(APRIL FOOLS) Apolyton & CivFanatics Merging!

Two of the Internet's leading Civilization fan sites have forged a permanent alliance. Dan "DanQ" Quick, Chief Owner/Administrator of Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS), and Thunderfall, Site Administrator of Civilization Fanatics Center (CFC), are merging their respective operations to form Civilization Junction (civjunction.com). The two will take on the role and titles of Co-Owner/Administrator, much like Quick and fellow ACS co-founder Markos "MarkG" Giannopoulos did in 1998 when merging their individual CivII fan sites.

By the end of the month, most of ACS' and CFC's services will be integrated and made available to the public under the CivJunction (CJ) banner. Among the highlights: the disbandment of Apolyton's Directory service in favor of CivFanatics' Downloads Database, the en-masse incorporation of Apolyton's CivGroups service and moulding that site's PLUS subscription service into a pay-for model for key operations including "Game of the Month", "Hall of Fame", and "Junction University". Work is already underway to merge the sites' two forums. After the merge, the combined forum will have nearly 10 million posts, making it the 77th biggest forum on the web.

ACS and CFC staff have been working hard behind the scenes for much of the current year in preparation for this announcement. Other than Quick and Thunderfall themselves, many of the existing staff members are expected to join the staff of the combined site, although they may play a different role. Individuals who have served on neither parent site's staff will also be a part of CJ's team.

"This is a truly exciting time for the Civilization community. We believe it's in the community's best interest to merge the two biggest and oldest fan sites, to make it the ultimate destination for all things Civilization", said Thunderfall.

"We are seizing on the opportunity to combine the extensive resources of both Apolyton and CivFanatics that have been cultivated for many years”, said Quick when asked to comment. “Some may ask why we are taking this significant step now. To them I say, why not now?"

Hmmm. Posted on the 1st of April...

April fools? Please?

I like our name Civilization Junction will/would take getting used too. This has been a turmultious (SP?) weekend.

Yeah, really needs a new name.

Wtf ?

April Fool's!!!

Please? This is way too much hassle if it isn't.

Thunderfall said:

By the end of the month, most of ACS' and CFC's services will be integrated and made available to the public under the CivJunction (CJ) banner. Among the highlights: the disbandment of Apolyton's Directory service in favor of CivFanatics' Downloads Database, the en-masse incorporation of Apolyton's CivGroups service and moulding that site's PLUS subscription service into a pay-for model for key operations including "Game of the Month", "Hall of Fame", and "Junction University".

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Does this mean that the War Academy and Hall of Fame will shift to "pay for access" ?

OK, this is an April Fool's joke. Has to be.

News also on Apolyton: http://www.apolyton.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164460

This had got to be an April Fools joke. Seriously there's too much difference between Apolyton and Civfanatics. Merging us and them would be like merging the Republican and Democratic parties.

I don't like it...

In fact, I hate it....

I hope this is a friggen joke! Apolyton's OT is ******ed! It consists entirely of one word posts followed by Thumbsup or Thumbsdown smilies!

I also echo the statment that if we use Apolyton's horrendously crappy forum look and av scheme for the new forums I'll cry and cry and cry!

Looking at the date this was posted, I'll take it to be April Fools.

Bah, Perfbill3000 is a way better merger joke and we put it into place before you!

Perfbill3000: 1
Thunderming: 0

What is to become of the chat room? and more importantly, please say you aren't using whatever forum software that 'poly uses; it's layout is far from clean and readable.

vbraun said:

What is to become of the chat room?

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Thunderfall PMed me, it'll be turned over to Fifty and me.

Perfection said:

Thunderfall PMed me, it'll be turned over to Fifty and me.

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indeed. and admined in a manner congruent with that present at #fiftychat. Sorry veeb, but you, Strider, and croxis will have to take your Linux talk elsewhere!

If this is a joke, I'm not really amused. If it's not a joke... *sigh*

Ha! You had me for a few minutes or so.

It's a joke, right?

Right?

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Rofllollmao

Seriously, going from an easy to read, cheap site to a hard to read, not so nicely set out and costly(for plus) would be like commiting suicide for CFC. Sure, alot of people might make the change but alot wont.

By posting this i am intellectual (April fools!)

When the thread Mod Leaving was still in SF, I observed that they are waiting, they know everything but are waiting for a certain date to post it.