The Decline of AP.com

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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby pulsipher » Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:26 am

AP is dead, and has been adequately replaced by facebook and reddit. theres no going back from that. Best thing that AP could do to remain relevant is to convert their content to a wiki then make a subreddit where those links can be expressed.

I logged in after 7 months and found almost all of the new topics posted are games, which is good, and ads and sponsor posts for more ads.

I've been around since 03 in some form or another and I can say there is nothing here that I cant get elsewhere in easier to digest content. The disdain from Jester's first response in this thread is why AP died.
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Cruz FoxHound » Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:51 am

AP.com is not dead. Your post proves that.
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Shortbu » Thu Jun 30, 2016 9:58 am

Cruz FoxHound wrote:AP.com is not dead. Your post proves that.

Oh snap!
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby MetraDirty » Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:23 pm

I think it'd be neat to have a Discord server for all airsofters in Oregon and maybe more. Have channels for general airsoft chat, broken guns, events and RSVP and an off topic chat. My music community and I have been using it since early this year and we're in love. Very customizable for a chat program so perhaps this could finally unite what I feel is a community fractured and segregated in little facebook cliques. Seriously, it's so faceless these days. I want to bring back the magic of meeting and THEN shooting NEW people that used to be so prevalent on this website..

I can help set it up and run it or someone else could, and others can get appropriate permissions to admin and make channels based on their own ideas/ambitions.

So is anyone interested? Questions?
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby toobladink » Sat Aug 20, 2016 8:20 pm

I think this forum is rather "not fully alive."

I've been part of it for a few days and the only new topics I've seen are spam ads for shoes. I'm honestly already so bored that I've decided to reply to a thread that hasn't seen a reply in two weeks.
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Cruz FoxHound » Mon Aug 29, 2016 4:11 pm

toobladink wrote:I'm honestly already so bored that I've decided to reply to a thread that hasn't seen a reply in two weeks.


At least you're replying! Sorry to hear you're bored, but stick around because sometimes local players post cool content about games 8)

Hey Admins -- how about a new poll of some kind? The last was by Matt » Sat Nov 22, 2014 12:34 pm (What type of games do you want to see more of in the future?) Why not ask the community "What kind of new content do we want to see on AP.com in the future?"
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Junto » Mon Aug 29, 2016 4:45 pm

Matt and a number of other older members have made it repeatedly clear that they don't care about advancing the site at all and that's fine. I made a similar plea on Facebook about two years back and got majorly shit on for having any faith in restoring this place to relevancy, specifically by admins and leadership. At some point, you just have to accept that the horse is dead. Pretty sure we've lodged the riding crop in its kidney by now from how hard we've been wailing on it. We could, instead, focus on building something newer. More adaptive, and more tailored to the player base that currently exists.

Trying to get activity and content back and thriving here is like trying to put on a concert in a mausoleum with the end goal of raising the dead.
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Cruz FoxHound » Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:38 pm

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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Jester316 » Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:47 am

Buy the website from Matt, and revamp it. That's what it will take.


Last I heard, he was looking for $10k for the whole shebang.
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby ClownBaby » Thu Sep 01, 2016 4:29 am

Screw it! I'm gonna sell My Grandma's bullshit necklace she hid from the Nazis.
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby ZEUS » Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:17 pm

Me likes airsoft. I play it. it b funz.

Maybe I should throw another OP.

OP OG...
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Cruz FoxHound » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:44 pm

Jester316 wrote:Buy the website from Matt, and revamp it. That's what it will take.


Funny, I messaged him about this & haven't received an answer just yet.
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Norseman » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:24 pm

I hate face book, have no idea what Reddit is.....and absolutely love this old forum.

Call me old fashioned.
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Braddock » Wed Sep 28, 2016 10:22 am

pulsipher wrote:AP is dead, and has been adequately replaced by facebook and reddit. theres no going back from that. Best thing that AP could do to remain relevant is to convert their content to a wiki then make a subreddit where those links can be expressed.

I logged in after 7 months and found almost all of the new topics posted are games, which is good, and ads and sponsor posts for more ads.

I've been around since 03 in some form or another and I can say there is nothing here that I cant get elsewhere in easier to digest content. The disdain from Jester's first response in this thread is why AP died.


Brandon, you are dead AP IS ALIVE!!!!
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Re: The Decline of AP.com

Postby Braddock » Wed Sep 28, 2016 10:22 am

ZEUS wrote:Me likes airsoft. I play it. it b funz.

Maybe I should throw another OP.

OP OG...


OP: CRUSTY OLD MEN
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