A long time ago, there was a website named “AirDisaster.com”. It contained information regarding a number of historic plane crashes. It also hosted a discussion forum. The discussion forum was quite lively. Strong discussions, and occasional arguments broke out. Conversely, information was shared and acquaintances formed. The group actually had an international get together. The discussion forum had various main topics, Safety, General aviation discussions, Off Topic, Politics, A subforum where an actual pilot answered questions and more. This website was managed by a person named Chris.
One day, the hosting computer crashed. Chris had no backups.
It so happened Chris had another forum (and website): JetPhotos.net (Basically this forum). Chris asked everyone to move their membership here. Many did, but there was a personality clash- Things, here, were a too bit prim, proper for the AirDisaster bunch. There were flame wars, several rashes of banning's, and even those who were not_banned, occasionally got under the skin of moderators (and members).
[Edited][Edit edit]The original post contained some mushy stuff about a missing forum. An attempt to replace said info follows:
Due to the culture clash, approximately three additional forums were started by the AD refugees, They tended to flounder, but finally, one of them seemed to settle as the replacement forum for the AD,com misfits. This forum maintained a certain light-heartedness, but at the same time, more serious introspection of airplane incidents. Sadly, the traffic at that forum (actually most of these forums) declined. The remaining active, and semi-active members enjoyed friendship, respect, quality discussions, and, yes, a large dose of tomfoolery.
In early 2023, the owner threatened to pull the forum, but had a last-minute change of heart. Now, one year later, with only an extremely obscure warning, the forum has gone silent on 1/29/2024.
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