Post by Hoist on Dec 1, 2016 11:10:05 GMT -5
This is it.
I knew one day I'd have to post this and for the last few years it's seemed inevitible, but I hoped we'd at least make it to 15 years, maybe even 20. Even though you won't be able to tell, I'll be making a lot of sighs through this post as it is a hard thread for me to post, and I probablly won't be able to convey enough what I want. Damn, every few sentence and I'm stopping as it's not a post I had prepared. As you know after 14 years this message board is shutting down in the new year.
In 2002, even before I ran a sci-fi message board I was at other big Transformer sites and their forums, even a not so big one where I started up, but I always felt the forums of these boards were either "Clique -y" or the atmosphere wasn't that good. Although I made a sci-fi message board first I always thought about making a transformers forum where I could talk to other fans without other obnoxious members/staff, basically in my level. It was always inevitible, that I would start my own Transformers forum, maybe always in the back of my mind. There were other sites, friendlier sites that encourage this like Transformers: Civil War/Transformers at The Moon and a few scare other places. Having a message boards last 10 years was a BIG thing for me,let alone every year after was a blessing. At one of those we started something magical, The Renegades. Thanks to Heavy Handed Assault a third fictional faction was boarn at another site after the original admin left and the site was turned into a roleplay forum for the Transformers Universe.Thanks to what Heavy uttered about Renegades we got to turn it into a fully functioning third roleplay faction on that site that was neither Autobot or Decepticon and flurished. When this site was created with help from Ravage18 and Moffman aka the_downward_spiral (Latter for brining The Axalon crew here), we continued our adventure and went from 0 - unbelieveable success with The Renegades. A lot of you know the rest.
As Captain Picard once said however, all good things must come to an end. It is time to say goodbye during this last month. Over the last 14 years we have created not just a community but an online family which is what I like to think of TTF as. I hope some of you will occasionally pop by our Facebook page from time to time to say hello and catch up.
Thank-you from the bottom of my heart for what it is today, to staff past and present - Ravage18, Jazzman Crothers , Rainstorm & Squirtle ,Onix Solo , Heavy Handed Assault ; to each and every member that has come here over the years, you will all always be a part of TTF no matter where life may take you. May life and future endevors treat you well, and remember nothing really ends.
This isn't the end - it's just the beginning.
Peter.
I knew one day I'd have to post this and for the last few years it's seemed inevitible, but I hoped we'd at least make it to 15 years, maybe even 20. Even though you won't be able to tell, I'll be making a lot of sighs through this post as it is a hard thread for me to post, and I probablly won't be able to convey enough what I want. Damn, every few sentence and I'm stopping as it's not a post I had prepared. As you know after 14 years this message board is shutting down in the new year.
In 2002, even before I ran a sci-fi message board I was at other big Transformer sites and their forums, even a not so big one where I started up, but I always felt the forums of these boards were either "Clique -y" or the atmosphere wasn't that good. Although I made a sci-fi message board first I always thought about making a transformers forum where I could talk to other fans without other obnoxious members/staff, basically in my level. It was always inevitible, that I would start my own Transformers forum, maybe always in the back of my mind. There were other sites, friendlier sites that encourage this like Transformers: Civil War/Transformers at The Moon and a few scare other places. Having a message boards last 10 years was a BIG thing for me,let alone every year after was a blessing. At one of those we started something magical, The Renegades. Thanks to Heavy Handed Assault a third fictional faction was boarn at another site after the original admin left and the site was turned into a roleplay forum for the Transformers Universe.Thanks to what Heavy uttered about Renegades we got to turn it into a fully functioning third roleplay faction on that site that was neither Autobot or Decepticon and flurished. When this site was created with help from Ravage18 and Moffman aka the_downward_spiral (Latter for brining The Axalon crew here), we continued our adventure and went from 0 - unbelieveable success with The Renegades. A lot of you know the rest.
As Captain Picard once said however, all good things must come to an end. It is time to say goodbye during this last month. Over the last 14 years we have created not just a community but an online family which is what I like to think of TTF as. I hope some of you will occasionally pop by our Facebook page from time to time to say hello and catch up.
Thank-you from the bottom of my heart for what it is today, to staff past and present - Ravage18, Jazzman Crothers , Rainstorm & Squirtle ,Onix Solo , Heavy Handed Assault ; to each and every member that has come here over the years, you will all always be a part of TTF no matter where life may take you. May life and future endevors treat you well, and remember nothing really ends.
This isn't the end - it's just the beginning.
Peter.