Congratulations, you've been brave enough to arrive until this post. It's been though but let's try to do a summary that underlines some key points:
I am so sorry
These are all minor technical problems that can be fixed.
Oh, that's great. Please send an email to
support@mariokartboards.com and give us more details. I am sure that you have an exhaustive explaination of what's going on and, for this reason, I invite you to write an email here (
https://xenforo.com/contact/) telling them how to fix their issues. I have opened some tickets about the issues that we've encountered; the xenforo developer staff will be happy to use your skills to improve their service
Why not contact the server host and ask them for help?
I have been in contact with both (Xenforo customer service and the hosting company) for quite a long time. We've managed, for example, to find what was the cause if the "unavailable website" issue (
link).
We've been trying to solve the problem and multiple people were involved, including me and flc. This is not your business and you should stay in your own. I don't have to show to the public the emails and the other stuff we have made to solve this problem. Yes, you may say that I'm lying or you may say that I'm saying the truth but this will bring us nowhere.
Had they made more of an effort instead of taking the very first advice given to them, maybe we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Here's where you completely fail and you show how nonsense are your words. You should have proofs in your hands (that you clearly don't have) before speaking. If you were clever enough to understand that you cannot write a post based on your assumptions, we wouldn't be here. We've taken this decision after some time, after some considerations and after being sure that there weren't techincal possibilities.
If you have a lot of energies and time, you could try to help us with this project instead of starting this kind of threads. I am sure that if you put the same effort you've put while writing this, you would be able to do great improvements. And to cite you:
That's what a child does,
Yes, exactly. Like a child, you are complaining about the toy that's broken and some bad guys have replaced it with a new one that you don't want, because you wanted the old one. At the bottom you can probably understand, if you want, that mkboards (the website) won't disappear forever. I invite you to read your posts again and try to question if what you have written has a solid basis or not.
in favor of the easier/cheaper solution
Still, you cannot write a post based on your assumptions; it hasn't been a cheap solutions (in terms of money (most of all), time and effort).
As a side note. We have a backup of mkboards which is the database + the website itself but these 2 pieces are pretty big and we are not putting them here. We are trying to find a cheap solution and place mkb somewhere in a readonly state. Hosting a website like this, which has a lot of traffic and contents, is expensive and for this reason we want to take down
www.mkboards.com completely.
Actually
www.mkboards.com will become a redirect to this website. The old website will be placed somewhere where the cost is little, something that's not at the moment where it is. Moving websites is possible, as this fabolous sentence states:
Furthermore, there are ways to migrate forums over to new hosts without deleting the entire website
So yeah, we can say that his insight has been sparky enough to guess what the correct solution can be. We haven't said anything about it because we still do not know exactly what to do but in the future we'll update you. I am sorry if we have threatened your souls so much but don't worry, mkboards will be next to you for a long time.
