eRomano

Please see this thread:

http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=176071

Fellow GNR fans,

It is with regret to inform you that mygnrforum.com GNR Fan Forumwill be closing as of Friday April 15th.

Running mygnrforum.com since December 31st 2001 has been fun for a long time. It’s made me discuss and meet a whole lots of great GNR fans from all over the world (you know who you are), it’s also gave me the opportunity assist many GNR concerts for free, meet the band and Axl Rose.

In recent years, some aspects have grown to be whole lot less fun: leaks, lack of communication from management, even lawyer letters from the band. Those I lived with and became accustomed to.

Running internet Forum for a large website such as mygnrforum.com (38,452 members) and ten times more fans visiting (guests) requires expensive servers for which the monthly costs are significant.

Absence of promotion of Chinese Democracy, still no US tour, waiting for new material, the recession, are all factors which affect how much money can be made to offset the hosting fees which have been significantly higher than what ads and donations bring in.

I do thank the few supporters who have made donations. Unfortunately, it’s something that never really took off as only few people were able to donate (190$ in the last year). Supporters who have made donations in the last year have been informed how they can get a pro-rata refund if they wish.

So for many years now, I’ve been putting up my own money to help keep alive the Forum. This is a situation which I have discussed with GNR many times. Aside from expressing they want mygnrforum.com closed in the past, even after being offered, GNR has not shown any concrete interest in supporting and/or taking over the mygnrforum.com.

Aside from not making any business sense to run the Forum, it’s grown to expose me as the owner of the site to lawyer letters threatening lawsuits. So it’s making sense to throw the towel now and just close the mygnrforum.com. I guess GNR will finally have what it has wanted for a very long time!

I do believe that this was the best GNR fan Forum of all, with the best infrastructure, best moderating team and best forum members (GNR fans). It’s a shame that could not grow into something more. I often browse other band’s websites and fan forums and truly envy how those other bands have embraced the internet, fan forums, and fans! But not GNR unfortunately. I often think that the Forum could have been so much more for GNR. But then again GNR could also be so much more. But it’s currently not, and has not been for some time now. Great band, great music, great signer, but not so great marketing.

Thank you all for your continued interest during the last 10 years, I truly hope all the GNR fans will be able to find a place to continue to exchange. Thank you to all the forum members who made mygnrforum such a great place over the years, and a special thank you to all the members of the moderating team (past and present) who have put so much of their time into this. Special thanks to Highvoltage, Montrealer and Madison for their implication over the years of running this place.

I also wish all the best to GNR and to Axl Rose for the future.

Eric Romano, admin

A security update might cause some downtime in the next hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The Forum was down for approx 5 hours today due to a technical problem.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The Forum has been updated to 3.1.4.

Thak you for posting any upgrade issues here.

Eric (admin)

I'm in

The Forum was down due to a technical problem for about 4.5 hours (6PM to 10:30PM tonight friday November 5th).

Everything is fine now.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

What browser are you using?

So i think the time may have come to make users that have re-registered place previous names within their sigs, its done with name changes to avoid confusion and it should be done with this.I can't keep track of who people used to be and who they will be next week.Amnesty is a cool thing in some cases but the forum is now flooded with people who were other people.

Admin, mods?

Flooded eh? Not exactly.

Amnesty exremely rare, therefore this is a false problem.

Search and view new content are now working again.

A new feature has been added "Shared Links".

This feature displays the "most" and "last" 10 shared links (threads) at the bottom right of the Forum's main page (in a box square).

Any issues about this new Forum feature should be posted here.

Facebook "Like" feature is now active. Forum members need to have associated their Forum account to Facebook in order to see the "I Like" feature at the bottom left of every thread.

Thank you for mentionning this issue. I'm well aware that the "Search" and "View new content" functions have not been working since the last update.

The last Forum update requires other stuff to be updated on the server, then be reconfigured.

This is a big Forum ( 2.3 Million+ posts ), thus the search engine used on this Forum is way different from smaller Forums.

The search feature will be back online soon. Sorry for the onconvenience.

Eric (admin)

The Forum's "Multiple PM feature" is called "Invites".

Member groups for wich this feature is activated get an extra option when composing a new message (box to enter the member names to invite into the private conversation, and a dropbox to choose "Invite" or "Copy").

"Invitation" allows all invited members to participate in a single conversation

"Copy" will send a separate conversation to each member

Admins and Moderators have been using this feature for some time. It's only been requested recently.

I've extended the "Invites" feature to "News Reporters" and "Supporters" (5 invites per message). Forum members wishing to use this fearute are welcome to upgrade their accounts to "Supporters".

The Forum has been updated to 3.1.2.

Thak you for posting any upgrade issues here.

Eric (admin)

I've just posted this in another thread.

Well said Montrealer.

The six first post of this thread are from Forum members who don't even support this site..

There would need to be a lot more supporters in order to upgrade the server. Hint hint.

The server's performance overall is really stable. Server overload due to traffic is rare. If it happens, the mod team and some Forum members know how to reach me (if I'm not on the Forum already) and I can temporarilly disable certain Forum features to help accomodate more people (performance mode).

bacardimayne : The 5$ you donated via paypal back on May 20th 2010 only helped me loose 5$ less on that month's server hosting bill. I do thank you for it because it's a very nice gesture of appreciation on your part, but it should be clear that 5$ donations here and there is not exactly what will get a better server.

Interested in donating?

Well said Montrealer.

The six first post of this thread are from Forum members who don't even support this site..

There would need to be a lot more supporters in order to upgrade the server. Hint hint.

The server's performance overall is really stable. Server overload due to traffic is rare. If it happens, the mod team and some Forum members know how to reach me (if I'm not on the Forum already) and I can temporarilly disable certain Forum features to help accomodate more people (performance mode).

bacardimayne : The 5$ you donated via paypal back on May 20th 2010 only helped me loose 5$ less on that month's server hosting bill. I do thank you for it because it's a very nice gesture of appreciation on your part, but it should be clear that 5$ donations here and there is not exactly what will get a better server.

I've added an Admin edit to the first post of this thread containing a link to the actual interview wich includes quotes.

http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=167018

In response to all the recent questions by fans. Bumblefoot agreed to be interviewed by Michale Grave's Radio Deadly Show. The interview was broadcasted on the internet on August19th 2010 at 0:01 in the morning.

Here are a few Bumblefoot quotes from the interview :

Here's what Bumblefoot had to say about the current GNR tour :

"The tour is happening and I will be there!"

When asked about the relationships in the band:

"No we actually, we all have more of a relationship than alot of people want to believe."

When asked if Axl's twitter was hacked:

"I haven't gotten like the full details on what the hell happened, but the tour is happening, the tour is definitely happening. I was just sent finally the itinerary so I know where I am going."

Bumblefoot and the fans :

"Ya I do think about them that's why we do this, ya know I mean, you know if I'm playing I'm playing for the people that are there, I am there to entertain them, to show them a good time and it's very important to me, it is. It sounds all serious and I am supposed to be there, [yeah rockstar and I don't give a fuck!] Well too fucking bad I'm me and I give a fuck. Simple as that I give a fuck and I take it seriously and when it comes to being on stage and anything relating to entertaining the people that went out of their way to be there, I take it very fucking seriously."

Listen to the full interview :

Listen to the full 42 minute interview using this link.

In addition to being interviewed, Bumblefoot simultaneously updated his twitter (twitter.com/bumblefoot) :

SOURCE: Michale Grave's Radio Deadly Show, Internet radio broadcasted August 19th 2010

RELATED DISCUSSION: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=166901

In response to all the recent questions by fans. Bumblefoot agreed to be interviewed by Michale Grave's Radio Deadly Show. The interview was broadcasted on the internet on August19th 2010 at 0:01 in the morning.

Here are a few Bumblefoot quotes from the interview :

Here's what Bumblefoot had to say about the current GNR tour :

"The tour is happening and I will be there!"

When asked about the relationships in the band:

"No we actually, we all have more of a relationship than alot of people want to believe."

When asked if Axl's twitter was hacked:

"I haven't gotten like the full details on what the hell happened, but the tour is happening, the tour is definitely happening. I was just sent finally the itinerary so I know where I am going."

Bumblefoot and the fans :

"Ya I do think about them that's why we do this, ya know I mean, you know if I'm playing I'm playing for the people that are there, I am there to entertain them, to show them a good time and it's very important to me, it is. It sounds all serious and I am supposed to be there, [yeah rockstar and I don't give a fuck!] Well too fucking bad I'm me and I give a fuck. Simple as that I give a fuck and I take it seriously and when it comes to being on stage and anything relating to entertaining the people that went out of their way to be there, I take it very fucking seriously."

Listen to the full interview :

Listen to the full 42 minute interview using this link.

In addition to being interviewed, Bumblefoot simultaneously updated his twitter (twitter.com/bumblefoot) :

SOURCE: Michale Grave's Radio Deadly Show, Internet radio broadcasted August 19th 2010

RELATED DISCUSSION: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=166901

Performance mode is now off.

This means everything is now back to normal.

We are getting major traffic.

I'm keeping performance mode "on" for now.

Performance mode is what makes it possible to temporarilly accomodate more users than normally possible, but at the cost of disabling a few non essencial Forum features.

I'll put everything back to normal when have less traffic. I expect this to be tonight (new york time).

6:15PM Sunday August 15th

Got a call form the GNR camp, according to them no dates are cancelled.

They said there was a password issue with Axl's twitter and are looking into getting this fixed and removing the message.

As for the previous post's content. There was absolutely no mention about bumblefoot having left the band.

SOURCE: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=166892&view=findpost&p=2722702

RELATED DISCUSSION: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=157169&view=findpost&p=2722735

UPDATE: DATE: August 15th/2010 6:37PM

I've posted this in another thread:

6:15PM Sunday August 15th

Got a call form the GNR camp, according to them no dates are cancelled.

They said there was a password issue with Axl's twitter and are looking into getting this fixed and removing the message.

As for the previous post's content. There was absolutely no mention about bumblefoot having left the band.

Source: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=166892&view=findpost&p=2722702

6:15PM Sunday August 15th

Got a call form the GNR camp, according to them no dates are cancelled.

They said there was a password issue with Axl's twitter and are looking into getting this fixed and removing the message.

As for the previous post's content. There was absolutely no mention about bumblefoot having left the band.