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I'm a lazy typist... I suspect that given the situation we are probably going to be referring to stuff from the old EA forum frequently, at least for a while... So any ideas on what we might want to use for a quick reference to the two forums?

This one is easy "NEA"

Do we want to just stick with "EA" for the old one, which might get confusing, or pick something to use for the old EA, like "OEA" or possibly "OE1" (yes I know there was a previous version of EA to the current one MANY years ago, but given that the change then was just the software and not the people running things, I think of them as the same, so this would be the 2nd incarnation...)

What do people think we should use for a TLA (Three Letter Abbreviation) for the old EA forum?

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To be honest I have been calling it EAv2 and here EAv3.

EAv1 I wonder if the wayback machine would let us have a look at what it was.

fusion wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2024 12:08 pm To be honest I have been calling it EAv2 and here EAv3.

EAv1 I wonder if the wayback machine would let us have a look at what it was.

That works no problem... I don't know about the wayback machine, but I know that I've occasionally found threads on EAv2 dating back to 2002 if not earlier, some of them talking about the recovery from EAv1....

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Someone shared a screenshot of the v1 fiction archive. Those checkerboard indexes! Brings back old memories

EAv0 December 1998
http://web.archive.org/web/199812010756 ... unuch.org/

EAv1 March 2000
http://web.archive.org/web/200103311550 ... unuch.org/

EAv2 March 2002
http://web.archive.org/web/200208022210 ... index2.php

Maybe EA1.0 , or EA 1.0

Wow! Look at the circa 2000 EA forum. Just ten categories. We have nearly 50 categories. Very different approach.

I've suggested that we arguably have to many categories as well, it is worth noting that the old EAv2 had a different mix of areas, but about the same number overall... And then most of the posts were in "Castration Central" except for a few of the long running topics like the movie and weather threads....

My opinion is that other than a few specific questions directly related to the "mechanics" of a particular type of surgery, 90% of the issues we deal with as eunuchs or wannabees are the same or very similar no matter exactly what bits we've gotten rid of... As such it doesn't seem like there is a lot of benefit to having conversations split up into huge numbers of subtopic areas....

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I like the new layout of the board index. Much cleaner and more manageable.

EA I, II, III does it for me, they seem like chapters in a book rather than new books. And our new leaders were part of the previous incarnations of EA so there is a continuation. I have been a member through all 3 and really it a great shame that the "old" leadership didn't see fit to hand over to the new generation. It speaks to their character or lack of it !

After running FA for just about 2 months, I must say I deeply appreciate what Paolo had been doing. Having to read submissions, give author feedback, edit, copy and paste to FA, and make a post on EA, all within a day or two may sound easy, but it’s actually very tedious and eat into your limited personal free time. Now think about having submissions every few days and having to do it for 20+ years!

I was never really involved in the forum so I could not speak for them, but I’m sure they’ve dedicated a lot of their time and money as well, and have a great achievement for having eunuchs included in the SOC8.

We must pay respects and appreciations to where it’s due. My understanding is many of the old team simply got burned out from the lack of appreciation for what they had been doing tirelessly for this community. Remember: they never asked for any compensation, maybe except for a thank you here and there.

And they didn’t exactly just shutter the whole thing. They had a continuation plan in place. The Kinsey institute had promised to host and mirror the site in a read-only format. I have not received any updates about it though, but that’s Kinsey’s responsibilities.

Stallion wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:20 am EA I, II, III does it for me, they seem like chapters in a book rather than new books. And our new leaders were part of the previous incarnations of EA so there is a continuation. I have been a member through all 3 and really it a great shame that the "old" leadership didn't see fit to hand over to the new generation. It speaks to their character or lack of it !

Is there any way we can access the EAv2 files from the scrape that was done?

I think there’s a thread in the FA sub that points to another thread that has the link to the zip file somewhere.

NaturalEunuch wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:26 am Is there any way we can access the EAv2 files from the scrape that was done?

dandelion wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 4:33 am We must pay respects and appreciations to where it’s due. My understanding is many of the old team simply got burned out from the lack of appreciation for what they had been doing tirelessly for this community. Remember: they never asked for any compensation, maybe except for a thank you here and there.

Bingo!

It seems like some are starting to understand what a significant undertaking moderation of a site like this, is.

After running FA for just about 2 months, I must say I deeply appreciate what Paolo had been doing.

A very good point.
In life there is always a way to give credit where credit is due even when past experience hasn't always been glowing. The contributions of the last leadership team (EA II) was a great benefit to 'Eunuchcality' worldwide and via a deep and lasting commitment by them to the course. Perhaps we could call them 'the fab four'

I like Fusion's answer. Just EA I, EA II and EA III. Variations as EAv.I are cool too.

dandelion wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:10 am I think there’s a thread in the FA sub that points to another thread that has the link to the zip file somewhere.

NaturalEunuch wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:26 am Is there any way we can access the EAv2 files from the scrape that was done?

What does fa sub mean?

Fiction Area subforum

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I call it EA3 and will always call it ea3 !!!