Plans for the future of Gamingforce

I know I'm anything but a regular (though a few faces may remember me from all 'dem years ago). But I've been mulling it over and I have to say moving Musician's Library and My Stuff is a good decision, given the situation, as long as those boards somehow remain sheltered. Hope someone has a specific workable idea, though, because the devil is in the details.

The irony of shunting aside the filesharing that used to be GFF's main attraction (Gamingforce Audio, anyone?) is a little thick. But, as has been mentioned before, it really isn't much of a draw anymore.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

In any case, I've read through the posts supporting the case for Concert Hall to stay put. That's fine with me. If the Music Library is preserved as an external link visible only to members in Concert Hall people might not even notice it's moved.

One problem with linking so subtly like this is that you may get a DMCA notice for Gamingforce.org anyway. If the CH/MS regulars don't notice the domain change, who's to say a DMCA-filer will notice the .org -> .com transition after clicking on that board.

However, the primary issue *is* diskspace. I understand if the possibility of an inept legal team is a little more than you care to worry about.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Araes

One option here, that I've seen on several corporate sites trying to maintain family friendliness, is too announce with an interrupt page that the viewer is leaving X site and heading to a site where the content is not controlled by them. "Do you still want to go?" This would at least fix the problem of unobservant industry folks.

That's a nice simple idea.
It would also help people understand why they have to log in again to access those boards. That is, unless member & session data can be shared across websites' forums. I wonder, can that be done?

Originally Posted by Araes

If it went that way, perhaps the other end could then be a very small operation liberally laden with "No robots" /robots.txt files so that it wouldn't get listed? On the crazy side, could even do a rotating name or something similar so that bookmarks wouldn't work.

Anyhow, generally agree the filesharing does need to at least be well hidden, even if it was a good member draw.

Indeed. Another easy thing to do is have the Gamingforce.com root display nothing but a blank or placeholder page. Make it so that someone has to have access to a Gamingforce.org account to be able to see any way to access the .com boards (unless they know the exact URL of the .com forums obviously), which leaves them just as protected as they are now. And even if someone knows the exact .com board URL, it could display just a login page for guests, not a forum listing or anything.

But, hell. Those who are actually working on it could already be way ahead of our thought-play.

There's nowhere I can't reach.