I noticed earlier this morning, that really really sucks, like refugees from Cuba going to the US and their mickey mouse inner tube floater springs a leak in the middle of the Atlantic.

It's only been up since Monday's Closing announcement, so I don't think it is a Non-Payment issue. Not that fast. Granted the guys who put it together had tossed the idea of it around for a while amongst themselves, but I don't think they've had the domain registered very long.

So far it's just a pretty looking Title Page, I hope they get something up soon. Maybe they need beta testers?

DVDaf sucks and doesn't have the range that Spot did. DVD Profiler has gone pay, and not to mention I'll never trust them again after their service collapsed for a period of time and they kept lying about the reasons why.

Where the hell does that leave us? Guess it's back to keeping a list on my personal journal just for insurance reasons. At least if that journal site goes down, I can cut & paste the list and transfer it easily to a new journal.

I was a Spot user from almost the beginning, having found it when Guzzlefish began its descent into hell. I tried DVDAF (they tended to add titles to my collection that weren't even out yet), and I tried Profiler (previous outage issue on top of the fact that I found it a pain in the ass to submit a new title). Maybe it's time to not use an online site as in-depth, as no matter how big the site is there will probably come a day when it will collapse and go away.

Bulletpointreview.com is up again, btw...

This news is very sad, so now I'm scrambling for a solution, particularly one where I could either export to an iphone database or otherwise access my database via the iphone. Anyone have any recommendations?

I got frustrated when DVDAf revamped, but really, what is with the hate? Just the lack of stats?

There was a billing glitch with the host we are currently sitting on and a bunch of their sites were suspended. They have since fixed the issue. This happened to everyone of my sites hosted with the company.

Just perfect timing for this to happen this week. :lol:

:( Huge bummer...

Not that I know of, without doing the same sort overwrite thing, but that would be kind of a pain in the ass. You can add folders to your wishlist, and you could create folders by release date. I have them set up for upcoming months on mine, but never break it down by week.

But I will suggest it to the guy that runs dvdaf on their message board, that would be a cool feature.


and for everyone worried about stats, those are in the works at dvdaf. It is a one man operation as far as design and whatnot. There are a few mods who approve new submissions to the DB. He is working on a filmaf system right now that will include all the stats that Spot had and a few more cool features. Not sure when it will roll out though.

Burn in hell, Fox..., I mean, CNet!

Fortunately, I was OCD enough to maintain my collection on DVDAF and Profiler simultaneously. I knew there was a good reason I was going through all that extra work.

I wouldn't bother. I just looked at the site. Zero customization, ability to add one title at a time based on name, not UPC. I got through about 40 titles...meh...not liking it at all.

Actually, a couple buddies and I are working on something too and looking for beta testers. We're building something that can show off your DVD collection online in a way that’s cooler and more interesting than say, just a bunch of grids and boxes. Then you can put a link to it in your signature(s) for everyone to see.

Anyway, if anyone is interested in trying it out, just send me a PM.

Is there any way to emulate DVDSpot's filter system on DVDAF?

For those that are starting up a similar site, I was curious what your business model will be. With sites such as guzzlefish and DVDSpot shutting down, what will you do so you don't end up in similar situation.

As you can tell by my sig, I use both DVDAf and DVDProfiler. I only keep DVDA around for those that prefer viewing DVDs that way. I didn't mind paying for Profiler because I can use it without being online and all the neat bells & whistles it offers.

that sucks! It's funny though because it's closing on my birthday..haha

Well, it's really a part of something bigger that we're working on. But for this, we just wanted a more exciting way to showcase our DVDAf, Profiler, and doomed DVDSpot collections. We were about a week or two away from officially asking people to try it out, but with DVDSpot going away, we're speeding things up a bit.

Is Profiler still $25 for life or has that changed?

Transferring everything off of DVDSpot is turning out to be a lot of tedious work. I've done about 200 titles, only about 540 left to go, and I'm sick of it already. I really feel bad for some of you that have thousands of titles to try and transfer.

It switched to $30 a few years ago. But it's still good for life.

I forgot to say "thanks". Thanks!! :)

I still hold a paid for key but I'm about 6 months of updates in arrears. Think it might be time to collect just in case.

edit to add - regardless of the web enabled collection sites' pros and cons, I still feel that Excel (or another local DB program) is the best way of continuity. If I could figure out how to host my own collection in Excel (with IMDB links) on the web with pictures then I'd just use that and forget about web based sites altogether.

where you going to, Im going to try the frog site

If you know HTML, DVD Profiler can really be exceptional. For example, if you want to take your own images of box sets and contents inside, you can customize it to include additional images. Many other features which can make your DVD collection highly interactive and informative, and not just a back and front shot of your DVD.

I'm going offline for now. I'm moving my entire collection over to Tellico, the Linux only program I mentioned a couple pages back. I really like it so far. I just don't know what I'm going to do about an online solution. I'm thinking about using DVDaf just to keep a basic list of what I have online, while using Tellico to keep track of all the purchase data and viewings and everything in depth.

I just wish DVDaf would let you lock the taskbar. That to me is the most annoying aspect, but even if they had fixed that I'd have stayed with DVDspot.

This is very sad. I have so many of my DVDs listed there I tried filing them but it's not working out for me. Wouldn't it be easier to sell the site to someone and keep it running? Maybe the folks running DVDTalk would be interested in buying it to bring more traffic here?