Forum Maintenance

[Bahl]

We are moving the web site to a new location. That includes the forum and therefor I have to put it into maintenance mode for about two days. It takes about two days for the DNS to update to the new location. So if you decide to make a comment or discuss a topic during the next two days, it's likely to get lost during the move. I'll update this topic as soon as the move starts and again once it has finished.

Update 1: As of now, 13:00 12.07.2015, the move is on progress. It may be ongoing for about two days due to DNS server updates being pushed so slowly.

Update 2: As of now, 23:25 13.07.2015, the move has been finished :-).

[Bahl]

In order to improve the stability of the web presence, we've decided to shut down registration for the forum. That is mostly because the legions of spam bots are relentlessly registering new accounts while the legions of Exterminatus fans are using the steam group instead of this forum. (If I am not mistaken, there are only very few new posts this year.) Of course any registered user can still post and manual registration is still possible.

In the same instant I will also finally update the forum software to the most recent version (with it's security updates) in the hopes that this forum stops spamming my system logs with errors caused by legacy PHP code.

Update 1: I've now deactivated user registration and updated the forum version to 1.1.21 which went entirely painless. I'll write another update once I know what the outcome with respect to the system logs is.