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Interesting thing with Sims 2 is saving the pages, not just the content, made it possible to open the cache'd pages/whatever. It may have only been on the same computer, is that how that works?
People who don't have a way to save their stuff and won't make the cut/transfer, and/or have a hard time processing and dealing with this, after investing so much time and effort and are feeling emotional and stressed ... are there recommended sites, counseling, strategies?
Good idea to check-in on all your simming friends and ask "Are you OK?"
- My-Page: Memory-Stories be sure to go chronological, by clicking on "Date" instead of Memory or Action
- Stories and Such – Sims 3 Stories by DivinylsFan (bobbiedivsworks.com) includes a couple of Sims 2 entries and some of my music.
I remember you from university, I still have your story.Thank you! 🙂
Beyond that, I have posted on here off and on over recent years but I have enjoyed being around other Simmers and sharing common interests with people so it would be nice to be able to maintain that going forward. I am not really concerned about most old threads for the most part, I think. It feels a bit like the end of an era but I hope that enough people leap over.
I'm also really sad to see our forums go; many of us have been here since way back in 2009 when the TS3 forum first opened. It's always been really nice to have our own little corner of the internet for the Sims, where we can all share pics and stories of our games. It wont be the same any more
I also think it sad that a lot of tips, tricks and older technical help threads that are still relevant to some issues will probably be lost.
PoppySims Archive
InnaLisa Pose Archive
Devolution of Sims - a once customisable open world sandbox which has become a DLC Party catalog in a shoebox
I ♡ Pudding
I hope everything will be alright and just as enjoyable
I was going to jokingly nominate the Post the Alphabet (Cowplant) thread, just for giggles...but no...it can be recreated if anybody wants it.
I'd say that a lot of those threads need to be archived and ported.
I've got some time on my hands (disabled), so maybe I can run through the Sims 3 Forums and find the threads that could be ported. Although some of them may probably be in the Archive forums as well.
I'd hope someone can do the same for Sims 2 which I don't play.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
I am tempted to pester you into telling me how it ends. I am one of those annoying people who read the first paragraph of a book and then read the last paragraph of a book before deciding whether I want to read the whole thing. This is how I tricked myself into reading something by Clive Barker that gave me nightmares. But I digress.
Your story probably belongs on an external blog, but I already feel creeped out by it. I might not be able to handle the grown up version.
At any rate, I shall refrain from nominating your story, which I was considering, because it would be a shame to keep you hemmed in on a tiny forum when a blogpost would let you run free. It is an excellent story with great pictures. And those pictures need to be saved. Lots of work went into that. There's no question that it must be saved. That's my opinion anyway.
I hope it works out that I can keep my ancient badge.
for if not the world balance will be shaken
and the ships will sink
and the full moon will never rise again
We simply cannot lose our resident werebeast not in these trying times
as for the story no worries
just reminding we would love to read more of it
and it would be nice to have it safe someplace internally or externally maybe both?
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We wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Will there be a Dutch forum? There used to be a Dutch sims forum but that was ended. Answer HQ however still has a Dutch section.
Why not have both? Keep this one as a read only so that at least all the older posts can be read.
I hope users will be able to choose. Accessibility-wise, it's best to have both. Some people with astigmatism and other vision issues struggle with dark modes, so white screens going away would be a problem.
1. When the threads created after Oct 2022 will be moved to the new forum, will they be in the same categories as they are here or will they be merged into a kind of 'Archives from the old forum' ?
2. And the Nominated Threads, will they remain all packed together in the new forum or will they find their way in the categories they were before here?
3. There is also a kind of 'paralel sims 4 forum' with General Discussion, Creative Corner... at AHQ
Will this forum also be moved to the new forum or co exist? (And if: Why can't this forum here co exist too?)
4. How does one backup their threads?
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@EA_Cade Currently, I have a different name on AHQ than the name I use here. I attempted to change the name on AHQ to match this one, following the link you gave, but it doesn't let me. It says the name "GlacierSnow" is already registered. But I don't think anyone else is using the name "GlacierSnow" so I suspect it's actually me. Is there any way I can find out?
Where I am trying to change it is in the "About Me" tab, Basic information, edit. That's the only place that looks like I can change it. But I'm not able to.
I'm asking this question on this thread because there are probably other people right now trying to do the same thing.
also changes your gallery nick
if that does not work then yes there is some problem with chosen nick
do you maybe have separate account with same nick?
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It will feel very weird if I have to use a different name than GlacierSnow on the new forum, especially if someone else there has that name, but I'll probably survive.
I have 2 EA Accounts myself because I mistakenly created new one when The Sims 4 released
and didn't realize my old The Sims 3 account would have worked on origin
so yeah I have all my things on this account except for ts3 and ts3 store on different account which is kind of silly
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Yes, I'm aware that there would be a lingering cost to keeping a closed forum running and searchable for another year or two, but I really can't overstate how much important content will be lost with your plans. This forum has fifteen years of threads on it, since it ported over most of the old Sims3.com forum too, and this isn't just a plea to satisfy my own nostalgia. Search engines across the board have gotten clogged with SEO-optimized nonsense to the point where forums, even ancient threads, are some of the last remaining resources. And make no mistake, The Sims across all titles has a lot of depth, scarcely-used features, and esoteric bugs. The three pillars for this franchise. This forum is the only website where some of this stuff is documented.
Give fans a chance not just to nominate threads for import, but also to submit them to the Wayback Machine, scrape forum posts, or otherwise preserve them.
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My laptop crashed and burned. I had to retrieve all of my Erik Cantrell updates as I could find. I'm very happy that I made a chart and listed the page numbers of the updates. Phew! Problem is, I can't go back to get a much earlier iteration of my Sims' story. It must have been from the much earlier, possibly original What "Happened in Your Game Today" thread. I know, because I made the arduous journey way, way, way back to page 111. None of my stuff was there. Ho-hum. I spent yesterday verifying that I had all of the chapters from my current iteration. I also pulled copies of my Creative Corner thread of Erik's ventures, just after my computer crashed, and I had a new one to save it to.
All of this to say, if you want something bad enough saved, block, copy and save. Yes, it takes time, and most of us are in a frenzy these days, with little time to spare. I guess it just comes down to what's really important to you. But, yeah, I have at least two threads I started and I'm wondering if I have to run a campaign to have them transferred, or if I should just relaunch after the switch-over.
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Heya,
If it's important to you, nominate it. We're not placing any restrictions in this area.
Yup. On both AHQ and EA forums.
The Dutch Sims AHQ is right here and our Dutch CMs over on AHQ are all lovely people.
We'll have more to share on that soon. We're currently building out what the customizations will look like on the EA forums.
Dark mode options was my first request for the new site. Obviously no promises though
1. We've mapped them to migrate to the same forum type on AHQ that they lived in here. We have a home for most everything created already on AHQ.
2. See above.
3. This migration is independent of the AHQ forums.
4. I've seen some users nominating their threads for migration to back them up, others are copying them to external sites like WordPress/Tumblr. Personal preference I suppose.
In July 2024, The Sims Forums will be permanently closed and will no longer be accessible. Anyone trying to access The Sims Forums using the original URL will be redirected to The Sims section on the new EA forums site.
I can't see account details unfortunately. If you feel like you own both accounts then please reach out to us at Help.EA.com so we can assist further.
Threads will only move if the OP of the thread here has an account on AHQ as well, I would say over 90% of the threads currently nominated should migrate without issue.