The Yoyonation forums are gone for good...

I didn’t know chris was still part of the yoyo community. Guess i’m out of the loop.

Yes, either or, possibly both.

Yeah - it wouldn’t be easy. But I don’t think it’s overblowing it’s value to say that it remains a valuable resource and slice of yoyo history.

Sad to hear that. But migrating an old platform to a newer platform may be really time consuming and also expensive. Once it is on a new platform, someone has to maintain it and keep it updated.

To those who still wants to access it, you can go to https://web.archive.org/web/20150312202710/http://www.yoyonation.com/talk/index.php?
and go over around 2013, the newer ones seems to have some page not working.
Not the best way, but at least you can still scavenge some info of it.

Edit: never mind, there is no actual thread archived.

I like YYN fine, but I have to say I’d blow WAY more time going through the old ExtremeSpin board, or even more… yoyoing.com/news!

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I think yoyoing.com/news is at least still archived as well. I wonder about extremespin?

Last I looked a few years back extreme spin was taken over by spammers, so much so that the first 2-3 pages of each forum were spam - porn, ecigs, credit cards, and phones from nigeria.

I only really miss LilithBunny.

Any particularly good deals? :slight_smile:

For realz. I spent sooooo many hours going through those. Those were such a treasure trove.

Mostly the same guys we whacked over at the other place. Great deals on unlocked Iphones - “Just send us yer credit card and we’ll take care of the rest…” :slight_smile:

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/yoyo/images/7/7c/ExtremeSpin-logo.png/revision/latest?cb=20130928193010
Extreme Spin

Time out, since when was yoyoing.com/news archived? Good god I must know.

I’d like to know where this is too. Every time I’ve tried it on the wayback machine all you can see is the page with the topics on it, past that nothing comes up :-\

Awesome! I don’t see any possible downsides to this. :slight_smile:

Contact greg, he took it down because of some re coding and just never did it. I didn’t mean too suggest you could find it online. Just that it is still complete somewhere.

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I’ve been a bit nostalgic for my time there, Ed kindly answered whatever fool question about yo-yoing crossed my consciousness, and I made quite a few online friends there.

An archived forum would be awesome. Even if PW protected.

I actually googled yoyonation in an attempt to look up some of my old contacts from “back in the day”

Also - Hi everyone! That search brought me here. Not sure if anyone remembers me from YYN forums. Im sure ill recognize a few on here :smiley:

Geez! I remember being on the Extreme Spin forum all the time!!! So many late night yo-yo discussions… Lol

Sorry for the necro, but just wanted to weigh in nostalgically. :slight_smile: It would still cost something to put old forum data up and make it accessible publicly, unfortunately. But I remember wget-ing several years of yoyoing.com because I thought it would be of historical interest someday. Once distilled, it could be the threaded equivalent of Malko’s book, which I always enjoyed because it showed the good and the not-so-good aspects of yo-yoing (e.g. the loneliness of demonstrators back in the day). And just like the early days of yo-yoing that “The One and Only Yo-Yo Book” covers, I believe the 90s and early millennium period that are reflected in these webboards deserve coverage, if only for the burgeoning development of all aspects of yo-yoing that occurred during that time.