philmein Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 http://infojunkies.uk/login/ ? this came up on the old daracave site? Admit it you actually missed us, you big soft tart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fon Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 We cant ignore this anymore, so here it go's. H said he would shut the DC forum, without asking any of the mods what they thought about it. I created the link on proboards for us all to still meet. The thread on DC with the link to probaords was getting lots of views and we were getting a lot of signups and then suddenly DC shut. H cited he was backing up a forum he was about to close? Then the DC link went nowhere, and we were left on probaords, with no way to contact the existing DC members to let them know where we were. Seems a bit of a kick in the teeth, after all these years, to not even put something on the DC page at least saying where shut, thanks for all the help etc... Since we have gone to the trouble and expense of getting this place back up and running, H would appear to have opened a new forum. I don't know wtf's going on, so read into it however you want. Fon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philmein Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 thanks for clearing it up fon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz2905 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 It all seemed pretty weird at the time. The night before there was that conversation in the "what direction should the forum take". It was like a public private conversation with H saying the database was fooked and he had little interest in the forum now. Then the next day the database was on it's last legs then it just died. Just didn't seem quite right. Most of the posters from datacave are already here, the admin who should probably have already been admin have their place and a lot of work has been done on our behalf. This is home to me now, and i like how we have some way of knowing that we'll still be here next year with a 3 way split in ownership. Not to mention how Fon and others came through for us when we had nowhere to go. All that was needed was for H to tell us that plans were in place and it would be a couple of weeks, but all we got was cryptic bullshit. He could have just logged into proboards and communicated with Fon, Wafty or anyone, it should have all been handled much better. I appreciate all the work that's been done here and i hope others feel the same. This is where i want to stay. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fon Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Iv made sure this place cant go the same way. The owner of the domain, has no access to the server or backups, Both other admins, have access to hosts, and DB backups and server. So no one person could take it down. If the domain gets redirected, the other two could email all the members and point them back to the forum under a different domain. If one DB backup owner decides to quit, we have another. If both DB owners quit, the guy who owns the domain can point it to another server. Fon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Long live DataShack...enough said! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techmob Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I am here to stay.. It was a bit strange when we were blowing hot and cold and on the old site. I thought it was done and dusted and I was happy to follow here which I will remain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snuffs99 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I'm here to stay too tbh, feel like we were all snubbed by H for what ever reason..........He took his ball and went home so he can have his nice new site and i'll stick with this one thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz2905 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Google infojunkie.uk. Who is Chris Hickman? Domain registered 2015-01-25 Are you sure this is H's new forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktv303 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 i had a look. it is H few members are on both sites now. seems to be just building tuts etc and building the sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snuffs99 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Google infojunkie.uk. Who is Chris Hickman? Domain registered 2015-01-25 Are you sure this is H's new forum? Def H and his site mate, just look at the members list, he is using K4rl as his user name with same avatar etc...not to mention the redirect from datacave domain. Each to their own but as far as i'm concerned this is the shack and those people here are what makes it so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz2905 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Oh i see now. Earlier it was just a front page and chrome was blocking it just now. As i said before, i'm sticking with this place. I like it here and it's been a long time since i've seen so much activity on a forum. Seems we're not as dead as they thought. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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