Dark-Shikari.org is dead

[El Heggunte]

From: webmaster@doom10.org

To: doesn't matter =)

Subject: Doom10 Forum: So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Date: Thu 2014-12-04 01:07 PM


Dear users,

As of 2nd of December, 2014, Doom10 finishes its journey on the ocean of
the Internets. Born out of a blaze of the moment and possibly some good
intentions, it slowly degenerated and fell to have no love given to it.
Things did become a bit better in July of 2012 when the forum
installation was rebuilt and attention was given to it for a while. But
then, as people got busy again, they couldn't give this bulletin board
the attention it required to possibly bloom.

And now, some 24 hours ago I was informed that the domain was losing its
registration period (and probably the original cheap price). A consensus
on the #x264 IRC channel was reached that it was time to move on. I am
sorry for those who still used the bulletin board that this comes so
suddenly, but I had never been really interested in the domain's
details, and thus learned of it "just now" myself. I have backed up the
SQL database of this forum for historical purposes, but whether or not
it will be available anywhere is a discussion not yet had.

Thank you, everyone, for participating in this experiment, and I hope
that the Internet Wayback Machine or Google's cache has enough of this
site cached for any historical use. So long, and thanks for all the
fish!


The Doom10 Administrators.

[poisondeathray]

[newpball]

Question is: will there be a Doom 11 or does it only go to 10?

[poisondeathray]

I'm gonna have to redo this one

[El Heggunte]

The name Doom10 was a bad idea, to begin with. And it used the infamous (and rather limited i.m.h.o.) SMF "boardware". Not much later, Dark Shikari admitted that he was too lazy and too busy to administrate the "one-more" thing...

As long as both the name(s) "Doom##" and the SMF engine are left behind, yes, it would be interesting to use the original database for starting a DECENT forum.