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Post by Hil on Sept 6, 2024 5:16:39 GMT
Unfortunately Carrie fans is (hopefully temporarily) down. We hope everyone finds their way here to chat all things Carrie until it comes back. New stuff is coming up with Idol and we wanted to be sure we had a place for all of the fun. Spread the word.
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Post by Margaret Slagle on Sept 13, 2024 17:38:01 GMT
Any news about Carrie fans
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Post by Hil on Sept 15, 2024 3:17:25 GMT
Any news about Carrie fans Not a word so far. Donna has emailed James. In the meantime if any of you guys know people who were on the old board send them this way as we wait until it comes back. We just want to be sure we have a place for new music and of course American idol.
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Post by monkeyboy16 on Sept 15, 2024 14:30:49 GMT
I’m glad I checked the Fan Club and found this! Thanks for creating this space!
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Post by Farawayhills on Sept 23, 2024 16:23:45 GMT
Hi, Hil and friends. I don't what happened to the old board - I only found this one by logging onto Twitter and finding Donna's account there (actually, my first visit to Twitter in a long time, as I find some of the views of the new owner there very off-putting! But just as well I jumped in this time, lol) Anyway, thanks for getting this board going, and hopefully everyone will find it.
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Post by cu4ever on Sept 24, 2024 19:18:39 GMT
Finally getting around to making an account here. I’ve been super sad that CF is down. Does anyone know if we will ever get the old website back? I tried looking into it and it can’t be purchased (if it was abandoned) until January. I’d hate to miss months of talking with everyone
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Post by Hil on Sept 24, 2024 21:14:23 GMT
Finally getting around to making an account here. I’ve been super sad that CF is down. Does anyone know if we will ever get the old website back? I tried looking into it and it can’t be purchased (if it was abandoned) until January. I’d hate to miss months of talking with everyone I've had a couple people dm me on X about purchasing it. If someone decides to do that, great. I guess the board would have to be built back up again. If anyone wants to use this as a model it would work. This was made as from a link Donna found so it's basically an exact replica.
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Post by farawayhills on Sept 25, 2024 22:01:38 GMT
Do we know if it has been permanently abandoned? I don't know how much the owner would normally have been in contact with the administrators of the old board - but if he's not now answering e-mails, there could be several reasons (illness, vacation, etc). Do people now feel we must assume it's gone for good?
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Post by Hil on Sept 25, 2024 23:53:47 GMT
Do we know if it has been permanently abandoned? I don't know how much the owner would normally have been in contact with the administrators of the old board - but if he's not now answering e-mails, there could be several reasons (illness, vacation, etc). Do people now feel we must assume it's gone for good? Not sure. From what I understand he owns the domain until january 2025, so the server is just down. Hopefully he's fine and just hasn't checked the site. I guess we'll know for sure (it's gone) if he doesn't renew it in January. Donna has his email, and as far as I know that's the only way to contact him, unless someone else comes forward with another way. Really hope he's doing okay, and is just really busy.
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Post by monkeyboy16 on Sept 26, 2024 0:26:10 GMT
I’ll go wherever the flock goes, but if Carrie Fans possibly won’t be up until January if someone purchases it, wouldn’t it just be easier to stick with what y’all created here? I hope more people can find it, I actually like the ease of this website. Seems more user friendly to me 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by farawayhills on Sept 26, 2024 1:21:42 GMT
This forum is on ProBoards - which is a very large and active free hosting service. There are advantages - it's very accessible, with long-established templates for creating message boards. But the downside may be that it's easy for individual boards to be rather lost among the general traffic - especially when they are new. As far as I can see this one is not showing up yet on general search engines - but the chances of that would probably improve if the volume of posts grew. There still seem to be quite a lot of regular members who haven't found this site yet, but if the old board went down unexpectedly, there's presumably no way of re-constructing a list of member's names and contact details. It is probably the case that people would be able to take steps to find out that a new board exists (as most of us presumably did) - but at the moment many may be still checking occasionally in the hope that the old board will have come back on-line.
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Post by cu4ever on Sept 26, 2024 19:01:13 GMT
Yeah the reason I would consider buying the domain in January is because I think a lot of people would find that again that won’t ever find this new version. It would probably take some time though as a lot of people might just assume carriefans is gone and happen to check randomly one day in the future. I’m happy to have this place but I can’t help but feel like we’re missing a lot of our friends here and hate that we don’t have that place to discuss with everyone for the duet, American idol, etc. But… very grateful to have this website because it’s slowly but surely building up, and it is better than silence!
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Post by Hil on Sept 26, 2024 19:41:03 GMT
I'm down with whatever people decide to do come January. If someone buys it and wants to make a board there, great. If we stay here and someone wants to become an admin and decorate this place, great as well. Donna, Sloan and I just put the structure up. Glad people are finding this place either way so we can at least direct people back to Carriefans if it comes back or someone buys it. In the meantime tell your Carrie friends and please post and make yourself at home.
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Post by rcramer on Sept 26, 2024 20:01:44 GMT
Finally getting around to making an account here. I’ve been super sad that CF is down. Does anyone know if we will ever get the old website back? I tried looking into it and it can’t be purchased (if it was abandoned) until January. I’d hate to miss months of talking with everyone I so agree … I was a member on that site since March of 2005…. We had so many great posters on there…. Smokyliis if you are here, let me know….. Lol…. Miss you my friend..
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Post by rcramer on Sept 26, 2024 20:03:56 GMT
I'm down with whatever people decide to do come January. If someone buys it and wants to make a board there, great. If we stay here and someone wants to become an admin and decorate this place, great as well. Donna, Sloan and I just put the structure up. Glad people are finding this place either way so we can at least direct people back to Carriefans if it comes back or someone buys it. In the meantime tell your Carrie friends and please post and make yourself at home. Thanks Hil for posting the link over at Pulse….
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