WinnerBB Forums?

by Karmattack July 13th 2020, 11:57 am

I apologize if this isn't the place to field questions about WinnerBB forums, I was having difficulties tracking down the source exactly.

My issue is that my, and it looks like any, forums made through WinnerBB are currently throwing up 403 forbidden errors when you try to visit the page. My forum wasn't really anything important, but it was a fun time to remember from my elementary school years with my friends and I'd like to get it back if at all possible.

Has WinnerBB closed up shop and taken all the associated forums with it?

by Neptune- July 13th 2020, 12:11 pm

Hello, and welcome on the Forum of the forums Forumotion

winnerbb.net and winnerbb.com are no longer Forumotion's domains but no forum has been deleted, they have just moved to another Forumotion domain.

[Only Topic] Technical maintenance on Forumotion domains.

For freetime-3.winnerbb.com, i'm afraid it has been deleted, probably because it had less than 3 posts and less than 3 users.

by Karmattack July 13th 2020, 12:15 pm

Neptune- wrote:Hello, and welcome on the Forum of the forums Forumotion

winnerbb.net and winnerbb.com are no longer Forumotion's domains but no forum has been deleted, they have just moved to another Forumotion domain.
[Only Topic] Technical maintenance on Forumotion domains.

For freetime-3.winnerbb.com, i'm afraid it has been deleted, probably because it had less than 3 posts and less than 3 users.

My forum had more users and posts than that, I know that much.

It might have been freetime-2 instead, I know it was something like that

Is there a way to at least recover a read-only version of closed forums like this, or are they just gone forever?

by Neptune- July 13th 2020, 12:50 pm

Is this your forum -> https://freetime-2.forumotion.com/

If not, you still can restore your forum with founder's tools
Use your founder email to connect to tools.

But it will work only if forum has been deleted for less than one year, else there should have no backup left and no chance to restore it.

How does a backup work ?

by Karmattack July 13th 2020, 1:56 pm

Neptune- wrote:Is this your forum -> https://freetime-2.forumotion.com/

If not, you still can restore your forum with founder's tools
Use your founder email to connect to tools.

But it will work only if forum has been deleted for less than one year, else there should have no backup left and no chance to restore it.
How does a backup work ?

That is it, yes!

Thank you very much, I know it's a childish mess of a forum but it's pretty nostalgic for me and I'm so happy to be able to see it again!