The orange room

[YOSS]

Originally Posted by hawkeye

you think a 10 years successful forum of 21000 members, 1,110,000 posts and millions of views is badly and ridiculously managed?

Orange room story is similar to the Y2K buble era.

Many little start ups got rich from the y2k scare, as well as the internet pick up that started a huge rush from 96 onwards...

These little start up did not get rich cause they had a good business model and good practices. So once the buble burst, they all crumbled and the ones properly designed and managed remained.

Orange room picked up on - to use Jombie's words - the Tsunami that came back to Beirut. It also picked up on taghyir wa isla7 clean & patriotic image.. most moderates in lebanon and abroad are pro lfpm.

When someone positions the forum as an lfpm.org forum, chances are it will pick up, and the lebanese politics + ghanam syndrome will maintain it.

[YOSS]

Originally Posted by Jean

Yes, now tell me why are you visiting the forum if you think we ridiculously run the forum? I mean it's not like we're begging to come here!

You can read my reply above, as to why many did visit.

As for myself, shoo baddak fiyyeh ana zalameh m3attar. I visit cause i'm filled with desperation and need your blazing aura of excellence and follow it wherever you go.

[Robin Hood]

Originally Posted by Dalzi

Ok, so how do we get the contact details of certain members? Indie, we are looking for you. If anyone knows Indie's contact details or knows who can get to her, please PM me.

3male Facebook.

[morel]

Originally Posted by Jean

No silly conflicts, Tayyar.org has no plans to keep the forum online, so they decided to close it.

So yeah it turned out to be an internal conflict after all! FPM and Tayyer.org staff want more restrictions on the forum, Hagop obviously refused (rightly so), and he didn't have any other option but to close it down!

Anyway, FPM were exposed long ago. We didn't need this forum fiasco to know all about this.

The question now: Hagop offered to give the database for those interested in hosting the forum elsewhere.

Few years ago, he sold the forum to FPM! Can he really give the database forward?! It's not his forum anymore!

If that's possible, we can move elsewhere and as if nothing has happened!
If not possible, we can still move elsewhere, but start from the zero!!

I'd really like to know your take on this Jean! Or anyone else who can contribute..

[Nayla H]

Originally Posted by morel

So yeah it turned out to be an internal conflict after all! FPM and Tayyer.org staff want more restrictions on the forum, Hagop obviously refused (rightly so), and he didn't have any other option but to close it down!

Anyway, FPM were exposed long ago. We didn't need this forum fiasco to know all about this.

The question now: Hagop offered to give the database for those interested in hosting the forum elsewhere.

Few years ago, he sold the forum to FPM! Can he really give the database forward?! It's not his forum anymore!

If that's possible, we can move elsewhere and as if nothing has happened!
If not possible, we can still move elsewhere, but start from the zero!!

I'd really like to know your take on this Jean! Or anyone else who can contribute..

join us here

we want the forum back

[joe tayyar]

Whoever was talking BS on the FB page that the orange room was a failure, and should have been closed long time ago, ma yfarjeena khli2to!!

[morel]

Originally Posted by Nayla H

join us here

we want the forum back

yes saw the group Nayla.. thanks for the efforts..
the issue is, i'm not with bringing the forum back as it is!

i see it totally insulting if we go back forum.tayyar.org.. we either need to move the forum away from FPM and turn it into a completely independent entity or start all over again!

vcoderz is an option of course (thanks for hosting us guys), but will they be able to afford a bigger forum?
and problems sticks that vcoderz is also politically affiliated despite that they work independently..

it's time we have a completely independent english speaking forum? shou 2ilna? keeping the name as orange room is even better! orange is the universal color of independance anyway! also easier to google the new room for those who have no idea on what happened so far and can't find this place nor the facebook group..

[Nayla H]

Originally Posted by morel

yes saw the group Nayla.. thanks for the efforts..
the issue is, i'm not with bringing the forum back as it is!

i see it totally insulting if we go back forum.tayyar.org.. we either need to move the forum away from FPM and turn it into a completely independent entity or start all over again!

vcoderz is an option of course (thanks for hosting us guys), but will they be able to afford a bigger forum?
and problems sticks that vcoderz is also politically affiliated despite that they work independently..

it's time we have a completely independent english speaking forum? shou 2ilna? keeping the name as orange room is even better! orange is the universal color of independance anyway! also easier to google the new room for those who have no idea on what happened so far and can't find this place nor the facebook group..

join us, we're discussing a new form of a forum and we're now discussing how to procede, yalla, natrinak

[morel]

Originally Posted by Nayla H

join us, we're discussing a new form of a forum and we're now discussing how to procede, yalla, natrinak

3a rasi.. will join now.. busy for the evening though.. tomorrow i'll join your discussions..

[hawkeye]

the FB page is an opportunity to chat, to have fun. the serious stuff is in a forum. we have a good chance we can use this one, we can't waste a lot of time searching for other alternatives, we don't want to lose the orange room active members.

together with the current members of the vcoderz forum we can make it. let it be from zero, why not? the hot topics of the orange room are well known, let's open them here.