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Post by ayebatter on Feb 11, 2015 13:52:24 GMT -8
This is a FBC PM notice to my email today: But of course the site is down so I can't read the contents .....
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Post by ayebatter on Feb 11, 2015 14:28:57 GMT -8
the contents of the PM: NEXT
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Post by kab21 on Feb 11, 2015 21:36:03 GMT -8
It's too bad that Mochabean came around 3 years too late (the cafe has been in decline for a long time) and bit off more than he could chew with the cafe update. Maybe now some action will happen but hopefully it's not a continuation of the football cafe abomination.
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Post by ayebatter on Feb 15, 2015 12:50:44 GMT -8
Just an update fyi.
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Post by aussiedodger on Feb 15, 2015 22:08:21 GMT -8
Sent: Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:05 pm From: dailyfantasycafe To: AussieDodger, Giantsfan14, wrveres
Hey Guys,
I just got put in charge of this dead horse. I think if I throw a 10 dollar note at it, it might come back to life. It takes 8 hours a day to stop the vultures pecking at it, if you'd like to do that for free here's a rake and a fetching straw hat.
Cheers New Guy
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Post by wrveres on Feb 20, 2015 22:26:48 GMT -8
Sent: Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:05 pm From: dailyfantasycafe To: AussieDodger, Giantsfan14, wrveres Hey Guys, I just got put in charge of this dead horse. I think if I throw a 10 dollar note at it, it might come back to life. It takes 8 hours a day to stop the vultures pecking at it, if you'd like to do that for free here's a rake and a fetching straw hat. Cheers New Guy just saw this thread and aussie had me in stictches. I don't feel bad for mocha. He had 3 years to do something with it and choose to punt. Now he talked one of his buddies into it (my guess) and well, its too late. The smartest man in the bunch was arlo. He got out in its peek. Took his buy out and fled. He saw the writing on the wall after menyak (who knew nothing about fantasy) decided to boot regulars asking for changes and upgrades. So sad
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Post by groundedpolo on Feb 22, 2015 7:33:22 GMT -8
Agree, just far too late to save the Cafe now. It's nothing but spam bots now in addition to all of the other points that have been discussed ad nauseam in the past.
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Post by ayebatter on Feb 25, 2015 11:24:28 GMT -8
Sent: Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:11 am From: dailyfantasycafe To: ayebatter So, what I gather is that people are pissed and are looking elsewhere and you all created a freeforums site to carry on, because the cafes have been sucking..I totally get it. I would do the same.
One thing to note, is I won't be blowing this forum up and losing old posts like the other Cafes. That was a mistake. If we have to migrate to vbulletin or another software (hoping we can clean this one up and upgrade), we will transfer over all old posts/users, etc and keep same layout.
Happy to have the Holics come back to use the leagues on this site. Take a look at the Football Cafe and Basketball Cafe. I already updated the format to make it easier to interact. The old layout was terrible.
Once we clean this all up, I'll be coming back around to have a pow wow and hear what everyone wants to do to bring this site back. To give you a big picture, Fantasy baseball cafe will have a home page with articles (season long and daily), video podcasts, etc.
Hang in there. I think you'll be happy with the end product.
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Post by GF14 on Feb 25, 2015 12:33:06 GMT -8
Wonder who will be writing these season long and daily articles and making the video podcasts? If they expect the community to do it for free after they let the place fall to pieces I don't think they're going to have a lot of luck. If they actually manage to pull the cafe out of it's downward spiral I'll be pretty impressed.
Also the football cafe is still hideous.
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Post by ayebatter on Feb 25, 2015 13:23:40 GMT -8
Also the football cafe is still hideous. Yes, yes it is.
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Post by kab21 on Feb 25, 2015 15:50:55 GMT -8
the sad fact is that a couple of guys with no skills put together something better in a weekend than any of the current cafes.
There should be no illusions that this site is good though. Structurally it must be extremely weak but at least it has the people (just a few though) aspect of what makes a good forum. I continue to have no confidence that mochabean has any idea how to set up a forum community.
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Post by ayebatter on Feb 25, 2015 16:30:47 GMT -8
the sad fact is that a couple of guys with no skills put together something better in a weekend than any of the current cafes. There should be no illusions that this site is good though. Structurally it must be extremely weak but at least it has the people (just a few though) aspect of what makes a good forum. I continue to have no confidence that mochabean has any idea how to set up a forum community. The big mocha has turned over the daily running to Sam his Cafe user name is 'dailyfantasycafe'.
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Post by kab21 on Feb 25, 2015 17:09:06 GMT -8
Same argument applies regardless if mocha is involved or not in the setup. The message with the plan is just throwing stuff at the wall to see if anything works.
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Post by aussiedodger on Feb 26, 2015 8:19:51 GMT -8
Sent: Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:11 am From: dailyfantasycafe To: ayebatter So, what I gather is that people are pissed and are looking elsewhere and you all created a freeforums site to carry on, because the cafes have been sucking..I totally get it. I would do the same. One thing to note, is I won't be blowing this forum up and losing old posts like the other Cafes. That was a mistake. If we have to migrate to vbulletin or another software (hoping we can clean this one up and upgrade), we will transfer over all old posts/users, etc and keep same layout. Happy to have the Holics come back to use the leagues on this site. Take a look at the Football Cafe and Basketball Cafe. I already updated the format to make it easier to interact. The old layout was terrible. Once we clean this all up, I'll be coming back around to have a pow wow and hear what everyone wants to do to bring this site back. To give you a big picture, Fantasy baseball cafe will have a home page with articles (season long and daily), video podcasts, etc. Hang in there. I think you'll be happy with the end product. So... He can probably see this. Hi new guy. I think the Holics leagues have already left. Can't imagine them wanting to move half-finished drafts. I'm with GiantsFan, it probably won't be any of the past writers doing the (DAILY!!?) articles. I have no interest in writing anything apart from posts on here and trolling smack in my league. Side note: If 7 of us want to do a Cheering and Venting thread here this year I'd be down to do it once a week.
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Post by ysguy on Feb 27, 2015 5:52:43 GMT -8
Is Mochabean our mocabeenow?
Whatever happened to Madison?
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Post by ayebatter on Feb 27, 2015 7:01:00 GMT -8
Is Mochabean our mocabeenow? Whatever happened to Madison? Ahh no and Madison has been gone for quite awhile.
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Post by kab21 on Mar 1, 2015 5:07:06 GMT -8
Do they actually have plans to do anything before the season starts? That's less than a month away and was the busiest time at the old cafe.
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Post by ayebatter on Mar 2, 2015 8:40:53 GMT -8
Do they actually have plans to do anything before the season starts? That's less than a month away and was the busiest time at the old cafe. From a previous post: this is what I know
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Post by GF14 on Mar 2, 2015 9:13:25 GMT -8
I like how he's sending these messages to guys who haven't been on the cafe in forever. Shows how much they know about what's going on.
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Post by ayebatter on Mar 2, 2015 10:17:36 GMT -8
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