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Mom said "make me a Mod"
Originally posted by RazoRmedia
It became fun for me when you shipped your ex missus over in a box (but maybe Mel is a story for another time eh?)
Inflatables??? Again??? John I'm ashamed of you
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Information Architect
I joined Flashkit the very first day after Flashpad closed their doors. Right before the boards started Mr. Flashkit himself asked me if I could help him as a mod on the boards. My awnser was something like: "My English is not very good and I don't have much time ..."
Anyway, he added me as a mod: "Just look at the forum for five or ten minutes a day, that's ok."
Of course the five to ten minutes was soon a huge underestimate.
That's now more then three years ago. It was amazing to watch the immense grow of the community and my fights with Flashguru (Guy Watson) was very interesting, too.
At that tiome I was a 100% Flash geek, but that changed a lot latly as I'm now doing about anything web related: Flash, HTML, PHP, mySQL, Design, Server Admin, Team Management, Consulting ... yeah, anything.
Fredi
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"village idiot" not brackets ""
Wanna-be Jezza
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We all miss you snyx
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Originally posted by snyx
Sadly Flashkit has developed too. It had become a megawhore of members and advertisements, and seems all to restricting. I can remember days were if a few pages loaded up slow everyone went crazy. Now I can't help but get page load restrictions with every visit, attachments that don’t work and forums riddled with childish members who run rampant in every thread. I find myself more and more frustrated browsing the site, which is becoming less and less enjoyable to visit. A website I once loved more then anything.
Snyx, you said no one quoted you - ref your later post. This has a lot to do with my work, so I will
Megawhore of members is something to be proud of - all the fogies here should. You all drew them in. Someone has to pay for that though, so....
As far as a few pages not loading correctly. When I took the keys in Jan 2002 very few pages even loaded. Maybe you are referring to something prior to that, so I'll leave it at that. If it's something current, sorry, but spiders and spam harvestors and offline browsers were very rare 3 years ago and the site was much, much smaller. It's a tough fight now. I'm spending hours a week trying to figure out new ways to stop them, without effecting the natives. I think we can all agree that 1 page per second is very reasonable. How many words do you read per second?
The attachments thing lasted something like 24 hours? Sorry, it was a very weird issue and the cause of it wasn't breaking the other ten gazillion pages.
Seriously, if you wanna open a thread in the feedback forum and let me know your gripes, I'll address them. But I think everyone here wants to stay on topic -- how./why they're here, not complaining that things haven't stayed the same for 3 years.
[afterthought]
Snyx, we were all getting SMSes several times a day from the monitoring server, saying that the boards were down - this was about 2 months ago. As of me adding the 1 second rule and certain transparent code for spiders only, we get approx 1 per week. So it has to be improving the reliability of the board. But it's inevitable that a spider will find a way around my code and we'll be back to trying to kill them again, before the community gets ticked.
If you want to reply to this, let's put it in the feedback forum and just provide a link here, ok? GMF asked me to put this thread in the announcements, so I don't wanna let it get hijacked and spoil it for the masses.
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Originally posted by RazoRmedia
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ahhh, good times
Whew, you scared me. I was afraid for a second there that I was going to scroll down to your picture. We all thank you for not posting it.
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Wanna-be Jezza
well spoken jstarkey, I didnt expect any mass explination I was just voicing my thoughts. flashkit really is a awesome site, wheater im bugged by it or not. the gripes just sorta felt their way out in my history lesson of a post, thats all
Checkout my design portfolio @ mHolman.com
I go back further then jezza's hairline.
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Great news, get ready for some traffic then :D
Thank you very much John. I think its very interesting to see/read how they all ended up here . Nice posts everyone , Ill pay next round
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Not PWD
Onw of my favorite times, I would have to say, would be yarr.
Yes, you heard me, yarr.
Never will *tears* forget it.
I love all these memories I have, and I'll never forget this place.
PAlexC: That's just Chuck Norris's way of saying sometimes corn needs to lay the heck down.
Gerbick: America. Stabbing suckers since Vespucci left.
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Senior Member
The original reason I came to flashkit was because I wanted a fast start on programming flash.
I have a programming background and had been working on alot of stuff, especially to do with XML. Flash 5 supported XML and I used it mainly to build easy to use UI.
Flashkit for me started mainly with helping people in the Mac forum, and found most people were asking questions about plugins and browsers and not actually creating solutions. The XML forum however was quieter, but probably had just as many posts that were educational.
Lastly I would like to say thanks to all of the FlashKit crew, it is a extremely enjoyable experience.
Thanks
Luke
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Long time ago I was surfing some EA games websites("cool" designs) and there was the EA logo animated, each letter appeared and a voice is heard reading the logo("E" letter appeared and the guy said "E"! same thing with the "A" and "games") I was kinda thrilled cuz at that time i was working on my first website where I was gonna to put loops and SFX I made - that was even before MP3, so I right clicked the animated logo and found the "about flash 3.0" button, so of course I clicked it then I downloaded the trial version of flash 3.0 and it was the first time I dealt with a time line, any way, I was hocked with flash.
How flashkit? since I was into sound editing, grafix design, and flash multimedia, I started searching for loops and I found flashkit, I couldn't believe it, I found every think a designer or developer ever need, mostly; inspiration, the almost daily link to a flash site was and still a great deal to full fill the creative gap in me, and the same thing with the loops, .flas, grafix, contests, forums, tutorials, flash news and 3rd party software. I hope I didn't miss a thing!
Flash kit is a great source for every one involved in flash, because the content is made and added by the flashers themselves, allowing them to share ideas and link their sites, and most importantly; is to love FLASH. It's by flashers and for flashers.
Thanx flashkit.com
Mark F. you are the maan!
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Visually Minded
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JUSTMASTER and Ritchie-T , thanks for your iunput
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FK founder & general loiterer
I came to Flashkit to learn how to make and do flash. Ironically to this day I still have no idea, but I know how to build a kick ass community on the web.
I am the kinda super lurker these days, doing the odd freelance stuff, along with a LOT of travel, the world is a big place and I have seen very little of it.
The most satidfying thing about the whole flashkit experience is the helping vibe. Its amazing to see such a utopian space, where people genuinely help and care for each other. It really gives me the warm smushies.
Its nice to read this sort of feedback, and I guess I have to let the mods know that I am alive ... occasionally
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Its great to see you around , now and then too Take care cheif
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FK founder & general loiterer
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Good luck with Dan, mooh moooh and post some pics soon
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im only here coz all the other sites forums have banned me so your my only hope
im on new tablets now so there wont be much probs with me honest (doctor told me so),
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i miss hitting on aria all day here at work. where is that girl?
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