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Anyone know what happened to the Weightlifting Forums? Seems like they've been down for a while.
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I haven't gone there in a long time, from what I could tell from at least 2 years ago it was overrun with bots and I was getting frequent account hacks/attempts. Not sure what's been going on since then.asdf wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 6:16 pm Anyone know what happened to the Weightlifting Forums? Seems like they've been down for a while.
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I was there a month or so ago. I found several long threads that interested me, but that I didn't have time to read, so I bookmarked them. Now it seems the site is gone. Pretty sure @mbasic used to post there.damufunman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:46 am I haven't gone there in a long time, from what I could tell from at least 2 years ago it was overrun with bots and I was getting frequent account hacks/attempts. Not sure what's been going on since then.
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Weird. Maybe the long threads were about shutting the site down... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯asdf wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:44 pmI was there a month or so ago. I found several long threads that interested me, but that I didn't have time to read, so I bookmarked them. Now it seems the site is gone. Pretty sure @mbasic used to post there.damufunman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:46 am I haven't gone there in a long time, from what I could tell from at least 2 years ago it was overrun with bots and I was getting frequent account hacks/attempts. Not sure what's been going on since then.
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Actually, what damn-man said....damufunman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 3:01 amWeird. Maybe the long threads were about shutting the site down... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯asdf wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:44 pmI was there a month or so ago. I found several long threads that interested me, but that I didn't have time to read, so I bookmarked them. Now it seems the site is gone. Pretty sure @mbasic used to post there.damufunman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:46 am I haven't gone there in a long time, from what I could tell from at least 2 years ago it was overrun with bots and I was getting frequent account hacks/attempts. Not sure what's been going on since then.
...the guy who opened and maintained that forum, posted a long piece / thread asking the remaining members what he should do with the site....because traffic was so slow and non-existent. That was about 10 months ago. I'm actually surprised it has been around for as long as it has since then.
There were about half a dozen very knowledgeable lifters/quasi-coaches who posted there. That Erpel's knowledge and background info wrt weightlifting was very interesting. That place was the polar opposite of the reddit/weightlifting..... was a great resource at times.
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No, one was about Boris Severov and the other was about Prilipen's chart.damufunman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 3:01 am Maybe the long threads were about shutting the site down... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yep. Wish I'd finished those threads before the site evaporated.
Found a Google cache of the beginning of the Severov thread.
Do either of you know who the poster "strapping" is?
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Don't know, because I can't see the site....to refresh my memory. (that archieve thing aint working for me right now)asdf wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 8:59 pmNo, one was about Boris Severov and the other was about Prilipen's chart.damufunman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 3:01 am Maybe the long threads were about shutting the site down... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yep. Wish I'd finished those threads before the site evaporated.
Found a Google cache of the beginning of the Severov thread.
Do either of you know who the poster "strapping" is?
There was one dude there that trained in the Ukraine, was a lower tier international competitor. Trained under some elite level coaches ... (Europe, etc). That might be him.
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That place was funny. I remember when Rio was going on, we all logged in and were doing a defacto live chat as sessions were underway, watching the live stream....commenting.
Some of those (WLforums) people would post on the r/weightlifting reddit as well.... but not a whole lot.
The WL-reddit is filled with retards. Noise to signal ratio isn't worth investing much time into that place.
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@mgil
might pay to have an "Olympic Weightlifting" subforum here if that place did cease to exist?
If that place did go down, we could advertise that on the r/WL reddit ...
IDK, maybe a disaster too?
might pay to have an "Olympic Weightlifting" subforum here if that place did cease to exist?
If that place did go down, we could advertise that on the r/WL reddit ...
IDK, maybe a disaster too?
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