Spudgun Technology Center Forum Is Closed!

SpudMonster · Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:13 pm

Keep in mind that the guuy who posted that we should have a candlelight vigil is the same one who got so depressed after getting banned from the forums.

risto · Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:45 pm

i highly doubt there was seriousness behind the moment of silence. And if that got you offended, you would be offended at every Tampa Bay Storm arena football game when they call for a moment of silence before the game, so they can say there was a "calm before the storm".

spuzi14 · Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:08 pm

Truthfully, I'm a bit disappointed in the SGTC Forums closing. It doesn't have me depressed or anything like that. I don't care as much now that I hear most or all the files from there will be moved here or something along those lines.

PVC Arsenal 17 · Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:05 pm

Shame. It was a great forum. I looked at it occasionally but never posted much.

Hopefully SF can benefit from the immigrants.

spudthug · Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:29 pm

yea pvc it will gain and lose because now it is going to be crawling with some idiots from there (NOT SAYING THEY WERE ALL IDIOTS JUST SOME WEIRDOS THAT DONT KNOW ANYTHING) i mean most of them were really good builders and stuff because most of them were from here or had an account on both anyway...i made an account over there right before it shut down and i saw alot of jerks on some of the forums

Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:38 pm

I was waiting for this thread...

Yes the SpudTech forums are now closed for many reasons.

The SpudTech forum database is.... well very messy to say the least. An attempt to unarchive topics for a conversion proved to mess things up even more (now I have some partially unarchived topics, and 4 copies of EVERYTHING).

Can I promise you that I will be able to save the info from SpudTech? No... However I will try.

I have a copy of SpudFiles running on a server next to me, and I tried to do a SpudTech post conversion and it turned out very very bad.

I will work on it to see what I can do, however I can not promise anything.

Kenny_McCormic · Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:50 pm

I really do miss spudtech. damn vandals. Joel should sue the guy that fucked everything up and use the money to host spudtech

SMOWK · Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:15 pm

I'm not mad or upset that forums closed, I understand joel's reasoning. He was tired of the bullshit and the vandolism, he was getting harrassed by major people on and off the forum. His work load is heavy and he is leaving the country. didn't he also hint at selling the buisness completely? that will be a sad end to it all. I wonder what his rifling machine would sell at.....? he aught to auction everything to private buyers instead of selling the buisness, I'd hate to see what would happen to the hobby if the wrong person got ahold of it.

anyway I am more upset with the dumbass who had the tenacity to harrass and disrupt the forums like they did. Unfourtunately joel had to give them what they wanted and shut the whole thing down. I just hope that PcGuy has a little better handle on the security here.....

Kenny_McCormic · Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:22 pm

i have never seen this place hacked but iwas a member at spudtech for quite a while longer

Check out my YouTube SpudGun Channel! · Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:27 pm

Only time i've seen this placed hacked is when Sean(gort) put a picture of a Rabbit with a Pancake on its head on the home page

Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:40 pm

MrCrowley wrote:Only time i've seen this placed hacked is when Sean(gort) put a picture of a Rabbit with a Pancake on its head on the home page

That's actually a legit thing he did, I just didn't like it lol.

Any moderator could do it, they just know what will happen if they do it. It's a technicality with the way phpBB forums work. I insist it's a bug, but the phpBB team seems to think otherwise.

Check out my YouTube SpudGun Channel! · Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:45 pm

Yeah I know, I was meaning the closest thing to this forum being hacked to my knowledge was an unauthorized bunny with a pancake on its head

risto · Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:49 pm

well, i would like to personally thank kyle for taking the time and effort to try to save that forum. Sooo...

Thanks.

sandman · Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:05 pm

PCGUY wrote:
MrCrowley wrote:Only time i've seen this placed hacked is when Sean(gort) put a picture of a Rabbit with a Pancake on its head on the home page
That's actually a legit thing he did, I just didn't like it lol.

Any moderator could do it, they just know what will happen if they do it. It's a technicality with the way phpBB forums work. I insist it's a bug, but the phpBB team seems to think otherwise.

ive tried to learn php and failed and got a headache
im never trying that again

Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:52 pm

OK think of this.

If I had every post ever posted on spudtech, ever (archives and everything) what would be better...

1 - merge them straight into this forum, most of the posts would fit into one of the sections I have here

OR

2 - setup a whole new (very basic and maybe ugly) forum that would be read only. You could not login to it, or post to it, it would serve only as an archive of SpudTech.