TRG Forum History...

[skiing-in-jackson]

This after some bonehead from Powder's parent company deleted their forum archive, and worse yet, came online and verbally thrashed the members of what has always been one of the most vibrant, interesting and fun to visit online communities on the web.



Was this in Oct 2003- is that why so many people joined the TGR fourm that month?

When did the above instance occur?

Thanks in Advance.

[Mulletizer]

Everyone was on the Powder Magazine boards before here (although some were already here too) and most had been for several years. Then a giant toss-pot from Primedia (Powder's owners), I think by the name of Daniel, started moderating the forums which were previously maggot-vigilante patrolled with massive smackdowns dished out to idiots. He deleted a goldmine of several years worth of threads and banned anyone who questioned those actions on the forum. Within a couple of days powdermag.com was empty and everyone who wasn't already here migrated. That was in October 2003.

[irul&ublo]

Read young jedi. http://forum.powdermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=513&an=0&page=0#Post513. Learn from it, you will. From the dark side, comes the moderator.

[GoldMember]

Well, that was kind of interesting... I was always wondering why those forums were so dead. Also interesting is that if you check the user's list there, Daniel isn't on there. Kind of too bad for Metcalf that the forum blew up but good for TGR. Such is life in a competitive world. Your customers will tell you what you need to do to thrive. If you listen to them and act on what they tell you, you generally do alright. TGR's done a good job of that with this board.

[Mulletizer]

Well, that was kind of interesting... I was always wondering why those forums were so dead. Also interesting is that if you check the user's list there, Daniel isn't on there. Kind of too bad for Metcalf that the forum blew up but good for TGR. Such is life in a competitive world. Your customers will tell you what you need to do to thrive. If you listen to them and act on what they tell you, you generally do alright. TGR's done a good job of that with this board.
Do you have an MBA? ;)

[edg]

I think it would be going a bit far to say that TGR was competing for our business. Hell, this must be a serious loss maker for them (think of the bandwidth charges!) They're truly doing this for altruistic reasons! :D

edg

[yesIsaidyes]

I love Ak_pm's post on the first page - you have to assume within 10 minutes of finding TGR, he already had like 2000 "look at my f'ed up pictures" and "I almost got killed in an avalanche" posts...

[truth]

I love Ak_pm's post on the first page - you have to assume within 10 minutes of finding TGR, he already had like 2000 "look at my f'ed up pictures" and "I almost got killed in an avalanche" posts...

STFU JONG!

[splat]

STFU JONG!

The classics will never die.

[f2f]

some closure there in the last post:

http://forum.powdermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=104470

[Keoni]

I like the colors here.

[truth]

I like the colors here.

Now that's old skool.

[skiing-in-jackson]

Read young jedi. http://forum.powdermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=513&an=0&page=0#Post513. Learn from it, you will. From the dark side, comes the moderator.

I will learn to master the ways of the force...

Great info and thanks to all.

[edg]

Hehe, TRG.

edg

[Nobody Famous]

There are still some messages available via www.archive.org.

Example from sometime in 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010604142747/forum.powdermag.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro
This is the starting point (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://forum.powdermag.com/), but not all links work (not all the content was collected and archived).

[joshbu]

Prior to forums.powdermag.com was the K2 factory team board. That's way-back in the way-back...

[ak_powder_monkey]

heh I only had 587 posts over there and that was in a year, wow I spend to much time on these boards