Oh, Danny boy, the fora, the fora are calling From pen to pen, and round the web world wide. The sites near gone, and all the stats falling, It's you, but the moose must go and you must bide. I'll not come back when summer's in the meadow, Or when the forums hushed and pink with porn, It's your fault that the sites just a shadow,— Oh, Danny boy, Oh Danny boy, you suck and i dislike you so. But when ye come, and all the site is dying, The forum's dead, as dead as my respect for thee, I'd like think you'd be sorry but i'd be lying, You'll just make more excuses for your laxity. And I shan't hear, though doubtless you'll curse me, And without you the happier i'll be, For you failed as an owner and you're no leader as all can see The site is dead... cos you repeatedly failed to pay the server fee. Oh Danny boy.
As a practical matter Daniel, the forum has been mothballed, to stop the massive number of spammers and bots that the failure of the spam filter let through the wire from scraping or otherwise ripping off data. I didn't Raven your forum, not that i couldn't have done or you wouldn't have deserved it, but i'm better than that... its all still there just not displayed in the node list Various member accounts have been deleted... those people have withdrawn their consent to access their information, restoring it from back ups would be a breach of both COPPA and the GDPR lastly for the love of any deity you care to name, don't start it up again. The community are in safe hands and frankly you're not suited or indeed fit to run a forum. I wouldn't trust you to get a round of drinks in without getting distracted and disappearing for three months. Anyone else reading this, come join us at writingforum.org same great community but with a committed and present owner who cares about and invests in his site Moose, signing off for the last time.
