MB is down! WTF?! They actually had to suspend their hosting account... Poor Cooldude...

i know the true story and dont even feel the least bit sorry for cooldude...he is the host...and he pulled the plug, and thats all im gonna say

Say more my Son, say more

:hypnotise:

Eh, hate to sound dumb.. but what's mb? Microbeta, or something?

Yes Jerry MB is Microbeta... as for more info..... dont know if that is possible....

I wonder what happened to all the money the "sponsor members" paid to cooldude for the registration and chat licenses

Everybody helped him out, including me. I gave him the domain name.

cooldude, i hope i never run into you, i'll break your fu**in legs.

You can't stay off the internet forever. I'll find you.....

wow these are angry folk, i'd start crying , because when (and they will) there are goi to be more than

most of us here including myself have contributed greatly to Microbeta..only to have our work spit on by the host cooldude... hes not welcome round these parts neway

he pulled the plug?? wtf?? MO FO!! what a waster .... i hope i dont see him again because i can assure you that no swear filter is going to stop me giving him a piece of my mind

What's up with microbetadownloads.net?

meh! thats not what it used to be used to be a large beta forum .... microbeta.net ... not any more

yeah m8, I know, when did this happen? I used to go there frequently, but of late I haven't

well there was some big arguments and one of the admins started making changes and people started rebelling ... a few weeks ago .... it kinda got worse and worse and the admin in question said he was gonna leave .. yet more uproar.... the board was up and down like a yoyo over the few days that followed that and was eventually restored to a previous point. then people began to complain about lost posts ... BSOD came in and pretty much saved the board and put in a lot of time and effort... now its al been dumped

D**N! that sucks all my posts!!! gone! ... I was completely unaware that something was going on.... i only saw hints of it.

Yup! and thats what happens when you have a power hungry, jealous 14 year old running the board. He just couldn't stand BSOD cleaning it up in 5 days and felt threatened. then the members and staff wanted to keep BSOD on as admin, but instead of doing that, he suspended the account and closed Mbeta

well it the site seems like it's back up, but it's total crap know imo.

nothing really works know.

fu**ing dick

fo sho

I'm sorry about the wording, it just really pissed me OFF!!!!!

I never really visited MicroBeta and didn't know what was going on, but Dan yesterday told me another story, he says Jerry tried to hijack the board, so he pulled the plug.

there wasnt neone on staff named jerry ...hes the punk bi*ch that unregistered the IBF license ...we was tryin to get a back up before the fool pulled the plug..we jus didnt expect him to do it that morning

did an admiin hare pull his acount?

Then why don't you guys use a previous backup of the mySQL database? Some people may loose their posts or even their accounts, but the site will be back up.

dont matter...Cooldude controls it now and everyones left it for good no one wants to be apart of a site he stole and manipulated people to get. By the time we noticed that he unregistered the forum we didnt have access to back it up cause he demoted us 1 by 1.

cooldude is 14??!!! i solt a mothr bprd to him i thought he was like 20 or up all of our mods

yo blue nice av, thought ud never change it

lol this is my classic one when i first started here I rotate them sometimes

ho looks realy formilyer ware is it from

looks like a person named Max from darkcloud 2

wow, this is crazy topic lol, im not gonna say anything, im just gonna read

It's very interesting reading

i was a advanced member of mb and its too bad that had to happen but i cant comment on it cause i dont know the whole story.

that sucks who runs this site? kelp?

no lol , some guy called cooldude (?)

yo 400 u joken r somethin or is it another cool dude

yeah cooldude .... dan

You guys... I don't think this is a big deal, its just another beta community that dudn't survive because of people's greed to be #1. Lets put it behind us and move on, trying to make Flexbeta the best beta community, I know why most people would've preffered MicroBeta over Flexbeta, because they offered so-called "Premium" Downloads, like if you had this many posts, you could gain access to a special download area etc... Flexbeta doesn't have that, but who needs it anyways? You want Longhorn, get it off of WinBeta's IRC or BetasIRC, or even Flexbeta's IRC (I've never been there, so I don't know if XDCC downloads are offered there). It's all the n00bs to the beta scene who want an ultra-fast and point and click HTTP server to download from, so what do they do? they go and join MicroBeta.

Anyways, my point is don't argue and waste your precious time trying to bring back an "online" and "virtual" community, if thats gonna cost you lots of money and time.

Just my 2 cents.

very good point im not a n00b but i want an http so insted of complaning i shut up and try to use irc

Everyone would like to have a HTTP source rather than an IRC bot, but when a site forces you to participate there for weeks just to let you download something, wouldn't it have been better if you had been a bit patient and stayed in queue in IRC for a couple more hours and gotten what you wanted, instead of being forced to be active in a community to get what you want.

Again, that's just my opinion, which is why I never really visited Microbeta and/or posted anything.

Why are you assuming its me?

What happened at MB would never happen here. We have a different philosophy when it comes to internal conflicts. Im not trying to knock younger people with this statement, but the admins and management for Flexbeta are older and therefore experienced in communication and have aquired excellent people skills and managerial knowledge as a result of their career experience.

It should always give cause for concern when the top guy in charge is fourteen. Now this is not to say that a fourteen year old is by any means unknowledgable, but the truth of the matter is, there is absolutely no experience there. What he did was wrong, but because there was no real world experience in dealing with people, its quite obvious that he got overly emotional and reacted without thinking. It is also quite obvious that he was intimidated. The ability to deal with these emotions and to gain the ability to interact with people without being emotional is something that can only be learned through experience in the workplace.

Very well said kelp!! im spending alot more time at flexbeta and trying to join in helping others on the forum and of coarse getting help from others.Ive learned alot from flexbeta and will continue to use the site.

cuse ur the only one wit admin ive seen

I'm the only what?

Amen man, not only has my own workplace helped me deal with customers and intense situations but simply being apart of the family here at flexbeta also helps u work a lot on communicating with the members here as well as working out issues should they arise within the staff. If flex loses its family centricity then we wind up like all the other sites...we fight, we leave and then we're jus another statistic in the community. But we have stayed strong for 2 yrs and will continue to stay strong 3, 4, and 10 yrs from now. Hell the way i see it these guys are like my brothers and i'll be here til im too damn old to do nething

As kelps said...a 14 yr old cant make rational and grown up decisions like what we deal with... its the truth

Kelps, lol, he said "You're the only admin I've seen" - actually, Gsurface is an admin, as well..

I suppose MB dying just helps Flexbeta, doesn't it?

We have 3 admins, well 4 actually. Ali, Kelps, Kels, and G. and nvy I think, if thats right then its 5.

My one and only post most likely for the 3 day weekend. Gawd I just love working 36 hrs of work in 54 hrs, with 6-7 hrs going to driving and getting ready for work and winding down. Have a nice Labor Day everyone (to the ones in the US, of course).

There are three site Admins, myself, Ali and Gsurface. One forum Admin, Kels, and nvyseal4u is upper management. He is in charge of the staff. Gsurface is the owner of the site.

@cokeman: dude, please, please, please work on your grammer. I have no idea what you are saying! I have nothing to do with MB. I helped them get started about a year ago but thats as far as my involvement goes. I am only a part of one site and that is the best site, Flexbeta!

@legojerry: We don't think of it like that. Actually, the past year we have seen a HUGE growth on this site. We have a lot of sister sites and we have helped out a lot of people. We don't compete. We just do our thing. We bring the news and information. We do what we can to give our members and viewers what they want including the latest tech news and outstanding articles. I have helped a lot of people and a lot of sites to start and to grow. I have no problem helping anyone. Some of the scripts that are used on Flexbeta were written by me and I have shared that information with the public. As you should be able to see, on the portal there is a news archive at the bottom of the page, a recent article list and a recent file list. You will probably be able to see those on other sites. I wrote those and shared them.

That is the main philosophy that has driven Flexbeta and that has allowed us to grow to what we are today.

We help anybody that needs help.

Exactly the way America works and that is why its the richest and most industrialized country in the world.

Amen brother, and that is why I'm here. Flexbeta rules

we totally and they got soooo

woooooooo go flexbeta iv always felt at home here ... it rules

m/b used to be pretty cool... basically liek what is ee hear.. but then all of the sudden things started going downhill and neaver stopped... i guess you can say they finally hit rock bottom... but now i'm over hear and i am starting to like this place more after ever post i read