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Assemblergames forum shuts down in 30 days.
Really sucks I loved that place. Without them, Geist Force would have never happened. I used to talk to some good people ages ago. I wish someone could buy them to keep them going. :(
dangggg
Man, I did not expect to see that today. I'm not really an active member, but I know a ton of really great things came out of assemblergames. It's really sad this had to happen.
It seems that money and upkeep costs are the issue going by their post. I hope SEGA-16 doesn't have the same issue in the future. This is one of my favorite places online.
God damn, I hope some of the members can pull together to save it.
Why are the members so mad at the admin/Kev?
Wow, that is crazy terrible news. Assembler is one of the number-one databases for technical repair knowledge.
If it does go down, hopefully people will migrate over to GameSX forums. The admin there says he's going to run the servers until cockroaches rule the Earth.
I'm really no expert, and I don't mean any offense to anyone, but as I recall, Kevin (site owner) has some issues that have caused a lot of drama on the forum over the years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
Two or so years ago, he said he was assigning admin rights to the forum to someone else. This new someone (under account name "Admin") started making all kinds of changes. It turned out (as everyone suspected) that it was still just Kevin.
Various people have offered to buy the site from him since he doesn't seem interested in it (he claims to get constant death threats over the site), but he won't take them up on their offers.
This is the thread where he pretended to retire from the site:
https://assemblergames.com/threads/a...-an-end.67144/
More drama:
https://assemblergames.com/threads/s...he-fish.68901/
https://assemblergames.com/threads/s...of-2018.68891/
This is not the first time a shut down was threatened.
Lol holy molyQuote:
Originally Posted by Gryson
He ran fundraisers regularly to keep the site funded, then when the site had technical issues he took it all offline, claimed he was sick, and spent half a year playing games on Steam while the site was offline. When the site got back up, he kept removing all user permissions; then demoted all moderators, and asked for donations again. Also regularly denied every time anyone offered technical help or better hosting to keep the costs of running the site lower - then called the same people bloodsucking leeches because they used his marketplace forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
Before that, he claimed to have sold the site, made a second admin account under a different name, and the under the "new management" he started asking for funds again.
That's just the last year or two.
There was also a detailed article on the ebay scam he was running at one time (the "second chance" trick), I think on byuu's old page, it should be on the wayback machine somewhere.
I'm not entirely sure that this current situation is not just another trick at extorting money out of users.
I don't know about the other stuff but I remember the site being offline forever. At one point I thought for sure it's just gone.
He sounds mentally irregular.Quote:
Originally Posted by zyrobs
Man oh man. Some people are just amusing. Even if the site shuts down, I'm sure there are drones of people backing shit up left and right.
I never knew about that site but last year I was disappointed to see the shutdown of Caverns of Hope, a site dedicated to the Ecco games, including downloads and hacks etc.
Also this site (sega-16) ended the Reader Roundtable, very disappointing.
I am wondering if reading-based websites like forums are just dying down in their usage, in general... due to the easy availability of video playing nowadays (so people would rather watch YouTube rather than read something)
(I don't think reading / writing based forums will die out completely, just like books and magazines etc. have never died out completely, but I do think internet usage has hugely shifted away from reading / writing, and shifted toward playing / streaming music / videos etc. as it's become so much easier to do that, over the years.)
It's not so much as videos. People transitioned more away from dedicated forums to have a subreddit. Not a big fan of Reddit. Personally, prefer to go back and read posts from long ago often. It's much easier to do that on a forum. I also like having Avatars and sigs and a tighter community. I don't wish to feel like I'm talking to a group of people at a Costco. A smaller and more intimate place to talk is more engaging.
Forums like these are dying off for several reasons. One is old age: the people generally interested in older games just don't have time to invest in them anymore (having a family, etc), or just not as much interested because they've already seen everything. Another reason is that these types of forums are best enjoyed on a computer, but the internet itself is transitioning away from that to mobile usage; on mobiles, microblogs are more powerful and popular.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ecco
It's why newer forum engines like Xenforo prioritize having social media connections, post likes, tagging, and notifications for everything. It's more user friendly today, to get a popup on your mobile after a new reply, than to check an entire forum (which doesn't even fit on your phone screen) once every few hours.
I'm in the same boat as Segata as in I prefer older style forums. I don't mind reddit but it's just not for me.
One would like to think, what with all those members and their huge collections,one would have money to spare, for the upkeep.
To me, the site owner has always been dodgy.
Many have offered to buy it form him.
I vividly remember when there was a feud between Sonic Cult and Assembler Games, back in the beginning of the century regarding a Sonic X-Treme prototype. Also Assembler's inflexibility was a key factor for Castlevania Bloodlines proto 0.5 not to resurface.
Same. Nothing beats the classic forum format IMO. Reddit hasn't clicked with me for whatever reason either.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonusKun
lol that Xtreme prototype was barely anything. Wasn’t that ~2006?
They've offered alternatives to host the forum cheaper as well. The guy doesn't care, he's a jack ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
I agree 100% and certain forums also have lots of legacy information that is incredibly important and not archived otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
2006 yes, but conflicts between these forums predates this, I remember people from Sonic Cult (or was it SCARZ?) referred to him as ASSembler.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
Numerous members have done full backups of all the public and private content (except PMs as those have to be done by the individual user) so we won't be losing all the info. A large portion of us have migrated over to ObscureGamers. They made us assemblergames refugee tags :D. Hopefully our new home is devoid of some of the nonsense of the previous spot. I knew after the last long term shut down that it was only a matter of time until this happened. I, and many others, started to pull away after that. Oh well. As long as we have the people and the content, it doesn't really matter where we congregate, as long as its a proper topical forum and not "social media". ASSEMbler can keep on being how he's being about things if he so pleases. We don't need him. As I'd posted over there, normally I have a your site your rules point of view, but the majority of the site was user generated content and he's not done anything to facilitate the users backing up said content. Oh well, luckily it's easy to crawl and scrape sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by xelement5x
subreddits are searchable.Quote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
Also, there's a lot of talk in this thread about people frantically archiving forums. Aren't those posts already cached by Google? Click the little green arrow beside search results to see cached pages.
Hmm, I just noticed that PCEngineFX.com ceased as of January. Wow, another great forum dead. Damn.
I think that may have been because you could type in "ass" into the address bar of the browser, and it would autocomplete to assemblergames.com.Quote:
Originally Posted by joyeux
Also there was this:
https://i.postimg.cc/7ZwG0Gdb/sonicx-ASSEMBLER.gif
We moved here http://pcengine.proboards.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg2600
I don't see any shutdown.Quote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
https://assemblergames.com/
I'm not the owner of the forum who said it. Take it up with him. The place is fully unmodded now tho.
lol I think he's working on Pluto time. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
It's gone.
Seems to finally be done. Was up for quite a while after announcement. About five days before this post of mine. Weird how after I joined it didn't last long and Nemesis was probably the biggest help. Unfortunately I still haven't found a mirror/backup of the oldest Sega FTP which consisted of GNU software and other stuff. There's supposedly some other stuff from newgroups and BBS archives...
https://www.obscuregamers.com/
The assembler board is largely archived here.
Another one goes. Nintendo Age is all but a wasteland now, too!