Aceshardware

Vext · Guest

I certainly hope Aces will be resurrected. I actually miss the flamewars and the trolls.

nusuth · Guest

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This forum is meant as a temporarily solution to keep the aceshardware.com community together, until Brian Neal and or Johan Delagas comes up with something new.This forum will be closed the day they launch a new site.

If aceshardware was meant to be taken down temporarily, I don't remember that being announced. Have anyone heard from Brian and Johan that they are still interested in aceshardware?

P4man · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 540

nusuth wrote:

If aceshardware was meant to be taken down temporarily, I don't remember that being announced.

It was announced by Brian, although fairly short notice (couple of days before it went down)

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Have anyone heard from Brian and Johan that they are still interested in aceshardware?

Yes, both posted here and on the old forum (but all posts after june 30 are lost due to this host messing up its backups).

Anyway, Johan is setting up the new server, but IIRC it wouldnt be up until sometime in august after they return from holiday.

Guest · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject:

it's good to be back...it's one of the few forums actually worth reading...

idiot · Guest

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thank god the site is still alive...

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:52 am Post subject:

Cheers P4man for keeping the boat afloat, now back to lurking for me..

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: have you heard from brian?

[quote="P4man"]

nusuth wrote:

If aceshardware was meant to be taken down temporarily, I don't remember that being announced.

It was announced by Brian, although fairly short notice (couple of days before it went down)

That is great news. I miss aces already.

Doc Zoiberg · Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 16

Just wanted to say hello and thx for the effort

Zoiberg

powervolume · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 4

Just curious if Brian, Johan, or anyone else had any updates on if Aceshardware would be coming back up or not? Thanks.

arbco · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 5

yeah thanks for this forum

tsayin · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 26

So, is there any hope of the old forum ever coming back?

Johan · Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 163 Location: Belgium

tsayin wrote:

So, is there any hope of the old forum ever coming back?

At the moment I am head of a server project funded by the government at the university where I work, and this is gobbling up all my time, including most of my supposely "free time" . I fear I won't be able to revive the forum in the near term. The trouble is that Sybase database which is a pain to get up and running on the current versions of linux. And migrating it to another db (mysql) is a lot of work, for which I don't have time right now.

So the solution will have to come from elsewhere.

xorbe · Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 3

It's not like the old aceshardware had any new articles for over a year. What was so good about the old forums that freeforums lacks?

P4man · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 540

xorbe wrote:

It's not like the old aceshardware had any new articles for over a year. What was so good about the old forums that freeforums lacks?

Speed and a superb threaded view most of all.
Then some other features like the ability to ignore certain posters.

On the downside it lacked a decent search and some features commonly found on PHPbb and similar boards.

@Johan, I think I suggested this before, but if so, I don't remember the answer; wouldn't it be an idea to opensource the forum code? Maybe someone will step up to the plate and fix the issues. There is no shortage of forum software, but none works like Aces' forum did, so I'm pretty sure it would have some appeal beyond just this site.