Helloooo
 

Is anyone still here?

Does Alcar know he’s still paying for this?

What happened to ANN NEELY?

I expect it'll take about a week for anyone else to respond, the rate this forum moves...

People are still around, but since nothing is happening about OW we're all on discord.
Alcar is still paying for this site.
Who's Ann Neely?

was i ever here in the first place

Bada-bing bada-boom, I'M WALKIN' ERE.

Yeah, it's been a slow day at the office here for.... a while.

ANN NEELY was a legend around this place! Boy I sure miss her

OWF is still on my favourites tab, and I still check here at least a few times a week, even though there's nothing going on. I'm too much of an old man for this newfangled Discord business.

Alcar messaged me like a week or so ago, so he does know he's still paying for it. But it turns out that our provider is going to be pushing a server update soon that's going to kill vBulletin 3 for good. So that's fun.

Do you know the official death date? We should hold a sermon. While we can...

I'm looking forward to this.

He said in a few weeks, a few weeks ago. This is Peter we're talking about.

Will the forum just cease to exist? Or will it remain in some sort of archived form?

Sadly it will still exist as long as the wayback machine does

Not in any viewable way.

Have you tried to load OWF on Wayback? Because of the way the forum produces links (with POST variables rather than sub-urls) it mostly doesn't back threads up.

That'll be a sad day. It's had a good run though, outlasted many others of its kind.

Thanks, Alcar!

considering the current version of vbulletin is 5.6, im honestly surprised it lasted for as long as it did

Don’t worry guys I’m sure Alcar has a plan to save us all!

Rest in pieces.

Damn. That fucking sucks, I thought this place would be here right up until the end of the world.

I think it came pretty fucking close, to be fair.

Goodbye OWF, you had a good run :)

If that's a good run, I fear to find out what a bad one would be :tard:

I thought the Native/Industrial theme argument would be here right up until the end of the world as well, but it will also be banished to irrelevance.

I was native all the way, but jumped ship to Industrial in the ARG years. (Friendly reminder that that publicity chain started over 4 years ago lol)

I think he was referring to the period 2001-2006.

Oh yes, focus on the first five years, ignore the other fifteen

Definitely wasn't expecting to meander in to hear about its imminent demise. I guess its position in my bookmarks bar will finally be able to be filled with something else.

If I recall correctly the issue's been no longer having the credentials to run the required upkeep? Would be happy to try and work with y'all on preserving it if it were at all feasible, but que sera sera, right?

❤OWF❤

Nobody will want the forums back.

Nah, Alcar's still got the credentials. But neither he nor me nor anyone else has the motivation to put in the work to transfer to new forum software for a forum that's not getting any posts anyway.

Fair, it's pretty wild to see how the landscape of socializing on the internet has changed over these past ~20 years. I think the only thing that I regularly still visit forums like these is looking up bug fixes for code or the like.

For myself this place filled with cozy nostalgia, one that I've come to attribute to older houses full of knick knacks, quilted doilies, the smell of mothballs...

If y'all haven't had a chance to check out Oddworld Sligposting over on Facebook, it gets a few posts regularly. It also has around 2,000 members already, so I may be preaching to the choir.

I hope it's better than the OWI official facebook group.
Since this site is going to die apparently, you guys should also check OWF's discord server. Everyone is there.

Also before the forums die, can someone tell me who's this guy?
:hobo:

Hobo. Who else?

You could've figured it out by hovering over the image.

gotta love how Hobo's welcome back thread turned into an early funeral ceremony for the forums altogether.
so um, there are plans to move all the files from the Mods&Hacks forum to a repository before they're all gone, right

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

sure. sure there is.

Hate to disappoint, but seeing as Megaupload and Filesmelt are RIP the levels on them pretty much are as well.


That said, I have at least the very first one I made back in 2010 - it's absolutely shit but we have had a laugh at it now. I might have another one somewhere amongst my backups but I'd have to have a proper hunt.


Generally the only hope is whether anyone has any backups left. Would be nice to check out classics like Chubfish's Oddysee Hard Mode if they ever turn up again.

If you're referring to things that were uploaded with the posts, Alcar should have access to those even if the forum stops working. He could easily grab all of them and just make them available for download where ever.

But this is Peter we're talking about, so good luck with that.

Luckily for everyone I've downloaded a copy of the OWF archive, since I expected this place to fall over dead years ago. So everyone can rest assured that the dumpster fire known as OWF will be preserved so future generations may read our collective dumbfuckery.

but why

because