I'm excited to be here and wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. Thank you for welcoming me into this community! I can’t wait to connect and engage with all of you. I've been running forums for over 20 years. My sites are on their own VPS. I used to run gaming servers as well; however, my gaming days have passed.
Welcome to the forum, @Jay Miller ! Thank you for sharing the info about your forums, too. Since this forum goes offline now, and we never know when or if it is coming back again, we have talked about having a backup forum where we can all pass along info, and have a meeting place for as long as is necessary. I just registered at the Off Topix forum, and i think that it would be a good place for a backup, if others here want to register there, too. I think that @Bobby Cole remembers you from the discussion Hub forum, too, and will probably be registering at the Off Topix forum today sometime.
No worries. If you want to keep this site going, we can help you. There is no need to join other sites; however, we welcome you all to ours at any time. I guess you need to decide a few things. Move hosts - We have a VPS that can handle your site easily. Update Xenforo—I'm sure you guys have access to your customer account there. The software is severely out of date. Theme - I see you have theme-house on here, which is also outdated. TH no longer does Xenforo Moving and updating only takes a few hours if you have access to everything you need. Cheers
Welcome, Jay. But I have to ask, why would you do this for us for free? In my view, nobody ever does something if there is nothing in it for themselves.
Good question. Not everyone in the world is in it for something. We have a few great communities online and like to help others. This seems like a very close-knit community, and it would be a shame to see it lost.
The avatar thing is just part of the whole server problem. If you use something like Gravatar, you can upload an avatar; but right now, the server will not allow people to post any size pictures from our personal files, either as an avatar or on a thread post. Sometimes, it works, but mostly not. Most of us barely understand enough about forum servers to post on here, so @Ken Anderson is the only one who has the answers to your questions that you mentioned, and can tell you what he has been able to do and what he has not been able to do. Even the things the server people had fixed before, stopped working again, and they do not respond to messages or even phone calls. I am sure we will all be delighted it have the forum working properly again, and be able to post picture files and not lose the forum at any time, for hours or days.
Welcome, Jay! I want to put another avatar on, but haven't been able to. When I decided to change my avatar, I had no idea I couldn't do it. Anyway, Welcome again.