Breaking up the Lavender Room

[windywave]

Time to Pass the Baton - Slowtwitch News

Interesting in retrospect

[gofigure]

vibe: " It’s not personal, strictly business"

[j_p_o]

This site has been thriving for 25+/- years. Not many internet communities can say that. Now someone new thinks they know how to do it better.

The good news is, if no one tries to log on they won’t have to figure out the bug.

[zed707]

@Yeeper

@BLeP

Well, it was fun while it lasted bitches. Pretty sure this place will be a ghost town in a year if they do what I think they will do.

Let’s not pretend that you weren’t the catalyst for the fall of the LR when you got too busy for your TTSTTTF role. Now we have a moderator taking about how changes to the LR will be made for what’s best for the endurance community.

I think it was the how to cook pets thread.

[j_p_o]

@gofigure

vibe: " It’s not personal, strictly business"

Yeah, Dan monetized us, but part of why this place was good was that wasn’t the first, second, and third reason he created this place. Now it appears that is the only reason.

[Thom]

@lastlap

I don’t know what everyone is worried about, after Trump looses this election you won’t have him to talk about anyway? I guess his criminal trials perhaps…

If Trump loses he’ll launch his 2028 campaign by March. Many people are saying it’s election interference to prosecute a candidate in the middle of an election.

[Yeeper]

@j_p_o

This site has been thriving for 25+/- years. Not many internet communities can say that. Now someone new thinks they know how to do it better.

The good news is, if no one tries to log on they won’t have to figure out the bug.

The login issues are still a big concern. Multiple posters have received a “please email support for your specific issue” only to be forced to say they have already sent emails without reply. The ink isn’t even dry on the first set of changes that resulted in major user issues and they’re warning of more imminent massive changes.

[gofigure]

All I am asking for is can we keep the band together until the man dies?

[TMI]

@j_p_o

@gofigure

vibe: " It’s not personal, strictly business"

Yeah, Dan monetized us, but part of why this place was good was that wasn’t the first, second, and third reason he created this place. Now it appears that is the only reason.

Feels like the new owners consider us squatters.

[trail]

@j_p_o

This site has been thriving for 25+/- years.

Well thriving to us, not necessarily the owner.

[Chhuff]

The technical term is enshitification

[lastlap]

Geez carry on much??

[lastlap]

I’m not sure what you are all upset about as it’s all guess work. I hope they do get rid of politics though, hardly good business sense to alienate half of the public given this place is clearly heavily left leaning, a situation that has been fostered by Dan’s one sided and clear bias.

[slowguy]

@lastlap

I don’t know what everyone is worried about, after Trump looses this election you won’t have him to talk about anyway? I guess his criminal trials perhaps…

Believe it or not, this forum existed just fine before Donald Trump, and will continue long after he’s gone,….unless of course the new owners just don’t want it to.

Oh, and FFS, learn how to spell “loses.”

[BCtriguy1]

@j_p_o

I am really curious what those topics are. The OP heavily implies that some topics currently on here will no longer be appropriate. I have been here almost 25 years with a couple breaks. I don’t know that I have ever seen an actual inappropriate topic discussed here. Some posts go over the line at times. But virtually never the topics.

Sigh. I guess The Hottie Thread is never going to come back.

[j_p_o]

@BCtriguy1

@j_p_o

I am really curious what those topics are. The OP heavily implies that some topics currently on here will no longer be appropriate. I have been here almost 25 years with a couple breaks. I don’t know that I have ever seen an actual inappropriate topic discussed here. Some posts go over the line at times. But virtually never the topics.

Sigh. I guess The Hottie Thread is never going to come back.

If the goal is more clicks maybe it will be all Hottie Threads. And when used appropriately it can aid in training endurance.

[Yeeper]

@lastlap

I’m not sure what you are all upset about as it’s all guess work. I hope they do get rid of politics though, hardly good business sense to alienate half of the public given this place is clearly heavily left leaning, a situation that has been fostered by Dan’s one sided and clear bias.

It’s about as much guess work as it takes to figure out the recent “new race coming” ads that IM puts out where the partial letters and obvious imagery are a dead giveaway.

[lastlap]

When you have to resort to picking on spelling you know you have already lost lol…welcome to 1998 where people think they are somehow winning a browny point by ignoring the fact this is a chat forum, not a college paper or business proposal…

[slowguy]

@lastlap

When you have to resort to picking on spelling you know you have already lost lol…welcome to 1998 where people think they are somehow winning a browny point by ignoring the fact this is a chat forum, not a college paper or business proposal…[quote=“slowguy, post:115, topic:1278550, full:true”]

@lastlap

I don’t know what everyone is worried about, after Trump looses this election you won’t have him to talk about anyway? I guess his criminal trials perhaps…

Believe it or not, this forum existed just fine before Donald Trump, and will continue long after he’s gone,….unless of course the new owners just don’t want it to.

Oh, and FFS, learn how to spell “loses.”

[/quote]

I’m not trying to win anything against you. You just sound dumb when you say that Trump is going to “loose.” Consider it a public service announcement.

[lastlap]

How old are you, 16? Getting personal and calling someone dumb because of spelling or a typo speaks wonders about you, and probably indicative of ‘why’ the mods might want to get rid of politics…clearly brings out the best in people huh…