RockHawk
Active member
.NET Family,
I'm extremely pleased to announce that .NET has been sold to a couple of great guys, one of which is a .NET'er since 1998 and throughout the many phases of the site. Jamie (Wenhawk) understands what makes this forum the special place it is, and wants to keep that feeling of community moving forward. I'm extremely excited for he and his business partner Tony (Touchdown) to take the reigns and inject some new ideas and blood into this place we love.
As for Neal & I, I wanted to personally thank you all for an incredible ride over the last 12 years I've owned the site. We've went from around 35K unique visitors per month in 2007 to well over 1/2 a million per month regularly. This is due to all of you, making the site interesting and creating excellent conversations & opinions.
Most of all, I want to give my heartfelt thanks to the following:
1 - All of you who have donated your time or money to help keep the forum up and running for so long. The dozens of moderators, admins, and chat mods who donate their time never get the recognition they deserve, and those of you that donate your money to help cover the costs of our not-for-profit business have made a huge difference in keeping this small business afloat. I sincerely can not thank you enough.
2 - Les (Radish) who will always be remembered for making this forum into more than just a place to talk sports. He made it into a family and community. He'll always be the heart and soul of this place, and he's missed every day.
3 - Neal (Anguish) who stepped up and helped me architect this site into the powerhouse it is now, asking for nothing in return, because of his love for the Hawks and .NET. You probably haven't even noticed just how stable and fast this forum is for the past several years, but for those that remember the days after the Scout.com break, that wasn't always the case. He is the primary reason this site is a success over the past 6 years, and I can not thank my co-owner enough for everything he's done.
So to all of you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for always putting up with my decisions, even when you may not have agreed with them (PWR forum anyone?). We have long-timers come and go, but there are always new fans finding the site and keeping the conversations rolling. I'm also thankful for all of the "real life" friendships I've made through this site, and for any one of you that might be interested, I'm always up for coming to an away game watching party and buying everyone a beer. Just say the word and I'm there.
Neal & I will still be around, of course, and providing whatever help Wenhawk & Touchdown need. Please help me by congratulating them in this endeavor, and again, I thank you for making the last 12 years some of the best I've ever had.
If you're interested in keeping up aside from here, I'm fairly active on Twitter using @Rockhawk so feel free to follow and I'll give you a follow back.
Go Hawks!!!
Mark
I'm extremely pleased to announce that .NET has been sold to a couple of great guys, one of which is a .NET'er since 1998 and throughout the many phases of the site. Jamie (Wenhawk) understands what makes this forum the special place it is, and wants to keep that feeling of community moving forward. I'm extremely excited for he and his business partner Tony (Touchdown) to take the reigns and inject some new ideas and blood into this place we love.
As for Neal & I, I wanted to personally thank you all for an incredible ride over the last 12 years I've owned the site. We've went from around 35K unique visitors per month in 2007 to well over 1/2 a million per month regularly. This is due to all of you, making the site interesting and creating excellent conversations & opinions.
Most of all, I want to give my heartfelt thanks to the following:
1 - All of you who have donated your time or money to help keep the forum up and running for so long. The dozens of moderators, admins, and chat mods who donate their time never get the recognition they deserve, and those of you that donate your money to help cover the costs of our not-for-profit business have made a huge difference in keeping this small business afloat. I sincerely can not thank you enough.
2 - Les (Radish) who will always be remembered for making this forum into more than just a place to talk sports. He made it into a family and community. He'll always be the heart and soul of this place, and he's missed every day.
3 - Neal (Anguish) who stepped up and helped me architect this site into the powerhouse it is now, asking for nothing in return, because of his love for the Hawks and .NET. You probably haven't even noticed just how stable and fast this forum is for the past several years, but for those that remember the days after the Scout.com break, that wasn't always the case. He is the primary reason this site is a success over the past 6 years, and I can not thank my co-owner enough for everything he's done.
So to all of you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for always putting up with my decisions, even when you may not have agreed with them (PWR forum anyone?). We have long-timers come and go, but there are always new fans finding the site and keeping the conversations rolling. I'm also thankful for all of the "real life" friendships I've made through this site, and for any one of you that might be interested, I'm always up for coming to an away game watching party and buying everyone a beer. Just say the word and I'm there.
Neal & I will still be around, of course, and providing whatever help Wenhawk & Touchdown need. Please help me by congratulating them in this endeavor, and again, I thank you for making the last 12 years some of the best I've ever had.
If you're interested in keeping up aside from here, I'm fairly active on Twitter using @Rockhawk so feel free to follow and I'll give you a follow back.
Go Hawks!!!
Mark