I’ll be joining AustrianForum, Auto’s, and the one where the awesome anarchist blog is (can’t remember the name.. Voluntaryism or something).
There’s a problem with having so many competing forums. How many people will just be waiting it out to see which forum gets the most members before signing up for any of them? And how many people will just not bother because no-one else is. There definitely needs to be a wholesale transition of this forum to a new one, usernames and passwords with it. Then a link should divert people from mises.org/community/forums to wherever the new one is.
^^ Where was this all my life?
@Consumariat: I’m pretty sure that’s not technologically feasible, though I agree it would be the ideal scenario.
Clayton -
I still don’t understand all of the hostile feelings towards the Austrian Forums. It most certainly has a better chat feature than here, and the forums look nice and glossy. Afraid of a little change, are we?
All of them.
Correction: if you just e-mail me or PM me the username you registered under, I can manually activate your account.
Also, no matter what happens I advocate we have cross-forum threads/battles. You should go straight from one thread in forum A to quoting each other from what you wrote within that thread in another thread within forum B. Then after a while migrate back and then go straight to forum C…
That would be epic.
Well, once we get our cross-forum user interface, this should be easy.
I don’t care about the sentimental value of this forum. I care about the value of the experience I had here, which was purely due to the type of thinker that was drawn here because it’s the onsite forum for mises.org, and no other forum can replicate that.
Having said that…
A. I haven’t heard enough real details to believe that a site as big as Mises.org intends to go without forums. This is the internet, after all.
B. If someone plans to build a forum that actually takes input from users and implements it, that’s the kind of forum I care about. There are plenty of fairly large, established communities with standard ideas about how things should go, and I don’t have plans to join a smaller unestablished forum with the same philosophy on management just because some of the people there have posted at the same place I’ve posted at before. If I move somewhere associated with here, it will be because of a stated purpose to move forward, and to me that means acknowledging and implementing user feedback.
I’ll be ‘trolling’ other forums when I get bored enough. There’s no point in a bunch of people agreeing with one another 98% of the time, with the only apparent disagreements on definitions of tertiary adverbs which then spawn weeks worth of debate on a point that nobody made.
+1 gotlucky for awesome.
Any official word on…?
A. When these forums will be shut down, or why anyone believes this to be a fact?
B. The reason they’re shutting down and who made the call. Was there an official announcement?
C. Why a site as massive and important and the Mises Institute can’t have elementary, uber-standard features like oh, you know, a damn forum?
It is a clever ruse designed to push away the recent middle school flood. I also cannot see why the Mises Institute is “shutting it down.”
Well, is that article about Mises institute advertising for a web-guy correct?
If they’re shutting down this forum, might it be so they can migrate to a new forum software. And probably the new stuff isn’t compatible with this forum software, no way to migrate threads over, so they kicked that to a guy who said he could transfer the forums off-site to a forum he’d manage, someone they trusted, and so they let him do that as a respectful gesture to the people here.
If in fact new forum software does come online here at some point, I expect we’ll coalesce back here. The other various forums will be fine in the meantime.
But it’s true that the major reason to be in Mises-hosted forums is as a rallying point for like-minded thinkers that we’re unlikely to get via an outside forum.
“But it’s true that the major reason to be in Mises-hosted forums is as a rallying point for like-minded thinkers that we’re unlikely to get via an outside forum.”
This is true. Not too long ago I wanted to seek out fellow libertarians online, preferably in a large coummunity, so I Googled “libertarian forums” and Mises was one of the first results. It ended up being the best. So it’d be really sad to see this community splinter off.
No seriously, I mean I’m not embarassed to admit that I maybe missed something. Was there an announcement that these forums are being shut down? Or did everyone just see a post from some random admin named Blake, “This forum will be closed soon.” and assume that it’s true?
Migrating to Austrian Forum and that’s it. I don’t need to be on 5 different forums to talk to the same 10-15 or so econ geeks. We can just concentrate it in one place.
Yes we all assumed the announcement you saw was real and not a hoax. You can revel in your superior epistemology while you wait for the LVMI staff to take an interest in the forums, after all they never seemed to care before so its likely that they would change their minds really quick if a rogue admin posted a hoax message and a few other admin decided to go along with it. I’m assuming the announcement was true because I have no reason to doubt it and the cost of being wrong is relatively low.