Chase,
The forum update looks great, and it appears to have gone smoothly. Good luck with it in the future.
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Last I talked to Blackdragon a few months ago, his plan for NextASF was to reopen it as an archive and put advertising on it. He supposedly was going to have his tech guys work on it. I have no idea what is happening; once it closed the tech guys deleted all the Admin and Mod accounts and I no longer have access to the control panel.
When I closed the forum, I wanted to preserve the poster's names on their posts, or it would have been a lot less useful. I tried to do this by setting all the permissions for members to no, which worked to preserve the names and prevent further posts from being made. However, vBulletin 5 is a quirky bit of software which was no where near as polished as its predecessor and not really ready for release in my opinion, and I discovered that after I did that, it gave all members, "You Are Banned", messages when they tried to log on. Sorry about that, it was not my intention.
The reason no one can access Lay Reports, Blogs, or Relationships Forums is that we hid them from non members and made them not searchable by search engines after the Coffee Shop PUAs scandal a few years back. I don't have a link handy, but basically the were two PUAs that owned a boutique coffee shop, and were laying a lot of the women they met there, and posting about them in a blog. They got discovered and holy heck broke loose. They lost their business and were run out of town by enraged Feminists and SJWs. After that happened, forums with information about women members were having relationships with were hidden to protect our members and the women they wrote about. I am not sure if Blackdragon is going to reopen them for that reason.
I can assure you that Blackdragon would be unhappy at the minimum if someone created an archive of NextASF without his permission. He spent a ton of money on it; he owns it. If anyone wants to contact him about it, I can put you in touch with him. You can message me if this place has that feature. I'm a noob and have no idea how anything works. I just joined to answer this post.
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