You may have noticed that the D:scussion Forum on Delirious.org.uk has been off-line for a week now. I'm sure, like me, many of you will have missed regularly dropping in to the forum to join in the interesting and often amusing debates about all things Delirious? I apologise for the lack of forum this week. The forum itself as actually hosted on a separate server from the rest of Delirious.org.uk, and for reasons unknown to myself, the company hosting the server has decided to suspend the account which contains the forum for an apparent abuse of its terms and conditions. Whether this is just some strange mix up or an exceeded limit or allowance, we don't know. But unfortunately it appears to be unlikely that it will be resolved any time soon. Therefore, I am currently considering, and looking into the possibility, of hosting a new forum on the same server as the rest of Delirious.org.uk.
Due to technical reasons (Delirious.org.uk is hosted on a linux server and the Snitz Forums we previously used are written in ASP and not compatible with linux) it will not be possible to use the same style of forum as before, and it looks unlikely that any of the user registrations or existing forum topics and posts will be able to be migrated. What this means is that we may have to start afresh, with a new style of forum (which looks and acts similar, but not identical, to the previous forum), empty of all previous topics and with every user having to register again. It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than no forum at all.
Once again, I apologise for the inconvenience, but hopefully something will be resolved next week. In the mean time, feel free to comment below if you wish to have your say on the future of the forum.
Due to technical reasons (Delirious.org.uk is hosted on a linux server and the Snitz Forums we previously used are written in ASP and not compatible with linux) it will not be possible to use the same style of forum as before, and it looks unlikely that any of the user registrations or existing forum topics and posts will be able to be migrated. What this means is that we may have to start afresh, with a new style of forum (which looks and acts similar, but not identical, to the previous forum), empty of all previous topics and with every user having to register again. It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than no forum at all.
Once again, I apologise for the inconvenience, but hopefully something will be resolved next week. In the mean time, feel free to comment below if you wish to have your say on the future of the forum.
It might still be 6 months away but tickets have just gone on sale for the annual Delirious? Christmas Show at London's Shepherds Bush Empire!
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