Here we go

[Mr. K]

Because of the ranking system I put in for fun.

BTW, oooooooh woe is me, these forums... waaah... *shot*
Waaaait.  The forums die because people post a lot..?  Am I missing something in what you said?

[Timballisto]

I think he means the posts and the (pages of!) topics take up all the space.  I have to say, there were tons of topics in off-topic discussion that needed deleted (there were about 8 pages of topics).

[Andi]

Nah. Posts took a lot of space, yes. But as even the "Forum is dead" page lags I now believe the server was crap.

[Shvegait]

The posts are actually stored in a rather simple format, and even all the posts on the old forum in a .rar archive only took up just over 2 megabytes. Plus, there were no attachments. Definitely wasn't storage concerns!

[Mr. K]

I'm still trying to see if I can get those posts converted.  And space will not be a problem.  My account has 1 GB space, and last time I checked (about 3 months ago, and before I cleaned out unnecessary fluff from the directory tree) I'd only used 100MB after 1.5 years of account use.

PS.  Dunno if anyone noticed (or if it works for normal users) but if you click "Additional Options..." in the posting page, you can attach files!  I've got text, pictures, .lvl's and .dat's usable.

[geoo]

I somehow feel I missed to thank Andi and Mindless for the forum data resp. making it well readable. Great! Have used it now for a couple of times.
Anyway, @Andi, I'd like to know, is it possible to get one's own private messages? Wouldn't it be possible to use select to select the messages where either the sender- or the reciever-id is the one of the resp. user from the database? It would be great if that could be done!
@Mindless, would it be possible to implement an additional search function? Would be really neat. EDIT: Just noticed, since I actually have the the data in txt format, I can easily search within it and then look it up in your front-end.
Btw, it is quite funny to me to read 'by Mindless and geoo89' in your Lemmings 3 file format description. It sounds to me as I would be something like an equal contributor while I actually only contributed one byte. Anyway, thank you. (It's not that I noticed that only now, I just forgot about it when I actually wanted to post that note.)

[Mindless]

@Mindless, would it be possible to implement an additional search function? Would be really neat. EDIT: Just noticed, since I actually have the the data in txt format, I can easily search within it and then look it up in your front-end.

Yup, it's possible,  but it may (or may not) take a while.  I haven't got much free time right now.

Btw, it is quite funny to me to read 'by Mindless and geoo89' in your Lemmings 3 file format description. It sounds to me as I would be something like an equal contributor while I actually only contributed one byte. Anyway, thank you. (It's not that I noticed that only now, I just forgot about it when I actually wanted to post that note.)

Every byte is important, and there's still one we know nothing about.  :sad: