I was gone for... reasons, and just when I try to return, this happens. I was wondering why McAfee was blocking the sites, I was getting redirected to some apparently serious malware.
I'm a bit lost on everything and was fortunate to notice a thread on GitP. Can anyone catch me up?
Apparently the BG's decided to walk out on the forums completely. There's been an issue with Blue Host and the site's taken down. Stratovarius and Prime first thought it might be non-payment, so they tried paying the host with the expectation that the site would come back up. Only, apparently, non-payment was only one of the issues, and there's some unknown technical reason as to why the forums are still down. One possible explanation is too many files.
The BG's are currently unresponsive, and have been since May at least, as such, there's currently no better way of salvaging the situation other than crawling through Google's and Bing's caches and the Wayback Machine to try and bring everything worth saving over to this new board.
Someone already made an HTML dump of the WayBackMachine archive of the forums and put it on GitHub (IIRC), and the current problem is how to preserve formatting when transferring content over. As it stands it's hard manual labor.
So, right now, there's very little anyone can do. If anyone knows people that were regulars in the board and might still be clueless as to the situation, now it'd be a good time to reach out and explain to them and bring them onboard the preservation efforts.
That's more or less the gist of it, if i missed something or said something wrong please feel free to add or correct.
EDIT: Seems like the Rule of Cool forums also have many crossposts from the Min/Max boards as well, so might be a good place to also look for useful stuff to port over.
