Sometimes Redirecting to spam/gamble site when accessing msfn.org/board

[AstroSkipper]

10 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

BUT...  as far as I can tell, it's the **ONLY** victim!

No, it is not. Try searching for specific terms from the good old days or old technical knowledge. That’s been wiped out by Google and Microsoft!

[AstroSkipper]

10 minutes ago, Tripredacus said:

On 5/23/2026 at 12:43 AM, AstroSkipper said:

You are completely wrong. MSFN members won't search threads of their forum via Google, of course. But that’s only logical and isn’t the issue at all.

False

Google search is better than IPS, especially due to dorks.

That’s completely irrelevant at the moment.  MSFN articles or threads can’t be found on Google anyway. MSFN has been banished to the digital gulag as an alleged spammer. 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

8 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

No, it is not. Try searching for specific terms from the good old days or old technical knowledge. That’s been wiped out by Google and Microsoft!

I really need a screencap'd example.

I consider PROXOMITRON "old technical knowledge" and Google Search has ZERO problems in PROPERLY indexing PROXOMITRON.

BUT...  Eureka!  Yeah, while not "Siamese", there is that "odd looking" red-arrow result!

I searched several of what I would consider "old technical knowledge", none of the others did this (the red-arrow result).

So okay, I'll give credence to the Google Blame.  But it still does not trump (card game slang) placing 100% blame upon any forum owner befallen to such.

 

Edited May 25 by NotHereToPlayGames

[EliraFriesnan]

PROXOMITRON - results using ".com", from Switzerland.

We usually use co.uk. Proper spelling, Royal family news...

[NotHereToPlayGames]

On 5/25/2026 at 9:45 AM, AstroSkipper said:

What’s really going completely wrong at the moment is the lack of an official statement from the forum owner or administrator regarding this whole mess. You can’t just sit this out or ignore it.

 

On 5/12/2026 at 7:20 AM, AstroSkipper said:

Ok. No answer is an answer too.

 

Looks like we have our "answer".

[AstroSkipper]

4 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

On 5/25/2026 at 3:45 PM, AstroSkipper said:

What’s really going completely wrong at the moment is the lack of an official statement from the forum owner or administrator regarding this whole mess. You can’t just sit this out or ignore it.

 

On 5/12/2026 at 1:20 PM, AstroSkipper said:

Ok. No answer is an answer too.

 

Looks like we have our "answer".

@NotHereToPlayGames The first quote is correct and also useful as a reminder. But the second quote is taken completely out of context and is a no-go.  Or are you making up your own answers here? Then speak in your own words!

But one thing is clear. For an alleged "communication" forum, this is how MSFN has been officially and tragically defined for a longer time, the owner, administrator and supervisor are not exactly covering themselves in glory.  
Unfortunately, the members aren’t doing much better either. Passivity and apathy are the death of everything.  Nihil semper ad nihilum. 

Edited Thursday at 02:01 PM by AstroSkipper
Update of content

[NotHereToPlayGames]

2 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

Nihil semper ad nihilum. 

Agreed!

[user57]

to me it tends to have a classical problem

the thing with the open source suppose to be free, and allowed to be used by anyone

with 1 exception, if the use is commercial 

but that is not was always has happend

at some point like youtube like google - they got buyed

or rather this open source thing is not what open source represents anymore 

so microsoft "buyed(probaly only contributed)" chrome and made edge out of it, youtube is full of ad´s now (while there was not a single ad in the past - how can it work if in the past this worked well ?) also they offer streaming to buy - also not very "past-youtube" like  - also the realname must, real email, smartphone ect.

 

so the rather defintion - they switched the side - now they are just a commercial company - like microsoft - microsoft is a good example because they never where open source - open source was a challenge for commercial companys like linux vs microsoft 

 

exactly this has happend in all of the past of open source history ...

so if they see this "oh well now i like it and we buy it - everything changes" = commercial buisness/company (thus they can always eat up open source - and this is what always has happened)

and this is not what open source community was made for

it just was : challenge to commercial buisness, free, allowed to use for everybody (and 1 exception for commercial use) 

 

now instead just the big companys and the company´s use these things - so by the definition thats what they are now

i think thats basicly also the problem - as long they was the elder-definition all of these things did not happen

 

also i want to point out its like a steal they buy it up at some point and then they use it for their purpose

so open source has nothing and company has everything - again