Garrulous Glaahk ixfd64 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 The old URL http://www.spiderwebforums.com is returning an "Account Suspended" error. Anyone know what's going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Presumably, SW is no longer paying for hosting for the old boards, since we have the new boards now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Perhaps Spidweb was suspended because it was using foul language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Perhaps Spidweb was suspended because it was using foul language. Most likely not. Most decent hosting services don't care what your content is, as long as it is legal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Most likely not. Most decent hosting services don't care what your content is, as long as it is legal. Misunderstood jokes are misunderstood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 +5 points for Trenton. That made me laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 +5 points for Trenton. That made me laugh. Thank you for feeding my over sized ego. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Hm, too bad. Waited too long with the whole archiving thing. Though I understand that all content of that forum lives on (in a very mangled form) in this current version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 The spambot horde was coming over the hill in unthinkable, unstoppable numbers. We were all doomed. But then the old forum turned to the younger one and said, with a voice so steady it makes me tear up even now, "You're young, IPB boards. Get out of here, and live!" Then that grand old forum just charged right up there, sucked all the spambots right in with guest accounts, and blew itself up in one enormous final UBB crash. There was nothing left but, well, the Account Suspended page. But I think maybe I heard the old boards murmur something about how if they were cut down, they would only become more powerful than the spambots could possibly imagine. I'd like to think they're all still somewhere around here, watching over us, or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk ixfd64 Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 Hm, too bad. Waited too long with the whole archiving thing. Though I understand that all content of that forum lives on (in a very mangled form) in this current version. One major problem is that the old inter-forum links will all be broken. However, I don't imagine it being too difficult to run a script that goes through the database and replaces all instances of spiderwebforums.com with spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 One major problem is that the old inter-forum links will all be broken. However, I don't imagine it being too difficult to run a script that goes through the database and replaces all instances of spiderwebforums.com with spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com. It's more complicated than that. The topic numbers don't match up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 One major problem is that the old inter-forum links will all be broken. However, I don't imagine it being too difficult to run a script that goes through the database and replaces all instances of spiderwebforums.com with spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com. A (somewhat picky) script has been made to belay this problem, simply put "http://sw.calref.net/" in front of the URL and the script will automatically redirect you, or given you a list of options it thinks is valid. For example, this link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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