You heard right. I was able to acquire the OLDSPOWER.COM domain name and I want to bring it back from the dead.
I know several of you on this site were also members there, so I'd love to hear your input as far as what should/shouldn't happen with it. What you liked about it before, what you hated, what it was missing, etc. Should it even happen at all?
So far nobody's been able to surface a backup database of the old site. If anyone comes across one in the next few days, I'll put a statue of you up in my town square and create a holiday in your name.
There are several pages up on web.archive.org from 2015, which looks like just before it vanished. I'll use that as sort of a starting point, the rough forum structure, etc. I don't use VBulletin, never have, so I will most likely put it up on XenForo (just like here) ....
If you know anyone who was a member there and would be interested in resurrecting it, re-writing the tech articles, etc. let them know its happening.
It will take a few days for me to actually get access to it (just how the whole expired domain drop thing works) but I will post status updates in this thread as well.
Am I crazy? Yeah probably. I don't expect it to be the same as it was before, or like things are here.... but I know a lot of people were sad that it went away, and I'd love to put it back in service again. If not exactly the same then different and hopefully better.
Fire away.
I know several of you on this site were also members there, so I'd love to hear your input as far as what should/shouldn't happen with it. What you liked about it before, what you hated, what it was missing, etc. Should it even happen at all?
So far nobody's been able to surface a backup database of the old site. If anyone comes across one in the next few days, I'll put a statue of you up in my town square and create a holiday in your name.
There are several pages up on web.archive.org from 2015, which looks like just before it vanished. I'll use that as sort of a starting point, the rough forum structure, etc. I don't use VBulletin, never have, so I will most likely put it up on XenForo (just like here) ....
If you know anyone who was a member there and would be interested in resurrecting it, re-writing the tech articles, etc. let them know its happening.
It will take a few days for me to actually get access to it (just how the whole expired domain drop thing works) but I will post status updates in this thread as well.
Am I crazy? Yeah probably. I don't expect it to be the same as it was before, or like things are here.... but I know a lot of people were sad that it went away, and I'd love to put it back in service again. If not exactly the same then different and hopefully better.
Fire away.
