Dunno but I didn't like it. I emailed as even the main page was making you re register to see anything, but it let me register a new name to the existing email address. Gotta admit I started looking for other forums cos there have been outages a few times lately
Yh it happened on the 14th of this month too, I remember the date because the time tag is on the DM I sent to Debbie about it at the time. This time I don't even think the DMs worked though.
This place needs a massive overhaul in general, I wouldn't mind the forum going offline for 24hrs if it was for vital updates. For example it's clear this Forum was put together from existing code from a template for other forums pre-socialmedia because on our profiles it alludes to a blog feature in name but we can't use it. There's no standard safeguarding like block and mute features on other sites. And for a community heavy into special interests there's no groups feature either.
Old threads going back way over 10 years old with now massively outdated information are still open and public, that's now a potential misinformation hazard and a huge amount of server space that could be freed up if they permanently deleted threads inactive for over 7 years. What they should do is work on a replacement offline that they can then transfer any thread active in the last year and existing members over to so that one morning we wake up and can just log in to a shiny new social space. Because if this place is unsustainable long term it's just gonna go and then NAS with have to deal with calls to make and run a Discord server or something which honestly I don't think they want to do because that would have a heavy influx of youngsters and require finding a way bigger mod team very quickly, they might not be able to manage it.
