Forum is hijacked what can be done?

by TonnyKamper May 14th 2018, 8:10 pm

Hello dear Forumotioners,

Last Saturday when I wanted to login to my test forum http://punt.actieforum.com/ it was completely gone, the url now directs to a completely different looking forum with the same url, on which it seems there isn't posted in years !
So either they hijacked my testforum, or someone has put an old back up to work which overrides our forum url.. On Friday everything was fine my forum was still intact, but on Saturday it was gone..

@SLGray and @APE you can comfirm my forum existed because you both have logged in there a while ago to help me with some problems..

So now I wonder if it's possible to get my testforum back?
I have many tests on there which aren't all implemented yet on my official forum Crying or Very sad

by **Shadow** May 14th 2018, 8:36 pm

Hello @TonnyKamper,

Your forum is right there: http://punt.forumactie.com

Regards,
Shadow

by **Ape** May 14th 2018, 8:50 pm

Hello @TonnyKamper As Shadow has pointed out
your forum can be found at this new address http://punt.forumactie.com

As your using this forum as a test it has little posts on it also your forum url is in this list
https://help.forumotion.com/t155249p30-only-topic-technical-maintenance-on-forumotion-domains#1072470

by TonnyKamper May 14th 2018, 9:54 pm

Shadow wrote:Hello @TonnyKamper,

Your forum is right there: http://punt.forumactie.com

Regards,
Shadow

Thank you so much @Shadow

APE wrote:Hello @TonnyKamper As Shadow has pointed out
your forum can be found at this new address http://punt.forumactie.com

As your using this forum as a test it has little posts on it also your forum url is in this list
https://help.forumotion.com/t155249p30-only-topic-technical-maintenance-on-forumotion-domains#1072470

Thank you very much @APE but I didn't see actieforum in that list and it still excists only now it holds that old forum on that url.. but I'm glad to have mine back even if it's on another url Wink

Thank you both for your assistance Wink

by **Ape** May 14th 2018, 10:04 pm

TonnyKamper wrote:
Shadow wrote:Hello @TonnyKamper,

Your forum is right there: http://punt.forumactie.com

Regards,
Shadow

Thank you so much @Shadow

APE wrote:Hello @TonnyKamper As Shadow has pointed out
your forum can be found at this new address http://punt.forumactie.com

As your using this forum as a test it has little posts on it also your forum url is in this list
https://help.forumotion.com/t155249p30-only-topic-technical-maintenance-on-forumotion-domains#1072470

Thank you very much @APE but I didn't see actieforum in that list and it still excists only now it holds that old forum on that url.. but I'm glad to have mine back even if it's on another url

Thank you both for your assistance

I see now that your forum is a test forum and Don't have a lot of posts, our new system will change the forum address if it's a forum that don't have a lot of members or posts that is why your address was changed and not why I told you in the fist place (my mistake) Our new system will change the URL of sites that are not used that much to a new URL of our's

lots of unused forums will get put on the same system

by TonnyKamper May 14th 2018, 10:10 pm

APE wrote:I see now that your forum is a test forum and Don't have a lot of posts, our new system will change the forum address if it's a forum that don't have a lot of members or posts that is why your address was changed and not why I told you in the fist place (my mistake) Our new system will change the URL of sites that are not used that much to a new URL of our's

lots of unused forums will get put on the same system

@APE I have testforums for each version, the others are still having actieforum in the url, will this apply for them too in the future? If so will the url then change to forumactie for each one?

by **SLGray** May 14th 2018, 10:22 pm

https://help.forumotion.com/t155249-only-topic-technical-maintenance-on-forumotion-domains#1072015

by **Ape** May 14th 2018, 10:25 pm

TonnyKamper wrote:
APE wrote:I see now that your forum is a test forum and Don't have a lot of posts, our new system will change the forum address if it's a forum that don't have a lot of members or posts that is why your address was changed and not why I told you in the fist place (my mistake) Our new system will change the URL of sites that are not used that much to a new URL of our's

lots of unused forums will get put on the same system

@APE I have testforums for each version, the others are still having actieforum in the url, will this apply for them too in the future? If so will the url then change to forumactie for each one?

I am not 100% sure it will depend on the number of times you use them and the number of posts on it.

I'm about 50% sure they will move over at some point but if they do then your best way to deal with this is to use the  Forum Utilities of the forum you want to find then use the direct connect to ACP button and you will see the address of your forum if it's moved or you can make a thread here but the faster way is to use the Forum Utilities.

by **SLGray** May 14th 2018, 10:27 pm

SLGray wrote:https://help.forumotion.com/t155249-only-topic-technical-maintenance-on-forumotion-domains#1072015

For technical reasons, forums with less than 50 posts have been moved from the main domains (forumotion.com in particular) to secondary domains such as board-directory.net, iftopic.com, darkbb.com, all-up.com, team-talk.net, your-talk.com, bestgoo.com These forums are free to move back on the main domain if the administrators want to.

by TonnyKamper May 14th 2018, 10:28 pm

Okay @APE thank you very much, I've bookmarked this thread so I can always read back the advice you guys given me Wink

by **SLGray** May 14th 2018, 10:29 pm

Is this solved now?

by **Ape** May 14th 2018, 10:29 pm

You are so so welcome

Can I take it this is now solved for you ?

by TonnyKamper May 14th 2018, 10:30 pm

SLGray wrote:
SLGray wrote:https://help.forumotion.com/t155249-only-topic-technical-maintenance-on-forumotion-domains#1072015
For technical reasons, forums with less than 50 posts have been moved from the main domains (forumotion.com in particular) to secondary domains such as board-directory.net, iftopic.com, darkbb.com, all-up.com, team-talk.net, your-talk.com, bestgoo.com These forums are free to move back on the main domain if the administrators want to.

Thank you very much @SLGray does this mean I can put the forum back to it's original url? Because that is now displaying that very old forum which is not in use so it seems...