Anyone remember the ipbfree tragedy?

[Demon_skeith]

Curious if anyone here recalls the horrible IPBfree tragedy? Been 11 years since it happened, when a very popular self-hosted IPB service suddenly shut down overnight, thousands of forums and sites lost all their data with no way to recover it.

No one is sure for the reason, something from the FBI? Some kind of divorce related issue? No one really knows.

 

[Xyphien]

Curious if anyone here recalls the horrible IPBfree tragedy? Been 11 years since it happened, when a very popular self-hosted IPB service suddenly shut down overnight, thousands of forums and sites lost all their data with no way to recover it.

No one is sure for the reason, something from the FBI? Some kind of divorce related issue? No one really knows.

I never heard of it to be honest. There was only 2 free sites I've ever used. Forumotion and IceForums or something like that.

 

[Demon_skeith]

I never heard of it to be honest. There was only 2 free sites I've ever used. Forumotion and IceForums or something like that.

I remember those, back then the internet also had IF, Zetaboards and Jcink for free pre-hosted forums.

 

[Abizaga]

Curious if anyone here recalls the horrible IPBfree tragedy? Been 11 years since it happened, when a very popular self-hosted IPB service suddenly shut down overnight, thousands of forums and sites lost all their data with no way to recover it.

No one is sure for the reason, something from the FBI? Some kind of divorce related issue? No one really knows.

Aye. I used to love InvisionFree. It's sad they decided to sell to a shit company like Tapatalk.

 

[Demon_skeith]

Aye. I used to love InvisionFree. It's sad they decided to sell to a shit company like Tapatalk.

A crime nearly as tragic as this incident. Since getting your data off of IF is near impossible.

 

[apathy]

I had not heard of this either, but I didnt really pay much attention to the other free softwares available - just stuck with SMF.
Personally, I don't like the idea of depending on a free host because things like this can happen, even if its incredibly unlikely. I do wonder what was the cause.

 

[Abizaga]

A crime nearly as tragic as this incident. Since getting your data off of IF is near impossible.

oh you're referring to something else?

 

[Demon_skeith]

oh you're referring to something else?

yeah, IF forums were forced to convert to Tapatalk locking their data in forever.

 

[Abizaga]

yeah, IF forums were forced to convert to Tapatalk locking their data in forever.

Yeah... I'm glad I didn't start any of my serious big projects on IF.