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A few things...
1. Does anyone know what has happened ??

2. I am seriously thinking about moving the forum I have hosted there... does anyone know of free webhosts which support forum software, such as YaBB ??

and 3. Is there anywhere where I can download this forum software ?? I would prefer something which has the option of Announcement boards and/or sticky threads...

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<font color=white>Edited to select the email notificiation box..</font>

[ 03-16-2002, 09:07 PM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]

<font color=lightgreen>Getting near the bottom of the page, so BUMP.</font>

They just had some server problems as the 2 boards that i belong to that use this service are up and running.

Well It worked on my comp just a second ago... so mayb it is working??

<font color=lightgreen>Ok, I cant get to any xsorbit boards... havent been able to in 3 days... it ISNT my ISP... just tried the laptop.. didnt work. It gives me a This Page Cannot Be Displayed.
I am going to give them 1 week from when it started, (4 days left) and then i am DEFINATELY going to see about moving from them.

Does anyone know where I can go to set a new one up ??
And is it possible to buy things like YaBB and UBB in Aus ?? As in, either d-load them for free, or buy them from a computer store. </font>

I don't know where you can set a new one up Lennon but Xsorbit is back up and running now.

Well, can't say I didn't warn people about Xsorbit, anyone who is handy with the search function on this board should be able to bring up the doom and gloom story I had on Xsorbit back in October I think... But as I'm too lazy to look it up myself: Xsorbit simply has a bad name, period. There was a period in June (?) last year when they suddenly got really popular, suddenly entire hordes of people thought they could run a forum on their own and lure people to their board, but in the end Xsorbit ended up with thousands of boards with only a few posts and the site got slower and slower until it literally cracked.
Sounds familiar? ;)
As what is happening now is quite similar to what happened back then... Thousands of people who would never get a serious forum running are trying to do so anyways, and as a result, the Xsorbit servers are completely clogged up again with half-failed attempts at message boards...

My advice? Leave Xsorbit at once. Maybe they are able to get over this crisis, but like I pointed out before, they've been in a similar situation before and it seems there's a good chance Xsorbit will crack again in a few months from now.
If you really want a proper forum running these days, you'll just have to pay for some webspace (like at PHPWebhosting for example, only $10 a month) or take another risk and go for one of the few free hosts that support cgi scripting, NetFirms, but like I said, it's a serious risk. I've had some bad experiences with NetFirms in the past.
And the only other free alternative I can think of right now is ezboard (*shudder*), as proboards is having similar issues as Xsorbit does, only it also deletes any posts older than a certain amount of days on top of that.
As for the YaBB software, I think you're free to download it from their official site, probably http://www.yabb.com, but I'm not completely sure about that.

[ 03-18-2002, 08:24 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

Completely agree with Grojlach, as anyone who looks up that previous thread will know. I was the other prophet of doom who said xsorbit was gong down :D

Found the thread in question btw. [img]smile.gif[/img]
http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/cg...;f=10;t=005573

<font color=lightgreen>ok, ive made up my mind. I wont leave Xsorbit yet... but will do so as soon as I can 1) Set up a new forum. and 2) Get it hosted somewhere in my local area (so that I can check if its server problems if I cant access it)I cant use a paysite, because they require credit cards... which I am not old enough to have... and so, the sooner I find somewhere, the better ;) ... (to those people worried: Yes I will archive the threads before dumping the board, and put them in the relevant place at the new one) </font>

<font color=white>EDIT: Grojilach, I dont think thats the YaBB website somehow [img]tongue.gif[/img] the japanese doesnt change my opinion ;) </font>

[ 03-19-2002, 01:47 AM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]