Stirlingengineforum.com

Hairyloon wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2024 8:48 pm

Tom Booth wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:05 am Checking the Whois data for this forum it is set to expire January 1st 2025, less than two months away.

Would anyone here be interested in starting a backup forum?

Did you get on top of this?
Or are the lights about to go out?

The thread appears to descend into bickering about ephemera and I didn't fancy wading through it.

The current expiration is set at January 26th

It does not appear from the Whois data that this was recently updated so I think I must have been mistaken about it being on the first, so there is a little time left.

I'm not sure if there is any family member or anyone else who might take care of the renewal, I get no response when leaving a PM for "admin".

I have set up a couple potential backup forums that as yet have no content.

Much of this site was archived on the "Wayback Machine". I would suggest if you find a page/discussion you would like to preserve archive it.

I have no way of transferring the database.

BTW, links to the two alternative forums I set up if you are interested.

https://stirlingenginebuilders.com/index.php

https://stirling-engine.boards.net/

Whenever "fool" gets annoyed he starts drowning this place with spam posts so it's virtually unusable at this point.

I can open additional forum categories or topic areas for either of those forums on request.

The first one "builders" is on my server so may eventually see the same fate as this place if I were to disappear.

The second is a free hosted Proboards forum so is theoretically more autonomous, able to carry on without any "owner" or payment other than the advertising by the Proboards service itself.

I may set up a "MyPhp" forum as well sometime just to see how that platform operates whenever I find the time.

Don't let my efforts stop anyone else from setting up other additional forum. I'm just doing so because so far nobody else has, (as far as I know) and eventually, if nothing else, I will need a forum to link my Stirling Engine YouTube videos to.

I still have some hope someone will appear and clean up the mess here but as yet the chances of that happening seem pretty unlikely the longer things continue this way.

Personally I don't believe that the reams of spam flooding this place at times is just a coincidence.

Tom Booth wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:28 pmI'm not sure if there is any family member or anyone else who might take care of the renewal, I get no response when leaving a PM for "admin".

Has anyone tried contacting the host?
I wasn't able to find who they are, but I haven't looked very hard.

Tom Booth wrote:Whenever "fool" gets annoyed he starts drowning this place with spam posts so it's virtually unusable at this point.

If you continue to deny, libel, and curse at the classical greats like Carnot, Kelvin, Clausius, and standard thermodynamics theory and education, you will continue to be an ignorant by choice troll.

Good luck with your non content web sites.

This site is still running. It's just the illegal spammers that are running it. Them and those that choose not to learn in the face of fact and Mathematics.