Status - so far, since moving the board a week ago...

[The Gorn]

We seem to have 38 past members of openitforum.yuku.com who came aboard here and at least logged in once under their Yuku/Ezboard ID.

1 new "legitimate" (non spammer) member in the last week (maybe 2.)

Better than I expected, considering the degree of completely understandable apathy that pervaded the old place. At least people responded to the private messages that were sent out, including a few that I haven't seen post here in over a year.

Posting volume, after an initial burst of interest from the relocatees, seems to be about the same as on the old board.

We're still in decline but hopefully, we will gain some traffic as the board's contents get indexed by the search engines. I've done some manual submissions.

[TRexx]

I am pleased to report that I can access the site from inside my client's firewall (Not that I would ever consider such a thing    ). The old site was blocked as being "inappropriate"

[The Gorn]

I am pleased to report that I can access the site from inside my client's firewall (Not that I would ever consider such a thing    ). The old site was blocked as being "inappropriate".

Interesting. I bet that many firewalls blocked all Yuku sites for being social/time wasting.

[TRexx]

I am pleased to report that I can access the site from inside my client's firewall (Not that I would ever consider such a thing    ). The old site was blocked as being "inappropriate".

Interesting. I bet that many firewalls blocked all Yuku sites for being social/time wasting.

They block all kinds of stuff - Facebook, YouTube & Twitter (no surprise there), anything with "blog" in the name,  anything with "mail" in the name (I guess they don't want people checking their personal mail), everything in the Yahoo domain.  But some classic time wasters, like imdb and onion are open, as are most if not all of the sports sites.   eBay  is blocked, but Amazon isn't.   

[ilconsiglliere]

I am pleased to report that I can access the site from inside my client's firewall (Not that I would ever consider such a thing    ). The old site was blocked as being "inappropriate".

Interesting. I bet that many firewalls blocked all Yuku sites for being social/time wasting.

They block all kinds of stuff - Facebook, YouTube & Twitter (no surprise there), anything with "blog" in the name,  anything with "mail" in the name (I guess they don't want people checking their personal mail), everything in the Yahoo domain.  But some classic time wasters, like imdb and onion are open, as are most if not all of the sports sites.   eBay  is blocked, but Amazon isn't.   

I have seen what gets blocked is illogical most of the time where I am. They block Ebay but not Amazon that kind of thing. From my understanding they get a feed from a vendor that they feed to their proxies which is a list of all the forbidden sites.

For example we used to be able to IM at work via Google or Yahoo. Now they block it.

The funny thing is many people have smartphones like the iPhone and quite frankly anything I can do on my desktop computer I can do from my iPhone. I have something called BeeJive that lets me IM anywhere from my phone.

The genie is out of the bottle, no way to put it back.