Metropol 24/7

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Sput
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Hymagumba wrote:
Trilight wrote:
metro.png
Maybe as a joke you should slap this logo on for a day or so.
what I good idea. And perhaps I should use your design for the new look metropol too? Do you think it would look good, I mean really. Compare it to the current look, even this is better than your mock.

fool.
If there IS a new look coming that's not DS :roll:
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Hymagumba wrote:FAO: The Lurker.

You are boring and annoying. Please improve yourself for refrain from posting.

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Thanks for welcoming me. I'm glad to be here! :P
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Sput wrote:Alright, I've been around since the very beginning of Metropol's days as The Lounge, but I still have no idea why it's called Metropol 24/7. I understand the second bit,even though it's blatant false advertising at the moment. Anyone know where the name came from?
Perhaps I can shed a bit of light on that :P ...

It really was a case of picking a random-ish name that I liked the sound of, and was fairly ambiguous.

The 24/7 was tacked on for no reason other than that the domain name metropol.co.uk and .com were taken! I either had to settle for a .org.uk domain or add something on to the name. The 24/7 element led the creation of the original strapline 'online, all the time'. Of course, from day one I knew '24/7' was asking for trouble when the site would/did inevitably have downtime!
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Martin wrote:
Sput wrote:Alright, I've been around since the very beginning of Metropol's days as The Lounge, but I still have no idea why it's called Metropol 24/7. I understand the second bit,even though it's blatant false advertising at the moment. Anyone know where the name came from?
Perhaps I can shed a bit of light on that :P ...

It really was a case of picking a random-ish name that I liked the sound of, and was fairly ambiguous.

The 24/7 was tacked on for no reason other than that the domain name metropol.co.uk and .com were taken! I either had to settle for a .org.uk domain or add something on to the name. The 24/7 element led the creation of the original strapline 'online, all the time'. Of course, from day one I knew '24/7' was asking for trouble when the site would/did inevitably have downtime!
YAY martin! Long time no see! I trust you're well? So Metropol is almost completely arbitary. Fab. I guess it makes as much sense for a name as Digital Spy. I thought that was a sex toy for a while...
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Sput wrote:Hyma: on the new permanent metropol can you turn off the thing that congratulates me on having logged in? I'd be much happier having it take me STRAIGHT to the forum when I've filled in the form. I don't want to miss anything going on in this vibrant and dynamic place.
This request has been fulfilled and shall appear with the all new metropol, soon.
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I'm glad the 247 bit doesn't need to me included. Let's just pretend it doesn't exist apart from in the address bar on our browsers.

Or we could even rename it to something else:

Neon Forum
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Jamez wrote:Or we could even rename it to something else:
Neon Forum
Hedgehog Online
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In what way are they are better names? (unless you have just bought those domain names and intend to sell them to Gav at a handsome profit)
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I like the name Metropol.

Besides, if we call it Neon, I'll be constantly reminded of a few BBC idents. Perhaps.
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StuartPlymouth wrote:
Jamez wrote:Or we could even rename it to something else:
Neon Forum
Hedgehog Online
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In what way are they are better names?
my god Stu you really know NOTHING of the old days do you.
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Haha!

No, well you need to have been lurking around this corner of the internet since at least the summer of 2001.

I wonder what happened to Ian Scrounger and Hedgehog Online? It was going to be this big amazing website, but nothing ever came of it.

EDIT: I've just been to hedgehogonline.com and there's yet another holding page. It's gone from BBC News red to blue. I wonder if that site has ever had anything other than a holding page!
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Hymagumba wrote:my god Stu you really know NOTHING of the old days do you.
Even I have to marvel at the total display of ignorance in Mr Plymouth's original post there.

I think the motto ought to be "If you don't not know nothing about nothing, then don't not try to talk about it".

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