Service Announcement

May 24, 2010

Hello, due to server issues, the forum you were trying to access is currently offline and unavailable. Our deepest apologies as we are currently working on options to restore the server and recover the data from it. The forum was running on an older version of forum software and is making it difficult to bring the forum back online.

We do not have a timeline of when this forum can be brought back online, nor can we guarantee that we'll be able to bring the forum back online.

You are free to make a new forum from our homepage.

As we are spending all our efforts trying to bring your server back online, we cannot answer individual questions, but have put a few frequently asked questions below.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Where is my forum?

The data is stored on one of our servers that suffered a hardware failure and at the moment we cannot access any of the data.

Why wasn't I contacted about this?

Our older forum software which this forum was running didn't have a mechanism to email all admins like our new software does. With the server being down, there was no way to recover email addresses from our databases.

Why should I start a new forum on your service?

Once again, our apologies in this matter. You don't have to create a new forum on our service, we are offering this as a free alternative. If you lost a forum, you are free to create a new forum here or any other service of your choosing. Please see the next question on why a new forum shouldn't suffer the same server issues.

How do I know your server won't crash again?

Your forum was running on older servers with an older software platform that did not allow for redundant backups and was not able to be distributed across our hosting provider, home to multiple servers across the globe.

Since 2009, we've offered a new forum architecture for all new forums created on our service. This technology is hosted safely across many servers around the world and has daily backups in place to ensure your data's safety. All new forums will have a much higher uptime guarantee, and we even offer a Pro plan that allows for backups and downloads of your forum (our old platform did not allow for this)