United-Forums has pulled the plug.

[pakito]

Go for the Dutch/German sites, that's where the "major" content comes from, and of course the "IRC only efnet channels".

SonsOfLiberty, Can you develop this? Can you give the names of the channels or quote german webpages? Thanks

[HeavenlyDonut]

Hello TheAce & other UF members i recognise.

The argument of whether the 'thanks' reply approach was good goes back and forth. Personally i always thought it prevented members being able to warn others about a bad copy. For example, a post could be in correct, i could highlight this by posting in a larger font/bold and the post could still get 100 + replies where people would be wasting their time. However, the thank replies are also necessary as it does motivate people to post stuff as they wouldnt if they didnt receive the thanks IMO.

Very upset to see UF go down. It was a useful forum with a lot of helpful members which i used regularly alongside my other resources to get NZB. The best thing was to advise me of what good new releases there and give me some advise on what to watch! You could quickly look at the movie/tv forums and see whats new/good quality/and popular allowing you to investigate further! That was the best thing about the forum.



Anyways. As UF has died, where are we all migrating to next? I'm not convinvced by either magic nzb and nzbforum - neither look convincingly good on first impressions. Looking forward to hearing what others are going to do?

[c0ld]

the names of the channels

The names are on every header they post..

[lou1z]

it's a shame. i really liked that site and it did have some good content with lots of effort being put in.
is there an equivalent out there? eg top 40 albums weekly etc?
i hope so.
and just where is everybody else going to?

a pm or an announcement on the homepage would have been nice as well but heyho.....

[djerholler69]

united-forums were also part of my go-to sites when i used newsgroups, so it's kind of sad to hear now that they're gone! But these things do happen, and others will slowly take over its place

[cat123]

I'm also really gutted had been going to that forum for years and it was always one of the best. Can't believe it just closed down without any notice or anything.

[dannyboyno7]

realy sorry to see it go, was one of my fav's!

[TheAce]

Hello TheAce & other UF members i recognise.

The argument of whether the 'thanks' reply approach was good goes back and forth. Personally i always thought it prevented members being able to warn others about a bad copy. For example, a post could be in correct, i could highlight this by posting in a larger font/bold and the post could still get 100 + replies where people would be wasting their time. However, the thank replies are also necessary as it does motivate people to post stuff as they wouldnt if they didnt receive the thanks IMO.

Very upset to see UF go down. It was a useful forum with a lot of helpful members which i used regularly alongside my other resources to get NZB. The best thing was to advise me of what good new releases there and give me some advise on what to watch! You could quickly look at the movie/tv forums and see whats new/good quality/and popular allowing you to investigate further! That was the best thing about the forum.



Anyways. As UF has died, where are we all migrating to next? I'm not convinvced by either magic nzb and nzbforum - neither look convincingly good on first impressions. Looking forward to hearing what others are going to do?

Hi HeavenlyDonut

I and some of the other staff did not agree with having to put a good thankyou message I as some other staff thought, yes there should be a thankyou button at least & the quickreply should have been used fo Quality ETC Also members could have voluntarily put there remarks or thanks in there if they wanted to.
But the final decisions were down to the ADMINS MDK & VICE.
And thats the way they wanted it.

Regards TheAce

[HeavenlyDonut]

That's understandable. Only thing i would of changed about the forum!

Any advice on which forums i should move to next? Struggling to find one as big and indepth with all the subforums as united forums had.

[cat123]

The thing I liked about UF was that you could find stuff that was unusual at other places or through a search site. Its a big loss even with the thank you messages and passwords.