The-paddock.net closing

zac510 · 25 Oct 2007, 12:50 (Ref:2051094)

Just ducked into the-paddock.net to find that it is closing.

This is a shame. I was a pretty regular Monday morning reader of this site.

Thanks Robert, John and the other contributors for such high quality coverage and great photos.

Back to the French language lessons then!

The Badger · 25 Oct 2007, 13:53 (Ref:2051125)

Thats a shame !!!

Thanks for all the info over the years and good luck folks .

minimangler · 25 Oct 2007, 15:06 (Ref:2051186)

thats not good

why?

Zurbert82 · 25 Oct 2007, 15:39 (Ref:2051225)

Quote:

Originally Posted by minimangler

thats not good

why?

http://the-paddock.net/

HORNDAWG · 25 Oct 2007, 15:46 (Ref:2051232)

Yes, a loss indeed. Wishing all the people involved the best in their future endeavors!

L.P.

AU N EGL · 25 Oct 2007, 16:47 (Ref:2051287)

date??

wonder if the owners are intersting in selling??

19dodge · 25 Oct 2007, 17:02 (Ref:2051297)

Thanks guys for the kind comments. It really means a lot to all of us who worked on The-Paddock.net over the past three seasons.

It's sad to let it go, but it opens a lot of new doors for all of us.

Thanks again for your support,

John Dagys

MikeHoyer · 25 Oct 2007, 17:12 (Ref:2051301)

Sorry to see you going!

AU N EGL · 25 Oct 2007, 17:13 (Ref:2051303)

John

email returned

Tom

paul-collins · 25 Oct 2007, 18:29 (Ref:2051367)

John

Congrats on landing the motorsport.com gig. Best of luck with it.

The359 · 25 Oct 2007, 19:02 (Ref:2051407)

Shame to see it go, was always a nice, easy, colorful site.

My question is, is the website going to be kept as an archive for past news articles already there? I've cited the website many times over the past year and just wonder if I'm going to have to update my sources for older news items.

JHamilton · 25 Oct 2007, 19:25 (Ref:2051425)

That's unfortunate.

Definitely one of my favorite websites. Best of luck guys!

19dodge · 25 Oct 2007, 19:52 (Ref:2051454)

Quote:

Originally Posted by The359

Shame to see it go, was always a nice, easy, colorful site.

My question is, is the website going to be kept as an archive for past news articles already there? I've cited the website many times over the past year and just wonder if I'm going to have to update my sources for older news items.

That's a good question. I honestly can't give you an answer since I've been unable to contact Robert Prange (the webmaster and webspace owner) over the past month. I don't know what he will do with the content on the site.

My suggestion is to make an archive of the pages if it's important to you. (in Internet Explorer - "File" then "Save As". Save it as a "web page complete" usually in .htm or .html. It should do the trick.

Hope this helps,

The359 · 25 Oct 2007, 20:21 (Ref:2051476)

Quote:

Originally Posted by 19dodge

That's a good question. I honestly can't give you an answer since I've been unable to contact Robert Prange (the webmaster and webspace owner) over the past month. I don't know what he will do with the content on the site.

My suggestion is to make an archive of the pages if it's important to you. (in Internet Explorer - "File" then "Save As". Save it as a "web page complete" usually in .htm or .html. It should do the trick.

Hope this helps,

Unfortunately most of these citations are for Wikipedia, so saving them myself wont help. If the old news could remain, that'd be great, but I'd certainly more then understand if they could not. It was more a matter of convenience of not having to research information again.

Hugewally · 25 Oct 2007, 20:36 (Ref:2051491)

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://the-paddock.net/

The359 · 25 Oct 2007, 21:06 (Ref:2051511)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugewally

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://the-paddock.net/

Genius!

Floris_DFH · 26 Oct 2007, 06:30 (Ref:2051704)

Quote:

Originally Posted by 19dodge

That's a good question. I honestly can't give you an answer since I've been unable to contact Robert Prange (the webmaster and webspace owner) over the past month. I don't know what he will do with the content on the site.

My suggestion is to make an archive of the pages if it's important to you. (in Internet Explorer - "File" then "Save As". Save it as a "web page complete" usually in .htm or .html. It should do the trick.

Hope this helps,

If he isn't let me know how big the site in total is... I am willing to archive/host the original content if it fits on the server (do not know how much space you are using)

Sportscarguy08 · 26 Oct 2007, 11:55 (Ref:2051933)

Quote:

Originally Posted by AU N EGL

date??

wonder if the owners are intersting in selling??

I'm guessing that they wont because of the fact that they want to go out on top. If a new owner steps in and might potentially be a bad site....everyone who doesnt know of the new owners might think that their (old owners) site was going downhill...not a good image.

However I would love to see it stay alive...

AU N EGL · 26 Oct 2007, 12:29 (Ref:2051959)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sportscarguy08

I'm guessing that they wont because of the fact that they want to go out on top. If a new owner steps in and might potentially be a bad site....everyone who doesnt know of the new owners might think that their (old owners) site was going downhill...not a good image.

However I would love to see it stay alive...

19Dodge ( John ) and I have already talked.

At this time I am not in a position to purchase.

minimangler · 26 Oct 2007, 13:37 (Ref:2052007)

Quote:

Originally Posted by AU N EGL

19Dodge ( John ) and I have already talked.

At this time I am not in a position to purchase.

A ten-tenths consortium?

Nedley Mandingo · 26 Oct 2007, 14:47 (Ref:2052054)

It's a shame it's going away. I loved the fact that we had a truly comprehensive FREE site, one that wasn't chock full of holier than thou "If you only knew what I know...but I won't tell you" insider types.

Thanks to John & co- it was a good run guys!

19dodge · 26 Oct 2007, 15:10 (Ref:2052072)

To put everything to rest...

I'm not able to legally "sell" the website. Or even "give" it to someone or "sell" the domain. Robert Prange owns the webspace. He was my partner in this project but he has gone "missing" in the past month.

This was one of the reasons why we had to close the site down. He was our European editor. I am unable to contact him anymore (he apparently no longer wants to be in contact with anyone associated with this site). Ultimately, he will have to do something with it, which will most likely not include consulting with me or any other former staff member.

It's a very disappointing situation, especially for me. I’ve always been an honest, up front person but I couldn’t take the deception anymore. There were many “warning signs” along the way but I wasn’t able to fully pick up on those.

I like all of your ideas to somehow keep the site alive (or archived), but I don't have authority of doing that.

I put my life into that website for 2 ½ years – day in, day out work. Spending 40+ hours a week on the site top of being a fulltime college student and working another 35 hours a week to pay the bills. But if all of that time put in meant something to all of you, it was well worth it. It was my passion and still is my passion to deliver the best possible stories on auto racing.

The-Paddock.net brought great memories and let’s just remember them for what they were.

TWK · 26 Oct 2007, 18:32 (Ref:2052236)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugewally

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://the-paddock.net/

Unfortunately, that's pretty hit-and-miss. I just checked one site and only 12 of seventy or so pages over two years plus have been archived.

Hugewally · 26 Oct 2007, 18:44 (Ref:2052246)

It all depends on the site in question thats being archived and if its set up to allow web crawlers.

http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.ph...ayback_Machine

dxk1 · 31 Oct 2007, 23:07 (Ref:2056412)

Sad to see The Paddock go. It was a great site with lots of great information. Great job! Sorry to see you go! Good luck with all your future endeavors.

DK

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