The Death Of NEXTPOWERUP

natr0n · Nov 23, 2017

It's spreading to the trending on the home page now.

rtwjunkie · Nov 23, 2017

@RCoon, something just occurred to me. What will happen to your reviews, since the latter 90% were all hosted on NPU in their complete state?

It would be a shame to not have access to those anymore, lost to history.

FreedomEclipse · Nov 23, 2017

rtwjunkie said:
@RCoon, something just occurred to me. What will happen to your reviews, since the latter 90% were all hosted on NPU in their complete state?

It would be a shame to not have access to those anymore, lost to history.

Video reviews will still be up on youtube im guessing

remixedcat · Nov 23, 2017

phanbuey said:
also i couldn't comment on the stories the same way. Disquss/Google+ sign ins are terrible.

Disqus has so many issues with Meraki Firewalls. They had a ton of issues with some of Disqus IPs being blocked by accident as a "false positive" on thier AMP on their MX firewalls. I had to do some faningling...

Breitbart comments would work but some android community comments wouldn't show up and it also has a ton of issues with my blog I had to disable the comments... I tried every freakin code trick in the book and nada... thier support was terrible as well

W1zzard · Nov 23, 2017

natr0n said:
It's spreading to the trending on the home page now.

Space from the NPU got box freed up, so we added the trending box

RCoon · Nov 23, 2017

rtwjunkie said:
@RCoon, something just occurred to me. What will happen to your reviews, since the latter 90% were all hosted on NPU in their complete state?

It would be a shame to not have access to those anymore, lost to history.

Like Freedom said, the videos will exist forever. I also have backups of the documents in their entirety in my Google Drive along with their screenshots, cover photos, performance charts etc. Maybe one day I'll host them on a separate Wordpress account and update the links on the forum and video posts. I'd have to do that for two years worth of reviews though. Not entirely sure it'd be worth doing however. I don't know how many visits some of the old stuff gets. Probs best left dead though.

natr0n · Nov 23, 2017

W1zzard said:
Space from the NPU got box freed up, so we added the trending box

It's nice actually. Just the right size.

W1zzard · Nov 23, 2017

natr0n said:
It's nice actually. Just the right size.

and the right size on all devices

lexluthermiester · Nov 23, 2017

W1zzard said:
and the right size on all devices

Ah, that's right, you folks are trying to factor in the mobile market.

FreedomEclipse · Nov 23, 2017

W1zzard said:
Space from the NPU got box freed up, so we added the trending box

I am actually liking the way it looks now. Its neater. Its there a 'rotating carousel' or self scrolling kind of action you could have to perhaps display more topics? Or was the idea only to display 6 trending topics?

W1zzard · Nov 23, 2017

FreedomEclipse said:
I am actually liking the way it looks now. Its neater. Its there a 'rotating carousel' or self scrolling kind of action you could have to perhaps display more topics? Or was the idea only to display 6 trending topics?

Only a few major topics will be displayed, in case people miss them. The displayed number is between 3 and 6 depending on device size. Not sure if it's worth having a carousel, rather replace entries as major news come in.

JC316 · Nov 23, 2017

Kursah said:
Well NPU outlasted GamePowerUP! May they both rest in peace.

Dear god, that was a long time ago. I can't even remember the games that we reviewed for that. Wanting to say Fallout 3.

Kursah · Nov 23, 2017

JC316 said:
Dear god, that was a long time ago. I can't even remember the games that we reviewed for that. Wanting to say Fallout 3.

I remember reviewing CoD4. Think I still have my screenshots and original write-up somewhere. I had started others, but clearly wasn't cut out for it lol! :laugh:

JC316 · Nov 23, 2017

Kursah said:
I remember reviewing CoD4. Think I still have my screenshots and original write-up somewhere. I had started others, but clearly wasn't cut out for it lol!

I remember the COD4. Main thing I remember is that me and W1z didn't get along on the layout.

xorbe · Aug 21, 2018

I discovered this today, 9 months late to the party!

qubit · Aug 21, 2018

Well, the site is still up, for what it's worth. Personally, I think that the site should have never been created in the first place. Just have those writers writing for TPU instead would have been fine.

FreedomEclipse · Aug 21, 2018

rtwjunkie said:
@RCoon, something just occurred to me. What will happen to your reviews, since the latter 90% were all hosted on NPU in their complete state?

It would be a shame to not have access to those anymore, lost to history.

Still worth looking up once in a while to laugh at Rcoon's skinhead. He looks a bit like a football hooligan!

Easy Rhino · Aug 21, 2018

NextPowerDown.

Ahhzz · Aug 22, 2018

FreedomEclipse said:
Still worth looking up once in a while to laugh at Rcoon's skinhead. He looks a bit like a football hooligan!

a bit??

FreedomEclipse · Aug 22, 2018

Ahhzz said:
a bit??

I know him irl so i dont want him to come and hurt me :eek:

R-T-B · Oct 19, 2018

JC316 said:
Dear god, that was a long time ago. I can't even remember the games that we reviewed for that. Wanting to say Fallout 3.

I'm still amazed w1zzard entertained me as a news editor... I mean sure it worked out ok, but... I'm nuts.

Frick · Oct 19, 2018

FreedomEclipse said:
I know him irl so i dont want him to come and hurt me

He doesn't look so big to me.

R-T-B · Oct 19, 2018

Frick said:
He doesn't look so big to me.

Famous last words.

RCoon · Oct 19, 2018

Frick said:
He doesn't look so big to me.

I'm very well mannered, and have more hair on my head and less on my face. A civilised man one might say.

To this day we still get random people subscribing to the YT channel and I feel slightly bad that they'll never see anything new.

EDIT: Looking back at my final NWIG video I must say, I looked bloody awful. I used to finish those at 2AM on a Saturday.

R-T-B · Oct 19, 2018

I always pictured you like your avatar. But chunkier and without the cool helmet, like most of us are in the real world.

That "racoon that invented rolling as a means of transport" gif comes to mind.

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