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A message to ColonialCharter.com members - ShockPuppet - 11-22-2016
Hello.
Thanks for finding this message.
I hope to answer some questions here.
Your member details have been moved over, this includes your
username
and
email address
.
Your password has been reset for security reasons and a random password generated
.
This information was sent to you in an email to the email address you provided at the old website.
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Thank you!
Q&A Time with Shockpuppet
What happened to ColonialCharter.com?
I planned the domain renewal wrongly, and I was unavailable to correct it in time.
I see you transferred usernames over, but where have the forum posts gone?
I still have them, however they are in a format that the software of this new site can't recognise.
Why don't you use the previous software then?
It was incredibly difficult to maintain, used up a lot of resources, was difficult to use, low in features, had poor support and I stopped being confident about how secure it was.
If the previous site software was so bad, why did you use it at all?
The original site was built as a WordPress blog. We realised we needed more features, so I scrapped it and installed a content management system (CMS). This was fine as we were not intending to have a forum, it had its own comment system built in. Soon we realised a forum would be very valuable, so a custom one was added by me to the CMS. They didn't really play together nicely, despite my best efforts.
I'd also like to take a moment to mention that at no time was anyone's data at any security risk. I am the sole person with access to it and I've got it encrypted.
i have hopes of being able to restore at least some of the forum information, and I continue to make efforts towards this.
My sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.