Greetings All!!

[xuenchen]

Velcum FCD !!

[FlyingClayDisk]

I would love one!  Did you have something in mind, or how can we go about doing this?

Don't worry about a thing, I'll have my shed-dwelling Man-Girl (BIAD) get on it right away!
He's a whizz at this stuff and will probably offer you a choice of four. (I've noticed that about
him!)
Give the dopey-hermaphrodite some time and I'm sure he'll knock-up something and give you
directions and instructions about your chosen avatar.

Great!

I will look forward to it.  No rush.  Quality over expedience.

[FlyingClayDisk]

Velcum FCD !!

Thanks!

Looks like some of you have been around for quite a while here.  I guess I didn't realize there was such an active alternative for this long.  I wish I would have known that and I would have joined long ago.

[Schmoe1]

Welcome @FlyingClayDisk

I remember you from ATS.  Though I don't think we interacted (I post here a lot more than at ATS), your posts always seemed on point to me.  

[FlyingClayDisk]

Hey man. If you can do it "theabovenetwork" can prolly tell you what went on since they are the other owners/business side of things prolly.
And you can find your avatar picture using the wayback machine FCD. just find your name click it.

Oh, I have a saved copy of my original avatar (at least I think I do). 

If this is of any help, I will be glad to post it up for reference.

[IAMTAT]

So...where to begin?

Good to see you here, FCD.

Where to begin?
Lets hear about that Q expose you teased.

[VioletDove]

Hi and welcome @"FlyingClayDisk". I never posted over there but I lurked a lot. I always enjoyed your posts. Glad to see you here and am looking forward to reading what you have to write about. 

[BIAD]

Hey man. If you can do it "theabovenetwork" can prolly tell you what went on since they are the other owners/business side of things prolly.
And you can find your avatar picture using the wayback machine FCD. just find your name click it.

That's a good-call, Yuppa!

[BIAD]

Hey man. If you can do it "theabovenetwork" can prolly tell you what went on since they are the other owners/business side of things prolly.
And you can find your avatar picture using the wayback machine FCD. just find your name click it.

Oh, I have a saved copy of my original avatar (at least I think I do). 

If this is of any help, I will be glad to post it up for reference.

Please do.

[argentus]

Hey Everybody!

I'm not being antisocial..... however it will take me a while to get into the swing of things; electronic changes aren't intuitive for me.   I'm gettin' up there in years a bit and seem to spend a ridiculous amount of times looking for stuff!!   I would toast you all with my Irish coffee, but I can't find the [expletive] thing.      

See you all around, and thank you for the wonderful landing zone!

[BIAD]

@"FlyingClayDisk" 
Here's some I've thrown together, hope you like one of 'em!

Avatar Link-Page:


If you need assistance in loading the avatar, click 'USER CP' at the top-left of any page -just below the banner.
When it opens on your settings, scroll down until you reach 'Your Profile' and click on 'Change Avatar'
By pasting in the URL of your chosen avatar into the appropriate place... then 'Bob's Yer' Uncle'!!

[yuppa]

Hey Everybody!

I'm not being antisocial..... however it will take me a while to get into the swing of things; electronic changes aren't intuitive for me.   I'm gettin' up there in years a bit and seem to spend a ridiculous amount of times looking for stuff!!   I would toast you all with my Irish coffee, but I can't find the [expletive] thing.      

See you all around, and thank you for the wonderful landing zone!

Well time to go to TWITTER and post the death of ATS on the ATS PAGE.

[PLOTUS]

@"FlyingClayDisk" 
You are Welcome Here and you can start posting replies or you can Start a new thread on anything that interest you.
If the category for your interest is not listed somewhere here. let us know, we'll make that category for you.

As far as Rules here go about posting,,,,,,, I heard someway say, No Full Nudity   I guess there was a leak that my Naked Butt Pic's   
If you need to cuss to get a point across,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, God-Damn It No-One Is Going To Fucking Stop You!   Any questions?

Lol............""" I heard someway say, No Full Nudity   I guess there was a leak that my Naked Butt Pic's"""

Ok  now that thats cleared up, try not to get too excited....

[PLOTUS]

And for our Rusky/Ukranian friends and 


members................................enjoy, someone's winning, just saying...........lol...

[FlyingClayDisk]

Good to see you here, FCD.

Where to begin?
Lets hear about that Q expose you teased.

Likewise!

Okay, I will get started putting that together.

[beez]

Hi All!

I am new here (for those who may not know me already).  This forum looks like a very interesting place, and I am pleased to be a member.

I'll spare you all the big long intro (unless you really wanna' hear it), but suffice to say I am/was a long time member of ATS.  I contributed a great deal there, and I look forward to contributing the same here.  My contributions on ATS had tapered off considerably since mid-2021 and I had all but decided it was time to move on.  But at the time, and since then, I wasn't sure where to move on "to".

I believe I had set up an account here a couple of years ago, but as memory serves me there was some technical issue which prevented me from being able to participate (though I don't remember exactly what the issue was).  I know it was around the time that ATS was up for sale, and there was a group of ATS members who had stood up a website to investigate the possibilities of buying ATS, or at least stabilizing it in such a fashion that the historical content of ATS would not be lost.  That was the real and primary objective at the time...not losing the years of content in the databases of ATS.  I had initially volunteered to lead the group until a candidate who had more time could step in, but unfortunately 'life happens' and I, sadly, had to bow out of that effort prematurely.  At the time I was trying to balance a life here in the States, and manage several large projects in South America.  Anyway, enough about that effort.  I am glad to be here on RN3.

I would like to know though if anyone has any accurate fragments regarding what has happened to ATS.  At this point, I'm not sure I really have any desire to return, but I think I speak for many when I say we all contributed enough to that website that we really do have a "need to know" what has happened to all of the content there.  As long as the content has not fallen into the hands of people with ill intent, then I think I (anyway) can rest a little easier.  ATS disappeared so abruptly that my first reaction was that the cause was likely a sizable DDOS attack on the site, but had that been the case I also feel there would have been more information 'out there' by now as to what had actually taken place.  The lack of that information, as many days later is actually quite concerning.  I say this based on a fair amount of behind the scenes details I was made aware of during the time when discussions were taking place about a possible purchase.

Anyway, if anyone has any "factual" information about what is going on (and not just some wild-ass rumor) I would genuinely appreciate knowing it.  Thank you in advance.

Lastly, as noted, I am glad to be here.  In the same breath, I am very troubled about what is going on in the World around us right now.  Times seem very dire indeed, much more so than I can personally recall in my nearly 60 laps around that bright orb in the sky.  To use an analogy...a ship with an enemy captain at the helm is at least a known commodity, but a ship with no one at the helm is far more dangerous.  I fear, at least in this country right now, our situation is the latter.

So...where to begin?

Welcome!

[argentus]

@"FlyingClayDisk" 
Here's some I've thrown together, hope you like one of 'em!

Avatar Link-Page:


If you need assistance in loading the avatar, click 'USER CP' at the top-left of any page -just below the banner.
When it opens on your settings, scroll down until you reach 'Your Profile' and click on 'Change Avatar'
By pasting in the URL of your chosen avatar into the appropriate place... then 'Bob's Yer' Uncle'!!

I don't use twitter, FaceBook, Reddit, or anything else.   Was once a part of the Wunderground community until TWC bought it and killed it.   I post some on a local web paper, and now here.  If the new owners of ATS just scuttled it without any warning to anyone, then I will have to devise a very specific curse.   I am in the mode of awaiting developments.   I don't think I'm talking out of place if I say that I have no way to contact the new owners of ATS, and apart from the initial forays shortly after the purchase, I haven't seen much in the way of communication.   

Life goes on.   I believe we are sometimes defined by our ability to adapt.   I don't believe my day has gone the way I planned it for the last 25 years, but damned if I will give up planning.   That is chaos.  

[argentus]

I was trying to reply to Yuppa.   Still figuring things out 

[argentus]

Hey Everybody!

I'm not being antisocial..... however it will take me a while to get into the swing of things; electronic changes aren't intuitive for me.   I'm gettin' up there in years a bit and seem to spend a ridiculous amount of times looking for stuff!!   I would toast you all with my Irish coffee, but I can't find the [expletive] thing.      

See you all around, and thank you for the wonderful landing zone!

Well time to go to TWITTER and post the death of ATS on the ATS PAGE.

Reply is below the post not above.   Got it.   The above was for you. 

[BIAD]

I don't use twitter, FaceBook, Reddit, or anything else...

Same here. Never touch the stuff, my time in a name-calling playground was long ago!!