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Originally Posted by Nicholas
Oh, I'm sure. I've just always heard that X & Pugz wouldn't sell due to nostalgia but perhaps it would be easier to convince them if they were still in the loop. Besides if anyone did buy it they would do very well to pay for X's services as a coder as no one knows the site better than him.
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From a technical standpoint, buying the site would probably be pretty hard, especially if you want to change things. The codebase is pretty old and would need a major rebuild, as I'm assuming not much has been done to it recently. Mobile is a huge part of the game right now, and adding a functional mobile site would be insanely time consuming, as you'd probably have to move to an MVC framework, which requires rewriting most of the site.
I'm also going to guess that the site is losing money right now and Pugz/X are mainly keeping it hosted for the sake of nostalgia/it's probably not that expensive to host.
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Do you guys remember FlyHipHop, which was LBv4???
I'm going to guess right now that it was built as a separate site simply because the codebase of this site was so outdated and impossible to really update. Any major improvements that you guys would want to do would probably require a similar type of rebuild.
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FWIW, if any of you guys ever do end up buying the site, or if X/Pugz ever try to rebuild the site in a significant fashion, I have no problem at all with doing a few hours a week to help out around here. I can't say that I know shit about PHP as it's a pretty old technology, but I'm pretty handy with most modern JS frameworks that you would probably want to upgrade to.