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  1. bigredlemon

    bigredlemon Regular Member

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    http://www.badminton-forum.de/

    related to BF or not? It kind of looks the same as our site so maybe it's a localisation veriation of bf.com but it's weird that no one mentions it here?
     
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    badminton-forum.de uses phpbb. no affliation with BC/BF and i have no idea what they are talking about. ;)

    there are some copycats though..

    look at badmintoncentral.info - duh?

    and the worse one is:

    www.badminton.online.ukgateway.net
     
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    Ewww, that is just so wrong to CC this beautiful site and rename it something else. Did the copycatters just copy directly from source code and then manipulated it a bit?
     
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    Ouch, the worst thing is that he copyrighted it? LOL!
     
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    Well, as the old saying goes, "Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery". It is quite obvious that the www.badminton.online.ukgateway.net site "heavily borrowed" elements from BC/BF, but in all fairness, it wasn't a direct ripoff. Plus, (no offence, kwun) I rather like their middle portion because it looks less busy with more whitespace appropriately placed here and there.

    Just take these imitations as the best compliments, folks. People know this site rocks!

    -Rick
     
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    I can't help it but laugh when I visited http://www.badminton.online.ukgateway.net

    Boy, was it funny. Anyway, I don't think it looked that way the last time I visited, the design only changed recently, no?

    But as traum said, 'imitation is the sincerest flattery'. I cannot but agree with this.

    Give yourself a good pat on the back, kwun. ;)
     
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    i think this one is better too.
    As for badmintoncentral.com.... isn't that prettymuch defacto abandoned for the last three years? How the new review section coming? It's been half a year since the first announcement!
     

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