Dropzone.com

[sangiro 25]

Heya all,

Dropzone .com has been sold.

This site has been part of my life for 27 years, so it was obviously not an easy decision.  A huge thank you to every one of you (especially those relentless mods!) who supported Dropzone.com and myself during the years.  Things change. The friendships I made here will outlast the tech forever, and for that i'm grateful.  It's been real.  

Safe swoops

Sangiro

[wildblue 7]

Thank you for the 27 years.  I have so many memories that involve this little corner of the web.  Sorry to see it end.

[SethInMI 174]

I just passed 19 years as a member of this site.  Mostly just lurking; I used to be perversely proud I had more jumps than posts, but that is no longer true. 

I want to thank @wolfriverjoe and @pchapman and @davelepka and @diverdriver (latter two long gone I assume) for being such good resources, level headed, thorough, and mostly dispassionate in their advice and analysis. (dave could get wound up, but still for many years was a great source of information). I learned so much here.

[TriGirl 318]

I would entertain more requests for personal emails from many of you.  Please PM me before the site shuts down!

Tanya

ETA -- Thanks, Sangrio.  It's been great!

Edited December 5, 2024 by TriGirl

[pchapman 279]

Wow thanks Seth.

When trying to post something concise about a complex subject, that really concentrates the mind and forces one to carefully weigh all the factors. Whether or not someone else finds it useful, it does help one's own understanding.

22 years here for me.  Highlights for me have been all the technical discussions, and some about old time skydiving & gear. And all in a forum with a better interface for finding things, avoiding endless scrolling, compared to facebook or even reddit. (Even if dz also had its formatting issues, losing the old photos, etc.)   Looking at posts from way back, one comes across so many names one has almost forgotten about, regular & useful posters from some particular era - I don't think I can single out just a few individuals.

Too bad about all the English language forums disappearing. The Australian one disappeared, the UK one disappeared, soon this one.

 

Funniest moment: Newbie sees someone write about reaching for grips in RW. Newbie takes it out of contest and slams the guy, telling him you should know one should NEVER reach for grips. ....The guy he criticized was a >10,000 jump Airspeed RW team member.

 

[squiffy 3]

2002 January I joined 

Love this place

will miss it bid time 

 

[dudeman17 339]

So who bought it? Just a domain broker buying the name?

[wmw999 2,444]

This has been a noticeable piece of my life for over 20 years; I joined in mid-2002. There are friends from here who are no longer alive, others who have moved on from skydiving, and ones who I correspond with offline. I jump with one regularly now; we were on different coasts (there are three to choose from). Thanks for being a big piece of my life

Wendy P. 

[davadikian 1]

I had to look at my profile just to be sure but I was right, I signed up in 2001. I think I had 200 skydives and at the time I was searching for anything skydiving related I could get my hands on. Although I didn't/don't post much it was always comforting to come here and pick back up with what was or wasn't happening. This is an end to an era. Thanks to Sangiro for making the last 23 years comfortable. Change is inevitable. 

 

Peace and love. 

Doug

[theonlyski 8]

Sad to see it go, but understand that all things must come to an end.

If you need some space for the data, I have a few servers and drives not doing anything.

[PhreeZone 20]

Thanks for the 23 years of great memories and experiences from the time I have been on this site!  I had to look to see my registration date and it was way back in 2001 - That alone was half a lifetime ago. This site was a huge part of my life for a long time and is how I met my wife, some of my best friends and introduced me to a wide group of people that I have had the pleasure of sharing some of the best and worst experiences ever. I remember some of the Perris, Raeford, SDC Summerfest and WFFC DZ.com events as highlights. I kept missing some of the Christmas Skydive Arizona events and had huge cases of FOMO at the time when we saw the post event stories. I still have photos from one of the Dropzone load at Perris with @billvon and @wmw999 hanging on my wall that everyone asks about all the time. Learning to wingsuit with @SkymonkeyONE back when a Birdman GTi was considered "advanced", heading to TX and doing CRW with @faulknerwn, heading to FL sleeping in my car to be able to hang out and jump with multiple DZ.commers over the holiday breaks. I spent the better part of 5-8 years traveling around meeting up with a huge list of posters like @sunshine, @jerm, @wingnut, @skymama, and dozens of others. I can't forget all the drama that came from the drunk dial list and of course all the arguments that came out of stepping up to moderate. Running the incidents forum and database taught me a huge level of respect for my own limits since in the back my mind while at the DZ as the list of all the situations that I had spent hours reviewing, documenting and then watching others start making the start of the same series of decisions.

I stepped away for a while since I was off doing other things but the time here shaped a large part of my life.


PS if anyone can tell me how to mass backup my PM's it would be awesome!

[skybytch 273]

Thanks for facilitating some awesome friendships and experiences,  HH.

Still waiting for that giraffe bbq though.

[piisfish 140]

Thanks for the great times, meeting several of you, living great moments thanks to the forum and it’s population. 
someone please save the DD list and the morning glory thread

 

may Concrete Rebound Hammer definitely rest in peace. 
may the An-2 bless your next jumps. 

[sfzombie13 324]

now that the site has been sold will anyone reverse the decision not to delete accounts or has that data been considered as part of the package? 

[normiss 798]

On 12/6/2024 at 2:44 PM, PhreeZone said:

Thanks for the 23 years of great memories and experiences from the time I have been on this site!  I had to look to see my registration date and it was way back in 2001 - That alone was half a lifetime ago. This site was a huge part of my life for a long time and is how I met my wife, some of my best friends and introduced me to a wide group of people that I have had the pleasure of sharing some of the best and worst experiences ever. I remember some of the Perris, Raeford, SDC Summerfest and WFFC DZ.com events as highlights. I kept missing some of the Christmas Skydive Arizona events and had huge cases of FOMO at the time when we saw the post event stories. I still have photos from one of the Dropzone load at Perris with @billvon and @wmw999 hanging on my wall that everyone asks about all the time. Learning to wingsuit with @SkymonkeyONE back when a Birdman GTi was considered "advanced", heading to TX and doing CRW with @faulknerwn, heading to FL sleeping in my car to be able to hang out and jump with multiple DZ.commers over the holiday breaks. I spent the better part of 5-8 years traveling around meeting up with a huge list of posters like @sunshine, @jerm, @wingnut, @skymama, and dozens of others. I can't forget all the drama that came from the drunk dial list and of course all the arguments that came out of stepping up to moderate. Running the incidents forum and database taught me a huge level of respect for my own limits since in the back my mind while at the DZ as the list of all the situations that I had spent hours reviewing, documenting and then watching others start making the start of the same series of decisions.

I stepped away for a while since I was off doing other things but the time here shaped a large part of my life.


PS if anyone can tell me how to mass backup my PM's it would be awesome!

The Drunk Dial List!!!!

ouch.  

[vid666 0]

21.5 years registered, probably more like 24 years w/ lurking included. 
I got on the site early in my skydiving days, and found it to be a superb resource. 

Sad to see it gone, but time moves on

[CDRINF 1]

I discovered DZ.com when I was stationed in Korea for a year and not able to jump. It was my skydiving lifeline at the time, and later when I was in Afghanistan. It was once THE way to find out what was going on in the skydiving world in near real time. It generated enough buzz to have its own boogie several years running in the early 2000’s. Met some great people through this site. 

[JerryBaumchen 1,362]

11 hours ago, CDRINF said:

I discovered DZ.com when I was stationed in Korea for a year and not able to jump. It was my skydiving lifeline at the time, and later when I was in Afghanistan. It was once THE way to find out what was going on in the skydiving world in near real time. It generated enough buzz to have its own boogie several years running in the early 2000’s. Met some great people through this site. 

Hi CDRINF,

Plus that.

Jerry Baumchen

[Cornholio 0]

Again??  Didn't you sell the site once before at least one time or was that just a change of managment? Maybe it will come back to you at some point.  However it's great to hear from you @sangiro! 

[Cornholio 0]

Also, is there a dz.com facebook group?  I'm a member of several skydiving groups on FB, but they're all related to a dropzone or location.  I'd love to stay connected to the many friends I've made on here that I haven't already connected with. 

Or even Discord?  Its free.  I can create multiple channels and even have voice channels, for those that want to chat in real-time. I can even server-boost it. 

Edited December 13, 2024 by Cornholio

[theonlyski 8]

3 hours ago, Cornholio said:

Also, is there a dz.com facebook group?

http://facebook.com/dropzoneskydiving

[Cornholio 0]

 Ah ok, I'm already there.  Thanks! 

[tharv17 0]

Signed up in 2005 and did a lot of lurking when I was supposed to be working. Appreciate all the insights, laughs, and tears.