SRK Forums *NOT* closing down at the end of January 2018

[jae_hoon]

This is literally the only forum I post on, going to miss a lot of you assholes.

damn amigo been a minute hope all is well

I am okay working at Augusta National now.

[WAZAAAAA]

Some sort of archival is a must. Set it to read-only if the reason for shutting down was lack of moderation. Or just spit out the SQL dump of all the posts/users 'n shit and let some random dude host the backup or I don’t fucking know but please make a backup.

[ParryAll]

Best news I’ve heard since Trump being elected.

[ParryAll]

Some sort of archival is a must. Set it to read-only if the reason for shutting down was lack of moderation. Or just spit out the SQL dump of all the posts/users 'n shit and let some random dude host the backup or I don’t fucking know but please make a backup.

What do you care you have 47 posts lol. No I say erase this shit for good. That 10$ backup is ill afforded by the Wizzard

[Darksakul]

This doesn’t need to happen, you don’t need to close the whole site. Server costs are only high if you have a shit ton of real estate but nothing in it. Trim the forum back, get rid of everything but the essentials, game forums, GD, FGD, Tech Talk, Dom 101, etc. Get rid of character specific forums, give this site a massive hair cut full on short back and sides, and costs will be more manageable. This has been the home for hundreds of people for 15 years, some people have ammassed 100,000 posts, like that’s real shit, real heart and soul and passion for this place.

Settle down. Most of that is undoubtedly shit posting.

Especially GD.

[ParryAll]

This doesn’t need to happen, you don’t need to close the whole site. Server costs are only high if you have a shit ton of real estate but nothing in it. Trim the forum back, get rid of everything but the essentials, game forums, GD, FGD, Tech Talk, Dom 101, etc. Get rid of character specific forums, give this site a massive hair cut full on short back and sides, and costs will be more manageable. This has been the home for hundreds of people for 15 years, some people have ammassed 100,000 posts, like that’s real shit, real heart and soul and passion for this place.

Settle down. Most of that is undoubtedly shit posting.

Especially GD.

He’s one of the worst.

So glad they’re shutting down this shit show. It’s been dead for years this is just making it official. Next: NeoFAG?

[ParryAll]

I could have sworn I had way more than 3k posts

[ArtVandelay]

Fucking e-sports ruining everything.

[ParryAll]

That’s dead soon too. No money. It was planned in 2015, and will pan out, but financially it’s a disaster and won’t be renewed.

[Hawkingbird]

Link to RockB’s GD discord.

Discord - Free voice and text chat for gamers

[Crayfish]

Member here since 2001.

Very sad, hope the place can be saved. This was and still is a huge part of peoples lives, community and historical record of the scene. No way all these different parts of the forum will hold together if people migrate to another forum. Reddit and other formats just cant replace the community and resources here.

[Violent_By_Design]

This place was so different pre Street Fighter IV. All the memories

Please archive this place. There are information on more obscure games that are not easily found on other sites.

[Lantis]

Been a member since the alt.games.sf2 newsgroup, shocked to see the news, but not surprised since Mr. Wizard has been willing to kill the forums for the longest time now.

I’ll still lurk on Discord, but I can’t hold the feels.

[Azure]

This is literally the only forum I post on, going to miss a lot of you assholes.

damn amigo been a minute hope all is well

I am okay working at Augusta National now.

The fuck?

You work in the golf biz?

[TWINBLADES]

Another site I will have to delete off my bookmarks bar… Sad.

Man this is one of the realest posts I’ve ever seen lmao

[DiNyc3st]

THIS IS HORRIBLE!

SRK FORUMS WAS THE REASON I WENT TO COLLEGE AND TRAVELED!

FUCK MAN!

[GeoG2]

I used to make avatars and sig pics for people on here back in 2000-2001.

SpiderOptix, dragonkahn and a bunch of other gfx guys. Then they started the Tagmonkey forums to fulfill requests, and that shit became it’s own big thing around 2003-2004.

Probably the best memory from this place.

[Icy_Black_Deep]

Dustloop and Tekken Zaibatus are still open but SRK is shutting down. I guess this website really did hate GD huh?

https://8wayrun.com/forums/ is still up… but somehow SRK… just cant manage it.

I can’t wait to hear Jaxel’s reaction.

[DominicanPower]

First Neogaf and now SRK, damn.

[ethnic_scrap]

Built my first stick based on help from the Tech Forums. Met a bunch of friends from the local community threads too. I can understand the decision to shut it down, but sad to see it go.