The burden of taking care of a simple website is getting to be a real pain in the ass. As mentioned previously, bot-spammers started abusing the hell out of my photo gallery, attempting to post link to everything from the standard Viagra, porn, and “free gift certificates” and other shit that no one wants. I had to require registration to stop it. Spammers now found their way into my news script and are trying to do the same thing. I really pisses me off. To top it off, some random asswipe thought it would be a fun idea to use an exploit in my gallery scripts and gain access to my database that stored both the information for the gallery and ALL of the data for the forums. They just deleted the whole thing. It would have been one thing if they had just left their mark and considered it done, but they deleted it all for no reason other than to be an asshole.

I’ve seen things like that done to people, and messing with them a bit is funny. I probably would have just fixed the problem and moved on if they had done something funny or left their mark, but their intentions were entirely malicious and now I have to go through and reinstall a bunch of crap. That’s really just not fair.

So yeah. If you are looking for the forums you aren’t going to find them. If you were one of the people that used to hang at the forums and you wanna put them back up, let me know and I’ll set you up with the webspace to do so. But right now I really don’t feel like starting them from scratch and don’t care to put up with the bullshit from spammers and assholes.