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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Goodbye to a valued friend --- Until we meet again!

Mick said:
It was great until they totally messed it up a year or so ago.
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To be honest, they way they moved on to the new forum software was badly managed and they did not involve the community. Now if you compare that to the work that was done here, it's the complete opposite. The preparatory work that was invested in by @Dangerousdave26 before the move, and the copying of the file library with loads of volunteers all meant that the whole move was done efficiently and that it was supported by the community. Those things are important.

I'm not even beginning about the changes that have been and will be done by the new owners of flightsim.com.

I do however think that, for the members of flightsim.com that came to SOH, it is important to let bygones be bygones. No sense in crying over spilt milk as they say. But after all these years, I can imagine that it must be hard on you guys.

Cheers,

Priller
 
Priller said:
I do however think that, for the members of flightsim.com that came to SOH, it is important to let bygones be bygones. No sense in crying over spilt milk as they say. But after all these years, I can imagine that it must be hard on you guys.
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Indeed. Yes things change for better or for worse and the management or users have to live and accept the changes or consequences whether better or worse. However the hardest thing is some faithful members were banned for basically zero reason (no abuse, or name calling, etc). Sad and odd some might think asking questions is a personal attack.

But anyway, on with the show and back to flying. :cool::wiggle::icon30:
 
My first sim was FS98, acquired in spring '98, and I soon found flightsim; it became a near daily stop for me, even more so since I retired. Still recall my first download, a Luscombe Sedan, tan with red trim. I flew that all over the world. So, yes I will miss them, but life moves on, the only constant is change. I do not wish them success, I do not wish them failure; they no longer exist for me.

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
 
Well, FS98 was my first "sim". But previously there was War Eagles, SWOTL, Red Baron, Aces Over Europe, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, A-10 Tank Killer, Jane's Fighters, Wings Of Glory, Su-27, EF2000, and probably some I've long forgotten.
 
Anyone remember Birds Of Prey for DOS? :wavey:
Most of the aircraft were *MEH* (IMO), but it had a really nice X-15 you had to launch from a B-52. 😁
 
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