TPF Gone?

Braeden · 25 Apr 2006 at 14:24

Anyone know what happened to the TPF forums?

Steep · 25 Apr 2006 at 14:47

nope. I've been wondering myself.

Warspite · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:27

Nope - but its frustrating, the galleries are still there I believe, but the forum is gone

Dont know its permanent or server related or what.

There was a forum closed page up yesterday morning, but by yesterday evening it had changed to 123... registration page.

mrgubby · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:30

When I checked yesterday morning there was a message saying the forum/site was 'closed.closed' then it changed to just 'closed' now it's just a holding page

JonnyGLC · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:37

There's been a bit of a disagreement behind the scenes and one of the admins took his ball back, demoted the others and closed the forums. Since then, the others have managed to regain control, and are in the process of moving to new hosts and forums, under a new name (the admin who threw his teddy has control of the domain names). They're going to be mass mailing all registered users, so unless you put something stupid as your registered email, then you're going to get an email update very very soon, when they go live again.

mrgubby · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:04

Good news that its coming back

, bad news that something like that happened

JonnyGLC · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:07

mrgubby said:
Good news that its coming back , bad news that something like that happened

Aye, it's been coming for a while though with the admin.

Richard T · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:11

Braeden said:
Anyone know what happened to the TPF forums?

eh? what is this forum? or what was it?

Braeden · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:31

thephotographyforums.com or TPF for short.

cyKey · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:50

A random name said:
There's been a bit of a disagreement behind the scenes and one of the admins took his ball back, demoted the others and closed the forums. Since then, the others have managed to regain control, and are in the process of moving to new hosts and forums, under a new name (the admin who threw his teddy has control of the domain names). They're going to be mass mailing all registered users, so unless you put something stupid as your registered email, then you're going to get an email update very very soon, when they go live again.

This seems to happen a fair bit with forums. Such a shame that the members are the real victims.

JonnyGLC · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:55

cyKey said:
This seems to happen a fair bit with forums. Such a shame that the members are the real victims.

It's the power hungry admin that can't see that though

The forums will be back up very soon

Warspite · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:06

Thought something might have happened

- great news if they are going to bring it back though

cyKey · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:21

A random name said:
It's the power hungry admin that can't see that though

The forums will be back up very soon

Lets not use this forum to make jokes at another

Besides, if its who I think it is then he used to be a valued member of this forum and is welcome anytime.

Joe T · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:26

Thanks for the info a random name. Clears that up. Still sorry to see it happen though.

Hopefully the new one will be bigger and better!!!!

matty · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:23

it wasnt me!

watch your inboxes chaps, later tonight or tomorrow morning i think...and thanks for the support

gandhi · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:38

well, that's cleared that up I guess.

Still, these things happen. Even the best of friends fall out sometimes. I was gonna post something earlier but did'nt know if it counted as a competitor or not!

Warspite · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:41

gandhi said:
I was gonna post something earlier but did'nt know if it counted as a competitor or not!

Same thought occurred to me also

Joe T · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:42

We waits for Warspite to start a 'Music Game' thread on the new forum (or on OcUK....)

JonnyGLC · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:43

Joe T said:
We waits for Warspite to start a 'Music Game' thread on the new forum (or on OcUK....)

+1000000 posts

Warspite · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:45

LOL - I was proud of my post count in that thread, unlike my photos