Chemical Forums
General Forums => Generic Discussion => Topic started by: Mitch on November 24, 2005, 10:01:32 PM
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The chemistryguy site seems to be down right now.
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Yo I also tried to open the site....I failed....I've tried to contact some other members by e-mail....mabye they know something about it :-\
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chemistry guy? is he the chemicalforum's equivalent of family guy or american dad? LOL
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It's only another chemistry forum, but it seems to be dead right now....that's a bit annoyibg for me because I had more than 600 posts in this forum... >:(
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hehehe, at least you didn't lose almost 900 ::)
Yeah... won't open. It might actually be dead this time. Well, I hope I can make this board my new home ;D
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Since I was deprived of 300 in Spring I lost my interest in (then) chemistry.com; later it moved to chemistryguy.com.
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Well, I hope I can make this board my new home ;D
Sure you can, welcome to the board. :)
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Hey Guys! I typed www.chemistryguy.com in the URL bar and this is what came out
To better serve you,
The ChemistryGuy is undergoing some changes.
Check back soon to see the new, improved ChemistryGuy site!
...so it isn't completely dead...well we'll see :) It's only a matter of time!
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Hmm... I don't like their new redesign. Anyone else checked it out?
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Ugly.
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I'd never seen chemistryguy.com, so I checked it out. Wow. Kinda, crappy.
Three cheers for chemicalforums! lol...hip hip... :P
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Yeah...really gone down the toilet. The big problem they had was changing from chemistry.com to chemistryguy.com. There were a crap load of people before it changed. Then, once it changed, it was mostly just the regulars (all 5 or so of us). But, it seems since everyone quit coming, the decided to completely change it and make it all crappy. It seems to have gone down the drain all together....
So, looks like I'll have a new home with Alberto and whatever NG's new name is....
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I think they decided to use some other forum software than FUDforum due to the problems they had. At some point in Spring (or was it early Summer?) they decided to remove large part of posts database, as the forums were snail-slow. That was the moment I lost my faith (I have fallen from Senior member to Junior member level, and I was one of the first Senior members ever) and almost stopped posting :)
I have exchanged some information with their Admin - from what I remember he wrote that they (ie chemistry.com) had some kind of their own very powerfull forums, not as good-looking and configurable as FUD is, but pretty fast. Perhaps they hit the same wall now and switched to something that is fast - and ugly?
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(I have fallen from Senior member to Junior member level, and I was one of the first Senior members ever)
I thought you lost over 200 messages but were still a senior member. Wasn't it Lynch who became a junior member?
I agree with saying Chemistryguy is terrible now. With the new format it barely even looks like a forum.
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I thought you lost over 200 messages but were still a senior member. Wasn't it Lynch who became a junior member?
I won't argue, perhaps you are right. Lynch at the time was almost inactive, I believe he was doing some hard work in his backyard (literally, he was modifying drainage or something like that :) )
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The site is JUNK! >:(
The new look is really terrible!
Pity...it was a really interesting forum when it was called chemistry.com, but now it is trash.
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Well, bring your friends over to this site. We'll adopt them into our fold. :)
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well the site has definetaly changed a lot and not in a positive way. now you have to wait a lot longer to view your post or even get a response, atleast until it passes the approval of someone, which is not at all efficient, it would meant that your reponse to a question could take days to go up there, would be incredebly bad for anyone seeking help because it would mean days to get one response that was answered perhaps as soon as that person's post went up.
i used to have like 500+ posts, but really as soon as the name changed from chemistry.com to chemistryguy.com the number of people joining went down from like 5 a day to about 3 a week, maybe even less.
it seems like the site was bought by a company, apparently medzilla, since most of the questions, which no one ever saw in the previous forum, say they are from medzilla readers (gee wonder were i got the idea it was medzilla LOL) ;D
ohh well i like this forum better, has more of the kind of sections that i like, and more members. that and there has been a migration of members from chemistryguy.com to chemicalforums.com
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So, just to get some kind of heads up, who all here is a chemistryguy regular that has migrated? I know there is me, Alberto_K, bakegaku (you should so go back to NG...much easier to remember), Pi (though I don't remember your CG name...damn, been that long), Borek (even though you left a while back)....am I missing any? We need to get smartkiwi over here. I have him on MSN...I'll shoot him a message sometime.
Either way, I like this one better...more people, more knowledgeable people and the site is run by chemistry people, for chemistry people.