To all those talking about plans to get out of here...

"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/04/2019 at 13:15 • Filed to: Oppo lives matter

...I just want to point out that every time a forum changes hosting, it takes a massive membership hit. Sometimes so bad that’s it’s not recoverable. I’ve seen forums this big fade into the ether and die.

So what to do? If we really want to do this, I think we enact a plan that we all decided on (I’ve read lots of proposed options here; there’s an oppositelock.com, a reddit, and I signed up for the discord feed today). If possible, maybe we’d even want a period where posts are copied to the new forum. We would need a smooth transition, because the frenzied life raft approach is more likely to fail.

For now, they killed Kenny, the bastards, but another Kenny takes his place. I don’t know how many Kennys there are left on deck.

ETA: looking at the opposite lock.com site and the way it’s being constructed it seems really good to me. I’d happily migrate there. I just will be sad if we can’t port over all our institutional memory. I’ll take what I can get though.

DISCUSSION (31)

jimz > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:20

maybe an admin can put a highly noticeable sticky up top by the links to the rules, oppo meet, oppo rally, etc?

phenotyp > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:24

Le roi est mort.

Vive le roi.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:30

ill be here till the place goes poof

that said im currently lurking in discord thinking up plans to be really irritating and disruptive :)

razorbeamteam > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:30

It’s a matter of time before they take this site down completely. Probably should accelerate any efforts to regroup. Honestly, the discord option isn’t viable for me as I’m primarily on Oppo at work.

It’s a real shame that this is happening. Not just for Oppo, but soon enough Jalopnik will suffer the same fate as DS.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:31

Discord is the main life raft, the reddit is basically dead. The permanent home will be at oppositelock.com but it’s not ready yet. The frenzied approach right now it to try to make sure we are able to communicate where Oppo is going to go when the time comes.

PyramidHat > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:32

As my kindergarten teacher used to say “that’s some fucked up shit.”

Chariotoflove > jimz
11/04/2019 at 13:32

Good idea.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:32

Kinja'd!!!

Chariotoflove > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
11/04/2019 at 13:33

We all must play to our strengths, my friend. :)

Chariotoflove > razorbeamteam
11/04/2019 at 13:34

I think you’re probably right.

And discord is fine, but I agree it’s a real time chat, not a forum replacement. I don’t think anyone is arguing that it is.

Chariotoflove > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/04/2019 at 13:36

And it looks like we have a reprieve to do that. I didn’t think a reddit would be a good place for us anyway. I think the Oppo domain is the way to go myself.

Chariotoflove > PyramidHat
11/04/2019 at 13:37

I hope s/he said it while you were drinking milk at snack time, because nothing is funnier to kids that age than milk out the nose.

Chariotoflove > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
11/04/2019 at 13:39

If only those patches were GMG union logos, that gif would be perfect.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:40

I definitely agree, and with the latest message from G/O, I think we stick with the status quo. Inertia is a bitch.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
11/04/2019 at 13:40

This is officially a kinja'd thread now

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:48

I agree with you. The D iscord channel seems to be an effective life raft option at the moment in terms of way to communicate future moves should we lose the ability to do here and keeping the band together, so to speak. I don’t think Discord would work as any kind of a long-term Oppo replacement.

Looking at the Discord list, it looks like most of the frequent Oppo’s have now joined there. I’d like to think there is enough there to keep the core of Oppo informed.

While it looks like we have a (probably) temporary reprieve here, I think that this morning lighting a fire under Oppo to move towards a new home is probably only a good thing in the long run.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 13:49

We have a plan, everybody is going to the opposite lock discord for the time being. NickDrivesAnExocet is coding a very Kinja-li ke website for us that will be hosted at oppositelock.com, of which we already own the domain! There are over 100 of us over there at least so far. :)

Chariotoflove > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
11/04/2019 at 13:56

Agreed on the lighting a fire. I joined the Discord to make sure I have a way to at least contact people. I only have a handful of real life user emails.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
11/04/2019 at 13:56

There are 60 OPPOs on the Discord today, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 6 tomorrow.

Chariotoflove > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/04/2019 at 13:58

I saw that you were doing that. I like the look of the new website too. Who’s doing the hosting? Are they stable long term? Nick isn’t actually running a private web server for it, is he?

Is it actually possible to code a way to dual post to this site and the new one for a transitional period?

And thanks for all you guys with the talents are doing.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 14:03

Same here. I figure that worst case scenario I’m still in contact with the Oppo collective.

Brickman > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/04/2019 at 14:23

The website is looking good. Cant wait for it to be useable, I’ma like it :D

Dsscats > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 15:18

OppositeTalk on Facebook has close to 5000 members

Chariotoflove > Dsscats
11/04/2019 at 15:21

I know it’s there, but I just don’t do Facebook for a number of reasons. There are just too many downsides.

SlideshowOhNO - Fixit Union, Chapter of Kinja > Dsscats
11/04/2019 at 17:06

I hate Facebook, but I’ll give this a go. It’ll at least serve as a band-aid until something permanent that the ‘mass’ agrees to, takes hold.

SlideshowOhNO - Fixit Union, Chapter of Kinja > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/04/2019 at 17:07

This is the most-exciting news thus far. I’m pretty pessimistic about Kinja and OPPO’s future with Gawker, but very optimistic (OPPOmistic?) about the possibilities of a Gawker/Kinja-free OPPO.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Brickman
11/04/2019 at 17:11

Nick’s doing some epic work! :D

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 17:12

Not sure who is hosting yet - he’s just working on getting a kinja-like site that would feel and work mostly familiarly to us users right now. Pretty sure it’s not a private server.

Not sure about if there’s a way to code posting to two at once...highly doubt it would be easy if it was though. If you’re on the Discord, you could be in any channel, type @ in a new message then start typing Nick’s username and you could direct a question right to him? :)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > SlideshowOhNO - Fixit Union, Chapter of Kinja
11/04/2019 at 17:13

For sure, we’re trying our best to make sure it pans out! Major kudos to NickhasanExocet though for all his incredible work!

Chariotoflove > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/04/2019 at 18:22

I might do that. Good work, you guys.

We should code name this project The Ark.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Chariotoflove
11/04/2019 at 18:51

For sure! Check out the Pinned Messages on the ‘Oppo Kinja Archive Channel’ on the Oppo Discord - Just Jeepin’ has written up a script in Python and is offering to download anybody’s entire post history (excluding photos) using the script. Note that’s posts ONLY, I believe, and excludes photos and comments...but hey, it’s something!