So today we lapsed back into that 2024 vibe of no ability to post pics? And that weird serif font in the text box? Deja vu.
Not going to bother going to the appropriate forum, gets dusty in there.
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So today we lapsed back into that 2024 vibe of no ability to post pics? And that weird serif font in the text box? Deja vu.
Not going to bother going to the appropriate forum, gets dusty in there.
But we have that Check Out Our Shop button where you can buy mega cringey TGR/Grateful Dead merch!
Can't we all just migrate to tik tok?
It’s like in Office Space when the Bobs didn’t tell Milton he had been fired years ago and that payroll had been accidentally sending him checks (so he kept showing up); and instead they just fixed the glitch.
I fear all this garbage with the site is TGR “fixing the glitch”.
Sad, really.
Edit function gives the spinning wheel of death
The end is nigh. What possible business case could they have to justify investing a single dollar?
Help us Cody Fifty Kenobi… you’re our only hope
I can only post w Tapatalk. We are willing to fund the fix. Who do we need to talk to? An in person in Wilson?
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I’m here in JH now. Does anybody know which cord to unplug and plug back in? I’ll walk over.
^ head over there and let em know we mean business. If we have to send in dunfree we will.
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Where's Rontele when you need him?
I PM’d him but notifications have been broken lately so…
I think the problem is in step #6, they retained the custom code that makes the site shit the bed every 3 weeks.
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Who is they? TGR or a vendor?Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
What’s the current life raft? Still a Facebook page or can we at least do Reddit?
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TikTok obviously
We could blow the comment section on pormhub?
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Discord is the obvious choice with different rooms for each topic.
Worst case scenario--the Tik Tok ban takes effect and they all migrate here.
Discord would also bring back the chat.
Would discord work? Seems like each room on a server is babble chat.
I need thread titles dammit
PS. I still have no idea why the jones boys never had a begathon fundraiser.
Responding to The REV since quote post isn't working anymore either:
The FB group is the only rallying point I'm aware of.
Seems like it works off and on. Anyway, I could probably tolerate making a Reddit account to carry on, but no way I’m signing up for FB.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
we had a chat? next you’re going to tell me i used to be able to include numbers in text.Quote:
Originally Posted by TStriker
Chat, and really the Padded Room in general, and what seemed like the big participants at the time in Basom, Mild Bill, Iceman and the rest of the Boston crowd filled my old office in finance with lots and lots of laughs.
Headline: TGR Forum Shits the Bed
North American Office Productivity Soars
Discord is rough bc it's a rolling single thread, even if you divide it up into various threads. Good for bullshitting but bad for an info repository like this place
I think the consensus here and on the FB page is that people generally don’t like or use FB anymore. Personally, I log in one or twice a year to sell or buy stuff via marketplace. Otherwise it’s basically MySpace (RIP).
I enjoy Reddit but that’s just my $.02
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FB sucks and always has- the forum model is the only one designed to be more than useless blather. You can see the enshittification effect for anywhere that gets too popular and the moron brigade arrives- Reddit was never 'great' but it is a lot worse now.
Hey now, we excel at both of those things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garbowski
I think we could possibly start an r/TGR (or possibly r/TRG) subreddit. Would suck to not have the sub-sub hierarchy though.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater;[emoji[emoji6[emoji640
Agree No to FB.
Also not too psyched about Discord. I’m too ancient to figure it out and I’m not a CoD edge lord. Though it might solve the subhierarchy issue.
I hate to think so much of my time and life spent here could go up in smoke. I would happily pay a reasonable annual subscription for the Jones Bros to fix this place up.
The every 20yr migration is upon us.
Thanks to IRUL and the Tanner Hall RIP Streif Thread I inadvertantly thought, what about a slow, casual, takeover of Newschoolers? They're still a forum right? They have functioning photo and video hosting right?
Doesn't have to be overt or anything. Just start a bunch of similarly titled threads over there and start commenting on them same as we do here. By the time they get wise, it'll be too late.
And tags!Quote:
Originally Posted by TStriker
What about pugski or whatever the fuk it’s called now? Is anyone here on that board too? I think a lot of epic ski people ended up there
We’d all be banned from SkiTalk/pugski on the first day.
I like the Newschoolers takeover idea. Think of the hilarity we could create responding to treads like this one.
https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/t...uy-my-own-skis