So the new forum looks great, its more interactive as accounting is done from myteamspeak.
I just wanna ask about the old forum database. Will you keep this database for a while? I remember there were a lot of things in old discussions that people can really look for to find solutions to the problems. I would find some time to look for my chrome history in order to find some important queries that might come handy in the future in case you guys want to take it down totally.
Iāll double check and let you know, but as far as Iām aware itāll stay there indefinitely. If it turns out that this will not be the case, Iāll give you all plenty of warning before it is removed.
The old forum link will be back soon, I did say Iād let you know when it goes and I meant it. When it is back grab everything you may want/need. The next time it goes away it will be for the last time.
I donāt know how I should feel about āgrab everything you may want/needā.
There is so much useful Information in the old forum that we donāt have here, and It would be sad to see it getting shut down/removed completely, and I seriously donāt want to download the entire site. Iād love to see it being online since itās a piece of teamspeak history. Maybe (as a example) change the domain to oldforum.teamspeak.com or something like that, why take it down
I am sorry to say this, but new āforumā just sucks. So many things wrong - dont even start me. Big hairy balls.
You named new board ācommunityā - its pretty much ironic because you just ultimately disrespected and destroyed your community by erasing years of work, thousands posts by members of community. There were so much usefull info on forum.teamspeak.com, so much efforts users put into it. And now you just arbitrary decide you dont need it anymore because why? you dont like how āoldā forum looks? No better way to kill community but to say they dont matter.
āWhen it is back grab everything you may want/need. The next time it goes away it will be for the last time.ā
I am sorry, what do you suggest? Am I suppose to just parse all site and deploy it somewhere? Maybe I will. If I have a problem I google it and most of the time it leads me to forum.teamspeak.com thread with answer needed. No more.
The community and teamspeak are going to have a big problem if a couple of hundreds dollars are hurting the business. I would rather spend those hundreds of dollars and safe thousands of peoples with teamspeak problems, just like @paults said.
This is very true and now If you google your problem about teamspeak you will land here, without an answer and you have to login and make a thread to ask if anyone can help you, and most people donāt have time for that.
I really think it should remain in an online archive state. Maybe update banner there with links to community where you had the login and account information. It is a very large wealth of information going back to at least TS2 days. As others have mentioned, others have put a lot of time supporting people there, and while I see the need to update, the old should not be forgotten. I still would have liked it if you migrated the old accounts over to myTS accounts and been able to migrate that data. I donāt think it would have been too hard to link them on email addresses.
I would really love to see the old forum stick around but as I donāt think it will exist much longer Iām currently recursively wgetting wverything I canā¦
I got only ~ 120 GB for this little project as my drives are currently pretty full.
Since running for roughly 24 hour I already got this many files:
The folder is currently at 23 GB so there is space for a little moreā¦
I have no idea about the legal stuff behind uploading this to the archive later though.
What you guys begging for the old forums to stay probably donāt understand is the risk you get from keeping old web software up and running in an unmaintained state.
Itās not just the license which costs money, itās the patches and security updates which nobody wants to apply to a place that is essentially dead.
Itās still interactive web software which is active and running even though nothing can be posted anymore. Itās connected to a database and it has write access to a file system. It just takes one previously unknown critical vulnerability in the old forum software and you find yourself in a situation where your abandoned forums start spreading spam or viruses, especially when nobody is actively monitoring the place anymore.
Besides that, the majority of the old forumās content refers mainly to dead or soon to be dead products. Thatās really not something that needs to be archived indefinitely.
Technology moves on. So do communities. Get over it.