Sharpshooter Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 One advice I’ll give is, save your attachments to your phone, laptop, computer. Once this site ends, the data will be lost to us. We have all saved pics of things that are important to us, that we want to save and carry over to our new site. Be a step ahead. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 8 minutes ago, hockeyville88 said: Just heard the news. I haven’t been on here a whole lot in the past couple years, but there was a period of time where I think I spent more time with the folks on CTC than I did with my own family and friends lol. It has been an absolute pleasure following the team with all of you. I have always envisioned coming on here after the team wins the cup and celebrating with all of you. Keep being amazing, loyal fans, and take care of yourselves! I missed you Miss. Among the all time great Mods and posters. Make sure you join us at the new site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 1 minute ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said: Let that go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brilac Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 I decided I'm calling Green Building in case he does not know! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brilac Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Alright, I left a VM! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Arrogant Worms Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 1 hour ago, CanuckRookieFan said: I think it's a mistake for the Province to write that article, they need to choose their battles. Sticking up for the fans over this may prove to have dire consequences, you don't want to undermine the NHL or disrespect their power which is what the Province did essentially by advertising the new forum and writing about the closure a huge slap in the face to the powers that closed the forum and the Province will pay for that move.. just was a mistake for the Province honestly shouldn't have done it. We will agree to disagree 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, The Arrogant Worms said: We will agree to disagree I love that they advertised our new home. Everyone is welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWJC Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Canucks: Team shuts down popular website fan forums, fans lament the loss "It really kept me in the loop and I feel like I'm going to be lost without it now…. Kind of a shocking day," said one fan. Patrick Johnston Published Sep 16, 2023 • Last Updated 2 hours ago The news arrived quietly, but those who saw it reacted with great shock. The Vancouver Canucks are shutting down Canucks.com’s fan forums, which at one time were the leading place online to talk about the Canucks and a model for fan engagement across the NHL. In a message that fans first started noticing late Friday, roughly around the end of the Canucks’ 7-1 win over the Calgary Flames at the Young Stars Classic in Penticton, the site’s administrators revealed that the forums would be closing at the end of September. The message reads: “Dear Canucks fans and forum users, “We want to thank you for your passion, your millions of posts and your interest in our team and this site. It has been an incredible journey and an entertaining experience. Unfortunately, the time has come to shut down this forum and turn the page on what has been an incredible novel to read. It will remain active until the end of the month and be closed October 1st. “Be sure to follow us on social media and download our mobile app for breaking news and content on your Vancouver Canucks. We also look forward to seeing you at Rogers Arena this season. “Go Canucks Go!” The Canucks declined to comment, simply pointing to the statement posted online Friday. Known officially as Canucks community forums but known colloquially by the acronym CDC — for Canucks Dot Com — the forums first came online two decades ago and quickly became one of the most vibrant sites online for discussion about the province’s favourite pro sports team. Kevin Kinghorn, who headed up the Canucks’ digital team for years and now works for the Portland Trail Blazers, said that over about a five year stretch about 15 years ago, the Canucks’ website was the busiest site in the NHL’s network, with a large portion of that driven by activity on the forums. “It was about giving the fans a voice and that’s what made it so incredibly powerful. It created an online community around the brand,” Kinghorn told Postmedia. Creating a space for fans to interact was good for the Canucks’ business, he believed. There had been smaller, niche spaces like Usenet newsgroups before, but what Canucks.com came to offer was a central hub. There was some moderation in place, mostly administered by the users themselves, and commentary of all sorts, positive or negative, critical or surface-level cheerleading — all of it welcomed. “We always looked at it as a place for the fans, managed by the fans. What was really important was we gave people a place to communicate about the team. It was very hands off,” he added. “It was really just about fan-building.” The forums were so busy they needed the attention of a staffer. Kinghorn hired Byron Ribble to supervise the forums. “It was such a great time,” Ribble said. At times, senior team executives would push to shut down the message boards because they’d come across a thread critical of the team, but the team’s digital staff always pushed back, saying that the community it provided, shown in the high number of page views, brought the team far more overall value, added Ryan Nicholas, who worked alongside Kinghorn and Ribble from 2013 to 2020. As word of the pending closure spread, fans paid tribute to the site and what it has meant to them on the forums, and on social media sites and with Postmedia. “It was the first space where I found my voice as a Canucks fan. I remember joining in ’03 when I was in Grade 5. For a long time it was the only place for the Canuck fan community until Twitter took off,” Arpan Parhar said Saturday. “If you are a diehard millennial Canucks fan, there have been a few moments in the last few years to remind you your childhood is dead. Sedins’ retirement was one of them. CDC closing is another.” For Garrett Milne, who lives in Kitimat, CDC was a way to connect with B.C. fans. “Been on the forums since around 2009, never had an account, never got into any of the drama. It was just the best place to get all the news and signings first, great place to read articles and watch videos of prospects,” he said in a message to Postmedia. “It really kept me in the loop and I feel like I’m going to be lost without it now…. Kind of a shocking day.” He always preferred to go to CDC becasue it kept everything in one spot, instead of having to navigate his way through the chaos of X (formerly Twitter). “Instead of scrolling Twitter trying to find every highlight or interview from different reporters, the forum was one centralized place where each player and prospect had its own thread, making it easy to see clips of Euro prospects and the NCAA guys,” Milne added. “Of course there would be idiots on there trying to cut the team down, yadda yadda, but for the most part it just seemed like dedicated Canucks fans who wanted to talk hockey and share opinions.” Kevin Madigan, known on CDC as “kmad,” grew up in Nelson, then moved to Castlegar to attend Selkirk College and said the forums were a formative part of his life. He signed up for CDC in February 2003, not long after the forums launched. “Being on that forum allowed me to feel like I was involved, despite being a 12-hour Greyhound ride from home ice,” Madigan said. “Maybe it was for the best, as I probably would have attended that Free Bertuzzi rally outside of GM Place if I’d been living in Vancouver at the time.” When he moved to Vancouver a few years later, a CDC forum user known as phuser22 let him crash on his couch while Madigan searched for a job and a place to live. “Since I knew nobody else when I moved here, the people I’d known from the forums became my closest friends. I counted a while back and I’d met well over 100 different people from there. Lots of meetups at the Cambie,” he said. He’s still in a hockey pool with about 14 others from their old days on CDC, which he said is the most meaningful thing to have come out of his days posting on the forums. The commissioner of the pool is Miles Tautscher, who admits he has never won in the 15 years the pool has been running. Tautscher is among those who found love via CDC, meeting the woman who became his wife. The couple now has two children. “We were both teenagers on CDC at the time and we weren’t overtly looking for partners. But it was the days of MSN messenger and one thing led to another and here we are,” he said. Posters at CDC also started a number of threads lamenting the loss of their forum, both to vent and also to recall the good times. “Mine — and I’m sure a lot of other people’s favourite — has to be the, ‘Burrows? Do we really need him?’ Thread. That thread will always be iconic, always made me laugh when I needed it,” poster Apricot wrote. “The guy who was on a date, and the toilet backed up, and went to CDC for advice,” wrote TheGhostof1915. “Raymond, Ballard and a 2nd,” quipped Billabong, referencing the long-standing love fans have for posting their own trade proposals, which are often structured around a player they don’t like, plus throwing in a draft pick. Wyatt Arndt is one of the popular Canucks writers of the past decade, who first found his voice posting to places like CDC. “Before Twitter, the place to talk Canucks hockey WAS the Canucks.com message boards,” he said in a text message. “Today people go to Twitter but back then we all filed into the game day thread to hang out together and yell about hockey.” With the rise of Twitter, Youtube and Reddit, the CDC forums have declined in prominence, but for years it was the only outlet for fans to gather online. Arndt said: “Without CDC I might not have a sports writing career. It allowed me to test out my writing in front of an audience and I also read a lot of other hockey opinions on there, which helped deepen and broaden the way I thought about hockey.” Other fans quickly set up a new unofficial site, where they hope the vibe of the official site would carry on: forumcanucks.com. pjohnston@postmedia.com twitter.com/risingaction https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/canucks-team-shuts-down-popular-website-fan-forums-fans-lament-the-loss/wcm/d5c20087-f148-4abb-8e86-092f492dbdc0/amp/ 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 11 minutes ago, RWJC said: Canucks: Team shuts down popular website fan forums, fans lament the loss "It really kept me in the loop and I feel like I'm going to be lost without it now…. Kind of a shocking day," said one fan. Patrick Johnston Published Sep 16, 2023 • Last Updated 2 hours ago The news arrived quietly, but those who saw it reacted with great shock. The Vancouver Canucks are shutting down Canucks.com’s fan forums, which at one time were the leading place online to talk about the Canucks and a model for fan engagement across the NHL. In a message that fans first started noticing late Friday, roughly around the end of the Canucks’ 7-1 win over the Calgary Flames at the Young Stars Classic in Penticton, the site’s administrators revealed that the forums would be closing at the end of September. The message reads: “Dear Canucks fans and forum users, “We want to thank you for your passion, your millions of posts and your interest in our team and this site. It has been an incredible journey and an entertaining experience. Unfortunately, the time has come to shut down this forum and turn the page on what has been an incredible novel to read. It will remain active until the end of the month and be closed October 1st. “Be sure to follow us on social media and download our mobile app for breaking news and content on your Vancouver Canucks. We also look forward to seeing you at Rogers Arena this season. “Go Canucks Go!” The Canucks declined to comment, simply pointing to the statement posted online Friday. Known officially as Canucks community forums but known colloquially by the acronym CDC — for Canucks Dot Com — the forums first came online two decades ago and quickly became one of the most vibrant sites online for discussion about the province’s favourite pro sports team. Kevin Kinghorn, who headed up the Canucks’ digital team for years and now works for the Portland Trail Blazers, said that over about a five year stretch about 15 years ago, the Canucks’ website was the busiest site in the NHL’s network, with a large portion of that driven by activity on the forums. “It was about giving the fans a voice and that’s what made it so incredibly powerful. It created an online community around the brand,” Kinghorn told Postmedia. Creating a space for fans to interact was good for the Canucks’ business, he believed. There had been smaller, niche spaces like Usenet newsgroups before, but what Canucks.com came to offer was a central hub. There was some moderation in place, mostly administered by the users themselves, and commentary of all sorts, positive or negative, critical or surface-level cheerleading — all of it welcomed. “We always looked at it as a place for the fans, managed by the fans. What was really important was we gave people a place to communicate about the team. It was very hands off,” he added. “It was really just about fan-building.” The forums were so busy they needed the attention of a staffer. Kinghorn hired Byron Ribble to supervise the forums. “It was such a great time,” Ribble said. At times, senior team executives would push to shut down the message boards because they’d come across a thread critical of the team, but the team’s digital staff always pushed back, saying that the community it provided, shown in the high number of page views, brought the team far more overall value, added Ryan Nicholas, who worked alongside Kinghorn and Ribble from 2013 to 2020. As word of the pending closure spread, fans paid tribute to the site and what it has meant to them on the forums, and on social media sites and with Postmedia. “It was the first space where I found my voice as a Canucks fan. I remember joining in ’03 when I was in Grade 5. For a long time it was the only place for the Canuck fan community until Twitter took off,” Arpan Parhar said Saturday. “If you are a diehard millennial Canucks fan, there have been a few moments in the last few years to remind you your childhood is dead. Sedins’ retirement was one of them. CDC closing is another.” For Garrett Milne, who lives in Kitimat, CDC was a way to connect with B.C. fans. “Been on the forums since around 2009, never had an account, never got into any of the drama. It was just the best place to get all the news and signings first, great place to read articles and watch videos of prospects,” he said in a message to Postmedia. “It really kept me in the loop and I feel like I’m going to be lost without it now…. Kind of a shocking day.” He always preferred to go to CDC becasue it kept everything in one spot, instead of having to navigate his way through the chaos of X (formerly Twitter). “Instead of scrolling Twitter trying to find every highlight or interview from different reporters, the forum was one centralized place where each player and prospect had its own thread, making it easy to see clips of Euro prospects and the NCAA guys,” Milne added. “Of course there would be idiots on there trying to cut the team down, yadda yadda, but for the most part it just seemed like dedicated Canucks fans who wanted to talk hockey and share opinions.” Kevin Madigan, known on CDC as “kmad,” grew up in Nelson, then moved to Castlegar to attend Selkirk College and said the forums were a formative part of his life. He signed up for CDC in February 2003, not long after the forums launched. “Being on that forum allowed me to feel like I was involved, despite being a 12-hour Greyhound ride from home ice,” Madigan said. “Maybe it was for the best, as I probably would have attended that Free Bertuzzi rally outside of GM Place if I’d been living in Vancouver at the time.” When he moved to Vancouver a few years later, a CDC forum user known as phuser22 let him crash on his couch while Madigan searched for a job and a place to live. “Since I knew nobody else when I moved here, the people I’d known from the forums became my closest friends. I counted a while back and I’d met well over 100 different people from there. Lots of meetups at the Cambie,” he said. He’s still in a hockey pool with about 14 others from their old days on CDC, which he said is the most meaningful thing to have come out of his days posting on the forums. The commissioner of the pool is Miles Tautscher, who admits he has never won in the 15 years the pool has been running. Tautscher is among those who found love via CDC, meeting the woman who became his wife. The couple now has two children. “We were both teenagers on CDC at the time and we weren’t overtly looking for partners. But it was the days of MSN messenger and one thing led to another and here we are,” he said. Posters at CDC also started a number of threads lamenting the loss of their forum, both to vent and also to recall the good times. “Mine — and I’m sure a lot of other people’s favourite — has to be the, ‘Burrows? Do we really need him?’ Thread. That thread will always be iconic, always made me laugh when I needed it,” poster Apricot wrote. “The guy who was on a date, and the toilet backed up, and went to CDC for advice,” wrote TheGhostof1915. “Raymond, Ballard and a 2nd,” quipped Billabong, referencing the long-standing love fans have for posting their own trade proposals, which are often structured around a player they don’t like, plus throwing in a draft pick. Wyatt Arndt is one of the popular Canucks writers of the past decade, who first found his voice posting to places like CDC. “Before Twitter, the place to talk Canucks hockey WAS the Canucks.com message boards,” he said in a text message. “Today people go to Twitter but back then we all filed into the game day thread to hang out together and yell about hockey.” With the rise of Twitter, Youtube and Reddit, the CDC forums have declined in prominence, but for years it was the only outlet for fans to gather online. Arndt said: “Without CDC I might not have a sports writing career. It allowed me to test out my writing in front of an audience and I also read a lot of other hockey opinions on there, which helped deepen and broaden the way I thought about hockey.” Other fans quickly set up a new unofficial site, where they hope the vibe of the official site would carry on: forumcanucks.com. pjohnston@postmedia.com twitter.com/risingaction https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/canucks-team-shuts-down-popular-website-fan-forums-fans-lament-the-loss/wcm/d5c20087-f148-4abb-8e86-092f492dbdc0/amp/ Kevin Kinghorn knew what was up. He treated us well and it was a sorry day when he left. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd. Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Also Dale Tallon is with the team? Tf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenhodgejr Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this and been a part of my hockey comments. My trade proposals were often out to lunch but i still had fun doing them. I hope to see you all on a new forum soon. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, Odd. said: Also Dale Tallon is with the team? Tf Did you miss the hire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ghostsof1915 Posted September 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 17, 2023 And of course it's MY quote that makes the article. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxVerstappen33 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 9 hours ago, EP Phone Home said: Really feeling like an end of times moment with this news. I’m not even kidding. This place was a safe space for mental health and an escape from the day to day (which has been getting bleak). Why does this need to happen right before the season starting up? It’s been such a ride with so many knowledgeable passionate people on here but not just about hockey but about life and relatable topics. As much you all have been great hockey minds, you have all been a great Canuck family. It’s a dark day I wasn’t expecting. I wish you all the best and your unlimited love for this team and franchise. Yeah. This forum was upbeat. Here for the gifs was the motto. It was upbeat compared to HF boards or the forums like that where ppl were too serious about it all. I still just don't understand why. This was a club owned forum. i thought it would go into the future with the club forever 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chon derry Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 1 hour ago, -DLC- said: (we've got those...we just don't advertise them) How do we get ahold of them? Asking for a friend 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlakeQuinnAndEggs Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, MaxVerstappen33 said: Yeah. This forum was upbeat. Here for the gifs was the motto. It was upbeat compared to HF boards or the forums like that where ppl were too serious about it all. I still just don't understand why. This was a club owned forum. i thought it would go into the future with the club forever It's cancel culture. There can be some suggestive posts made here around current events that one could feel as offensive. I know I've made a few. The team is covering its ass. But as others have said a fan run forum is probably for the better. We are all gonna call CFF CDC still most likely anyway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen Erased Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 9 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said: And of course it's MY quote that makes the article. I remember that post when it was first posted. One time I copied it verbatim to troll a chat room haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 1 hour ago, VegasCanuck said: The fact that this management group can't figure out how to turn the forum into a profit center for the team is beyond belief. I've been creating online sales, lead generation and business for 25 years and I know multi-million dollar corporations who would KILL to have a direct path to engage their consumers at the level this forum affords the team. This decision shows a complete lack of imagination and understanding of how 21st century business works. Whoever made this decision, needs to be fired as they don't understanding running an organization past the 80's. I don't visit Canucks.com, I come to https://forums.canucks.com and see what's happening. From Forums, I can engage with all of you and I can choose to go to other parts of the Canucks.com site, including ticket sales and the NHL shop which is how they generate revenue. I can access all other parts of the site from here, but the number of times I've just gone to Canucks.com in the last 5 years, I can probably count on one hand and it's probably similar for a lot of you. This is our central access to the team, the place where we rally from and talk and network as a group and a community, but this group doesn't understand that concept for one simple reason. THEY CHOOSE NOT TO ENGAGE THEIR FANS WHERE THEY LIVE! They shouldn't be shutting this down, they should be starting a section in here called GM's corner, where Allvin posts a video once a month, answering some prescreened questions posed there by fans. THAT IS ENGAGEMENT. They should be running promotions directly to their fans, special opportunities that aren't available anywhere else. THAT IS ENGAGEMENT. A part of a businesses 21st century valuation is how many people are visiting their site, their overall traffic count, page views etc. They just did a lot to undermine that, someone needs to make Aqualini aware of that concept and how it will, even at a low level devalue his asset. I don't know a damned thing about tech(proud dinosaur), but your agreeable opening paras are just more proof, IMHO This change was imposed upon the owners. Mandate from League Hindquarters. Otherwise appears they're killin the golden goose, for no good reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 20 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said: And of course it's MY quote that makes the article. Can I get your autograph? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 9 minutes ago, Citizen Erased said: I remember that post when it was first posted. One time I copied it verbatim to troll a chat room haha. I still think that was a gag post, but I was chuckling for a while there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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