Ideas, Issues, Suggestions

Oh, really :raised_hands:

Andrew Jaffrey?

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Harold?

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Swanny. He recruited me too

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Did Mediaspy really have a news arm??

I’ve missed out ._.

Yeah. I have been around since 2002. Back when we used to get heaps of inside scoops.

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Ah The Spy Report. Those were the days. And anyone remeber MS Monthly?

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If that was the case, probably a bit stupid to purge the whole website and downgrade to just a Forum. But there must have been a reason for it :wink:

They were subsections of the forums. There were a few attempts over the years, but they always ended up with outdated info on them as the guys managing them moved on.

We used to get annual re-skins of the board as well. Mr Q was one of the guys who did some great graphics work, also great Mocks.

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Was feeling nostalgic, here’s a trip down memory lane. They grow up so fast.

I wonder if all my old posts are available to cringe at…

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It was great when it broke news but otherwise just had the same news that appeared on other sites such as TV Tonight.

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Spy Report was probably the golden era of this site.

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Haven’t seen the first few versions ever before. Learning…

The red page was when I first visited all those years ago.

Wayback Machine is brilliant.

Unfortunately has limited use (i.e.) specific posts next to non-existant now.

Swanny was a legend of news for MediaSpy, yes.

But no, I wasn’t referring to him.

It was Tim somebody I’m pretty sure?
@tamago_otoko gave a farewell post to him.

Probably TJ Kirk or Cyril Washbrook

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Tim Graham?

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Ah… What a bloke. The tech mastermind of MediaSpy.

No, no and…

No.

Thanks for helping though.

I recall there was some sort of plan to keep the old site available in a read-only mode at the original mediaspy.org domain (hence why the Media Spy forums are at forums.mediaspy.org instead of mediaspy.org). From what I remember this idea was dumped and it took a very, very long time (months?) for mediaspy.org to redirect to forums.mediaspy.org, which gave me the shits until I got used to it.

I did want to have a look at my old posts during the Lindt Cafe siege a few weeks ago approaching the third anniversary of that event. I recall I made a bit of a running commentary while the police raided the cafe at 3am.

The new forum software seems to be much more stable than the old one though. I recall there were far more long-term outages back in the day than there are now.

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Likewise, I used Wayback to read the thread on Where were you on 9/11, which was super interesting. Half of it was never captured though.

Lots of interesting threads on the old forums though. The original 2006 boxy Nine launch and a couple of threads on Seven vs Nine ratings battles were nice hours-long reads.

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What forum software was the old site using?

phpBB does have transfer capability to Discourse but it’s a pain according to the guide.