What happened to the BBS on June 28, 2013?

The 29th is similarly auspicious. (Only pulls up the day you do it)

https://bbs.boingboing.net/cakeday/anniversaries/today

July, less so.

https://bbs.boingboing.net/cakeday/anniversaries/upcoming

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Wow! I just skimmed that thread and others discussing the switch-over. A lot of pissed-off mutants there were, indeed.

Having signed up a year later, I missed all the fuss.

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[OBJ] declines to answer on the grounds that any answer might be incriminating.

“infamous” is a bit strong though. [OBJ] prefers “mysterious”

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you don’t mean?

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Change is never easy, especially when it involves a significant change in how discussions happened on Boing Boing (i.e., a forum instead of embedded comments on the blog itself).

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lets just say a lot of jumping and running is involved, and possibly a murderous ai.

( do not try the cake! )

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There also seemed like a lot of pushback against the idea of “elevated” comments, along with other features of Discourse vs. the blog at that time. I don’t pay too much attention to incremental UX changes, but it’s clear that Discourse has evolved significantly since 2013.

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golden girls what GIF

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Do we have to murder the [OBJ] to level up?

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have you read my book yet? :wink:

s-l400

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omg. but not the @OBJ. we do have some morals, don’t we? :cricket: don’t we!? :cricket: :cricket:

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Everyone was killed in the great reset and replaced with an exact replica.

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I thought only the bad cabal guys were targeted…

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