[The Starport News]Acquisition of an old domain

So amazing new! LancersReactor can also sleep great tonight! Realy Happy to learn to learn it! FL community will apreciat it! 8-) I’m so GLAD here!

You are awesome, Mr. Anonymous Donator.

Great purchase, guys! Hopefully this will help to restabilize the Freelancer community. Or do whatever voodoo is intended to be done by this.

Quite apparently OP thinks otherwise. That’s rather unfortunate.

What obstacles prevented us from obtaining this domain sooner?

It was still owned by that random Jason guy who tried to use it to promote some kind of online browser game. Then it fell into disuse before being put back on availability, as far as I know through an auction.

Did someone just literally say “here’s the domain” Or was it more a “I’d like to get you the domain”

Or is that classified

There was an auction. It is common for link farmers to snatch domains that still receive traffic.

Thanks to a group effort, we won that auction. Any more information doesnt really matter.

in right hands!
-= nice news =-

Must admit, used to think the domain register holders (on behalf of whomever bought it) used to sell old domains in bulk to such sitters… so really glad it’s going to be back to what it should be - Freelancer

But the current isn’t ? As from my point of view, the only Lancer’s Reactor will remain the existent one, and not the new (well old) domain you acquired. It might be a great achievement though, but think about this… do you really expect TLR members to come to join the “new” one that is hosted by TSP ?

Dave.Synk wrote:
But the current isn’t ? As from my point of view, the only Lancer’s Reactor will remain the existent one, and not the new (well old) domain you acquired. It might be a great achievement though, but think about this… do you really expect TLR members to come to join the “new” one that is hosted by TSP ?

Why do people assume it is only to try and steal members? Utterly baffled by this perception. Members post on places they want to. If people want to post on a site, they post on a site. If they don’t, they don’t. You can’t “steal” members… so where is this perception coming from? :roll:

By the simple fact that there can’t exist two domains having the same name. In our case, we will have TLR.com and TLR.org… what point exists in this ?

Look, the TLR should be viewed in this way: It holds the archive and any news that gets posted. This is how it is and how it should be. It will serve the global FL community at large… even if its not as big as it once was.

Let the TLR rest finally, the community that it once held has dispersed and is mixed into other communities…

The perception that TLR has a community still is silly… TLR.org has old members from TLR.com But SO does this site. Does that mean we are BOTH TLR Communities? No. It simply means we all found a different “home”

You can think what you like, about us having “hidden” motives etc… You can bet your best sunday dress and a packet of minstrels that we are being as transparent about everything as possible. You may think this was only done for members… Um hello? What part of “We are doing this as a service to everyone because we feel its right to do so” If we get members out of it… so what! Its a GOOD THING if we do, it shows us that there are STILL people out there that are interested in the same thing we are… Freelancer.

/2 cents

Dave.Synk wrote:
By the simple fact that there can’t exist two domains having the same name. In our case, we will have TLR.com and TLR.org… what point exists in this ?

Why does it HAVE to be the same website? Just because it shares a name does NOT mean its the same website. by ANY stretch of the imagination.

It’s like looking at two cups that are identical but different in colour, you may or may not prefer one over the other, or you might like them just the same, either way, they are different.

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I’ve edited this because people may read my post and comment.

Simply put - read what w0dka and Friendlyfire write below. Explained - it’s simple, fair, and decent

So you’ve heard reasons, but I dont necessarily agree they are the primary reasons why we wanted to secure the TLR.com domain and not have it direct to TLR.org:

I think the primary reason for doing so is that users coming to TLR.org get a filtered view on the Freelancer community. Not only is TLR.org heavily biased towards Swat/Crossfire, it also actually censors our site. I can also name a lot of other reasons but they would be more on a personal level.

Now, I think that with TLR.com being with us, we can give old returning as well as new visitors a very open minded view on the FL community. The richly filled community bar links to almost any FL site, and the news are the latest in Freelancer development. I’d hate seeing all these users lost to a community that is run by a person that thinks we want to destroy FL.

Indeed. People can arrive on the TLR.com landing page and go anywhere from there. It’s their decision. They can go to TLR.org if they want, or FLC, or here, or Discovery, or SWAT-Portal or anywhere really. It gives them the choice and lets them know the community is widespread and still very much alive. We don’t censor site names on bullshit accusations - I thought we’d went past this after the AzzA days.

TLR.org is free to continue to exist as they already were. To them, nothing has changed. I can also guarantee you that we won’t try to transform TSP in TLR.com or something; the domain will remain a gateway to access the rest of the community and the archives. To find answers, friends, and servers.

So pure, untainted, and equal function for all - even better than I thought and sounding about as fair as it can be

So Lancersreactor.com won’t be “the centre of the Freelancer universe” - which seemed to annoy people with the really old version of it (and I assume people thought it would try to be again), and it won’t have direct community of it’s own to get embroiled in issues either.

It will simply be a landing and linking place for all Freelancer communities, providing a centralised repository and news location.

Link to ModDB too?

Congratulations on what you have achieved and what you are doing.

MAYBE…. You can install a SNS app on the domain so TLR.com can be a player playground.

I am aware of the “legendary” conflict between TSP and TLR and from my point of view this is intended to be a hit to the current TLR portal (at least half of the intention is to hit TLR). But again, It is not normal to have 2 TLR on the web. Imagine if the TSP had a clone with .org or whatever domain it could be, think about how the community would’ve felt when they see the clone created. All their work, all their efforts and so on. Just give it a picture. On a second note, about TLR.org activity. I need to say the contrary and not that I am part of TLR, but I daily watch it’s activity on the forums, registered members (again daily registered members), and even the gallery which is very up-to-date as well and should I say that TLR is working on it’s official mod ?. In my opinion OP tries very hard to maintain 2 very big FL networks which share a huge amount of resources for modding, and his job is being kept difficult because of some issues that happened long time ago. I respect you for what you achieved here, I really missed the old domain, since it was for me the source where I heard for the first time the word “mod” for a game. And think of the work put into the current TLR, I don’t want to create inflammatory topics because I know as I said before, the eternal conflict… and well no side want’s to make steps to a close collaboration.