Word from Christmas.com

[Jeff Westover]

I got an email from the admin address of Christmas.com. They apparently don't believe folks are very upset. Well, since when have they ever listened to site users anyway?

Part of me wants to say "let them rot". But I know how much that site meant to some of you. I think you should let them know directly how you feel.

If you all want to email them, their address is: globala@fastmail.co.uk.

Jeff

[JayIsh]

Jeff,

I'm amazed at the giving spirit that you posess. It is a pleasure to be with you and an honor to call myself a member of your little Christmas army! Thanks for lessening the sting!

Jay

[HolyNight7]

Wow I must have missed something. What are we upset over?

[mrshfromjersey]

Christmas.com disappeared.

[HolyNight7]

Oh, I didn't really go there that often.

[caseydbell]

Jeff this is why all the christmas.com people need to ?permanantly? join the MMC family. :-D

[Jeff Westover]

Well, I certainly understand where they are coming from. For years Christmas.com had the ONLY Christmas forum online. I tried for years to start one and the technology just wasn't quite there for us po folks. Christmas.com had the money and thus the technology. For many, many people the Christmas.com forum was an introduction to forums altogether.

That means many of those good Christmas-loving folks lost more than just a place to talk Christmas. They had some long-term relationships that were shut down in a blink of an eye. There is some genuine mourning going on.

But you're right. We need to "connect" these Christmas communities and I'm trying to do my part. We'll get them together as long as other webmasters will cooperate and not see it as a means of competing with each other. Nobody makes money off of forums. Nobody. They are expensive to run, they use lots of time and resources but they are absolutely VITAL to connecting with our site users and keeping them connected. Christmas.com -- meaning the new owners -- had better get their stuff together because the domain has had a reputation for years of neglecting their site users. Unplugging the forums is almost unforgivable in some eyes. You can't do that to your site users without it costing you.

I hope we get ALL former Christmas.com users here and I hope they go to every Christmas forum out there. It's a big Christmas community and there's a lot of spirit to be had.

Jeff

[dvdelf]

AMEN brother!

[HolyNight7]

Woo Hoo!!! Well said. And God Bless Us Everyone!

[JayIsh]

It's business, plain and simple...We got lucky!!! Think about those poor families whose bread winner loses his job due to "business". I don't fault them for wanting to make a profit...I guess I fault them for not at least announcing the change, giving us the chance to make other arrangements. We all work for companies whose goal is to make a profit and that profit is what puts food on our tables. The folks at Bronners make a profit but they do so never losing sight of the reason for the season and that they offer some happiness to people in the process...I guess it's the attitude that goes with the making of a profit that is the rub.

I wish them well, those new owners of Christmas.com. Perhaps they will realize what they've got and expand what they are offering and perhaps they won't. But for a time, about three years, the site was a daily part of my life. I'll miss it but the spirit of Christmas will prevail!

Jay

[HolyNight7]

Well hopefully that will mean all the more spirit here.

[RadioJonD]

Christmas.com was the first Christmas forum that I found. I hope that we can at least gain access to the archives in some fashion.

However, I am glad that many of us have found our way here and to the Christmas Place as well as Christmas All Year!

[gracie]

I wish them well too. It was the first Christmas forum I ever found . infact I found it soon after we got our very first computer--that dearly departed dinosaur :lol: I have made friends over the years -- really good ones that are just as real friendships as the ones I have with people I talk to on the phone with or see everyday. I am so glad that I havent lost you all this time like I did the first time the forum went down. That was a panic attack I dont ever want to have again.

[candycanemartini]

I had never even been to Christmas.com but I'm sure glad that I found this forum! I bet that site sold for a ton of $$ though. I guess the owners will all be having a wonderful holiday season this year, lol!

[Deo]

Well I came on Christmas.com two years ago, but last Christmas I was there like every two days... I really enjoyed there. Too bad it is closed and too bad there is no forum. It will be weird this Christmas without it. :-(

[Paulo Robo]

I'd visited christmas.com numerous times over the last 6 years, a great bunch of people on there. A bit sad that it has gone again.