Comments - goody10

I still have no idea who you are. I have no intention of working here but you are still talking about matters you have no idea about. All of the old volunteers did there best and do not deserve this rubbish you are spouting about them. We all place a massive amount of our free time into GF for free. Not one volunteer had any access to fix any bugs and we were only given information that we where allowed to divulge. The work arounds for the bugs where worked out by us the volunteers. If you persist in trying to spread lies and hatred towards the former staff including myself then I will be forced to make a official complaint to the new owners. I am closer to 50 than 40 so I am not a child as you hinted at, I never lied to the files network visitors unlike you are doing here.

Intense can you lock this please because enough is enough. This guy started knocking the old staff and like everyone who puts themselves out there you get haters. we had old staff and clients who ended up being banned from one section of the old game front but not the other. Some of these made waves until they were perm banned. All though were always given a fair chance. This guy has made his point now it needs to stop. As for file trekker he was just upset as he and a few other of the old volunteers have invested there own money to keep the old forum and database up and running.

Please feel free to say your staff name. I am curious as to how you know more that the old network manager.
Filefront was simply going to be shut down by Ziff Davis and the original owners stepped up and saved it at the last minute but for some reason people thought that was a April fools joke, The the original owners tarted FN up a bit by adding a edit button to comments and flags next to peoples names. They flogged it the Break who did actually try to fix the network sites but did more harm than good and they were looking at drawing a line under the old sites and creating a new network for the new games but break merged to create the new defy media which also owns the escapist and they had a more active forum and editorial site. That coupled with a broken network it was not long before all the paid staff were moved to the escapist and the plug was pulled on FileFront. Feel free to head over there and say hello to the old paid staff and one or 2 volunteers from FF. I had already stepped down when the network was done and as my interest in FileFront was the network and its community I did not see the need to be part of that community.

Hi Ian / Goody here the former network co manager with Jeff (n0e) I always passed on any information that we had. The potd stopped working because only one server was being updated and the other 2 where not. As I remember I did make that known at every opportunity and how people could work around that. I do not recall a conversation with you but maybe you went by a different name back then. I would also like to point out a few things that you may not be aware of from that time. Gamefront or as we used to call it "the main site" was in essence a separate entity to the filesnetwork sites. NO volunteer staff worked on that part it was all paid staff. That said NO paid staff worked on the filesnetwork or forums with the exception of Jeff (n0e) The filesnetwork fell into disrepair and simply could not be fixed and even the creator of the system used could not fix them as the system used on the back end (OPS) was patched together with so many small fixes and what not that altering a small thing would sometimes crash the whole system.
Now I am sorry that you feel that the staff at the time where not good but I beg to differ. There may have been the odd one that needed a talking to and in general I would but these staff had been promised that sites would have been fixed or updated so many time that it was beyond a joke. When I took over as site manager on SoF2Files I gained access to the staff forum section and I can assure you that even then all the false promises had taken there toll on the volunteers. I am not making excuses for anyone but neither can I let such a slur against the old staff go. Every day they were abused by someone who new better or thought they were holding out or just plain lying to the customers and they where not. Yes they could not pass on certain information but that was a direct result of being told not to by the paid sections of the staff.
I was the only staff on that site for the last 2 years and was still posting files upto the last day even when the banning system had broken, the comments deleting system had broken, 2 of the servers did not update, new staff login did not work, deleting old staff did not work and so on everybody else gave up on the filesnetwork except me, Danny and Freyr.
The forums again where totally separate again as that used to be gaming forums before FileFront bought it along with Filesnetwork so it was not a surprise that it was so fractured. Did it not seem odd that you needed 3 separate accounts for supposedly one site ? and yes we were promised that all 3 user databases would be merged but filesnetworks was like everything else at the time broken.
So please do not blame the volunteers for something they had no control over and remember they like me were spending sometimes 3 hours on a evening and 8 hours a day on the weekend just for the games and the community they really loved at the time.
If you don't want to say what your old FN name was then feel free to email me @ goody10@hotmail.co.uk I am sure most people who used GF know that email addy.
Regards
Ian / Goody

and 3.0 is in development. and it is fantastic :)