So Queenzone Is Finally Closing Down

I always wondered if the Rare Shares thing was ever going to happen.

Finally. One less dumpster on the internet.

It hasn't, but Richard and at least one other user are using a website crawler to save everything, he's putting it on github apparently, for those that like plying around with this stuff.

Presumably this is on top of those of us who are finding threads to copy and paste from and / or snapshot at the wayback machine archive service.

The server just can't take the traffic.

I've had trouble getting into QZ for several days now. And by trouble, I mean 6 or more hours where my requests timed out. I assume it's the activity of all the people trying to save threads. I plan to leave a "goodbye and thanks" message to Richard, but there is a lot of troll activity on his Intent to Close thread and I don't want to make that worse. Even though I'm a relative newcomer to QZ in comparison to most of you, I enjoyed it as a part of my daily online routine and I learned a lot there. In spite of what it has become, I will miss it. I'm just grateful that this site is here for many of us to find a new home. LOL, in fact, I've had some trouble accessing this site too and I assumed it might be due to the mass migration.

Ditto. For two decades, my daily routine also included going to Queenzone, in many occasions dozens of times a day. A place for meeting and learning from fellow fans. I am deeply grateful to Richard, YV and everyone that led or took part in it. I am glad I was able to tell Richard personally at some point how grateful I am.

I am so glad most of the contributing members of the community found a new home here. How lucky are we to have a new batch of fans strongly dedicated to creating and mantaining a new home for our discussions? Bless ya. Thanks a million.

Cheers,

Ogre-

It was good fun now and then but it really was heading south the last years. 

So they're tearing the old house down now. I heard the news in a facebook group just now, and I couldn't help but feel a little bummed.

That was the 1st time I've met a wide community of Queen fans, guys who speak the same language if you will. Some of the discussions were a good read, especially when there's a new release official or otherwise. But yeah, it's run its course lately. I checked out the place just now and I'm sad to say it's even more of a mess now than the last time I went.

RIP QZ.

I wasn’t a big user of Queenzone. Quite frankly, I hardly ever used it. But the fact you guys really want to save some of the stuff that’s on it, really says a lot! It’s been on the net for a quarter of a century! A massive thanks to the people that led me this way, and took the time to create this!

Ha! Probably. If there's a deleted posts folder you'll probably find my old physical address...

Yikes!

Maybe it's time to update our login info to some useless temp mail + dummy password while we can

I did that in QZ, oddly prescient...

Same here. Thanks for the heads up guys.

Yeah, glad to see QZ finally laid to rest, even though it had its fair share of great moments. Just isn't worth keeping something online that isn't worth keeping anymore, when there are better options.

Just got me thinking, and this is stretching the topic a bit, but... I keep reading about most of you lot having found a unity of Queen fans for the first time with QZ, but does anyone remember Queenworld from before 1998? That was while the official Queen website was still queen-fip.com, or whatever it was, and if I remember correctly, the official site didn't have a proper forum or a chat room, but QW had. After all, it was.. no - IS the official fan club page, so it had to have something like that, which it doesn't anymore. Back then, QW had a nice community, and I used its chat room quite often. Even remember a few nicks from back then. I don't think most of us even know of songs like Feelings Feelings or Silver Salmon or even Hangman back then - lucky if we had heard all the b-sides. Ah, good times...