so glad the site's back!!!

so, what happened that made it go down for so long???

Yah, just cos I didn't subscribe to the topic I started, I just started it, guess it subsribes to topics creating by you by default? meh.

EDIT:

Does this incarnation of tp.net forums load really slowly for anyone else? I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.8 by the way.

yeah mine is loading pretty slow as well.....
using the same version of firefox so idk

Gone so long, only to make such a lame forum downgrade?

I'm admittedly underwhelmed...

However, it's the discussions that matter, and not the forum, right?

Jeffrey Zeitgeist wrote:
Gone so long, only to make such a lame forum downgrade?

I'm admittedly underwhelmed...

However, it's the discussions that matter, and not the forum, right?

How can you comment on the forums when thats just your first post :S ??

I'm glad the site went for a while, made me realise how much I missed it when it was down!!

Murder McMurderson wrote:
Ruby wrote:
so whats the go murd? do we get an explanation? just a Q..have u ever thought about having someone else on admin? sam would seem like a good choice. i mean he did manage to get us a temporary site going. and now this ones back up after a week of the new one. how funny.

Yes, you will get an explanation, but first I would like to finish cleaning up the board. I certainly do think Sam should be a moderator, if he's willing.

Well of course, I will take the offer.
Thank you very much. I am honored.
I haven't been posting much since the site came up, because of the board's current confusing condition.
I will check back in when everything's in order.

Finaly!!!

However, I like the old one better.
I appreciate the update but now the site is alot slower and there are alot more errors.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad to see you all again. And super thanks to McMurderson for bringing the site back.

BTW, I am in favor of Sam as a Moderator - he started an interim site for us while this one was down.

Im afraid some of the sarcasm of netphoria has rubbed off on me.

Yes, it is grand that the site is back and sutff so yes... I thought it was gone for good.

Good to see everyone back. I hope the word trickles down to the rest of our members.

Everyone keeps commenting about the look of the site. I believe it's still in a "limbo" period while Murder cleans everything up. It's a work in progress. Everything will be back to normal soon. Be thankful, things could have been worse.

Well, i actualy quite like the new site

Im so glad we are back in buisness

So do we get an explanation murder? we were all very worried about you

Yeah it's great to have the site back up. It runs a bit slow, but it's better than nothing.

what a new forum thingy, still good though, the site is still sexy, in its "im to tired to not be sexy" sort of way, hahaha

Okay, this what happened.

The website was experiencing a lot of downtime and it was being caused by the forums. This website runs on Joomla, and the forum used to run on SMF. To sync these two things together I used a forum bridge.

Recently Joomla changed its license to adhere to a strictly GPL Open Source policy. This made many developers angry, and as a result many developers stopped working on their Joomla projects. The forum bridge stopped releasing updates and there is almost no support anymore.

Because of this, I decided to migrate to a different forum system, one that was incorporated directly into the Joomla framework. I decided to use Fireboard.

On the day I put the website offline, I started to make the transition to Fireboard by converting the thousands of messages. I was met with a myriad of problems in the conversion process which constantly kept giving me errors.

This went on for a couple of days and I wasn't sure what to do. Put the site back the way it was? Put up just the website with the forum? Put up the forum without the website? Put up the new forum without the old messages? I wasn't satisfied with any of that, so I decided to take a break for a while.

I built a new computer during the break, and I accidentally lost all of the site data that was on my hard drive, but it was still all online, so that was okay. Some of my graphic and website software like Photoshop stopped working with Windows Vista, and then on top of that, I forgot to pay the bill for the server. That's when the site went down.

With the new smashingpumpkins.com, I started wondering if ThePumpkins.net was really needed in the online community. They had many of the features that we have on this website, and they have the audio files and videos and image galleries, and more users. And I must admit, my enthusiasm for the band just hasn't been the same as it used to be. I wasn't sure what to do.
But when I returned online and saw all of the emails and the new website that Sam started, I saw that people really did miss the website and were thoroughly curious about where I've been. I decided to get back to work. I've gotten past the problems, and the forums are up and working now.

I apologize for my absence and for not replying to the emails. I hope everyone had a good September and October. Let's keep going.

HOOOORAY!!!!