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Regarding the animals, Goatboy told me something about Sheep, but that is a secret, so i'll shut up...
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Oh man I'm busted!
Ok seriously, I guess I can somewhat let things out of the bag now...
WEAPONFORUMS.COM IS COMING BACK SHORTLY!!!!
Man sounds pretty weak doesn't it... well let me enlighten everyone.
Since I got involved my mind and goals have grown. At first I was merely here to help Ed fix his forum and server problem. I sunk in a few thousand on machines and told him forum packages sucked for large traffic. At that time the server was going down constantly and he just couldn't handle the traffic. I then changed gears and said I would rebuild the site for him and help shoulder the financial burden. He was SUPPOSED to hook me up with an AR for my help, but never did. *DICK!* [=D]
The rest is history. I started work and things were VERY harsh at first, then improved as expected. It sucked a LOT more of my time than I thought, but I also came to know, respect, and admire many people here. This place is a new home for me and I'm more into firearms and our 2nd amendment rights than ever before.
Now we come to WeaponForums.Com and our upcoming plans. The site will be going down for a day or two, possibly this weekend, possibly next week, in order to migrate the data into a new schema. I've consulted a number of top database experts (benefit of my field) and had all my work approved. (Very nice feeling to know I did shit right... heehee) The goal is to create ONE GIANT distributed engine which is almost complete to allow for easy expansion. By this I mean that you will have:
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1 Login
1 Membership fee (if you choose!)
1 Profile to manage all your information
1 Key for autoLogin
1 Common Interface
X Sites to access under our control!
Multiple Email accounts if you so desire!
New Shared Chat Services (New IRC Server!)
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No need for multiple accounts, no need to re-register per interest you have, no need to go elsewhere to get information or help! ONE community hell bent on providing information for each other, and support our rights. If you have auto-login enabled you wont need to even login to the other sites!!!
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On the immediate agenda:
50World - 50 Cal Firearms!
SigTalk - All Sigs All the Time!
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After these go up and are tested, there will be a few other sites added. Come and go as you will and share the knowledge and passion that you have for each firearm. (We'll also be looking to add new staff, admins, and writers for each site!)
The range locator will be shared, the event calendar will be shared and so you'll easily be able to find all events and ranges from all these interest spots!
Who knows, we may even do a PAINTBALL site!
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I always said you guys would see more if ya just hung tight. Now we're making it happen! I'm here to do what I can to make things better for all of us.
-- GB
NOTE - Things may be tight for a bit as we continue to wait for our new ISP to kick in. Once that happens we have a few more servers to throw at this thing and a LOT more bandwidth!