Forum status - Important

[Pumaman]

As some of you may have noticed, the website and forums were down for 4 days last weekend.

This was due to the account being suspended by our web hosting provider because the CPU load of running the forums had become too high and was overloading the server.

As an interim measure, I have disabled half of the forums as you will no doubt have noticed, and have also removed the oldest 25% of the posts in the other forums. Hopefully this should alleviate the situation for the time being.

However, I am looking at long-term solutions in order to restore the forums in their full capacity.

[Developer]

Sorry to hear.  :'(

[Chicky]

Thanks for letting us know Chris. It's a good idea for the mean time, but it is a shame we lost the critics; do you have a backup of any old posts? Some of the tutorials/tips in the critics lounge were real gems.

[Esseb]

They're not lost, the forums are just disabled for the time being.

Edit: Oh, you meant the 25% oldest posts there. Vanished most likely. Last time CJ did post deleting he was trigger happy  too. Even stickes were lost. He has them on a CD but you know CJ. Effort and all.

[Mr_Frisby]

Glad to see AGS (kinda) back. Was wondering if i should take up cross stitch or some other such nonsence.

Good luck in finding a way of getting it all back together. Let us know if we can do anything to help.

[Barbarian]

Yay! The AGS Forums is back online    ... I was going through "withdrawal symptoms" without it.   Anyways, thanks for bringing the forums back and letting us know the situation.

Is there anything we can do to help you CJ?   Did you consider perhaps setting up a way that perhaps you can recieve some donations to help towards bandwitdh costs and such?  You've put in so much time and hard work with creating AGS for us to enjoy and offer it, along with the forums, free to us, so I was thinking it would be nice if some of us were able to give something back to you.

Was there was already some "donate" area set up that I was unaware of?

Well, it's an idea to consider. What do you AGSers think about it? If there were options to send in a dontion to support CJ and AGS, I would try to contribute.

Best wishes,
--- Don, "The Barbarian".

[Kweepa]

I'd be happy to PayPal a few dollars to keep the forums alive.

[Evil]

I acutally have been working on a fund-raiser for AGS. I've got some T-Shirts nearly done. I'll post them real soon.

Good to see the forums back. Even if it isnt in the best state.

[Moox]

Glad to see you all again, I cant wait to see it back at full potential. If I find a few bucks I will try to dontate.

[Traveler]

I'd make a donation, too, however, I'm not interested in merchandise. Is there a "Make a donation" link somewhere that I missed (like Paypal or something)?

[Goldmund]

Aha, and I was seriously suspecting that cronies of Bush disabled the AGS forums for its famous leftist political views -- to prevent us from influencing American friends.

The idea of donations is good - you shouldn't feel obliged in any way, people are just paying for their own good time.

Also, <looking above this post> feel free to ban animated avatars...

[sergiocornaga]

Boohoohohoo... No more games in production forum... however shall I while away the hours now...

[Barbarian]

Also, <looking above this post> feel free to ban animated avatars...

Actually Goldmund, my "animated avatar" is hosted and loaded from one of my own sites, and does not take away from the AGS bandwidth.

[Moox]

I found mine on an avater site. Its hosted somewhere remotly aswell.

[Gilbert]

Yeah, but still, it's 200+ kb, though it has nothing to do with CJ's bandwidth, it can still be troubles for viewers with slow connections. (Barbarian's avatar, on the other hand, occupies only 17 kb)

[edmundito]

What if the forums are hosted somewhere else like um..... the adventure developers site or something? It's a pretty wild idea... then again, what would be the purpose of www.agsforums.com? forget what I said.

[Ishmael]

Ah, feels good to be back... and feels bad to hear all this Seems the AGS community is growing out of it's current bounds... which would be a good thing..?

yay, official AGS stuff

[auhsor]

It's good to know whats happening. It's not good when the forums go down, and you don't know why. I would probably be willing to donate some money, as I just got a job, and now am not poor.

[Baron]

I hope the 25% oldest technical forum posts haven't been deleted -there's some useful resources in there that haven't been added to the archive.  Couldn't the 30% oldest topics in all the other (more topical) forums be sacrificed instead?

[fovmester]

I'm glad the forum's back. But geee, no games in production-forum!? And no critics lounge!!! What am I to do!? Those forums're really what I visit the most! I hope this works out!