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[cleolinda]

Quick note for FT refugees while I'm working: if you want to go save your favorite threads, hit "print this topic" (it's in the line of tiny cream-colored print, right after "track this topic" and "email this topic"). You'll get a nicely-formatted text-only version of the entire thread on one web page that you can save. I think the forums are going down on March 15, so you might want to hop to archiving anything you want to save.


Edited to clarify: yes, the FT forums are going to the Big Message Boards in the sky on March 15. Fametracker.com itself will remain, however. And yeah, Wing and Glark have said several times on these threads that there's pretty much nothing that can be done--subscription memberships would be "nightmarish to adminstrate" and also, that's what the Outrageously Overpriced Donation Things (OODTs) were supposed to serve as, and hardly anyone bought them.

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[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I haven't been spending as much time over at FT since I joined LJ a year ago. Sure, there's a lot of drama and whining and stupidity over here, as there is just about anywhere else, but I promise you, you *will* find intelligent conversation again. It might not be in as centralized a location, but we'll be out there. In fact, half the people I'm really good friends with on LJ are people I first met on FT (and totally forgot that's where I met them).

[dreamingenigma.livejournal.com]

Well, I think there are certain things I will miss about FT, and other things that I'll forget about quickly. I've gotten used to finding info quickly on celebrities, and entertaining myself with really stupid threads (celeb endowments, celeb fashion). I also love lots of the threads like "Unpopular blahblah opinions" for some reason. I think I'll mainly miss the P&M section... although I did always feel kind of stupid visiting the English Language Usage thread ;) What's going to happen to the Blind Items? That was always really big...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was one of my favorite threads, the BI thread. There's a new FT BI community that just started up--it's on my user info page under communities, I think.