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Post by In Wonderland on Jun 14, 2015 12:57:59 GMT
To maybe get back some old members, re post on FB and Twitter that we are here. Cause not everyone knows it's up. And some simply don't care anymore.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jun 14, 2015 14:10:43 GMT
Am I the only one that actually miss the old bandaids? I mean this forum is fine, I dont care much about a gallery and the layout - everything works, so it's okay. But on the old forum there were many more members, yes a lot of stupid or inactive members, but there were also members that I miss around here. We had people who knew people that knew people that saw Avril somewhere or heard something about her, we had people working for record-labels that could explain certain things etc. I mean, I think you are all great members here - dont get me wrong but I actually miss the diversity we had in the old forum. Well, I dont get my hopes up that it will ever return, (which is a shame! ) so maybe we should make the best out of this. If we could do the layout more Avril-ish and spread the link, maybe some old members will find their way back and join. As for Sharifa + Admins, I dont know any of them but seriously, all this "Sharifa is busy"-thing is ridiculous. How busy can a person be for not upgrading a forum in almost a year? She could give the permission to someone else, someone who really wants it to work. So, I think she just lost interest and we wont get the old forum back... OR Sharifa is such a great fan of Avril that she copies the Avril-ish meaning of "soon" and we will have the old forum back in .... well, "soon". No, I miss it too. And I know exactly what you mean with "diversity of the forum". I think she has just lost interest as any other admins who went inactive. The "I'm busy"-excuse is long overdue because I saw some of our admins who claimed to be too busy in real life on another forum posting everyday.Wait. What? Perhaps they think because Avril is inactive right now that there's no point in upgrading the forum right now. Which is kind of not true anyway, as she did release GYWYL video, Fly, the People interview about Lyme, and she has been more active on social media. If they are posting on other forums that basically means they've lost interest in Avril, which is very unfair to those of us who still are. If you've lost interest in her or want to take a break from her, that's fine, but then pass the job off to someone else if that's the case. There are still many of us who still want to discuss Avril, even in her downtime, and it really isn't fair to all of us who are still interested in her to just drop the forum just because THEY didn't care anymore. Are they even aware that there's a temporary forum? Maybe they knew we'd just create another forum and decided as long as we had this that it was ok to drop the other site. Yeah there are some members missing from here or who aren't as active, but honestly that started happening on the old forum too. Most of the staff was hardly ever online or at least hardly ever posted. The core of the community that posts a lot seems to all be here. But I think there are just various reasons why not many people are here, whether it's because Avril is inactive, they've lost interest in her, or they think BA is too negative. Some of them have gone on to focus on other artists that are more active right now and maybe will come back when Avril releases new music.
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Post by sam on Jun 14, 2015 15:27:57 GMT
It is true, I used to see some of them on ATRL
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Post by Monet ♥ on Jun 14, 2015 15:49:47 GMT
No, I miss it too. And I know exactly what you mean with "diversity of the forum". I think she has just lost interest as any other admins who went inactive. The "I'm busy"-excuse is long overdue because I saw some of our admins who claimed to be too busy in real life on another forum posting everyday.Wait. What? Perhaps they think because Avril is inactive right now that there's no point in upgrading the forum right now. Which is kind of not true anyway, as she did release GYWYL video, Fly, the People interview about Lyme, and she has been more active on social media. If they are posting on other forums that basically means they've lost interest in Avril, which is very unfair to those of us who still are. If you've lost interest in her or want to take a break from her, that's fine, but then pass the job off to someone else if that's the case. There are still many of us who still want to discuss Avril, even in her downtime, and it really isn't fair to all of us who are still interested in her to just drop the forum just because THEY didn't care anymore. Are they even aware that there's a temporary forum? Maybe they knew we'd just create another forum and decided as long as we had this that it was ok to drop the other site. Yeah there are some members missing from here or who aren't as active, but honestly that started happening on the old forum too. Most of the staff was hardly ever online or at least hardly ever posted. The core of the community that posts a lot seems to all be here. But I think there are just various reasons why not many people are here, whether it's because Avril is inactive, they've lost interest in her, or they think BA is too negative. Some of them have gone on to focus on other artists that are more active right now and maybe will come back when Avril releases new music. Yeah, on ATRL forum. I think you can probably guess who those admins are.
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Post by sam on Jun 14, 2015 15:51:15 GMT
Wait. What? Perhaps they think because Avril is inactive right now that there's no point in upgrading the forum right now. Which is kind of not true anyway, as she did release GYWYL video, Fly, the People interview about Lyme, and she has been more active on social media. If they are posting on other forums that basically means they've lost interest in Avril, which is very unfair to those of us who still are. If you've lost interest in her or want to take a break from her, that's fine, but then pass the job off to someone else if that's the case. There are still many of us who still want to discuss Avril, even in her downtime, and it really isn't fair to all of us who are still interested in her to just drop the forum just because THEY didn't care anymore. Are they even aware that there's a temporary forum? Maybe they knew we'd just create another forum and decided as long as we had this that it was ok to drop the other site. Yeah there are some members missing from here or who aren't as active, but honestly that started happening on the old forum too. Most of the staff was hardly ever online or at least hardly ever posted. The core of the community that posts a lot seems to all be here. But I think there are just various reasons why not many people are here, whether it's because Avril is inactive, they've lost interest in her, or they think BA is too negative. Some of them have gone on to focus on other artists that are more active right now and maybe will come back when Avril releases new music. Yeah, on ATRL forum. I think you can probably guess who those admins are. Loved how they kept their Admin places while they did that and didn't handle it over to someone who cared.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jun 14, 2015 16:14:14 GMT
Yeah I just checked ATRL, figuring that's where some of them had gone to, and I saw a bunch of members posting that I had completely forgotten about. The thing is, they were also discussing it a bit there too, saying it's mainly Sharifa's fault why the site declined. Some excerpts: I found this one pretty amusing too :lmao:
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Post by sam on Jun 14, 2015 16:35:49 GMT
Agree with all of those, they pretty much did just leave it to die and left the staff to pick up the pieces The last one though
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Post by Monet ♥ on Jun 14, 2015 16:43:45 GMT
It's very sad for the people who did care (like 1-2 years ago) or still do. P.s. I just realized that I spent so much time uploading pictures to the gallery. And now it's all gone.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jun 14, 2015 17:02:05 GMT
It's very sad for the people who did care (like 1-2 years ago) or still do. P.s. I just realized that I spent so much time uploading pictures to the gallery. And now it's all gone. Well we don't know for sure yet that BA isn't coming back, so there may still be hope. At least I and many others hope so. It would be a shame to lose all those photos and to have the people who worked so hard to upload them have it all go to waste. Perhaps if BA by some miracle comes back, would there be a way to save the gallery portion so that if the site ever went offline again, we'd still have the gallery? From what I remember it was separate from the BA site.
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Post by In Wonderland on Jun 14, 2015 17:47:11 GMT
It's very sad for the people who did care (like 1-2 years ago) or still do. P.s. I just realized that I spent so much time uploading pictures to the gallery. And now it's all gone. The year i worked in the media team i spent quite a few hours every week.. even without new photos.
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Post by sam on Jun 14, 2015 17:54:20 GMT
^ You guys did put alot of work into the Media Team, and tbh we all put alot of work into the site (although I really hated uploading to the gallery)
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jun 14, 2015 18:28:23 GMT
^ You guys did put alot of work into the Media Team, and tbh we all put alot of work into the site (although I really hated uploading to the gallery) I guess in addition to losing the gallery, ABAs, and SOTW, we've also lost The Voice of Bandaids competition and Bandaids magazine. Sucks, 'cause all of that stuff was really fun and a great way to keep the community together while we waited for new music, and it made us more unique than other fan bases that just talk about their favorite artist and don't do much else. I like that we had other fun activities going on that were centric to the community itself. Perhaps if Avril's next album is really good, some fans may come back. Unfortunately I don't think it'll ever be what it once was during TBDT or GL times, but hopefully a good amount of members to keep the forum going. I think in order for fans to come back Avril's next album needs to have really strong material combined with decent promo. I think the AL era really made people lose interest because Epic kept fucking everything up left and right, so badly that everything that could possibly go wrong did, and after disappointment after disappointment, failure after failure, people just got fed up I guess. The AL Tour didn't help either, with the fact she skipped all of Europe and most of Canada and the US, was relegated to an opening act, and her performances were subpar due to illness. If Avril can come back next era with a strong album and strong performances, I hope that some fans will come back.
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Post by In Wonderland on Jun 14, 2015 18:29:55 GMT
^ You guys did put alot of work into the Media Team, and tbh we all put alot of work into the site (although I really hated uploading to the gallery) Not saying you didn't do anything i helped with 1-2% of BA. And again we wouldn't be here today without Marliz and You!
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Post by sam on Jun 14, 2015 18:30:48 GMT
^ You guys did put alot of work into the Media Team, and tbh we all put alot of work into the site (although I really hated uploading to the gallery) Not saying you didn't do anything i helped with 1-2% of BA. And again we wouldn't be here today without Marliz and You! Oh yeah I know you didn't say that just wanted to reinforce what you guys said as its true
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Post by In Wonderland on Jun 14, 2015 18:32:14 GMT
Not saying you didn't do anything i helped with 1-2% of BA. And again we wouldn't be here today without Marliz and You! Oh yeah I know you didn't say that just wanted to reinforce what you guys said as its true Lost in translation
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