Freeciv forum relaunch
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:24 pm
Welcome (back) to the Freeciv forums. For those who were here before, please accept our apologies for the extended downtime. Thanks to syntron for setting up phpBB, and to Per for hosting.
This is a completely new forum instance, so existing users will need to re-register; and it's a bit bare-bones at the moment.
We've started with a copy of the old forum structure, but since there's no content, now would be a good time to implement changes, if anyone has suggestions.
What about the old forum contents?
We're afraid all content from the old forum (whose server died in March 2012) remains unavailable.
We had hoped to physically recover the old server's disk and resurrect the old forum -- this is part of the reason for the delay -- but it never materialised. We do have a rather elderly backup from 2009, which we may bring back as a separate, read-only forum archive at some point. Davide's forum at freeciv-mundi.org also has a few old posts recovered by web scraping.
By sheer luck, we do have a copy of all uploaded files until a day or two before the server went down (although no information about who uploaded them or what threads they were in). So if your only copy of a ruleset or something was stored here on the forum, contact us and we can try to dig it out for you.
This is a completely new forum instance, so existing users will need to re-register; and it's a bit bare-bones at the moment.
We've started with a copy of the old forum structure, but since there's no content, now would be a good time to implement changes, if anyone has suggestions.
What about the old forum contents?
We're afraid all content from the old forum (whose server died in March 2012) remains unavailable.
We had hoped to physically recover the old server's disk and resurrect the old forum -- this is part of the reason for the delay -- but it never materialised. We do have a rather elderly backup from 2009, which we may bring back as a separate, read-only forum archive at some point. Davide's forum at freeciv-mundi.org also has a few old posts recovered by web scraping.
By sheer luck, we do have a copy of all uploaded files until a day or two before the server went down (although no information about who uploaded them or what threads they were in). So if your only copy of a ruleset or something was stored here on the forum, contact us and we can try to dig it out for you.