what the?

[onlyreason]

what the hell happened to all the posts? I go away for 3 weeks and this is what happens?

[ECA]

NEW set-up.
weird aint it...
But it is nicer... except the Logo on the top takes you to the forums insted of the front page..

It got rid of all the lamers and those NOT posting. And refreshed all the comments, mostly.. IOMAN is still here..

:poke

Oh and the "smilies" are almost cool...

[Unregistered]

lamers? whatever... there is a long history of posts, and information, that is GONE..
that is what's LAME

[flashfire]

Yup, we did lose a lot of history and posts, kindly add more to build this out quickly :)

[IronSerif]

Originally posted by onlyreason
what the hell happened to all the posts? I go away for 3 weeks and this is what happens?

Heh...welcome back :D

[Ioman]

Originally posted by onlyreason
what the hell happened to all the posts? I go away for 3 weeks and this is what happens?

Here is the story with the forums. The old forums were produced by a company/group that is no longer writing the particular forum software we were using. So we had a dilemna, either our coding guys could spend all day updating and adding new features to the old forums or we could simply install new forums where a company actually was supporting them.

The old forums were integrated into the old sites database as well, meaning that if you registered on the main site you could post comments in both the forums and on the articles. Great idea right? Well figure we have 6-7 people running the sites and we get over 5-6K visitors per day. It would take all day to moderate all the comments on the whole site in and out of the forums. People trying to use HTML code to ruin the site, swearing etc...

We are working on a new site where comments are not allowed on the articles but in which the articles will point to the forums were things can be controlled.

I am sincerely sorry for losing the posts and data, it was a tough decision we had to make. We tried importing all the data but were only able to grab the user information and not the posts. We feel that in the long run this will be the way to go and we do not plan to change the forums for a long time.

We would love for all the old members to support us and our decision, but if you cannot then we understand completely. On another note, I did get some Intel shirts and stuff from some other companies. I plan on e-mailing those who have stuck with us to get your home information so I can mail you some goodies just to say thanks for your patronage.

[SponGeBoB]

Originally posted by Unregistered
lamers? whatever... there is a long history of posts, and information, that is GONE..
that is what's LAME

either use a registered name and make a constructive comment or dont post

consider yourself warned

[dang]

ECA, Clicking on the image on the top now takes you back to the main site. :thumb

[LinkDJ]

Thank you dang! My biggest pet peeve about forums is when they don't link back to the site they are used on.

[flashfire]

One thing I hope to change soon is to have the a forum thread block within the forums much like we have on the main page. :)