dz.com for sale

[Phil1111 1,149]

On 11/23/2024 at 12:57 PM, BIGUN said:

I've been thinking about this for awhile and it sounds like there's a timeline getting close. For those considering it; there are ~42K followers on the Dropzone.com facebook page. There is a way to automatically push a new post from a phpBB forum to a Facebook page. One needs to set up a custom integration using a PHP script that leverages the Facebook Graph API to post new forum topics to your Facebook page whenever a new post is created on the phpBB board. This would generate traffic (the FB hasn't been posted to in a long while). That _could_ increase ad revenue from both sites.

IMO; if the goal is to preserve and amplify the existing dz.com site - strip out some of the noise (DB, SC, bonfire, etc.) so the site generates skydiving activity on both sites again.   

People choose to go to those sections and others can ignore them. There needs to be more participation in the skydiving forums themselves. More participation in checking out the advertising.

1 hour ago, billvon said:

Unfortunately those are the only parts of it that currently have traffic - and traffic drives ad sales.

The FB link is a good idea, but that will tend to generate income (if any) from the Facebook side, not the BB side.

agree

[feuergnom 28]

been to the facebook-page yesterday. its a graveyard. 

 

and as stated by billvon in sc, this place will be history in 4 weeks. time to write some words for the tombstone. 

I'll miss this place, but otoh sometimes you just have to let it go.

Edited December 2, 2024 by feuergnom

[metalslug 36]

Is anyone here perhaps able to say what will become of all the collected data? Does it reside in a dusty storage device on Willem's shelf? If I assume it's a MySQL (or more sophisticated) on the back end. Even if DZ.com never goes forward again it would seem a shame to shitcan the skydiving forum content; especially the Incidents records. There's a chance that someone may find that of value for future research, to extract to a generic format. 

[feuergnom 28]

1 hour ago, metalslug said:

Is anyone here perhaps able to say what will become of all the collected data? Does it reside in a dusty storage device on Willem's shelf? If I assume it's a MySQL (or more sophisticated) on the back end. Even if DZ.com never goes forward again it would seem a shame to shitcan the skydiving forum content; especially the Incidents records. There's a chance that someone may find that of value for future research, to extract to a generic format. 

iirc there is always the wayback-machine of archive.org, so it is not completely lost. 
only drawback is, that in order to read the incidents you have to log in here - no idea of how that works when dz.com site closes

[sfzombie13 324]

it's not hard to scarpe the site.  i had a complete copy of basejumper.com but let it go in a backup decision a few months ago.  if i had some time or my desktop set up i would scrape this one also.  i'll bet a few folks have it already.  i'm just gonna delete my account and move on.  have a great time fellas, it's been real fun.  dz was my first real forum when i joined back in 2000 and i learned a lot from it.  i was sad when i lost my dz email and am sad to lose this, but life goes on.  the only thing consistent is change.

[BIGUN 1,296]

On 12/2/2024 at 12:35 PM, billvon said:

Unfortunately those are the only parts of it that currently have traffic - and traffic drives ad sales.

The FB link is a good idea, but that will tend to generate income (if any) from the Facebook side, not the BB side.

Sounds like it's really not going to matter since a "non-skydiving" entity has purchased the domain. Be well. 

[normiss 798]

4 hours ago, BIGUN said:

Sounds like it's really not going to matter since a "non-skydiving" entity has purchased the domain. Be well. 

Who bought it?

[BIGUN 1,296]

8 hours ago, normiss said:

Who bought it?

I don't know, Marc. Just repeating what HH said here:

https://www.dropzone.com/forums/topic/289186-dropzonecom-sold/?tab=comments#comment-5046005

 

[eeneR 3]

So many amazing people, events and stories. ❤️

[TampaPete 48]

What I will miss the most are the discussed in intricate detail explanations of physics that violated so many laws of physics.