Cutting Edge Forum update
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:21 am
I posted this over on the whip basics site on 12/30/08
My Name is David Stokes, Im a whip and weapons enthusiast and I am also the former administrator of The Cutting Edge Forum.
The Cutting Edge Forum was a forum dedicated to Knives, Swords, Guns and Whips.
About a month ago, we had a catastrophic server failure and lost the entire forum.
Unfortunantly for us, the forum was being ran by a friend of mine whos time was very limited, as was mine.
About two weeks ago, i made the announcement that The Cutting Edge Forum would not return.
This news was met with a SURPRISING response from the community and i received a landslide of emails and messages begging for its return. As one avid member told me; we "created a wonderful void in the community."
From the start, CEF was designed as a diversified weapons forum focusing on those four major categories. We had no intention to step on the toes of any other forums or any other forums focus.
As far as whip forums go, the MAJOR whip forum on the internet has been Club Obi Wan, and always WILL be THE place to go for INDIANA JONES related whip talk, however we recognized a void in the community for NON-I whip talk, and CEF was the thing to fill that void.
Since the Forums demise, Robby came up with the idea to start this wonderful forum, and I praised him and give him great support for doing so. What he has done with these tutorial videos is monumental and I give him my full support in doing so.
(NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS!)
Due to the overwhelming support of our members, we, the former adminstration of The Cutting Edge Forum have decided to give it another try.
Let me rephase: THE CUTTING EDGE FORUM IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT
The original premise and "design" for the forum was for it to be FIRST, a educational WEBSITE and a forum secondly......... We have decided that if we are going to restart the forum, we might as well do it the RIGHT way. Now, this WILL require us to do a COMPLETE restart of the forums, meaning all the old posts are lost.... members will have to reregister...... BUT... it will be hosted off of a 100% reliable server, no more slow load times.... no more lost posts...... no more down time.....
We are VERY excited about this, and I think 2009 will bring us a fresh start and a chance to do it RIGHT this time!
I just want to think ALL of our members who were so suportive and convinced us to bring it back!
David Stokes
Administrator
The Cutting Edge Forum
UPDATE!!!
I cant begin to tell you how many hours/days etc we have put into this site already, tweaking it, setting it up etc....
I dont want to put up a site with alot of "under construction" pages everywhere so its taking a bit longer to do..... i want to have some REAL content on there.
I would say at this point we are at a maximum of about two weeks out form relaunching.... maybe less...... I will update this post once the website is live.......
yes... its going to be a WEBSITE!! (itll still have a forum!)
My Name is David Stokes, Im a whip and weapons enthusiast and I am also the former administrator of The Cutting Edge Forum.
The Cutting Edge Forum was a forum dedicated to Knives, Swords, Guns and Whips.
About a month ago, we had a catastrophic server failure and lost the entire forum.
Unfortunantly for us, the forum was being ran by a friend of mine whos time was very limited, as was mine.
About two weeks ago, i made the announcement that The Cutting Edge Forum would not return.
This news was met with a SURPRISING response from the community and i received a landslide of emails and messages begging for its return. As one avid member told me; we "created a wonderful void in the community."
From the start, CEF was designed as a diversified weapons forum focusing on those four major categories. We had no intention to step on the toes of any other forums or any other forums focus.
As far as whip forums go, the MAJOR whip forum on the internet has been Club Obi Wan, and always WILL be THE place to go for INDIANA JONES related whip talk, however we recognized a void in the community for NON-I whip talk, and CEF was the thing to fill that void.
Since the Forums demise, Robby came up with the idea to start this wonderful forum, and I praised him and give him great support for doing so. What he has done with these tutorial videos is monumental and I give him my full support in doing so.
(NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS!)
Due to the overwhelming support of our members, we, the former adminstration of The Cutting Edge Forum have decided to give it another try.
Let me rephase: THE CUTTING EDGE FORUM IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT
The original premise and "design" for the forum was for it to be FIRST, a educational WEBSITE and a forum secondly......... We have decided that if we are going to restart the forum, we might as well do it the RIGHT way. Now, this WILL require us to do a COMPLETE restart of the forums, meaning all the old posts are lost.... members will have to reregister...... BUT... it will be hosted off of a 100% reliable server, no more slow load times.... no more lost posts...... no more down time.....
We are VERY excited about this, and I think 2009 will bring us a fresh start and a chance to do it RIGHT this time!
I just want to think ALL of our members who were so suportive and convinced us to bring it back!
David Stokes
Administrator
The Cutting Edge Forum
UPDATE!!!
I cant begin to tell you how many hours/days etc we have put into this site already, tweaking it, setting it up etc....
I dont want to put up a site with alot of "under construction" pages everywhere so its taking a bit longer to do..... i want to have some REAL content on there.
I would say at this point we are at a maximum of about two weeks out form relaunching.... maybe less...... I will update this post once the website is live.......
yes... its going to be a WEBSITE!! (itll still have a forum!)
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