The forum has the same level of documented support that TF2 has.
Kind of poetic, really.
If Facepunch shuts down I'll be extremely disappointed. I understand that traditional forums like this are becoming less and less popular but there's still an active community on here. I joined Facepunch because of Garry's Mod and Lua almost 10 years ago. I have no reason to move to knockout, I don't need a replacement for Facepunch.
I think it's sad that Garry has given up on the forums especially when it was so conducive to the success of his company. I hope he hasn't forgotten that.
facepunch has been "dying" for like 3 months now and 90% of you sound like this
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/108570/c7c008fb-d96d-47ef-b6d2-f325eba7dc97/image.png
it's already a thing, though.
there hasn't been any development in a *very* long time
lack of features, bugs and other things have lost a ton of users
all of those factors have slowed down the forums
garry has already said that he doesn't see a lot of value in keeping the forums open
garry has already said that not only is he cool with knockout but he will also redirect to it if/when he shuts fp down
every mod that matters ;P in onboard with knockout
what else do you want? the only thing left now is for fp to be completely offline. there's nothing else
Knockout was incredibly premature. I finally managed to make an account there but I have no real desire to go there because Facepunch has all the same stuff and the design is overall way better.
I'll move to it when the forums shut down but short of that, I don't think there's much that's really pushing me to become involved.
So, instead they should've waited to release and improve a website at the exact moment that fp goes down? whenever that is
And yeah the activity on Knockout is too slow to make posting worth it. Nobody's going to see what I have to say and I don't like shouting into thin air.
If Facepunch goes down, I can easily see KnockOut getting a spike of activity. I think it's a bit premature to say that K.O. is inactive.
But, if Facepunch stays up, K.O. being partially inactive is kinda moot, aside from the (excellent) work that the devs put in going unused.
No, the soft release, development and testing was all fine, but locking down the discord and spamming links to register was all done in a blind panic and way too early
Something to take away from all of that is that at least the active users here will be ready when this forum dies.
Only reason im not using knockout is... no one else is. All the thread content is still here.
At least if Knockout is up it can iron out a few things before people move over.
If i recall, newpunch measures online users very differently from oldpunch, newpunch basically saying you're online for a much longer period and even if you just have a tab open. Don't think the numbers are comparable.
There are STILL people who don't know that the forums are going down, never mind that there's an alternative. Spamming is necessary
Why would garry take down the forums, he's just gonna leave them stagnant and people will just kinda sit here and wait till it actually goes but iirc he wants this to stay up for rust right?
KO literally doesn't have a drawing point other than "its fp but new" so let's assume you get half of the active users going to it, yeah that's cool and being a really generous assumption what next? Where's the draw for more? One user here quits, another there quits and before you know it your forums the same 20 people talking on what is an essentially slower and superfluous discord client. It literally doesn't even work in concept.
What confuses me the most is why did Hezzy completely lock down the discord back then. I get that he was done running it, but it's not like it was hosted on his personal PC, keeping it up took no effort on his part, he could've just simply left it and let all the remaining mods keep order in there
How do we even actually know the forum is gonna go down? People keep saying it like it's certain and inevitable but so far I have no reason to believe garry will actually kill it. And what if people don't give a shit if there's an alternative?
evidence that the forum IS going down:
Evidence that the forum is going down;
https://puu.sh/DpIZG/2f38421d2f.png
just trust bro
big "it just works" vibes
yea but unlike garry he remembers he has a forum more than twice a year
Also this guy is single handedly making a website while being flooded with demands for what features next to include
Why are people still in denial that FP is going to die?
Development is suspended, the forum is riddled with bugs, there are basic features missing, and Garry hasn't just proven but admitted to not actually caring about us. Are your post counts really that important? The join dates?
Knockout isn't bustling with activity yet because FP is still accessible. That doesn't mean we shouldn't all be moving to it in preparation. The ones sitting back and insisting that Facepunch isn't dead yet and they'll move over when the time is right are the reason Knockout hasn't exploded with activity yet. The time is now. There's nothing wrong with posting on this website while the transition happens, but there are so many people who are seemingly in denial about the death of FP or worse, actively angry at Inacio+the mod team for trying to promote Knockout.
That will be the death of our community. Not the discord closing or stickied threads. People in denial that FP is dying, or worse, simply do not care.
Good for him? His good intentions are not related to the fact that trying to hijack the forums was premature and also a complete knee-jerk to the forums going down for a couple of hours.
Also, why are "Alt" accounts being permabanned now? Ive been trying to log in to my original account but it doesn't seem to work via Facebook auth. I made a couple of posts and was permabanned by someone named Taliyah for being an Alt. I've never been permad since I joined in 2007. Sorry for not using the discord but I take my privacy seriously and would rather sort it out here.
Stop pushing this narrative that the forums were 'hijacked' holy shit lol, you can't exactly say that when Garry has left this forum in the hands of the very people you're claiming are hijacking the forum.
We're all in this community together, it would be great if we acted like it
Inacio isn't the sole dev? There are like, 3 other devs
Oh, forgive me, 4 devs in total.
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