This Website is Dead. Just Let it RIP. Remember the Good TImes.

[MasterKav]

Sorry but can't agree with that.


This site is reborn and has new and vibrant content.


Furthermore it has the distinct advantage over many similar sites that is not elitist. You are welcomed with open arms her and enjoy freedom that is becoming rare. I speak from experience.


I am relatively new as a member but I think this site will prevail !

Who agrees?

[Cisco]

Love this forum

[yyy02]

...I am relatively new as a member but I think this site will prevail !
Who agrees?

Hell yeah MasterKav, can't go wrong with 23 years of perverted fun!

Hey, it would be kind of interesting if Ralphus could give us a brief trip down memory lane and let us know how the site has changed over the years. I know it's morphed from a ZFX-centric thang to where we are now. (Where exactly are we now?)

[bakerboy]

This Website is Dead. Just Let it RIP. Remember the Good TImes.

Alive and well

[stemur]

Hell yeah MasterKav, can't go wrong with 23 years of perverted fun!

Hey, it would be kind of interesting if Ralphus could give us a brief trip down memory lane and let us know how the site has changed over the years. I know it's morphed from a ZFX-centric thang to where we are now. (Where exactly are we now?)

. . . I'd like to second this very fine notion (Mr. Ralphus?) . . . also, we RIPn . . .
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[MasterKav]

There are currently 712 registered members on this forum but only a handful ( I would say less than 30) are regular posters/contributors. I don't know if that ratio was much different in the past but It certainly would be nice to see more active posters. But there are many more visitors/guests/lurkers and calling this site "dead" is pushing things a little too far.

Here here

[Ralphus]

Hell yeah MasterKav, can't go wrong with 23 years of perverted fun!

Hey, it would be kind of interesting if Ralphus could give us a brief trip down memory lane and let us know how the site has changed over the years. I know it's morphed from a ZFX-centric thang to where we are now. (Where exactly are we now?)

I've followed this thread with interest over the past few days. Usually when you get an initial post like this, the intention of the poster is to troll the forum. Except the poster is theelectrician, not a troll at all, and a fairly regular and intelligent member of this community. I've read and enjoyed many of his postings in the past.

Is the website dead? No, not at all. But it has certainly changed. Some would say it's improved, others still long for the "good old days".

We started back in 1999 as a simple guestbook page on Dreambook (remember them?) Here's a look at how we looked back in the day:

https://ralphus.net/archives/gimp1999/apr99.html

That's pretty much the look at the setup of the site. I honestly don't remember if the font was white on black or black on white. There were no pictures of any kind. Tripod.com, which hosted the additional later pages like reviews and links pages, wouldn't allow adult pictures, so we went without. The entire site was text. But from the very beginning, it was quite interesting to read. We had a nice, albeit small mix of intelligent pervs who contributed, and even now, I sometimes browse the archives and get stuck reading the conversations. There's still some awesome material there.

Early on, we had our first celebrity guest poster, Rick Masters of ZFX. And a lot of the early chatting was about ZFX and people discussing their movies with occasional Ralphus Reviews of their stuff. Then others would contribute and soon we had multiple reviews of many, many different tapes. Yeah, tapes. Back then, our entertainment mostly came on VHS. That's how old this site is.

When I took over as moderator, I wanted to expand and improve the site. I started to add a daily picture at the top of the site in the early to mid 2000s or so. I had to ask Dreambook for permission and they said it was fine. I changed it every day to encourage visitors to check in every day.

About 2006 or so, the Whipping Scenes in Movies Database (WSIMD) announced they would be closing their doors. I was a fan of the site and wrote creator Oslo Netfetter about the prospects of us hosting it here at the GIMP. The first few years it was only a text list, but when Tripod kicked us out for some bizarre Terms of Service violations, we scrambled to find a new host for our extra pages that was more lenient. We found one, which enabled us to add pictures to the WSIMD for the first time.

Other databases were rescued from other sites and added here. The Torture Rack Scenes Database was originally on another site. Tony Wood had closed it, and since we were already friends and trading buddies, he allowed me to resurrect it over here. The original Electro-Shock Database was something I found off the Internet, but it didn't have any pictures. I researched and found stills from other sources, along with video clips, before we opened it here.

The Hot Iron Database was a Ralphus Original. All the entries were written by me and all the stills were supplied by me, mostly from my own vidcaps. We added a new feature every year on our anniversary, GIMP Comics, the Snidely Whiplash pages, GIMP Interviews, the Hall of Fame. Not everything is still accessible, but the pages are all still there. I expect we'll have them all back eventually if people ask for them.

In 2014 we had our most serious event when Dreambook decided, out of the blue and without warning, hey, we're not going to allow hosting anymore. Fuck you and have a nice day. And Amy Hesketh appeared like the Lone Ranger to save the day. She and I worked together and the GIMP was rebuilt to a forum that was similar to the old one, except more user friendly. It was way easier to post pictures and the site filled up with filthy bondage pictures and was more popular than ever before. Life was good.

Then in 2020, in a year that pretty much sucked donkey for everyone, we were hit by a cyber-terrorist that hacked the site and demanded money for its return. We didn't play ball and lost nearly every post from the Amy Hesketh site, nearly 7 years of postings. Margot took over and rebuilt the site to the threaded forum we have today. We've had some bumps along the way and they may not be over, but this is the new-look GIMP, finally threaded like most websites have been since the 21st Century.

Is it better? Well, I can say from my personal experience that I don't read it nearly as often as I used to. For years I resisted updating the forum to a threaded board, and my fears have now been realized when I discovered I now only read about 10% of what's here any more. It's too big for me to read, honestly, and the interesting conversations amongst learned pervs have been mostly replaced by...more pictures. I don't dislike pictures, but how many pictures do I need to look at? I literally already have about a million files on my hard drive now.

I'm not complaining. I'm just talking about my own situation.

I don't have the stats, but Margot does and she says the site is more popular now than it ever was. I believe her. I'm not as hands-on as I was before. I'm getting older and my life has changed. I have a girlfriend now. She's not one who shares my pervy interests. But she takes up a lot of my free time. I simply don't have the hours I once did to devote to the site.

To close this long, long post, I think the site has evolved. It's not the same site we started with, but to last for 23 years, I think we've done all right. It's the like-minded posters here who keep it alive, and thriving. There are so many of you who "get" the thrill of seeing girls tied up and tortured. It's a real pleasure hanging out with you. You guys are great. And long live the Girls In Mercilous Peril!

[thx1139a]

I've been here pretty much since the beginning. 23 years is a long time, and everything changes. This site is no different. Many, many, things are better... as Ralphus mentioned, no images at first. Material of the genre was very limited (I was amazed in those days that it was available at all and that I wasn't the only one interested in it). While I miss some things about the proverbial early days, I'm just glad it's still here. Press on.

[yyy02]

...We had a nice, albeit small mix of intelligent pervs who contributed, and even now, I sometimes browse the archives and get stuck reading the conversations. There's still some awesome material there....

Ralphus, can you suggest some good starting points? Maybe provide some links?

[La Reine Margot]

I have a theory.

The individual who began this thread got frustrated when he couldn't load the pages because of the problems we are experiencing and decided that the site was, indeed, dead.

Far from the truth. As a matter of fact the GIMP Forum is far more active than before, the number of posts coming in is huge, the number of images is gigantic, and the clicks to the threads, posts, images and so on is overwhelming.

The site would've died a thousand times over in the old server.

We're operating at a 86 to 95% capacity on a daily basis, really; when it goes to 100% capacity the site can experience some problems.

There are over 700 registered members and a few thousand unregistered visitors. They can browse the site and decide to join or not. Maybe some fear that they will be deluged with spam if they do.

There are over a hundred new registration requests per day, most of which are bots. We also get that. I often wonder why the attention. We're not FB or any giant millions plus members type of site. We're, in the internet sense, tiny. No offense.

So, the site is not dead at all. It is vibrant and more active than a cat on steroids.

I'm resetting the forum.html page. The one visitors get after the index.html page, which right now is the very old one.

I would've done it a couple of weeks ago, but we started experiencing the error problems you all know about... or maybe know, or maybe are not aware of, I can't tell, so all my attention went to solve the problem and it continues to be our preoccupation.

In that forum.html page there will be links to the entire site, not only to the GIMP Forum, as it is now, and there will be a link on our front page here to that page so you can all enjoy the pages. There's one problem in some of the old pages, there's no link back to a home page. That will be a kind of hard task if I decide to take it.

Another problem in the archival pages is that some of the links to images appear to be not working. We'll see.

In any case, YES, the site is ALIVE AND WELL!

Another thing I'm doing is rebuilding our site, redfeline.com/chronicles, putting back everything I posted everywhere. I was going backwards until I got to 2015. I took a big jump back to begin going forward from 2012, that's ten years ago and guess what, that's when I started posting here, at the GIMP, the very old one of course.

The following is my very first post:

A quick update

Well, at this very moment Amy is in New York to present her first film, Sirwiñakuy, at the CineKink NYC festival. She left Thursday morning at 5 AM, via Bogota and arrived, safely into JFK at exactly 8 30 pm. She spent seven hours in Bogota..

She’s very excited, of course, to the point that the whole idea of going to New York to show off her first baby made her forget the rough three days she had shooting the public flogging scene in Dead But Dreaming.

She still has the marks.



Continue reading... if you wish.

https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2012/0 ... ck-update/

You can check the progress of the month of February here:

https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2012/02/