Pipes.org
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There are a few of us here who were on pipes.org. After the owner made a dog's breakfast of updating the site, the forum there was effectively destroyed. I liked the members, though one of the moderators was arrogant, incompetent and a complete waste of space.
I was on pipes.org. I remember the brouha when BigBobBurley was posting pics of his Bo Nordh, that it turned out he didn't own. Ian and Melvin hated that guy. Melvin had all the Dunhills and only or mostly only smoked Penzance...and it was pretty readily available back then, too.
I mainly remember Frenchy from ASP.
I mainly remember Frenchy from ASP.
Yes, alt smokers pipes, that's it!
I remember when Fire Dancer Flake and Frenchy's Sunsabitches were in development, seeing something today brought all that back. That is how I got started with pipes, the regulars would send out care packages to newbies with pipes, tobacco... fond memories.
I remember when Fire Dancer Flake and Frenchy's Sunsabitches were in development, seeing something today brought all that back. That is how I got started with pipes, the regulars would send out care packages to newbies with pipes, tobacco... fond memories.
Count me among that group.
The Website is still online, but, to paraphrase a line from an episode of the Simpsons, it seems to be nothing but the land of wind and ghosts.
Yeah, and even before the site upgrade screwed that forum, it was not doing all that well. The wait for an approval before your post could appear had a deadening effect. Its assassination by site upgrade propelled me to look further, and so I landed on these sunny shores, as well as others. It's been pretty much dead over there for over 5 years now. Frankly, I'm surprised that the site is still running. But there's a treasure trove of information in that archive.
Yeah, the format was unfriendly at best, the management surly, so it could only go so far, and once "proper" social media got going, dinosaur platforms like that simply died out because there was much better available. There are still many pipe or pipe/cigar only forums around, and of course a million groups on facebook, plus instagram and twitter and whatever else.
I'm too much of a newbie. Hadn't heard of the site until now. I didn't get into the hobby seriously until 2010.
pipes.org was my first forum.Spent several years on asp before it got trashed up and everyone left.Moved on to other more well run forums.
Sable and cigrmaster have been around so long their first posts were on stone tablets in the town square.
I was a member of pipes.org and didn't really feel comfortable. Melvin ran the forum like a Marine drill sgt and that didn't set well with me. I moved on to better forums.
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