"MM54" (mm54mk2)
11/04/2019 at 18:50 • Filed to: oppocalypse
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"MM54" (mm54mk2)
11/04/2019 at 18:50 • Filed to: oppocalypse | 3
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Apparently the world ended for a while before un-ending? The current note sounds like “hey FYI things might change” so I’m going to assume it wasn’t worded so well earlier in the day.
Just Jeepin'
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 18:58 |
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The original wording was “bye bye personal blogs” (paraphrased, obviously) and there was no clear indication whether that meant big consolidated blogs like Oppo as well.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 18:59 |
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Lol, yeah...it's been a complex day. PG wrote us a nice Twitter eulogy
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 18:59 |
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The original message basically said they were deleting everything outside the main G/O pages. Naturally people were quite unhappy.
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MM54
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/04/2019 at 19:03 |
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I don’t twitter but I will assume it’s the typical garbage that comes out of that website
RacinBob
> Just Jeepin'
11/04/2019 at 19:05 |
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Exactly
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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 19:05 |
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I didn’t Twitter until last week. https://twitter.com/bypatrickgeorge/status/1191402877761273862?s=19
facw
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/04/2019 at 19:06 |
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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MM54
> facw
11/04/2019 at 19:08 |
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A pleasant surprise
Urambo Tauro
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 19:09 |
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Here’s the original notice from this morning :
I don’t think we’re in the clear yet. Now would be a good time to archive any old posts you don’t want to lose.
Chariotoflove
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/04/2019 at 19:15 |
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Awww, I didn’t know he cared anymore. *sniff*
zipfuel
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 19:26 |
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We got a mention on vice, which was nice.
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facw
> Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 19:32 |
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Note that sometime before PG posted his tweet to Oppo, they removed the “email us” prompt. H onestly given the last situation with email feedback, I’m shocked that anyone thought that would be a good thing to include in the first place.
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Urambo Tauro
> facw
11/04/2019 at 19:42 |
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It didn’t help that they made the notice clear as mud. I know I’m not the only one who contacted them, asking for a more definitive deadline and clarification on what exactly constitutes a “user page”.
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MM54
> Urambo Tauro
11/04/2019 at 19:49 |
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Terse.
I’ve been around here long enough to see a lot of “the sky is falling!” blow over, but the way they seem to be prepared to handle shutting down all the minor sites is truly concerning.
Did Oppo go “read-only” at all? If so that seems to suggest it is within their deletion group, otherwise they may just mean personal pages - but it’s hard to say.
I’m confident that most of the folks here would be able to reconvene elsewhere, but it would really be a bummer. As shitty as Kinja can be (I’ve had to refresh pages to see any comments for weeks now) it’s also, as far as I know, the only platform that does the whole “everyone does articles on a blog” with commenting, etc.
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Urambo Tauro
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 19:53 |
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I never saw anything go read-only, except for Deadspin. I’ve been able to comment, and publish a post here on Oppo. I didn’t try publishing to my own blog, but others have tried posting on their blogs and succeeded.
shop-teacher
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 20:40 |
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I have also watched calmly as people worried that the sky was falling many times, but when I saw that original notice this morning, I lost my shit a bit.
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facw
> MM54
11/04/2019 at 22:25 |
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Oppo was never read only, but I tried posting to my personal blog and that worked fine too. I’m guessing they never flipped that switch before they got inundated with emails.
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MM54
> facw
11/04/2019 at 22:29 |
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Fair enough. I suppose the fact that the grey box is appearing on the site is probably a pretty good clue that Oppo is included.