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there are only a few regulars from 2005 that are still regulars today

I was one of those regulars back in 2005. Am I stale?

 

You're right Nick, websites such as GA must continue to try to evolve, improve, and bring new blood in.

Well if you're stale I'm a burn out BTW, is it time to start putting out yellow ribbons for Dom???

Crvboy has forums??????

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, never saw that before.

 

Nuff said

Crvboy has forums??????

Wow, never saw that before.

 

Nuff said

 

 

That was classic

Actually I pop in there once a week to check for stories. I've really enjoyed all of Mike Aram, Jeff Allan, and Drew hunt. I still can't believe I never noticed that there was a forum there until you mentioned it :wacko: Hopefully if they do shut down, some of the authors there find their way to GA.

Unfortunately i think that CRVBoy went over the hill a long time ago. With their very limited new or interested members, the administration dwindled and could not provide enough inertia for the site to evolve. When a site stops its development, it no longer attracts members and that's when it reaches a halt. It's a natural occurrence (well at least as natural as it gets on the net), and not really all that sad or shocking. Hopefully if they do close down shortly, the remaining admins/members will leave clean footprints to be remembered by.

 

Maddy (:

I don't think the closing of the crvboy forums is that significant. Different sites have different aims, goals and strengths. Crvboy is a small site and there's not the community crowding round it that there is here at GA but it attracts quality authors and updates regularly. Its back catalogue is impressive too. I don't know about restrictive practises but if they exist then they've been successful at least in the sense that the stories that are there are generally high quality. I kind of understand Nick's comment about stale design, but I confess, I don't much care about site design issues as long as a site has good navigation and crvboy does - it's the stories that matter at the end of the day. The small list of gay fiction sites I visit regularly includes crvboy (and the list is GA, AD, DW, CB).

 

Jakob

I don't think the closing of the crvboy forums is that significant. Different sites have different aims, goals and strengths. Crvboy is a small site and there's not the community crowding round it that there is here at GA but it attracts quality authors and updates regularly. Its back catalogue is impressive too. I don't know about restrictive practises but if they exist then they've been successful at least in the sense that the stories that are there are generally high quality. I kind of understand Nick's comment about stale design, but I confess, I don't much care about site design issues as long as a site has good navigation and crvboy does - it's the stories that matter at the end of the day. The small list of gay fiction sites I visit regularly includes crvboy (and the list is GA, AD, DW, CB).

 

Jakob

 

 

When I say restrictive practices I mean that I was told that I could release one story at a time, one chapter at a time. Since most of my stories are 20 chapters or more, it would be years before all of my work would be released. Furthermore, if I wanted to release a short story, I would have to wait for whatever chapter story that was posting to be finished first. I've talked to other authors who've said they ran into the same thing.

My hope is that they see where they're going wrong and do something to fix it before they become completely irrelevant because I honestly hold a soft spot in my heart for CRVboy. After all, that was the first site to host my work

Unfortunately i think that CRVBoy went over the hill a long time ago. With their very limited new or interested members, the administration dwindled and could not provide enough inertia for the site to evolve. When a site stops its development, it no longer attracts members and that's when it reaches a halt. It's a natural occurrence (well at least as natural as it gets on the net), and not really all that sad or shocking. Hopefully if they do close down shortly, the remaining admins/members will leave clean footprints to be remembered by.

 

Maddy (:

 

 

Yeah I'm sure back in the late 70's-early 80's CRVboy was a hot site, but since then, they've really fizzled out. They're a great place for new authors to use as a stepping stone to other things, but beyond that, I can't imagine aspiring to be hosted at CRVboy. And the authors that they have there that I regularly check on for updates are hosted at other sites like GA and Deweywriter, so there's no need for me to visit the site anymore.

You spend 4 paragraphs being critical of other forums, and only one to praise the one you're on. You're the Media Matters of gay fiction.

Being a minority, we should all hope for all of us to succeed rather than expect one of us to fall.

Actually I pop in there once a week to check for stories. I've really enjoyed all of Mike Aram, Jeff Allan, and Drew hunt. I still can't believe I never noticed that there was a forum there until you mentioned it :wacko: Hopefully if they do shut down, some of the authors there find their way to GA.

One CRVBoy author, Kit, recently moved to GA and a major factor in his decision was the active forums here:

Yes, for me the forums are a very important aspect of GA. They make GA into a community rather than just being a place merely to read stories. They make it more like a book club rather than a quiet library.

This is a precedent which may be followed by other good authors.

You spend 4 paragraphs being critical of other forums, and only one to praise the one you're on. You're the Media Matters of gay fiction.

 

Very observant

Being a minority, we should all hope for all of us to succeed rather than expect one of us to fall.

 

 

I want every gay story site to succeed, but I'm definitely going to call things the way I see them. If the next forum crumbles, it'll be sad, but not a shock. Having said that, it's never too late for a site to change its course until the owner(s) decide that the time has come to shut down.

One CRVBoy author, Kit, recently moved to GA and a major factor in his decision was the active forums here:

This is a precedent which may be followed by other good authors.

 

 

And we're sooo happy he found us I'd definitely love to see more great authors come to GA, where they can enjoy all of the benefits of being a part of a warm online community.

CRVboy was also the home forum site for The Collision Crew to work on the round robin story, 'Collision'.

I don't know much about CRVboy. Tonight was the first time I'd ever visited the forum...I too was unaware that it even existed

 

As such I guess I don't have too much to say about it.

 

On a side note, major props for your safe sex message, Nick!!!

I don't know much about CRVboy. Tonight was the first time I'd ever visited the forum...I too was unaware that it even existed

 

As such I guess I don't have too much to say about it.

 

On a side note, major props for your safe sex message, Nick!!!

 

 

Thanks for the props, Kevin!! Can you believe that there are some people (at a site totally unaffiliated with GA) who think encouraging safe sex is disruptive and ignorant? It's unbelievable but true, sadly.

 

As for the lack of attention that the CRVboy forums get, yeah, it's pretty lame. Maybe they should have used an invision forum and recruited moderators that were, oh, I don't know.....good?

CRVboy is staying around. Robb has reduced the number of Forum's visible. Now there's only three.

 

F.Y.I Nick, I am a Global Mod over there. Admittedly, the site really hasn't been that active for a long time. Several weeks ago, there was some discussion going on about Driver's stories. One of the members, an a$$ IMHO, had been over to Awesomedude's and then posted at CRV that the members there were talking about the lack of sex in drivers stories. That wasn't what they were talking about at all. That talk had taken on a more personal side. I tried to explain to him that the talk wasn't about driver. He maintained it was, even after another member told him the same thing I did.

CRVboy is staying around. Robb has reduced the number of Forum's visible. Now there's only three.

 

F.Y.I Nick, I am a Global Mod over there. Admittedly, the site really hasn't been that active for a long time. Several weeks ago, there was some discussion going on about Driver's stories. One of the members, an a$$ IMHO, had been over to Awesomedude's and then posted at CRV that the members there were talking about the lack of sex in drivers stories. That wasn't what they were talking about at all. That talk had taken on a more personal side. I tried to explain to him that the talk wasn't about driver. He maintained it was, even after another member told him the same thing I did.

 

There's no getting through to some people, no matter how much proof you set right in front of their faces. You just have to let them be, because they get off their own ideas.

That wasn't the end of it though. Imofat's joined to discuss something and the jerk went after him. That discussion involved an author who was posting a story very similar to one by Brew Maxwell. This issue would have been best served by the authors involved and not Imofat and the jerk.

I believe the main criticism of the CRVboy site here was the forum, and I agree their forum has little activity. Until recently, it was the only forum I saw that had political commentary, but the moderator tended to drown out anyone who was not a liberal democrat. I always thought a forum was a place for discussion of diverse views. I was disappointed in what I saw at CRV.

 

When GA began/restarted it political discussions, I had a look. As a Canadian, I read some of the Canadian political discussions, and I have to say they were excellent! There were very diverse points of view mentioned, but the discussions and responses showed great respect for each other and were a pleasure to read. I agree, Nick, that GA has done an excellent job in creating a dynamic forum.

 

I would like to say, though, that I enjoy visiting the CRV site for its quality works. In particular, Mike Arram, Tim Mead and Drew Hunt post their most recent works here on a regular basis, and that keeps me coming back to the CRV site. These authors continue to make this a "must visit" site from my perspective.