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Trogloxene
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4 years ago

#21

Hi, I only just joined a week or two ago but in that time enjoyed some great threads, had conversations with new folk, learned an old exploring contact is not dead but in fact alive and well (!) and hopefully arranged a future joint explore. Signing up was not in ... vein (best use that spelling on a mine related site)!

Thanks to Simon for this site being there in the first place and hope I bump into a few of you in the dark at some point!

Stay safe folks ... but not too safe!

A pale, spindly, unshaven creature, often seen covered in damp iron oxide infused clay and heard breathing heavily in the low O2!

JohnnearCfon
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4 years ago

#22

Oh!!!! I am so so sorry to read what Simon has put.

I was one of the first people to join/subscribe/whatever. I think I am number 8. Since then I have logged on most days, if there is an exceptionally interesting thread that is being continually updated, in which case several times during a day.

Although there are one or two people who "get my goat", I am sure there are others who probably think the same about me, but isn't that just like life in general?

I will really, really miss this site. I hope that it will be possible for it to return (hopefully sooner rather than later).

Finally, big thank you to Simon, Vanoord, and others who have spent in inordinate amount of time putting it together and keeping it running. I repeat, I will really miss it.

Thank you to you all.

Very kind regards,
John

Morlock
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4 years ago

#23

Many thanks to Simon for his efforts over the years.

AdM Michael
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4 years ago

#24

Thank you for keeping AN alive for such a long time. It's really sad news right at the start of the new year. I just hope that An will return.

Digit
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4 years ago

#25

Thank you Simon for all the time, effort and I guess money you have put into this resource over the years.

There have been many questions I have not needed to ask over the years because the answers were already here. I am going to miss this site.

Regards Digit

~~~ The future is not what it used to be ~~~

Morrisey
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4 years ago

#26

"John_Smith" wrote:
Simon, you have done a fantastic job and this website really is something special, thank you for all of the effort that you have put in. I don't think there will ever be a community quite like this - the perfect mix of maturity, knowledge and thirst for adventure. I will miss you all!

This post says it all for me. It's been a pleasure to meet some of you folk from this forum over the years and to share some real 'under the radar' gems.

Here's hoping that this isn't the end, but the start of a new beginning. 🙂

robnorthwales
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4 years ago

#27

Many thanks to Simon for running the site, to all the contributors for their pictures and getting the history of these places out there, to Roy and all the others who have done so much to keep access to these places safe and available, to those who have dug out and recorded all these wonderful places that most people don't even realise exist.

I've met a fair few of you over the years, it's been a pleasure, and hope to meet more as time and circumstances allow

Madness takes its toll, please carry exact change

Expelunker
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4 years ago

#28

I'm a perennial lurker here but read the site avidly and, like all the others, I'll be very sad to see it go, I have learned lots about the areas I've lived in, enjoyed reading peoples accounts of trips in mines I've been in and mines I haven't, and the historical information and photos are brilliant. Wish I could have contributed more to it!

Thanks Simon and all those involved in running the site.

James

TheBogieman
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4 years ago

#29

Oh dear! I sincerely hope AN can be resurrected in the future, it's been an invaluable resource and I've met many good people and made friends with so many.

In the meantime, many, many thanks to Simon and the other Admins.

Presume the AN FB page will remain as a contact medium but obviously won't be able to access all the data.

Until we meet again, many thanks again...

Explorans ad inferos

thorpey
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4 years ago

#30

such a shame made some great friends and had some good explores all through people on here it will be a huge loss.
I have not posted much in recent times I hope you will return with a new version its been a Blast

Nut deep in water!

steve turbo
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4 years ago

#31

Many thanks to Simon, been on some great trips together with lots of interesting people, let's all hope this fountain of knowledge does not disappear like others have, till we meet again, steve turbo

dtyson
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4 years ago

#32

A really useful site which I will miss greatly, until it hopefully returns in the near future! What are we going to do now? - first we lose the mine-explorer site and now aditnow :o

Hope you have a good rest Simon and, when refreshed, come up with some new ideas for an updated site. There are so many packages and scripting languages for web site design now and it's hard to choose the one which will stay the course and be secure.

Kind regards,
Dave

legendrider
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4 years ago

#33

I also send a Big (well, massive) Thank You to Simon and Admins.

Speaking as someone with a 4000-page website to re-code (oh goody) owing to unplanned and short-notice server migration, you have my sympathies.

Like so many others I would be happy to pay a subscription for use of the site if that's what it takes. A day without Sinker & Co is a day without Sunshine :thumbup:

MARK

festina lente[i]

AR
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4 years ago

#34

Thank you Simon for all your graft in keeping the site going all these years, and to all the admins.

There's going to be a major hole in my world for some time now, I hope that the return of AN is sooner rather than later!

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

staffordshirechina
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4 years ago

#35

Thank you from me also. I have enjoyed it and met new friends.

Where are we all going now then?

Les

towim
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4 years ago

#36

A big thank you from me Simon, hopefully it is rebuilt one day. AN is one of the few traditional forums still going and I have always preferred this to the discord, reddit stuff the kids are all on nowadays.

Matt.

Ironing 2 miles deep into a system? you obviously dont understand.

nwminer
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4 years ago

#37

Really, really, REALLY sorry to hear this, and I also put in a big THANK YOU to Simon for all the time he has put into AN over the years.
Hope it will be back, and hopefully in the not too distant future. I have had many great trips in the UK as a result of the information on AN, and met many great people I would have not met otherwise. I will truly miss it.

Roy Morton
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4 years ago

#38

:o:o:o:o:o:o As if COVID wasn't enough I now have my favourite organ being severed.
Been here since 2007 and had such a great time. Learned a lot, shared a lot and made friends too.
Huge thanks to Simon and the rest of the crew, and hope that the Phoenix (or should that be Fenix 😉 )will rise from the ashes.
I'd be quite happy to pay a yearly sub to see the site resurrected.
Untill then though Stay well everyone and let's do it again sometime. :flowers::flowers::flowers:

"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

alex17595
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4 years ago

#39

Are the posts going to be saved as well? Theres some excellent posts on here on some very obscure topics.

A big thanks to the admins for all the work done to the keep the site running and also to the members for the thousands of photos to look through.

Brakeman
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4 years ago

#40

Another big thank you to Simon from me, will miss this one for sure, most of the guys seem quite civilsed on here compared to elsewhere, and the posts/photos of good quality.

Cheers!

The management thanks you for your co operation.