What happened?

[Jetsetlemming]

A couple weeks ago I stopped being able to access the forums. I had no idea why. Today I went to the normal emuparadise website instead, and clicked on the message board link, and it turns out that the forums are at a different URL from my bookmark now.
Ok.
But even stranger is that though I recognize stuff posted here, and the posts and threads go back months and months, my username, my posts, and my threads were all gone, as were a number of other random things (like a couple subforums ).
What happened to the EPForums?

[Fer!]

Yeah, EPForums works better for me than the emuparadise.forums.org thingy...check on We Back Online thread in Free For All, there's also a thread where you can get your post count (not the posts themselves, unfortunately...) and your Rep.

[Ahkei]

In a nutshell:

Server went down.

HDD with recent backup failed.

MasJ found a backup, albeit from early Jan last year, it's better than nothing.

It had nothing to do with you using a diffrent URL. http://forums.emuparadise.org/ still works fine.

[Strongbad]

I know how you feel. The first time this happened I lost my account and all my posts. Even though I could get the post count back, it still felt like loosing that RPG save with hundreds of hours.

[Jase]

In a Nutshell:

MasJ is so black, he forgot to pay the server bill, and the HDD got repo'ed.

[kupo]

I went mad when I first saw that everything had been nulled, but then, I though that this was no different from lost savegames on my PS2 - which happens all the time (wait, I hope it does not happen now that I got my 3rd ps2 ).

[MasJ]

In a Nutshell:

MasJ is so black, he forgot to pay the server bill, and the HDD got repo'ed.

While I would love to be black, the point is I didn't forget to pay the server bill, they forgot to bill me for it . It's like they didn't want the cash and then they penalized us for it..

[Jetsetlemming]

In a nutshell:

Server went down.

HDD with recent backup failed.

MasJ found a backup, albeit from early Jan last year, it's better than nothing.

It had nothing to do with you using a diffrent URL. http://forums.emuparadise.org/ still works fine.

That's the url that I'm on now. I used to use the epforums.org one (can't remember it exactly ).
Well, I'm glad to find out what happened around here. Thanks, everybody.

[Cyberxion]

Really though, if you're ever in doubt, checking the main site does wonders. I mean, the top announcement over the last week or so was about the fate of EP forums, so checking there certainly would've brought you up to speed.

[Jetsetlemming]

My bookmark to the main site is straight to the roms section. Whoops.

[Jase]

My bookmark to the main site is straight to the roms section. Whoops.

LEECHER!!!!