Can the data be scraped?I'm having to use the Tapatalk to access this site as the website/server has been infected and has a redirect on it.
Anyway, I've been in touch with a chap called Bibs who, from what I understand, is the main person behind theLotusforums.Com. From what I understand he hosts the site and has made an incredibly generous offer to host our site free of charge, as it's a Lotus-based site.
Furthermore, he has also offered to help to port the existing content to an alternative platform software. He suggests using the same platform as theLotusforums.Com, which is called 'Invision'. (For those that are interested, you can get a feel for the software by taking a look at the Lotus forums website)
The only fly in the ointment is the annual cost of the software, which as far as I can tell is around $1100 per year. Obviously, there would need to be sufficient interest in the members subscribing to cover this cost. Also, I don't really understand how this might work in practice but, once again, Bibs could almost certainly help with this.
So the question is, how many members are there on here that would be likely to subscribe.
Regarding the existing site here and it's 'ownership' and accessibility for porting, if the current owner won't make it available for porting, that's just not fair or right. Also, since the site is clearly riddled with infected links, the security certificate is invalid, and it's not been maintained for a long time, I'd suggest the best course of action for those members who use it is to dump their current subscription and pay it to a new portal. Obviously the biggest downside is that the existing data is going to be lost, but what's it's value if it's inaccessible anyway?
Comments please?
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Or can we get a copy of the back up file? (Makes sinister laugh)
