Nostalgic for the old PsiPhi days...

[youngtrek]

I miss some of those conversations, but I will never miss the formatting. Scrolling beats click-through any day for me.

Welcome to the TrekBBS, David!

Thank you!

 

[Csalem]

Hi. I don’t know. I can’t recall using the Simon and Schuster message boards but it’s possible that I just don’t remember. Are they still online? If not, are copies of the old message board there archived at Internet Archive like a few of the PsiPhi ones?

They are no longer online but here is a Wayback Machine grab from 2003:
https://web.archive.org/web/2003040...um=Star+Trek&number=3&DaysPrune=10&LastLogin=

 

[Brendan Moody]

I wonder if anyone knows the current status of Jackie Bundy, Jim McCain, and Baerbel Haddrell? Or Steve Roby (although I think I saw some posts of his here when I was searching for posts about the old PsiPhi board?

Steve Roby still posts here from time to time and has an active Facebook account. Jackie Bundy and Jim McCain have Facebook accounts that look to be currently active. Baerbel last posted here in 2011; I can’t find a Facebook account.

 

[Thrawn]

So, to see one’s signature, I have to click on his or her name, then click on Profile, then click on Information? (Seems like a lot of steps to have to take.)

It appears below every post I make... unless you have selected a setting that turns that off? Or brand new users don't see them, or something?

 

[Brendan Moody]

There’s an option under “Preferences” in the “Your Account” page to “Show people's signatures with their messages.” I would guess youngtrek doesn’t have that box checked.

 

[youngtrek]

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There’s an option under “Preferences” in the “Your Account” page to “Show people's signatures with their messages.” I would guess youngtrek doesn’t have that box checked.

Strange. It shows it checked.

 

[Brendan Moody]

I hadn’t noticed before that you’re reading the forum on a phone browser. That may be why you’re not seeing signatures even though the box is checked. My phone browser doesn’t show them either. Not sure if there’s a way to override that.

 

[ryan123450]

I wonder if anyone knows the current status of Jackie Bundy, Jim McCain, and Baerbel Haddrell? Or Steve Roby (although I think I saw some posts of his here when I was searching for posts about the old PsiPhi board?

I can also confirm Jim McCain is still around. Just chatted with him for several hours a few weeks ago about his memories of fandom in the 80s and 90s. Another of the Star Trek Timeliners.

David, it seems you were involved with the group at one point as well? If you want to lend a hand again and see how the project is going these days, send me a PM.

 

[youngtrek]

I can also confirm Jim McCain is still around. Just chatted with him for several hours a few weeks ago about his memories of fandom in the 80s and 90s. Another of the Star Trek Timeliners.

David, it seems you were involved with the group at one point as well? If you want to lend a hand again and see how the project is going these days, send me a PM.

Thanks, but my primary contribution to the Timeliners Back in the day was having saved a copy of everything that had been done at one point when someone’s computer crashed or something like that and I was able to provide a copy of what had been lost. That’s how I earned my honorary Timeliners badge. :-)

 

[ryan123450]

Interesting!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Hello, all. I just signed up here at the Star Trek BBS a few days ago. But I know quite a few of you from back in the day at the old PsiPsi message board. Some of you I still see on Facebook and what not.

Hi David,

I'm still here!

I wasn't able to use TrekBBS until I moved from my original PowerMac to a lampbase iMac, when suddenly the new browser permitted TrekBBS to load properly. Not long after, the hosting service for PsiPhi went defunct and, for a time, the site moved to a page off comicbookboards. Eventually, everyone just gave up on trying to keep up with what was left of PsiPhi. Last time I followed an old bookmark, there were online questions that had gone unanswered for years.

I finally got to Shore Leave in 2014.


Shore Leave, Pocket Books' banner by Ian McLean, on Flickr


New Star Trek books by Ian McLean, on Flickr

There were attempts in 2006 and 2007 to keep ex-PsiPhi-ers on TrekBBS in the loop:

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/harlan-ellison-to-sue-over-crucible-via-psi-phi.32377/

From Baerbel:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the...-favourite-characters-and-scenes.47112/page-5