENTERPRISE said:

 

History lesson time lol. 

 

The initial V-bulletin migration honestly wasn't what damaged OCN. I mean sure, as with any change there was frustration and some losses. Huddler (the platform OCN moved to) was actually decent and the owners were community focused and were working with myself and the other management to bring back any lost functionality and fix bugs. They were actually exceptionally quick on fixing things and making adjustments. I cannot really find much fault with them. We were making some great progress. 

 

Then came our troubles. 

 

Huddler became EOL as a platform. It was a proprietary software that was no longer going to maintained. Bugger ! Huddler was then purchased and we became part of the Wikia group. This didn't mean a platform change....but we did see stagnation as dev work etc had come to a standstill.

 

Ironically it was only a short time after that Wikia re-shuffled their company portfolio and decided that tech forums such as ourselves were no longer a good fit....Sigh. 

 

Here comes ANOTHER move.

 

OCN was the sold to Verticalscope which was running its portfolio on...get this, the same super old version of V-bulletin we initially migrated away from. This meant OCN was migrated back to V-bulletin, but with that meant we lost EVERYTHING. All the features we had managed to get back thus far with Huddler...poof gone.  

 

This is were you would have started to see the mass exodus of users and slow down on OCN. To make matters worse, we couldn't get much work done to restore OCN after the move to Verticalscope as they were already planning to mass move their entire portfolio to a custom fork of Xenforo. 

 

So we stagnated for ages, with nothing unique that made OCN what it was, that was the REAL damage. We eventually migrated to Xenforo which is the OCN of today. The rest you can figure out (I cannot go into details)

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Yeah this makes sense. The initial migrations while annoying were fine. It was when OCN moved to Verticalscope ownership that I really noticed the drop.

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  On 21/03/2022 at 01:25, Fluxmaven said:

What happened to ShawnB? I know he was on OCN at one point. 

 

Or maybe I don't want to know lol. depends on how bad it was 😅

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Too many instances of me calling someone stupid or a moron. Nothing that bad really, it just adds up when you keep on doing it lol  

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  On 21/03/2022 at 15:27, Outsider said:

 

Too many instances of me calling someone stupid or a moron. Nothing that bad really, it just adds up when you keep on doing it lol  

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Lol it's hard when a lot of people really are stupid. Just can't point it out because it's not ok to hurt their feelings. 

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Just started to feel more Reddit-is over there on OCN these days.

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  On 21/03/2022 at 15:27, Outsider said:

 

Too many instances of me calling someone stupid or a moron. Nothing that bad really, it just adds up when you keep on doing it lol  

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OMG! I just watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail again last night,then I wake up this morning and read this and my first thought is you getting banned for typing in caps "Now Go Away,Or I shall taunt you a second time."

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Help, help, I'm being repressed! 🤣

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  On 22/03/2022 at 13:05, schuck6566 said:

OMG! I just watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail again last night,then I wake up this morning and read this and my first thought is you getting banned for typing in caps "Now Go Away,Or I shall taunt you a second time."

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Now I wish I did that 😧

 

 

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  On 21/03/2022 at 15:27, Outsider said:

 

Too many instances of me calling someone stupid or a moron. Nothing that bad really, it just adds up when you keep on doing it lol  

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That's bannable over there these days? :eek:  WOW!  Back when I was a mod over there, I'd just have laughed my butt off at your comment, sent you a PM saying, "Hey, I agree with you, but you probably shouldn't say that publicly LOL", and we'd have been on our way.  Where's the leniency at?  Where's the care for the members that I was told to have when I signed up as staff?  E!!!!????  You have some 'splainin to do! :lachen: (j/k, I know that wasn't your area).

 

On topic of bans, E can you ban me off OCN?  I've forgotten my password now, and I'm never going to be bothered to submit for a new one.  It's too reddit over there. 🙃

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  On 22/03/2022 at 20:23, pioneerisloud said:

That's bannable over there these days? :eek:  WOW!  Back when I was a mod over there, I'd just have laughed my butt off at your comment, sent you a PM saying, "Hey, I agree with you, but you probably shouldn't say that publicly LOL", and we'd have been on our way.  Where's the leniency at?  Where's the care for the members that I was told to have when I signed up as staff?  E!!!!????  You have some 'splainin to do! :lachen: (j/k, I know that wasn't your area).

 

On topic of bans, E can you ban me off OCN?  I've forgotten my password now, and I'm never going to be bothered to submit for a new one.  It's too reddit over there. 🙃

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Just put it to the back of your mind and let your brain file it to the bin 😛

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  On 22/03/2022 at 21:22, ENTERPRISE said:

Just put it to the back of your mind and let your brain file it to the bin 😛

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Can do! :lachen:

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  On 21/03/2022 at 15:27, Outsider said:

 

Too many instances of me calling someone stupid or a moron. Nothing that bad really, it just adds up when you keep on doing it lol  

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I think I got warned for calling people morons or stupid as well. I think it was back in the OCN migration thread which was a DUMPSTER fire initially after the VerticalScope acquisition. 

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  On 22/03/2022 at 21:22, ENTERPRISE said:

Just put it to the back of your mind and let your brain file it to the bin 😛

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he wanted you to ban him... I kinda want to get my account deleted lol... I keep getting spam mail from them... not that I see it often, but if I check my spam folder I see a lot of here's what happening on ocn type messages.

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ROTFL, when Vertical Scope took over and they had all the trouble at first they had an issue with passwords not being saved,I finally got PO'd and looked up a list of most commonly used passwords and the 1 I used was actually taken and saved. 🙄 It's ALMOST at the spaceballs luggage combo level. 🤣

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  On 23/03/2022 at 02:54, schuck6566 said:

ROTFL, when Vertical Scope took over and they had all the trouble at first they had an issue with passwords not being saved,I finally got PO'd and looked up a list of most commonly used passwords and the 1 I used was actually taken and saved. 🙄 It's ALMOST at the spaceballs luggage combo level. 🤣

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WHATS THE CODE

1.....2......3......4......5 sigh

12345! sounds like something a moron would have on his luggage!

whats the code?

12345

thats amazing thats exactly whats on my luggage!

 

in other news...OCN was at its prime in like 2012-2014 ish, when all of us were there and actually cared.

now its a site full of mostly trolls.....

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Feels like Reddit these days.

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  On 23/03/2022 at 06:16, Sir Beregond said:

Feels like Reddit these days.

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I haven't looked back since I started posting here. The mention of Reddit reminded me of a time probably a couple of years ago post-acquisition and pre-migration when I replied to a news post, some moron who had all the traits of a Reddit troll from r/wallstreetbets flamed me via PM for what I said in the news post thread, and then I reported his PM.

 

All I remember thinking was that little chickenshit clearly has no idea how to communicate like a functioning adult since he was beefing with everyone in the thread. I think I made one more post in the thread calling out that clown and left it at that.

 

If I cared, I'd go back to OCN to look up the details again, but I don't. That site is dead to me especially when the spirit of the community found a new home (here). OCN is just following the typical lifecycle and member exodus of many VS-acquired forums.

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  On 23/03/2022 at 06:16, Sir Beregond said:

Feels like Reddit these days.

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well stop ositg on red-i mean ocn then

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I still check out OCN from time to time and not being able to comment has really helped me realized why I got banned. The amount of BS and people talking like experts but sprouting total nonsense is too much for me not to call it out. I just don't have the vocabulary to not resort to name calling. 

I really feel like an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.  

 

I'm reading a thread on there atm and can't help but yell at my screen. 🤬

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  On 24/03/2022 at 15:54, Outsider said:

I still check out OCN from time to time and not being able to comment has really helped me realized why I got banned. The amount of BS and people talking like experts but sprouting total nonsense is too much for me not to call it out. I just don't have the vocabulary to not resort to name calling. 

I really feel like an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.  

 

I'm reading a thread on there atm and can't help but yell at my screen. 🤬

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