New forum.

[MrJan]

I seem to remember people referring to the "new fourm" last time that we got a new look.

[SGWilko]

I'd love a pole dancer at my wake

Borat still has his mankini so I'm told.......

[Tazio]

I have written about it elsewhere. But here goes, put simply.

We were hosted on the motorsport.com servers and had been for many years, kindly paid for by motorsport.com, I got use of their server and in return they got a nice busy forum, and a slice of the ad revenue.

Motorsport.com offered to buy the forums from me. I told them that I wasn't prepared to accept the offer. They then came back twice basically saying "Take the offer or we'll proceed with other plans". The day after the deadline for me accepting the offer past I logged in to find that my Admin account had been completely deleted.

Thankfully I'd taken the precaution of doing regular backups so I was able to set up on another server within a couple of hours, and I removed the forum and all my files from the motorsport.com servers.

They then restored the forum from a backup they'd taken on the 6th January, some 5 days earlier than they acted against me. They continue to use a copy of the forums from that date, although the software is updated.

A few days later I upgraded the forums here to the latest software, hence why many refer to it as the 'new forums', although I would argue that it isn't new at all, it's the same forums that have been operating since April 2000.

I'm glad you punked those lousy bloodsuckers (or something like that)

[Bagwan]

I have written about it elsewhere. But here goes, put simply.

We were hosted on the motorsport.com servers and had been for many years, kindly paid for by motorsport.com, I got use of their server and in return they got a nice busy forum, and a slice of the ad revenue.

Motorsport.com offered to buy the forums from me. I told them that I wasn't prepared to accept the offer. They then came back twice basically saying "Take the offer or we'll proceed with other plans". The day after the deadline for me accepting the offer past I logged in to find that my Admin account had been completely deleted.

Thankfully I'd taken the precaution of doing regular backups so I was able to set up on another server within a couple of hours, and I removed the forum and all my files from the motorsport.com servers.

They then restored the forum from a backup they'd taken on the 6th January, some 5 days earlier than they acted against me. They continue to use a copy of the forums from that date, although the software is updated.

A few days later I upgraded the forums here to the latest software, hence why many refer to it as the 'new forums', although I would argue that it isn't new at all, it's the same forums that have been operating since April 2000.

Thanks , Mark .

I very much appreciate the time it took to explain , I guess , again .

[Bagwan]

Borat still has his mankini so I'm told.......

What your friends tell you has nothing to do with me .

[Tazio]

Hail Mark :

[Sonic]

Hail Mark :

PML! you could have pixilated marks face - this is meant to be an anonymous forum

[SGWilko]

PML! you could have pixilated marks face - this is meant to be an anonymous forum

Jeez, don't upset the Anonymous, or they'll do a HBGary on you......

[SGWilko]

What your friends tell you has nothing to do with me .

I've not got any friends........