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Started By dspdrew , Aug 3 2015 6:01 PM

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#1 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 3 2015 - 6:01 PM

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Due to recent changes in the ant keeping community, there are probably going to be some changes here that some people might not like. There is only so much someone can give away for free when it's only appreciated by a small handful of people. To those people, I want to say thanks for all of your support.


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#2 Offline BugFinder - Posted August 3 2015 - 9:00 PM

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Yikes!  What kind of changes?  And what's changing in the ant keeping community?


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#4 Offline BugFinder - Posted August 3 2015 - 9:30 PM

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Tell me you're joking.


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#5 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 3 2015 - 9:33 PM

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The forum's not going anywhere. :lol:


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#6 Offline BugFinder - Posted August 3 2015 - 10:28 PM

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I think this forum is great!  How is it not going anywhere?  Where do you want it to go?  what can we do to help it go there?


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“If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.”  ― Matshona Dhliwayo

 

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Pogonomyrmex subdentatus

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#7 Offline Foogoo - Posted August 4 2015 - 7:59 AM

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I hope these future changes include stricter grammar enforcement.  (y)


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Camponotus vicinus, Crematogaster 1, Crematogaster 2, Formica francoeuri, *, *, Myrmecocystus testaceus, Novomessor cockerelli, Pheidole hyatti, Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, Solenopsis invicta

#8 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 4 2015 - 9:19 AM

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I think this forum is great!  How is it not going anywhere?  Where do you want it to go?  what can we do to help it go there?

 

Sorry, I meant the forum's not going away. :lol:


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#9 Offline William. T - Posted August 4 2015 - 10:25 AM

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I hope these future changes include stricter grammar enforcement.  (y)

Drew pays for this forum with his own pocket. I think he is going to have ads, or a loss of content.


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Species I keep:

 

1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 

#10 Offline john.harrold - Posted August 4 2015 - 11:26 AM

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I have to admit, after looking around at the other forums, this is the cleanest and easiest for me to read. I mainly just lurk and learn, but I wouldn't mind paying something.


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#11 Offline Huch - Posted August 4 2015 - 6:32 PM

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I have to admit, after looking around at the other forums, this is the cleanest and easiest for me to read. I mainly just lurk and learn, but I wouldn't mind paying something.

 

I agree. Drew, can you add a link/thread to donate?


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#12 Offline BugFinder - Posted August 4 2015 - 6:36 PM

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I'm happy to help out too Drew. I really like this forum.


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#13 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted August 4 2015 - 6:56 PM

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I as well would donate.


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#14 Offline Herdo - Posted August 4 2015 - 8:04 PM

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I would as well.
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#15 Offline Mdrogun - Posted August 6 2015 - 5:21 PM

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I would gladly donate too.
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Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

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Aphaenogaster rudis

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#16 Offline spinyeti - Posted August 7 2015 - 8:52 AM

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Due to recent changes in the ant keeping community, there are probably going to be some changes here that some people might not like. There is only so much someone can give away for free when it's only appreciated by a small handful of people. To those people, I want to say thanks for all of your support.


Just tried to share a link to a thread with my girlfriend so she could understand what I was talking about. Looks like the forum is members only now? I'm glad I managed to find you guys and browsed before the lock down, as I probably wouldn't have made an account just to see if the forum was worthwhile.

I'm assuming this is one of the changes that people might not like?
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#17 Offline john.harrold - Posted August 7 2015 - 12:46 PM

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Just tried to share a link to a thread with my girlfriend so she could understand what I was talking about. Looks like the forum is members only now? I'm glad I managed to find you guys and browsed before the lock down, as I probably wouldn't have made an account just to see if the forum was worthwhile.

 

 

I'm confused. I just loaded this page in chrome (I'm not logged in there) and it loaded up just fine. 


#18 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 7 2015 - 12:57 PM

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The "Formiculture.com" and "Market Place" subforums are viewable by guests. Making an account is really pretty simple on this forum. You can even create one using a Facebook account to make it even easier. This is only a temporary thing.


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#19 Offline spinyeti - Posted August 7 2015 - 12:59 PM

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I'm confused. I just loaded this page in chrome (I'm not logged in there) and it loaded up just fine.

Try a page from Ant Keeping. The announcements section is public.

Edited to add: This isn't necessarily a problem, I was just raising a possible side effect of putting content behind a registration wall. Another possible outcome is an increase in members.

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#20 Offline john.harrold - Posted August 7 2015 - 8:35 PM

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The "Formiculture.com" and "Market Place" subforums are viewable by guests. Making an account is really pretty simple on this forum. You can even create one using a Facebook account to make it even easier. This is only a temporary thing.

 

 

 

Try a page from Ant Keeping. The announcements section is public.

 

This actually makes more sense. When I view the forum on my computer I'm logged in and the latest posts (column to the right on the main page) contains one set of posts. If I look at the forum on my phone where I haven't logged in the latest posts looks very different -- the posts are much older. I guess that the "latest posts" is basically the "latest posts you'd have permission to see".


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