Drama? What happened to Atari-forum?

[redsteakraw]

In case anyone that is new doesn't know MiSTer's forums was a subforum of Atari-Forum.com for the past 2 weeks it says it is under construction with no apparent change and now Misterfpga.org pops up with the new official forum for the MiSTer project moving here. So does anyone know what happened to Atari-Forum? Will it come back? Can some of the threads be archived or migrated over here? Do you have any inside information please reply. Inquiring minds want to know.

[Kitrinx]

There was no Drama. Atari-forums just kind of went away one day, without much detailed explanation as to why, other than sort of a vague message about moving. MiSTer has outgrown that forum for a while, and forums are pretty valuable for helping others in the community, so it seemed like the right time to make the change.

[remowilliams]

Dal had posted that AF needed to move servers and that's what's taking the time, no drama that I'm aware of.

MiSTer being it's own entity here, and being able to have sections instead of megathreads should be a good change.

[ericgus09]

Im honestly surprise Mister didn't get its own dedicated forums sooner.. but AFAIK there was a post about the forum software needing some kind of security update (IDK -- dont have the post in front of my I saw a couple days ago). But the atari forums vanished sometime before and was weirdly redirected to some OTHER atari website, which honestly was a good wake-up call it was probably time to move on.

[Phaedrus]

As a new user to mister I've been googling questions and more often than not the links are pointing to the atari-forum. You can get the first page cached by google, but it's pretty difficult to get at the info now. Any chance the info is still going to be ported over in some form?

[evilsim]

I'm So glad there is a place to talk about all things mister!
But yeah I have to use Google cache to look at atariforums stuff. Hopefully any of the valuable mister info can be recreated here.

[legacypixels]

There was a note on Atari Age that seemed to indicate that Dal needed to get AF back up by Wednesday

[werpu]

First of all, I am glad that MiSTer now has its own forum, the Atari Forum was the wrong place anyway, given that the ST core was one of the last remaining 16 bit cores even getting proper support.
But I would love to see the Atari Forum coming back there is a load of information for other systems. The permanent under maintenance status they have now is not really good news. I hope they have not lost all the data.
More information on their side would be appreciated.
Anyway Sorgelig, thanks for opening the forum.

[ericgus09]

As a new user to mister I've been googling questions and more often than not the links are pointing to the atari-forum. You can get the first page cached by google, but it's pretty difficult to get at the info now. Any chance the info is still going to be ported over in some form?

You could try the internet archive's "wayback" machine but its pretty spotty as to what was captured and what wasnt.. the older an item is, the more likely it was saved..
https://web.archive.org/web/2020050316 ... .php?f=117

[Sorgelig]

As mentioned above, it was good sign that MiSTer should become independent.
I didn't move to separate board because i didn't want to occupy my busy time with forum management.
More tasks for me - less time for each task.
I prefer to concentrate on development than supporting on forum.

[ArinoCX]

Hi,

Just wondering what the plan is with the old forum? Have some info I need to look up

Will it come online or are all the post being migrated to the new boards?

Thanks

*EDIT* - nevermind, posted in the wrong thread lol

[Kreeblah]

As mentioned above, it was good sign that MiSTer should become independent.
I didn't move to separate board because i didn't want to occupy my busy time with forum management.
More tasks for me - less time for each task.
I prefer to concentrate on development than supporting on forum.

This makes a lot of sense. Managing a forum can be a huge timesink, and I don't envy anybody who decides to do it.

I do hope that the Atari Forums come back up at some point, though, in case there's any important information on there that needs to be moved over here.

[Rikko]

As mentioned above, it was good sign that MiSTer should become independent.
I didn't move to separate board because i didn't want to occupy my busy time with forum management.
More tasks for me - less time for each task.
I prefer to concentrate on development than supporting on forum.

I'll join with saying that MiSTer deserved a board of its own. The only pity is amount of knowledge left on A-F. I wish it could be transferred here.

In regards to more tasks for you Sorg, I have one advice that always worked in my office. Don't fall into the doer's trap - delegate.

[WolfgangBlack]

Don't fall into the doer's trap - delegate.

That is often the best solution.
Have someone else who is trusted by you deal with forum administration so
you can keep doing what you want.

[antibolo]

Since both this forum and atari-forum use phpBB, once the latter is functional again, perhaps it would be possible to transfer the old threads here? (maybe as read-only archive threads)

[redsteakraw]

UPDATE: Atari Forum is fully down not even resolving or giving the under construction it was a wise decision to make this forum, thank you Sorgelig

[Nat]

Looks like they are in the process of setting back up with a newer version of phpBB as the logo is no longer the old ATARI logo and the default phpBB one.

[jca]

Atari Forum is back!

[Chris23235]

That's great news

[Chris23235]

They are back, at least kind of. Topics aren't loaded right now, but I think this will be fixed soon.

[Solskogen]

Back would be a overstatement.
"sometimes back" would be better

[Kreeblah]

I'm glad the old posts aren't lost. There's some really good info in there about why some of the stuff in MiSTer is the way it is.

[darksakul]

As a new user to mister I've been googling questions and more often than not the links are pointing to the atari-forum. You can get the first page cached by google, but it's pretty difficult to get at the info now. Any chance the info is still going to be ported over in some form?

That depends on individual users willing to sit though archives and copy and pasting relevant info