The demise of Talkcoffee

dfk41

I see that there is an announcement over on talkcoffee that they are shutting down, as from February 22nd. They are inviting members to migrate over to coffeeforums.co.uk Of course the real reason for this is the expansion of LSOL (Lighter side of life) where those good people run a non profit subscription service for members where you subscribe on a 3 monthly basis to an unknown coffee, roasted lightly (sometimes) and supplied without any notes leaving you to guess the origins. What capers! This must be a tremendous amount of work for some folks bearing in mind it is non profit……..whatever that may mean. Perhaps they all have big hearts!

Coffeeforums.co.uk dismantled because of the commercial pressures exerted by some folks whereby they treated the forum like their own personal prospecting ground. It is so refreshing to see so many of the old faces migrate back there. I can only think that this non profit exercise imagines that a bigger forum membership means they can increase membership whilst making no profit……or perhaps I have it wrong and am just confused!

Bon voyage! I remember Richard Branson’s Virgin Group bidding twice on running The National Lottery. They were also running a non profit model. You know the sort of thing where the CEO earned hundreds of thousands of £'s but the company made no profit

wintoid

You seem to be expressing a bad feeling of some sort, but it’s gone over my head I’m afraid. I’m obviously unaware of what has been done to you to require this response. If you want me to understand, you’ll have to be less subtle. I hate this sort of factional shit, though. One of the worst things about the internet IMHO.

I am a member at both sites, although I drink decaf now only, so don’t participate in LSOL, but I did it and enjoyed it. I doubt I’ll go back to coffeeforums. I wish them well.

dfk41

wintoid Yes, the internet ca be a funny place matey. I do no think I said anything horrible. Perhaps just a hint of sarcasm but as far as I know we still live in a free society……just

Uncletits

I use both sites still. There’s been a large influx of returning members in recent days “not been here for years” and announced this morning the return of LSOL.

Doesn’t really bother me as I enjoy the other site for simpler, cheaper machines and this site for fabulous info on refining my workflow, advice on equipment and water for example.

This site has also been a lot quieter since we lost Dave but happy to go between both and always have.

Cuprajake

ive just asked the mod to delete my account on there

cba with it now, esp the timing of it, really stinks, accidentally or purposely.

the other forum was a ghost town, talk coffee is mainly bots and hidden mods bumping 10yr old threads, the guy who sold it played a blinder.

as regards to here, its difficult when you loose someone like dave, his input and knowledge as well as the stuff he did behind the scenes,

when the forums split ways he had a horrible time blocking and deleting spam users.

hopefully we can continue what small community we have, but the technical knowledge will never be the same.