Welcome to Jupman

[DjM]

Well the new owner "JupMan" appears to have an alter-ego by the name of Gus Venditto (check out the suicide thread). It looks like he has been around for a while according to his profile.

Anyhow...welcome aboard Gus (can we call you Gus?), hope you bring exciting things with you.

Cheers:

[problemchild]

Jupman was banned as a joke. It was my idea... I admit it. Figured it would be funny

Maybe I'm just cranky today, but I don't see where the humor comes in.

[Shrekkie]

I was kinda shocked our new admin got banned right away, but he...
I want to welcome Jupman and / or gus and the rest of the admins.
Also I hope the moderators who were here before and still are, will be considered as also the
´new´moderators. They too deserve credit for building AO along JP...

Well, at least the proposal of Gus to combine AP's and Humans , I think is not so bad..

Greetz,

[KorpDeath]

children will be children.;

[RiOtEr]

combinding ap's and humans is a good idea its been suggesta few times monitor abuse quicker alliances can be squashed close to instantainously etc etc the list goes on

well as one of the people resposnible for your bannage welcome and have fun with your new toy
rioter

[JP]

Greetings All:

Sorry about the whole getting banned thing Gus. I should have saw that coming.

I went in and fixed up your account a bit, so it doesn't happen again.

[RiOtEr]

can you fix mine a bit as well
rioter

[black_death]

There will be minor changes but we bought the site from JP because there is a community of professionals who come here for security information. We recognize the value of that community and we are going to be making sure the community has a good place to meet. Our primary business is selling advertising and running conferences, so you will soon start to see ads again. But no pop-ups or pop-unders (except at some point we may run a survey to ask you about your interests; that is so we can run the site better).

AO+AD$

Right now, we're still trying to figure out how to improve the back-end. We are quite familiar with the mechanics and moderation issues that surround communities like this. But JP created a highly customized platform and he's told us that some of the performance issues you now experience are tied to that points system. So we are going to have to de-construct some of the code before we can optimize it. We may have to make changes to the features available to users, but it's too early to say.

AO-AP
AO-user features

One thing some users may not be happy about : we don't think the Chat server is the best use of the bandwidth. We will keep the Chat service running for a few more weeks, but our priority is to make the message board run more smoothly. When that is done, the Private Messages will be more useful because it should become relatively quick to log in and out of here. In consultation with JP and some other members, I think we will try to come up with some suggestions for an IRC host where members who agree to meet.

AO-IRC

One thing that will be added is server logs. I know that a long time ago, some members were concerned about them and so JP turned logging off. But we will be following the same privacy policy we have been using for years. We track server traffic solely for statistical reasons (to count traffic). If you're concerned about what that means, here is the privacy policy we have followed at our other sites and which we will use as we host the site...

AO+serverlogs



you are actually taking what members like and adding things we hate ! what is it that you want to offer that makes this site different from any other site ?
i can see the decrease of members in the comming months.

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sb negged me with the following message :
"Your choice ! you dont like it then F off"
>>good you don't own the site BTW :i dont think i 'm staying

[redgore]

Well time for my cents worth (or 2p if your english like me !) I am a occasional visitor of tyhe site but hang on the irc. Its a shame that the IRC is going but thanx JP for bringing it back on another server. black_death > Its a business they are bound to add things wether we like it or not. If you dont like it you dont have to come its your choice. I wish jupitermedia all the best with AO and i am sure that i will come back and see the changes (Must remember coding pages and chatting is not all that the internet is for !

[bighabu]

Welcome to the new owners. There looks like there are going to be quite a few changes some good, some bad. I hate to see anything get commercialized, but it is the way of the world. I plan on sticking around and trying to make the best of it. This site will only be as good as we make it.