Topic by blindncool 2018-05-27 00:27:01

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Hello all. I don't know if any of you folks used Klango, but it has finally been shut down. sad

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Reply by Jeffb 2018-05-27 01:33:57

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I'm surprised that Klango has lasted as long as it has. It out lasted the Zone which I never thought would happen either.

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Reply by sightlessHorseman 2018-05-27 01:36:46

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only sucks that the media catalogue is now gone as well, was quite  a good way to listen to radio stations when I was working on the computer and let it run in the background.

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Reply by Ethin 2018-05-27 02:18:28

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Klango's death was a long time coming. I liked it, and used it, but the cold, hard truth is that bots have been rampant on it for years now (ever since 2013, if I'm not mistaken). I would've been sad to see it go before that, but I haven't used it in years, so have grown quite detached from it.

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Reply by TheEvilChocolateCookie 2018-05-27 02:41:02

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good riddance. that thing made my inbox just about blow up

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Reply by Orko 2018-05-27 03:18:58

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Yeah, I got that email about a week ago.

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Reply by Shinobi 2018-05-27 06:41:33

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I loved using Klango, it was definitely a fun social network, but the youtube thing didn't work which kind of sucked.  Overall, it was great, I hope something new comes out to replace Klango, or perhaps, we could all just use Facebook?

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Reply by Dakonna 2018-05-27 08:48:51

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In my opinion, klango has had its glory days far behind it. After 2013 ended, it just sort of crapped out, in the english comunity forum at least. All the english mods left or just got tired of the platform, so the english forum was completely unmoderated and it didn't take too long for people to notice and abuse this fact. The only reason I used it as far as 2016 was the media catalogue for some podcasts and audio books, but that's about it.

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Reply by Dark 2018-05-27 10:30:48

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What I was always sad about myself is that the imho more interesting bits of Klango such as the mediacatalogue, potential for games development etc never seemed to get used, what development was done was always on the community with sound avatars and more forum functions etc which to me were always  least interesting parts of Klango.

I always wished the  development had focused more on the unique things Klango could do as a platform, rather than the things you could get through other social networks and forums anyway.

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Reply by Socheat 2018-05-27 11:21:23

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I did have an account there, yes. And I also use it a lot. Now I'm sad to see it gone.

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Reply by Hrvoje 2018-05-27 11:47:22

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I was a moderator, beta tester and a supervizer for localization there, but I left Klango in late 2012 when I saw that not enough people in my country have any interest of joining it. Nevertheless, closing of Klango was something to be expected. It was at version 3.5 for a long time and it didn't receive any major upgrade for years.

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Reply by burak 2018-05-27 14:01:00

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Hello,
I think right now elten can be considered as an alternative.

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Reply by electro 2018-05-27 16:29:47

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Elten can be concidered as a sustitute of it. BTW, I had used klango since 2012, and whyle is sad that was gone, I was detatching from it since 2015.

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Reply by aaron 2018-05-29 17:15:50

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awww, this is also quite sad, I remember Klango. Discovered many good podcasts andhad fun on the forums over there for a while, and loved the different audio themes.

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Reply by techmaster20 2018-05-29 18:42:07

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Yeah, I only used it for  the media  catalog.  Even then, stuff like the web browser, Sero on mobile, and usual web tools cam do the same thing.

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Reply by turtlepower17 2018-05-31 03:43:56

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The media catalog and the audio themes were my favorite features as well. I agree with Dark that the potential for the games was also great, considering how well they worked. In its time, it really was an impressive concept. It was a shame that the whole network collapsed. I tried to log in when I received the email, in order to get whatever info they had stored there, more as a curiosity than anything else. However, I couldn't remember my password, and when I entered my email address to try and recover it, it said no such account existed with that address. Funny considering I received the notice of shutdown at that address. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted, and I'm sure there was nothing of importance that was left behind. I never really participated in the forums, although I appreciated the all-purpose nature of the application and very much respected the developers for casting such a wide net. It may have ultimately failed, but it was an ambitious project which brought much enjoyment to a lot of people.

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