The official CFL forums have died. Sometime in the past 2 days the CFL forums went offline. The moderating team was given a couple of hours notice before the site went dark.
This news is somewhat relevant to this forum. A number of years ago, (former) CFL tech guy Sully started posting here. He talked about plans to upgrade this site and many of us were excited to see what the result would be.
At the same time, Sully was working on upgrades to the CFL forums. When those changes were implemented we saw what his solution was. For a few days, this forum (the Extra Point) was re-directed to the Blue Bombers sub-forum of the CFL forums. That change was short lived because it required existing posters to re-register and all existing posts were no longer accessible.
The functionality of the CFL forums was very good, better than what we currently have here IMHO. That is the only positive comment I can make about those forums.
It seems that we dodged a bullet as this forum would have been scuttled along with the CFL forums.
Quote from: Stats Junkie on December 13, 2025, 05:48:31 PMThe functionality of the CFL forums was very good, better than what we currently have here IMHO. That is the only positive comment I can make about those forums.
I've always liked this forum. Not great on phones, but a very nice arrangement on PCs. It's geared towards longer, more thoughtful posts as you can get more text per screen line. Contrast with Riderfans, where the format is really only used for one-liners or a paragraph. Nothing is discussed in depth.
Quote from: Stats Junkie on December 13, 2025, 05:48:31 PMIt seems that we dodged a bullet as this forum would have been scuttled along with the CFL forums.
This doesn't follow from your comments. I think you missed a step when describing what happened?
Why would any of this CFL-site stuff scuttle the BB forum?
Always sad to see another forum go. Did you or any mods get any word on plans for a different CFL forum in the future?
On the bright side, most teams have their own separate forums already. When I used to go forum hunting I think I only found 1 or 2 teams that didn't?
Tinfoil time: CFL shut down their own forum to subdue the Johnston/changes complaints...
Quote from: Tecno on December 13, 2025, 06:00:19 PMAlways sad to see another forum go. Did you or any mods get any word on plans for a different CFL forum in the future?
On the bright side, most teams have their own separate forums already. When I used to go forum hunting I think I only found 1 or 2 teams that didn't?
Tinfoil time: CFL shut down their own forum to subdue the Johnston/changes complaints...
There was some talk of an upgraded website, not sure if that was CFL.ca or something else.
Another step in increasing fan interest.
Quote from: markf on December 13, 2025, 07:33:08 PMAnother step in increasing fan interest.
Maybe its just the evolution of fan interaction.
How many active posters did CFL.ca have compared to 10 or 15 years ago?
Posters might rather use Facebook or Reddit or yell out their car window.
Yikes. Hopefully not a sign that our forum will go down too.
There's not too many of use but what else would I do with my time? Talk to my wife and kids?