Welcome back

As the notice says, I finally managed to restore the forums. The database was corrupt and needed tio be rebuilt.

The server seems a bit unstable. I've had a few pages not load and instead go to a holding page. Just refresh the browser if this happens and hopefully it will then load.

If you spot anything not working properly please let me know.

I have decided to try and make things as simple as possible on the forum for the future. I want to remove all extra stuff that's no longer needed such as the downloads, arcade, gallery and links section and just make thre site simple. And uninstall any extensions that are not needed. I'm also going to start going through the forums and deleting a lot of the old and out of date posts. And then try to reduce the number of forums we have.

If anyone with mod abilities has some time please can you help? Any out of data news posts for example can go. Or anything site related that's no longer relevant.

Once it's cleaned up I'm going to be looking at alternative hosting companies for the forum and main site as this server is now 14 years old! And more than time to be ditched. And then move the forum to the XenForo software.
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Whilst I begin testing a new home for these forums (now I've restored them) I need to ask for help from any members who are back on and reading the new posts,

When I got the site back up and running I sent out a group email to all old active members. But I get a lot of ping back from dead email addresses. This is understandable as the site was down for a very long time and a lot of people use free email services, move company, change ISP etc... If you have any current contact details for our members please can you let me know so I can try to contact everyone and try to start rebuilding the community we once had here,

Thank you in advance for any help,
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Sorry dont have any contacts, i was away to long lost any contact with everyone. Only member i am still in contact is you by facebook. The rest i dont see them for a long time.
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No worries. I've contacted some of the other regular long time members via other contacts I have with then such as direct emails, Facebook Messenger or PSN. But sadly there were quite a few I only had contact details from their site profiles here. This includes Steve, which is sad if we can't reconnect with him and others, Once the forums are migrated I will put out an announcement around the internet to see if any old faces manage to see it and come back.
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Glad to see the site back

. I did check it every so often but almost gave up.

I think I still have my GMail address registered here, which I still check from time to time but don't actively use. I did actually log in to it a while back and delete a few hundred/thousand spam/notification emails from the last two decades. I've since forgotten the password and can't remember where I wrote it down. Last time I kept getting it wrong it locked me out. That's the problem with internet services nowadays - they're so secure they keep the intended users out!
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