A New Beginning

As some of you know, our forums at IPBFree has been accessible for a few days now, and no word yet on whether it’ll be up anytime soon.

No warning bell has been given, no announcements, no official word on anything from the owners of the site. Their domain looks to be already reclaimed by the domain registrar, and their official Facebook and Twitter pages are gone. All the messageboards hosted on IPBfree, not just ours, are lost in cyberspace. And no idea if we will ever get it back— One of the consequences of ‘free’ hosting.

With no light in sight, we had to make a quick turn to a new direction: We are going forward with the plan on getting our own hosting service and domain to house our forums. The community is steadily growing anyway, and this way we will have full control of our own content and space.

We have already set-up the new forums at http://otakai.code-jutsu.com/ and this will be the link we have until we get our own domain name. READ: This is already considered the new forums, so register and post away! Recreate topics or post new ones! Help in rebuilding our new home!

We will soon announce how you can help with the rebuild and move. Via the Admin Blog in Tumblr, via the Official Facebook Page, and even the forums. So please stay-tuned.

For more info on the IPBFree situation, please see:

• Official Statement: http://tomlough.co.uk/post/815342111/hello-goodbye
• http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100713203527AANyB0n
• http://tumblog.37project.org/

Note, none of the info on the links are final and just speculation, but that is all we have right now.