OG.com?

DMAN

DMAN

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Anyone else receive this email today? Apparently cannabisworld.com Admin is trying to revive overgrow.com? Links in the original email have been disabled, peruse at your own risk! :chores:

Honestly, I'm not sure what to think? :dunno:
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Hello!

This is LemonadeJoe - new admin of Overgrow.com... You are probably very surprised that I'm writing to you... I've got your email address because you registered on CannabisWorld.com since we have put it back online.

I'm one of original authors of www.grower.cz - biggest czech growers site since 2000 (30K+ members, 800K+ posts). We have started just few months after Overgrow and were strongly inspired by our "bigger brother".

You can verify it by pinging grower.cz, overgrow.com and cannabisworld.com are currently hosted on same machine. Try online ping http://ping.eu/ping/

I was really dissapointed when things gone wrong with OG and its bust in 2006. My background is in domaining, programming and networks, so I've tried to monitor destiny of OG domains for long time. After 8 years it finally yielded its fruits (as RCMP released it) and I've bought domains in auction.

CW was not revived by black magic ;), but using archive.org (global internet archive). It was just quick idea to make it public again with original content. Unfortunately, some topics were recovered only in part and many photo attachments were missing. CannabisWorld should serve just as read-only historical archive of grow discussions.

I have more ambitious plans with OG... I'd like to rebuild site from the scratch. I don't have any connections to original OG crew (~shabang~ or
~RC~) so I don't have original forum database or source code. We have to work with what was made public after the bust - FAQs and Strainbase.
Everything else has to be started from point zero (archive.org won't help us here). Few original OG members have contacted me since I acquired the domain and I count on them to help.

As you were one of the members registering on CW and shown interest in forums I just wanted to let you know. We are currently working on final customizations and will release OG soon online. It is now running in private-beta and together with friends from Grower.cz we are trying to fill forum with some initial topics.

If you were interested in helping us out with "populating" new Overgrow, please let me know. It is very much appreciated. We don't want to rush the release and we definitelly don't want to put it online empty as I think it would spoil the "surprise" moment.. I hope that with site at least partly filled we have chance to generate some momentum and get the ball rolling ;)..

New OG will be presented on fresh new and modern platform but with old school members in mind (Karma and GrowFAQs are in place and we plan to develop new Strainbase). It is my dream to see OG alive again and back in hands of mj community.

I'd love to know what you think about it...
Keep on growing, stay safe and lets overgrow the world!

- LemonadeJoe
 
One of the truths one learns in life is that " you can't go back". There is only the ever present moment. Thankfully or we'd all be stuck.

Part of Overgrow's charm and nostalgia is that it was one of the FIRST social networks and one of the first international forums. Coupled with that ,it was the first Large Scale MJ site ever and the first time a lot of what is now standard knowledge was revealed .

I think that in the era of an over proliferation of social network sites, mj sites and social media in general, the cutting edge and the push Overgrow had is gone.

It's already become other things, like this site and like it or not IC Mag and many , many others. The industry has changed, no more secrets, no more aha moments.

A lot of info is really dated. The strains have changed , the grow tech has changed, the whole industry has grown up. Not sure what good it would do 10 years later.
 
Agreed Joker. It's like trying to live your life over after 60, just gets old and tired.

Never heard of Lemonaide Joe.
 
Always trying to build a better mouse-trap but in this case just might be just that .. :hook:
 
UniGrower said:
Always trying to build a better mouse-trap but in this case just might be just that .. :hook:
Click to expand...

ide agree second attempt to garner more :goldfish::fishing1: ? better to be a free fish not biting ,then a cold fish specially with old bait .
 
I've never heard of LemonadeJoe either?

And really after some thought, I agree...the industry has moved on. Shit, Google will give you TONS more MJ info than overgrow.com ever could.
 
Got that exact email this mornin` Dman . I just deleted as soon as I read part of it . Odd thing....I`ve never registered at OG !!! But did recently follow a link to CW and signed up just to go through the forums for strain info . May just delete CW link and stay away from old sites .
peace
 
I dont see any reason to bring back OG besides trying to make a buck. The industry has changed so much since its closure its irrelevent. There are plenty of forums out there to share and learn.
 
I got one today too but will be staying right here.
I'm really surprised because I didn't think OG and CW liked me since I had a copy of their member databases. It's how we recruited people after the sites fell.
 
OG had alot of great minds & great growers. ALOT of great info was distributed. There are many people that still have alot of the threads copied, I'm not one of them tho.

Ya know, I miss OG in the way that I miss High school, which was many moons ago...I could go back & visit my high school now, but it can't ever be the same as my memories... Waxing nostolgic now.....

I remember seeing an OVERGROW sticker on a refrigerator, in the grow room, on the HBO show "weeds"....always thought it was cool that the show did that
 
I think I'll just stick with my memories of the place...

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I bailed on OG when it went from 500 members to 50,000 overnight. That sketched me out. Won't be going back either. I agree with Joker too.
 
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