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Just wanted to say I haven't forgotten about things here... just with the Government shutdown my mind has been elsewhere. Being excepted I still have to work for IOUs. Financially sitting ok for a few more months, but just been trying to work on physical things around the house to distract my mind. Got people on my crew not as financially comfortable, so working to try and help them all day. Just drains me mentally by the time I get home and I don't want to look at the computer screen anymore, hah. Will get back to things soon.

Interesting

Just wanted to follow up. The quotes database didn't seem to restore correctly. Trying to go through all the sql to see where the error is.

23yrs ago this month a random idea turned into these forums... It may have been nostalgia that drove me to bring them back after all the requests, but I don't ever regret starting them and working with the other web admins that helped. It was a hectic first year that ended in the original forums being crashed and lost due to a pirated vBulletin script, then this databse launched in August of 2003. It has been memorialized in my signature for years... Crazy to look at my 13yr old daughter and think I helped start/work on so many website projects at her age. I was just 17yrs old when SubSpace.net, SubSpaceDownloads.com, and SSCentral.com came together to launch SSForum.net. Now I sit here tonight at 40yrs old feeling a bit nostalgic about it all.

Looking good man 👍

I am glad people are truly appreciative of the spam. I guess it wouldn't really bother me either.

Number of clicks from all the e-mail spam... positive? I'd like to think so

I went ahead and purchased a darker version of this skin for those who have sensitive eyes To Change:

Glad someone it. I felt bad, but just trying to get it out there far and wide. Can't seem to get forum software and e-mail server to agree, so they keep erroring at each other, lol. 😂

In what way? There is a lot missing i don't like either. Probably a skin and mods for that though.

I apologize if anyone has been spammed by e-mails. Server has a setting I need to find that is limiting the number of e-mails the forum can send. Only ~400 / 5000 members have received one. If that e-mail brought you back to some nistolgia (as it seems it has), please be understanding as I try to reach the other 4600 people. I won't send another Bulk Mail until I get it all fixed, but you will see another e-mail.

It's been entertaining in Cheese's dev discord server. Everyone bitching about it being VB6, trying to get visual studio working, reading the old code for bugs, ya. I did promise to spend some time this fall converting it to VB.NET like I did some old mervbots and couple other small projects. Will see how it goes 😅

I fixed the Quotes database last night, so will be putting that back up either this evening or tomorrow night. Not sure if the scripting will need work yet, but it is a start. I also have all the pages from sscentral, subspaceonline, ssgn, and subspace.co that I will work on condensing and restoring. Sscentral.com will also be making a comeback. Next I have all the old ssdownloads files, so I will work on restoring them to the downloads section here. I had a lot of them on themmog, so won't be too hard to do. Finally, some of our old subdomains i may bring back too as their creators had a lot of good dev information there. D1st0rt, Smong, and Junky to name a few.

Reading posts in our private forum, I feel less and less guilty about it all. Multiple posts about how the community was just becoming toxic and crap. Luckily, I think most of those individuals have left. Not all, but most.

For years, nearly 11yrs now, I have been pestered to bring back SSForum. Until February of this year, I ignored that call completely and didn't even play the game anymore. Occasionally logging in just to keep my account alive and see how much the population had dropped. This past February, while talking to a friend from another game, he mentioned wanting to create his own fan discord or forum for it. I offered to help if he really wanted to go for it and he asked me what experience I had. After we talked about my history here and with a few other games, he mentioned SubSpace looked so decentralized and was probably doomed to die. For the first time in 11 years, I felt a bit of nostalgia about the game. I also felt some responsibility for that decentralization by shutting down all my sites back in November 2014. I talked to a few people that month about why I had truly left, expecting them to tell me it was stupid, but many agreed they would have done the same thing. They weren’t mad nor did they blame me for my actions but told me the community was far better now than it was then. I did leave due to my grandfather’s passing, but it had nothing to do with the cost of the license or server. That was just an excuse as every time I shared the reason that I wasn’t active, I just got all sorts of grief about it. My grandmother needed help and that was my focus, not this game, not the websites. Once he passed that went up 10-fold, hell, 100-fold. People just focused on the game and told me “That sucks, but I need your help” or “I don’t care, I need <insert some little truly insignificant thing>.” I didn’t see why I was spending money or time on a community who seemed to care so little about each other. Not that I expect it to be all touchy feely (I am totally not that type of person), but I expected at least a little sympathy and “well, once you have a few minutes, that’d be great.” As a NetOp I saw the worst of the community daily. People getting banned for all sorts of vile stuff (racism, child pornography, cyberbullying) on top of the regular stupidity, and I had already begun to question what this game’s chat channels were enabling. The stuff we caught was only on the surface; I was sure of that. Once I stepped away from NetOp, people told me all sorts of things that were going on, they just didn’t want to share it before because they didn’t want their “friends” to get in trouble. My line in the sand had far been crossed, and I was no longer interested in being part of it all. I made the decision to shut down my sites, came up with a reason that in my opinion was hard to argue with, and walked away. I was no better than the other liars, but at least it was my last. Flashback to February and I decided to restore some centralized web community for the game. There were sooo many projects, I didn’t think SubSpace was just SubSpace or Continuum anymore. I decided maybe it was best to come up with something to categorize everything the community was building for this Massively Multiplayer Online Game. TheMMOG.com was born and had some traction. Then began the pouring in of messages and requests to “bring SSForum back”. The database truly had multiple corrupt rows and even tables of data. Some I wasn’t sure I could drop without causing issues with functionality of the software or addons. Some it just checked if they were there, not even using them ever it seemed. I spent the last few days (almost 12hrs yesterday alone) working through the database removing data, restoring it from old backups I used Disk Drill to find on old hard drives, and I was able to get a functioning database. I ran Invision’s upgrader to bring the forum from version 3.4 all the way to version 4.7 with a lot of headaches, but in the end success. A normal 30-minute upgrade took me almost 6 hours. I was able to save it all in the end and now have a fully functional database and cleaner installation. This will be here for the community to do as they wish with, hopefully positive. Read the history for nostalgia, post new posts (I know Samapico and others made many bug fixes on DCME), or connect with old friends in PMs. The domain has auto renewed for years, the server cost is minimal, and the software license, while ridiculous, I’ll just cover. Maybe I’ll convert to free software, maybe not. Anyways… Enjoy!

Read for history... post new topics... do whatever you wish 😅

Think I fixed it, but still seems a bit odd. Might just be the low quality of the original graphic.

Normally more cycles helps us determine your problem, but sadly this time it is the typical bad hopone.net routers. Many people for years now have tried to contact the company, tried ideas to route around this, etc. but there seems to be no solid solution other than waiting it out. I do recall someone having luck from your area switching the dns on their router from their ISP to OpenDNS's (http://www.opendns.com/). Give that a shot, but sorry for the lack of help we can provide.

Moving to Technical Support as there are some people subscribed to that forum who do like tracking issues down.