Benjamin Grimm

Everything is changing!

I think you just need the alphanumeric code, not the full URL.

Sounds like he can be a factor in the Mets bullpen this year. Maybe even a closer of the future?

That's what I think too. The fear of us being swamped by "hundreds" of users doesn't seem realistic at all. I don't know if I noticed that call for execution. Is it possible that it was roger_that? If so, you may have missed it, but he's been banned as well, after he accidentally revealed his true identity.

Edgy had to do something behind the scenes to get Brock registered because of the ongoing registration problem we were having until I finally fixed it late last week. I think he took the ID of an old spammer and renamed it for Brock to use.

The forum, as I understand it, is just part of a larger suite of offerings. He wants to be able to serve ads. This is an earlier post from this thread. You can choose to believe this or not. It certainly seems more plausible to me than "hundreds". I'd rather go this route than sit around and watch this place continue to dwindle.

I doubt it will be "hundreds". I don't even think it will be "dozens". It will probably be "a handful". Imagine opening a Blockbuster store and expecting "hundreds" of people to show up looking to rent movies on VHS.

Maybe we should look at this as if we were all advancing from Middle School to High School. It will look different, and there will be some new faces, but also a lot of familiar faces as well.

John Olerud?

Robin Ventura?

The forum lived at ultimatemets.com for seven years, from late 2018 until early 2026. It had been at other domains before that and is now at another one after that. The UMDB didn't "own" the forum, it was just acting as a landlord, if you want to call it that.

I think the salient point here is that Edgy may decide he doesn't want to do this anymore. The Schaefer thing didn't require much effort on my part, but with so few participants, I decided even that little effort was more than I cared to expend. If Edgy feels he's doing to much work for the entertainment of too few, then it's entirely his right to decide to shed the responsibility. This is not something that should be subject to a vote. Nobody should be obligated to continue a hobby that is no longer fulfilling. And Marshmallow is right; the open antagonism toward Brock by some is juvenile, although he didn't use that word. Yes, this feels a bit like The Music Man (for those who get that reference) but unlike Harold Hill, Brock isn't asking for any money from us. He's proposing something that may be mutually beneficial. Or may not. That can certainly be debated. But if I was the primary admin and moderator here, and I didn't want to do it anymore, I'd gladly turn it over to Brock. The worst thing that can happen is what happened to the UMDB. I don't like it, but it's not a calamity. Life goes on. Nothing lasts forever. It's okay to let go of things. It's life. To everything a season.

Al Leiter?

And I don't want to speak for Edgy, but it may not be just about the money. After a while you get tired of putting in the effort and realizing that it's for fewer and fewer people. That's why I pulled the plug on Schaefer and the TCD. If someone had stepped forward and offered me $20 per month to keep doing it, it wouldn't have mattered.

I can confirm that he wasn't invited. He reached out to me through the UMDB before I gave it up. I don't see the risk here. We can lock the forums here and try the other place. If wr hate it there's nothing stopping us from returning here.

I'm out!

The UMDB archive will remain indefinitely. I don't know what last rodeo you're referring to.

Many excellent points there. I think Edgy's opinion matters more than anyone else's here, and I support whatever decision he makes. And if I were him, I think I'd go for it. If it proves to be a disaster we can always regroup elsewhere, although that seems very unlikely to happen. (Both the disaster and, should that actually come to pass, the regrouping.)

You probably tripped over me while I was doing stuff to solve the registration issue.

I think I just fixed it.

A few questions: Do these forums use phpBB? Or some other platform? And, asked above but perhaps lost in the conversation, how long do threads and posts survive? Do they remain online forever, or is there some kind of archiving that gets done? Also, if we go ahead with this and then decide it's not working for us, is there a way to export the threads in a phpBB format?

If you do, they'll ask you to contribute around the house. Do the dishes and vacuum, stuff like that.

I'm not sure if those are typos or Irish vernacular. (Just taking the piss!)

He'd be a darker horse if his name was Nate Plum.