Author Topic: WotC Community forums to be Shut Down (Read 13948 times)

bhu · « **Reply #20 on:** September 18, 2015, 11:16:12 PM »

Does anyone know the sales figures for 5e? Is it possible this is a cost cutting move?

DDchampion · « **Reply #21 on:** September 19, 2015, 12:42:12 AM »

What doesn't make sense is that they're also killing the MTG forums. The card game is still printing money for Wotc no matter how badly 5e may be performing.

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #22 on:** September 19, 2015, 03:43:56 AM »

Has the Tome of Battle for Dummies been copied over to here? If not, that would be a good one for someone to work on.

Risada · « **Reply #23 on:** September 19, 2015, 07:04:50 AM »

Quote from: Gazzien on September 18, 2015, 03:42:44 AM

Quote from: Risada on September 17, 2015, 10:22:11 AM
I dont know if there's stuff in there that needs saving, but if you guys need arms and hands to copy/paste, count on me. I got some free time for the next few days.
Could I trouble you to grab Tempest_Stormwind's optimiztion showcases?

Alright. Working on it.

Necrosnoop110 · « **Reply #24 on:** September 19, 2015, 09:28:07 AM »

Is this site backed-up in case the worst would happen?

Risada · « **Reply #25 on:** September 20, 2015, 08:56:11 AM »

Quote from: Risada on September 19, 2015, 07:04:50 AM

Quote from: Gazzien on September 18, 2015, 03:42:44 AM
Quote from: Risada on September 17, 2015, 10:22:11 AM
I dont know if there's stuff in there that needs saving, but if you guys need arms and hands to copy/paste, count on me. I got some free time for the next few days.
Could I trouble you to grab Tempest_Stormwind's optimiztion showcases?

Alright. Working on it.

Done for now. Link for Word files here.

Since my time online in a few days will get very small, is someone willing to make a thread of it?

Solo · « **Reply #26 on:** September 20, 2015, 04:01:26 PM »

Guys, what can we do to draw the disaffected masses away from WotC forums to Min/Max boards?

PlzBreakMyCampaign · « **Reply #27 on:** September 20, 2015, 04:15:22 PM »

On it. I barely managed to hold on to my 339 account, although WotC put up a long, tough, and brutally ugly attempt to keep me from logging in for the last few years (mysterious technical problems ftl)

What about the 3.5 archive web enhancements? Have we mirrored everything in the free handbook?
I'm pretty sure I have links that the free 3.5 handbook didn't find...

Necrosnoop110 · « **Reply #28 on:** September 20, 2015, 07:30:56 PM »

Quote from: Solo on September 20, 2015, 04:01:26 PM

Guys, what can we do to draw the disaffected masses away from WotC forums to Min/Max boards?

Advert BG in some threads and posts?

Previous Editions General
http://community.wizards.com/forums/103106

Ready the lifeboats.
http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-general/threads/4255406

Product and General D&D Discussions
http://community.wizards.com/forums/132316

Gazzien · « **Reply #29 on:** September 21, 2015, 06:50:49 PM »

Quote from: Risada on September 20, 2015, 08:56:11 AM

Quote from: Risada on September 19, 2015, 07:04:50 AM
Quote from: Gazzien on September 18, 2015, 03:42:44 AM
Quote from: Risada on September 17, 2015, 10:22:11 AM
I dont know if there's stuff in there that needs saving, but if you guys need arms and hands to copy/paste, count on me. I got some free time for the next few days.
Could I trouble you to grab Tempest_Stormwind's optimiztion showcases?

Alright. Working on it.

Done for now. Link for Word files here.

Since my time online in a few days will get very small, is someone willing to make a thread of it?

Thank you very much!

Solo · « **Reply #30 on:** September 21, 2015, 07:01:46 PM »

Quote from: Necrosnoop110 on September 20, 2015, 07:30:56 PM

Quote from: Solo on September 20, 2015, 04:01:26 PM
Guys, what can we do to draw the disaffected masses away from WotC forums to Min/Max boards?
Advert BG in some threads and posts?

Previous Editions General
http://community.wizards.com/forums/103106

Ready the lifeboats.
http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-general/threads/4255406

Product and General D&D Discussions
http://community.wizards.com/forums/132316

Good idea. Hop to it.

awaken_D_M_golem · « **Reply #31 on:** September 22, 2015, 05:20:18 PM »

Quote from: MrWolfe on September 17, 2015, 05:28:19 AM

... I've already come across a number of handbooks in the past couple weeks that have links pointing to WOTC pages that give a 404 error when clicked. Don't know if that's related to this current debacle ...

Yes it's absolutely related. They've had multiple
forums re-orgs each one of them a special disaster
unto themselves.

boards1.wizards is one of the old addresses, gleemax
is another. There're a bunch of [wotc-archive] and
[archive] and various other spellings. One of the archives
just had an i.p. address, nothing else. It's a mess.
White Screen Of Death, happened to so many things.

Primary example, in Surreal's Index ALL links are broken.
All.

Giles the Cleric · « **Reply #32 on:** September 23, 2015, 12:27:33 AM »

I have an index of mirrored content from WotC on GitP, here; please PM me or post in the thread if you have made copies of content so that I may link to it.

Keldar · « **Reply #33 on:** September 23, 2015, 12:54:58 AM »

Quote from: awaken_D_M_golem on September 16, 2015, 06:24:30 PM

HEY WHAT'LL HAPPEN TO MY KITTY AVATAR ??? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just procured a genetic sample, so if the worst happens we can clone your kitty avatar. Or you can put it in a kitty carrier with right click > save image yourself.

Endarire · « **Reply #34 on:** September 23, 2015, 01:15:32 AM »

Giant in the Playgrond (GitP) has already started an archiving project.

Necrosnoop110 · « **Reply #35 on:** September 23, 2015, 09:05:21 AM »

Quote from: Solo on September 21, 2015, 07:01:46 PM

Quote from: Necrosnoop110 on September 20, 2015, 07:30:56 PM
Quote from: Solo on September 20, 2015, 04:01:26 PM
Guys, what can we do to draw the disaffected masses away from WotC forums to Min/Max boards?
Advert BG in some threads and posts?

Previous Editions General
http://community.wizards.com/forums/103106

Ready the lifeboats.
http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-general/threads/4255406

Product and General D&D Discussions
http://community.wizards.com/forums/132316

Good idea. Hop to it.

Done.

awaken_D_M_golem · « **Reply #36 on:** September 23, 2015, 03:44:39 PM »

Thanks Mr. Wolfe for the link in the other thread.
Niiiiice to know wizards has been Crawled multiple times.

... Keldar has my kitty avatar ?! And are you now pregnant?

Giles the Cleric · « **Reply #37 on:** September 26, 2015, 01:12:25 AM »

Since the threads have been merged, I'm going to unabashedly bump my earlier post to reiterate that GitP has an index of 3.X WotC material. There are directions on how to easily copy threads over in the first post. In the second post, there's a list of threads that have not yet been copied (to my knowledge).

Anyone willing to lend a hand is appreciated; I link to threads on GitP, RPG.net, EN World, BG, even google PDFs. Let me know if you have copied content, and I will add it to the index.

For folks interested in saving threads about other editions, EN World's Emergency Lifeboat is the best collection I have seen, though I haven't looked very hard.

bhu · « **Reply #38 on:** September 26, 2015, 01:20:55 AM »

You are a good purrson Giles!

Necrosnoop110 · « **Reply #39 on:** September 26, 2015, 11:30:01 AM »

Quote from: bhu on September 26, 2015, 01:20:55 AM

You are a good purrson Giles!

Well, he is a cleric.

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Author Topic: WotC Community forums to be Shut Down (Read 13948 times)