cd.com back online Thread !!! December 9th 2007

[halford]

i thought that, too..for a moment, then i thought....naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, not really.
But i really missed this place, why , im not sure.

[Randy Jesus]

The other day I went to amazon and in the search bar I typed chinesedemocracy.com instead of Chinese Democracy   I am so used to it too.

lmao me too..

[Matty22]

I do that whenever I put Chinese Democracy!


It's like hard drived into my fingers

[JaKoX]

this design is sick
i hope things get better

so we have now 2 forums?
who will go back to the NewGNR forum now?

[Sean]

  i'm trying to stand tall through all this...

but i'm so lost for words, embarrassed, and hurt by this.  he took everything and is using all my ideas and not even changing anything. 

and the security breach of this....    I promise that it will never happen again and that all your accounts will be safe.

[Bono Vox]

So stop waining and do something...















Just kidding.

[Bono Vox]

And BTW, what is Lucky doing on enemy territory?

Is he infiltrating to check what is gooing on behind the stage, or did he deserted the ship?

 

[TommyFortus]

Hey BP why was my account deleted with all my posts, could you bring them back?
 
Still waiting, and please change the colors, coz i am colorblind and it is very hard for me to read(to little contrast, and to small letters)

Yeah no offense BP but the only thing putting cocksalad.com ahead at the moment (it is close) is the setup

[jamillos]

Unlike Axl and Slash, you two should do something and get your asses together again. Two forums? Ludicrous. Devide the money half and half and there you go.
C'mon, shake hands, have a beer, get laid!

[zombux]

two forums are no problem in my opinion, but both include all posts from the "old" forum, that is not very good

[Faxl]

Ok... I have to say that the last couple of months have been difficult for cd.com.... I wasn't really happy with the decision that sladdi and BP got to part ways....

Knowing that BP is really tired to make a full explanation post about the situation as he has been working on bringing CD.com back since Friday night, let me say our side of the story...

BP got a server some months ago in order to host the gnr tracker with lots of bandwidth, memory, space etc... As the cost of this server is really high per month, the income of the cd.com ads is going towards to that bill and the rest of it it's covered my BP's "pocket" and user donations from the tracker...

At that time I asked him why he is not moving the forum at his server instead of paying hosting and I was surprised to hear that sladdi is hosting the forum at a friend's server and that BP doesn't have access to it... He then made clear that sladdi's friend is not charging him for hosting and that's why they were hosting the forum there...

Following that I suggested Sean to talk with sladdi about equal access to the forum files. So Sean asked sladdi to give him access to his server or even better move the forum at Sean's server in order to benefit the better bandwidth, have professional emails chinesedemocracy.com when email users, work on new things like private section etc etc....

Sladdi refused to give access or move the site and Sean felt like he doesn't own his own site... and Sean feels that he has a responsibility to maintain the users (members).

Many discussions were done during all these weeks when suddenly sladdi suggested some days ago to overtake the ads of cd.com in order to gain some money for himself... I understand that he might needs the money for any personal reasons but Sean made him clear that the money from the ads go to the server and as there was no way to work things out, he suggested to part ways. Sean told sladdi to put the forum under newgnr, as with the rank position the newgnr has, he can earn lots of money... considering how much money newgnr gets in daily basis....

There were lots of arguments and sladdi decided to lock Sean out of the forum, close the forum and keep all the database files for himself... thank God Sean run a backup through the admin panel and he was able with lots of work to restore the website today...

By reading sladdi's announcement I was AGAIN surprised to see him writing that he did the most work on cd.com considering that most sections of the forum were created by Sean such as CD.com support, The Green Room, The Garden (was always at cd.com and was Sean's idea to keep it), Bands and Artists, Artists & Thinkers and East Village along with all the international boards... 

Also all the graphics were made by Bessam and we really thank him for continuing working with cd.com

Another note is that gunsnroses.us had about 3.ooo members when the merged happened and not 1.000 as sladdi mentioned...

There was no intention from our side to part ways and Sean redirected the domain on Friday night when Sladdi shut down the forum. We always considered sladdi as family and that's why we asked him to be our best man on our wedding. He has been more than just a friend and partner to Sean all these years and to me since I met him... I never expected something like that happening and I hope that soon we will leave all these things behind.

CD.com will launch an even better layout soon and I really wish the best to sladdi and his new (?) solo project...

Sincerely yours,

- Demy

I got the worst deja vu EVER reading this