Amazon exiles discussion
Amazon exiles
Hiyah Post! ... x x x"Hi suzy, needs a little time to adjust to our new home (big thanks to Gordon of course).
Post wrote: "Hiyah Post! ... x x x"Hi suzy, needs a little time to adjust to our new home (big thanks to Gordon of course)."
It's taken me a week now, and I'm just SO glad now that I started here before my beloved Amazon Forums locked down, as it's been a rather emotional day for me seeing them frozen in time and left waiting to be wiped out by some Computer Programmer.
And I feel so sorry for all those out there who never even knew about the Amazon Forums or ever got to play around on them, making friends, and just having a good time - they will never know now that they all got to miss out on somewhere that was just so special ;o<
is anybody in touch with Carradale? He might be a bit confused next time he tries to make one of his appearances on the 'zon forums. I know he pops in to Crack the Code occasionally.
Post wrote: "Hi everyone, Leitrim is calling.Just made it!"
Good to see you here Post.
Post wrote: "Hi everyone, Leitrim is calling.Just made it!"
Welcome Post!
Derek wrote: "Post wrote: "Hi everyone, Leitrim is calling.Just made it!"
Good to see you here Post."
Hiyah Derek! ... x x x ;o>
Post wrote: "Hi everyone, Leitrim is calling.Just made it!"
Waving from Dublin.
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "So the forum picture is changed again - picture of the day? Is that barrels of coffee?"It's spices in a souk. The pictures are a bit small to make out details, aren't they?
I preferred tech's guess, anyway.
Nice to see so many familiar handlesJust got back from abroad, managed to sign up. It's a bit like being on another planet, expect to stumble around for a while, and have just pledged myself to read some books, but first I have to apease Mrs Grimmy by helping to unpack
Gordon wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "So the forum picture is changed again - picture of the day? Is that barrels of coffee?"It's spices in a souk. The pictures are a bit small to make out detail..."
Are you telling me to go souk my head?
Grimmy wrote: "Nice to see so many familiar handlesJust got back from abroad, managed to sign up. It's a bit like being on another planet, expect to stumble around for a while, and have just pledged myself to re..."
Hiyah Grimmy! ... x x x ;o>
Don't forget now? - do not to mix your White Wash with your Coloured Wash! ;o>
If you do it will end up being a pink wash. And not a nice pink either... I've been there.... Red shirt in with a favourite t-shirt, Not a good idea.
So Amazon created a new forum. It's much different than before and lumps all music together, but it may serve. I created a listening thread for CM.https://www.amazonforum.com/forums/di...
Give it a try.
Sorry, not trying to take away from this site... just trying to give the forum refugees some options.
Hiya suzy!Its my good fortune to have been banned from operating the washing machine for several years, ever since an unfortunate incident with a hot wash and a favourite woolly
Tom wrote: "So Amazon created a new forum. It's much different than before and lumps all music together, but it may serve. I created a listening thread for CM.https://www.amazonforum.com/forums/di......"
Interesting you can sign in on a previously banned account. It seems Zon have wiped the slate clean.
How nice of them.
hi tom, mibbe an option for some, but i ain't going back, (even changed my amazon profile back to my real name), as i believe we were treated like shight, and discarded without thought or consideration! so they can go and keech! :) 's much nicer here anyhoo, nobody marks down your comments or spite bombs your reviews with negative votes! so far! :)
I'm with tech on this one. Let's stay here at least until Amazon come back and say sorry to us.
Cool. I am just getting to know this site, but I do like it here.
What difference does it make really? This is no more difficult to use than the amazon site, and mercifully lacks the voting button.
Zon doesn't deserve our participation after the fkd up way they've closed the forums, with nil customer care.
I thought that you were not allowed to set up any Threads like that on the new Amazon.com Forums - they are supposed to be purely Q&A only with just occasional chat also permitted as well and were set up to be all about the Devices that Amazon sell? I heard that several people had already tried to do it but that every time they did Amazon very soon turned up and deleted it?
In the dim and distant when amazon was just beginning, they gave small gifts to customers - post it notes, coffee mugs etc. Now they're successful, they can't even be bothered with politeness...
weirdly, i nipped over to the auld place to see if they were gone yet, and was able to post a final Hill! under my own name!
HEY EVERYONE!!! - SOMEONE JUST POSTED TO ME ON AMAZON!!! ... and I tried to respond and it let me!!! ;o>It's probably a glitch in the System as it shuts down but give it a go and see if it works for you too!
Tech wrote: "weirdly, i nipped over to the auld place to see if they were gone yet, and was able to post a final Hill! under my own name!"Even more weirdly, "Hard..." has reappeared at the top of the list of threads on the pop forum, with two of our friends posting last messages.
Tech wrote: "weirdly, i nipped over to the auld place to see if they were gone yet, and was able to post a final Hill! under my own name!"
The Review Forum is running again. My guess is a glitch, and no one was around to work on it.
The Review Forum is running again. My guess is a glitch, and no one was around to work on it.
It can't last but, hey? - let's go for it and leave messages for anyone who might not have made it here yet so that they know where we are ;o>
I’ve just posted on ‘Hard’ under my usual nom-de-net!
Lez wrote: "I’ve just posted on ‘Hard’ under my usual nom-de-net!"WSo have I. 'Hard' would have been 9 years old on the 22nd October. Murdering amazon barstewards.
Granny wrote: "Anyone else here from Don't Kill Snails With Salt Harry Potter discussion?"Hi, Grach, I've found you! Just followed the snail slime trail and it led here.
I tried using my same monika as on Amazon, but assume they didn't want to include my surname, so 'P' I have become! It must be the shortest ever user name on Goodreads!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Sorry Granny, I don't think so? We are almost all off the UK Amazon Forums and mainly off the Music Forum on there as well.Were you looking for UK Amazon exiles or US Amazon exiles? ;o>
EDIT : I..."
You have gone above and beyond, Suzy! Yup, you got it. Granny is our resident US of A-er, but contributing to a UK Amazon forum. Once upon a way back there were many regulars on the HP site but we were left with a resilient 4. Think all should eventually find their way here as we would otherwise miss each other's 'company'.
Think the happy, care-free mood on here is great so far.
Me, I also was a regular on the Fiction Forum and recognise many names.
Like others, I have been tempted to stay with 'the Auld Place' right to the bitter end to see what 'The Rainforest Postmaster General' is actually gonna do with all those fora - leave them as 'read only' or will he/she incinerate them in a virtual conflagration on Bonfire Night? Thought it was only me at first he/she had it in for when I was renamed 'A. Customer'. After what they have gone and done, I wonder how many of the 'A. Customers' will remain so?
Where have Edit and Reply gone on these threads?
P. Cobb - sadly, ‘zon completely removed all the American forums very soon after closing down.
Lez wrote: "P. Cobb - sadly, ‘zon completely removed all the American forums very soon after closing down."Ah, shame. 10 years of fun posting and for them to just disappear into the ether shows a lack of customer care. Would love to know their reasons for closing all Fora down.
Strange how my name is just appearing to me as 'P', but maybe different to others!Guess I'll fathom out this site in time.
Glad to be a part of what has started out as a good, friendly site!
P wrote: "Strange how my name is just appearing to me as 'P', but maybe different to others!Guess I'll fathom out this site in time.
Glad to be a part of what has started out as a good, friendly site!"
In my Profile I put my whole Username only into the First Name Box and left the rest blank then also put it again into the Display Name Box as well ... nothing else and it still accepted me! - LOL! ;o>
Someone said something about this struggling with their name on here before? And so I wondered if adding or taking away spaces or adding or leaving out punctuation made a difference - or putting your entire Username into the First Name Box was the answer instead?
suzysunshine7 wrote: "P wrote: "Strange how my name is just appearing to me as 'P', but maybe different to others!Guess I'll fathom out this site in time.
Glad to be a part of what has started out as a good, friendly..."
Guess I'll just have to experiment as I go along.
I have a feeling that giving a Surname might be what causes a Name to play up? Try your Amazon Username in it's entirety in the First Name Box and empty all the other Boxes - then put it in again as your Display Name and see if it also works just like mine did for me? ;o>
Will do, Suzy.Heads up, all. Amazon is currently allowing us back in to the fora. Time for your final farewells - although there is no way of knowing how long this will be possible for - after all it is already Friday 13th...
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Paul! Patti! Mary-Ann of the Islands are we all here now in fair land of books?
Granny wrote: "Paul! Patti! Mary-Ann of the Islands are we all here now in fair land of books?"Do feel free to continue to post wherever else you wish on here but I have also just set up a new Group Home Thread for you all under 'General' in Group Discussions.
It is titled ... "Don't Kill Snails with Salt 4 ... and Beyond ..." ... but I can easily change that for you to anything else that you might prefer ;o>
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Gordon, as our Moderator has the ability to create new Forum folders on here - and so hopefully tomorrow he will set up a "Don't Kill Snails with Salt Forum" and move your Thread into it so that you will always easily be able to find it on here ;o>
Post wrote: "Hi everyone, Leitrim is calling.Just made it!"
Hi Post - glad to see you made it to these welcome shores. You were missed!
I sort of miss the "Does this post add to the discussion" button, not for the negative but for the positive. I kind of wish there was a thumbs-up button. I would use it every time I spurted my coffee over the keyboard when a particularly droll comment was made (looking at you tech!).
I must add my congrats to Gordon (and recently Suzy) for their sterling work in providing us with passports, visas, customs & immigration forms, a welcoming home and all those nibbles and drinky-poos. This couch is very comfy .....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB8Uu...
Lez wrote: "Where have Edit and Reply gone on these threads?"They're displaying okay for me. Have they reappeared for you now?
Good Morning folks..two nice surprises today....1...for reasons best only known to Zon..they reopened the forums for a brief spell...and 2...one the favourites from Deals forums has joined up..4th Earl is back...whoohoo! :)
Anyone eaten at one of those 'Asian Street Food' restaurants?Gonna try it today. Hope they have crickets on sticks.
Serial wrote: "Anyone eaten at one of those 'Asian Street Food' restaurants?aye, 'cos kilmarnock's choc a bloc with them! :)
Serial wrote: "Anyone eaten at one of those 'Asian Street Food' restaurants?Gonna try it today. Hope they have crickets on sticks."
There's one in Shrewsbury market hall. It smells delicious but I always make the mistake of going to the market immediately after breakfast, so I've never tried any of the street fare. I don't think they have crickets, or dogs, or even goats.
In fact, come to think of it, I don't think I've eaten curried goat since Notting Hill Carnival 1986. I didn't even find it in Kuala Lumpur, although I do have a precious memory of wandering into a side street in Kowloon and finding a restaurant advertising its house speciality: roast pork tendon.
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