Sega-16 Taken Down

[AD2101]

I don't see why anyone would deliberately be targeting the site. They haven't in 7 years, and we've had no problems that warrant such attacks. The people responsible for the hack apparently do this sort of thing for fun, regardless of who it is.

Personally I think its a pissed off ex-forum member that one of the mods threw the perma-ban at before they were done with the boards. I obviously don't have any evidence for it but seeing as someone is hell bent on ruining the forums and the community it has picked up over the years, I would be less inclined to point the finger at someone who just likes seeing random things burn.

Despite all that, I didn't sign up here to point fingers, just wanted to say to Melf that I hope that this whole fiasco has a happy ending for those of us who really appreciate Sega-16. It's one of my favorite sites, and I wish you the best of luck in this shitty to say the least situation.

[Uriel]

Fucking 4:40am EST

[Josh]

Nerds get up early.

[Drewbacca]

Fuck these cunts. The Sega site is great but even a retard could understand the logic behind this.

[GohanX]

Uriel: a lot of Sega 16 users are European.

[Josh]

Sucks for them.

[jyoung]

fuckin' putos

Your site's great, Melf! Hope this shit gets ironed out.

[mollipen]

Remake the site in Wordpress, and let them worry about security and pushing out updates. Setting up your own instance of Wordpress is stupidly easy, and with just a little bit of work you can put together stuff that doesn't feel like just another blog style-wise.

I didn't visit Sega-16 often, but I can't remember anything you were doing with it that Wordpress couldn't handle.

[Melf]

The only concern I have is the reader review feature. Forum members could give each reviewed game a reader score and add a 400 character comment. It was really popular, and it was great for balancing reviewer scores. One of my staff says he found a plug-in (GD Star Rating) that is similar, though.

[cka]

there's that, and I'm pretty certain there's also a plugin that lets you use your vbulletin userbase for wordpress' users and such