What happenned to SwordForum.com?

[Ed]

Don't know where else to post this. Anyone know what happened to this forum?

[Will M]

SFi has been defunct for years now. Sadly huge volumes of information was lost. The era is gone where RWL would comment and give out valuable information.

[werecow]

Yeah, sadly gone.

It was also impossible to sign up for years prior to the loss of the forum.

MyArmoury too. I've been collecting since early during the pandemic and ever since then I've been attempting to sign up to both these forums, only to be told that

We have temporarily halted all new site registrations. We hope to continue accepting new members next month.

There's always next month I suppose... but I've stopped holding my breath (was starting to turn a little blue).

[Triarii]

According to some discussion on it, there's been some issue with the admin of the MyArmoury site. Not sure what underlies it but it's been going on for about 6 years now.

[Battara]

We are one of the few weapons forums left.

[Hotspur]

I have not been in touch with Mark McMorrow for some years now, about 2020. I hope he is well. Matthew? Forde saved a lot of the Wilkinson stuff, from Wilkinson-Latham notes.

Software changes prevented the workarounds, losing more of the template with each update.

One can view some of it through archive.org, and a few select pages such as Forde's work. We've lost a lot of voices as well. Dead keys.

Huzzah!

Cheers
GC

https://web.archive.org/web/20131211223436/http://www.swordforum.com/forums/content.php?

https://web.archive.org/web/20101227015905/http://swordforum.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20010804154824/swordforum.com/forums/wwwthreads.php

There are more old front pages, from Adrian's timeline.

[werecow]

Does anyone still have the database with posts (and attachments like pictures)?