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

[Azure]

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Could you please re-enable ‘show printable version’ and show ‘10,000’ posts on one page please.
This would allow us to at least archive our threads as txt or mht documents.

Dude, I just wanted to thank you for that CRAZY thread of yours about Tomo Ohira and Mike Watson, and Jeff Shaefer posting.

That was one of the most important and best threads IMO in all of SRK history.

Seconded.

[Foolinfection]

What in the hell happened to the mobile site??? It’s more painful than usual now.

[Hawkingbird]

Fucking Nani on the mobile site. I see Wiz trying to kill the forum before the shutdown.

[SuicidalGrandpa]

Just waiting for SonThemAll to come back now

[Azure]

Just waiting for SonThemAll to come back now

He won’t.

How about bloofy?

Might as well end it in a blood bath.

[Sephiroth73003]

Wait why is mobile version different? Honestly I don’t mind it, just curious what the situation is.

[Ephidel]

I’m with Weeks on this one

bruh…the feels

[Jaldaboath]

Co-sign.

Dammit dude.

So, who’s still around? Shaft Agent? Quiche? Sano? Adam Warlock? Demon Dash? ShinAkumax? Valis? A bunch of other people I’m forgetting about and will regret later?

[fishjie]

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/26754958_576675718421_1883360551_n.jpg?oh=b1e0bf7302d75f0a2caeae1fc1a8b1b0&oe=5A579CAB

ACT LIKE YOU KNOW

[Septimus_Prime]

Hello. I heard SRK is shutting down. It was more or less a pleasure.

[Pertho]

Hello. I heard SRK is shutting down. It was more or less a pleasure.

How do you feel now that ultimately Sony whooped MS’s ass?

[KYO84]

@Daemos Inkblot is the owner of the site, I will ask him if he wants to disclose the cost, and if he is interested in keeping it up.

What’s the status on this? Will Inkblot give us a chance to save the forums with premium memberships or some kind of donation drive?

[Sephiroth73003]

@Daemos Inkblot is the owner of the site, I will ask him if he wants to disclose the cost, and if he is interested in keeping it up.

What’s the status on this? Will Inkblot give us a chance to save the forums with premium memberships or some kind of donation drive?

Couple people are talking with Wiz. We don’t have all the details their are discussions being had, but we know where they host so either are likely paying $600-1200 a month for hosting. There is an open source version of vanilla forums we might be able to host ourselves and migrate the existing Shoryuken information. Jayce said he’d keep us appraised as he finds out more. All this stuff just started getting discussed yesterday, so hopefully we’ll get a more satisfactory rundown with some potential options soon enough to migrate before the shut down or have some sort of donation to extend the timeline. We have found a few set of options for cheaper hosting, but at least I want to preserve important threads and history that are on this site.

[Septimus_Prime]

Hello. I heard SRK is shutting down. It was more or less a pleasure.

How do you feel now that ultimately Sony whooped MS’s ass?

I…uh…I assume you are someone I would otherwise remember, but you changed your username. That’s how I feel?

[KYO84]

@Daemos Inkblot is the owner of the site, I will ask him if he wants to disclose the cost, and if he is interested in keeping it up.

What’s the status on this? Will Inkblot give us a chance to save the forums with premium memberships or some kind of donation drive?

Couple people are talking with Wiz. We don’t have all the details their are discussions being had, but we know where they host so either are likely paying $600-1200 a month for hosting. There is an open source version of vanilla forums we might be able to host ourselves and migrate the existing Shoryuken information. Jayce said he’d keep us appraised as he finds out more. All this stuff just started getting discussed yesterday, so hopefully we’ll get a more satisfactory rundown with some potential options soon enough to migrate before the shut down or have some sort of donation to extend the timeline. We have found a few set of options for cheaper hosting, but at least I want to preserve important threads and history that are on this site.

Thank you for this. I sincerely hope the forums can be saved. I tweeted Inkblot about it. I hope others will consider doing the same and have their voices heard.

https://twitter.com/ProtomCannon

[Sexperienced]

I don’t know if anyone else pointed this out but it was inevitable that SRK forums would eventually shut down because most of us are in our mid 30’s and have other responsibilities to deal or we’ve lost interest in gaming, specifically fighting games, because they suck now and haven’t improved that much if at all over the past 13 years or more.

[Shin_Akuma]

@Daemos Inkblot is the owner of the site, I will ask him if he wants to disclose the cost, and if he is interested in keeping it up.

What’s the status on this? Will Inkblot give us a chance to save the forums with premium memberships or some kind of donation drive?

I’d like to know as well. People are starting to make their own forums and I fear it will split the community. I’d rather save this one, as opposed to joining a new one.

Vanilla sucks though. Wish we could move to a different software with everything intact.

EDIT:

Couple people are talking with Wiz. We don’t have all the details their are discussions being had, but we know where they host so either are likely paying $600-1200 a month for hosting. There is an open source version of vanilla forums we might be able to host ourselves and migrate the existing Shoryuken information. Jayce said he’d keep us appraised as he finds out more. All this stuff just started getting discussed yesterday, so hopefully we’ll get a more satisfactory rundown with some potential options soon enough to migrate before the shut down or have some sort of donation to extend the timeline. We have found a few set of options for cheaper hosting, but at least I want to preserve important threads and history that are on this site.

Great news! :tup:

[Sephiroth73003]

I don’t know if anyone else pointed this out but it was inevitable that SRK forums would eventually shut down because most of us are in our mid 30’s and have other responsibilities to deal or we’ve lost interest in gaming, specifically fighting games, because they suck now and haven’t improved that much if at all over the past 13 years or more.

It is inevitable, but I think it’s just a tad premature, imo. I’d like to see SRK at least survive the life span of SFV. Even if SFV had been great discord stealing a lot of the character threads is a major user loss for sites like this. I honestly seeing us having to revisit this in another 3-5 years even if it survives.

The age of our user base and fighting game players being older on average than a lot of other games does have a lot to do with it. Most of the youngest users here are early 20’s.

If this happened in 2020 after SFV support dies I would understand, but I don’t think the traffic is low enough to justify its death today.

[Azure]

I don’t know if anyone else pointed this out but it was inevitable that SRK forums would eventually shut down because most of us are in our mid 30’s and have other responsibilities to deal or we’ve lost interest in gaming, specifically fighting games, because they suck now and haven’t improved that much if at all over the past 13 years or more.

Nobody stayed just for the games.

Not in GD.

And besides TT, what else matters?

Also:

Nice to see you again.

[CHIEfy]

I can see it now, end of June 2018 will come and they’ll announce that Evo is cancelled, but they’ll host a roller disco party at the end of the month to make up for it.

Evo would be dead sooner than later if it weren’t for Smash and Street Fighter.