Ok...I'm a convert

[yoyo143]

@oldguy

MagicYoyo makes some good yoyos, but I wouldn’t buy them, because they don’t sponsor contests in my area. My opinion: don’t only buy MagicYoyo! Support your friendly neighborhood yoyo company!

if I spent money on yoyos, I’d get Chico throws. But im not a huge fan of them…

[YoRED]

@n01mportant

I’ve never had any bad experience with myy except that the stacks are super loud, the bearings suck (in the stacks), and replacement parts for the stacks are basically impossible to find. That aside, their throws are great for the price. They’re (probably) cheaper because they’re made in china by small children for .10 cents a day, have nearly no marketing costs, and taxes on things from American are horrible. There’s basically nothing left that’s made in America, if you can point something out to me that is solely made in America I’d love to hear about it. Even most things “made in American” are simply assembled in America. Likewise I’d venture to wager that even the American made throws are made using machinery that was either made in china, or assembled in America, from parts that came from China.

not even those little flags people hand out on the 4th of july are made here in good ole murica… They have the little gold china stickers on them. But hey! Snap-on tools is a usa made product. Good ones too.

[anonyo]

@GoCrazyForYoyo

They sponsor contests. MYY sponsored the YoDown Showdown in Farmington, NM that I went to. YYF, Duncan, and Yomega were also sponsors. So I guess I should only buy from those companies right? That means no YYJ, OD, C3, or G2 for me. Guess that means any others I failed to mention are banned as well. Would be nice to try their throws, but they weren’t at the E3 children’s museum at 12 O’clock for the YoDown Showdown. Maybe I should boycott Waffle House too! They weren’t there.

Is this really supporting the yoyo community?

Boycotting certain brands for not sponsoring a local contest doesn’t help grow the community. Only well established companies would thrive. New smaller companies would have such a hard time. (if this was the mentality we all shared)

I didn’t say people should boycott MagicYoyo; I was just saying that people shouldn’t exclusively buy yoyos from them. It’s cool that they’re doing a bit of sponsorship inside the US, though!

[anonyo]

@RobK

It would be great to set it up as a searchable database hosted on the web. I would contribute to content.

I’m too lazy to research what software I’d need for this project. I got other things that are more priority to me.

@n01mportant

We could just put it up on google docs!

I don’t like Google’s services outside their search engine.

The idea of converting the file to a database is appealing. Then setting up a simple data input form would be kind of fun to do. But, I’m “between” servers right now. My current hosting platform is fine, but soon I’m going to be migrating to a different computer with different software and I don’t want to have to redo the job. This migration will allow me to turn off my domain controller, mail server and web server into one smaller and more efficient machine and drive my power bill down!

My priority right now is getting $6K for a new digital desk with remote stage boxes, and then this project can be examined again. The digital desk keeps becoming an issue that I hope to resolve before the end of the year.

[GoCrazyForYoyo (Amplified)]

@oldguy

I didn’t say people should boycott MagicYoyo; I was just saying that people shouldn’t exclusively buy yoyos from them. It’s cool that they’re doing a bit of sponsorship inside the US, though!

Your first statement led me to believe that you were against supporting companies that don’t sponsor contest in your immediate area. It was your call to action: Support your Neighborhood Yoyo Company! By not supporting I assumed that meant not buying their yoyos. In theory this is a boycott. I guess I read to far into it.

You shouldn’t buy exclusively from any company (IMO). Branch out and help the community grow!

[RobK]

2 things:

1. I can set up a MySQL database on my hosting account for this project. If there is interest.
2. I played the MYY N12 toiday. Amazing throw. PLays every bit as good as many yoyos over the $75 mark that i own. I’m impressed. Much better than the other MYYs I have.

[anonyo]

@RobK

2 things:

1. I can set up a MySQL database on my hosting account for this project. If there is interest.
2. I played the MYY N12 toiday. Amazing throw. PLays every bit as good as many yoyos over the $75 mark that i own. I’m impressed. Much better than the other MYYs I have.

I self-host and since I started it, I would like to own the project. I know the new platform will support SQL. However, at this point, I’m rather inclined to just be rid of the project.