Greetings everyone.

As many of you already know, we are in the process of moving The Sanctum to a better location. Unlike this free platform that is owned by forumotion, we will have our own site and server. The limitations we are presented with here will no longer apply.

The new place will also have a different web address to this, so your bookmarks will have to be updated to the new address.

It will be a similar forum to this one, but with room to move and expand looking forward.

As part of the move, we will need to issue each of our users here with a new login password, as the current passwords cannot be transferred, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Your usernames will remain the same and be carried over to the new site.

So all you guys have to do is navigate to the new site and log in with the new password we issue you with.

We advise all of our users to change their password once logged into the new site to a password of their choice.

Once we have all settled into our new home we can start to discuss how the new community will be developed through collective input from our membership. We look forward to discussing our future together in a few brain storming threads.

With that in mind please take a little time between now and the move to think about the kind of community you would like, and the type of methods which could be employed to help steer ourselves in that direction.

The primary aim should be based on community involvement and personal responsibility, with everyone sharing responsibility for the well-being for the community as a whole.

Thank you for your patience and understanding; please post any questions you may have about the move below so we can address each other and work towards the new site together.

regards,

Admin team.

Greetings Admin

Yay! How exciting. I'm packing my bags as we type

Oh for god's sake I just unpacked

Is it a watch this space thing or is there a date scheduled?

Nice message to see on this fine Sunday morning

Is the whole of this site coming with us to?

@grem...

you only own one pair of run's used undies so what ya moaning about packing for? ... just put them on your head like ya usually do ffs

cool news! nice of you guys to take care of us so.

@ dub...there have been a few teething problems with the hosting, but the new place now exists as such...just needs polishing up now. So we're almost there.

@ psketti...yep all the threads posts etc from here will be transferred as is.

It's like moving house or something

diamondgeezer wrote:

@ dub...there have been a few teething problems with the hosting, but the new place now exists as such...just needs polishing up now. So we're almost there.

@ psketti...yep all the threads posts etc from here will be transferred as is.

Nice one

psketti wrote:

diamondgeezer wrote:

@ dub...there have been a few teething problems with the hosting, but the new place now exists as such...just needs polishing up now. So we're almost there.

@ psketti...yep all the threads posts etc from here will be transferred as is.

Nice one

Yeah

Smashing! I look forward to it! Thanks, admins!

Mandy

diamondgeezer wrote:

All the threads posts etc from here will be transferred as is.

OK scratch that.

we're really sorry guys but it turns out that moving all our existing threads & posts from here to the new place with us is going to be a real problem, for various technical reasons. Not impossible, but very problematic. It's a big disappointment for me & the rest of the admin team, and no doubt for all of you too.

On the bright side however, the new place is now looking really good and we are almost there now. The layout is pretty similar to here too, so hopefully we can all just re-post our favourite threads etc when we arrive.

Please do keep giving us your feedback on the above and any other concerns you have with the move.

Thank you.

I don't see a problem with that, if anything I'm excited for the new place!

All sounds great - ty for all your hard work - out of curiosity will this place be deleted in its entirety?

thoreau wrote:

All sounds great - ty for all your hard work - out of curiosity will this place be deleted in its entirety?

Not straight away. Its going to be left up as a sort of 'message board' with the linky to the new place & an accompanying explanation about the move in the banner, so anyone arriving here will know where to go.

Further posting will be disabled of course...but as for the content itself being still archived & accessible or not I'm not quite sure. I'll just go check & will get back to you on that one shortly.

Its cool man
appreciate your guys work!

ok guys just checked, this place and all its content will remain accessible & viewable

we can even set it up so that members can log in and access the private areas too, so viewing permissions will stay the same.

Just further posting here will be disabled is all.

all sounds brilliant really appreciate the work you are putting into it

Another Fresh Start.

I'm very fond of Fresh Starts, me.

cantata wrote:

Another Fresh Start.

I'm very fond of Fresh Starts, me.

well with our own site and server it likely wont be happenning again. We will all be in control of the content, and the new forum software works great too so no need to change platforms again.

Unless the guvment or sumthin shuts us down one day with crazy new interweb laws

novum wrote:

Unless the guvment or sumthin shuts us down one day with crazy new interweb laws

An yes, the big guns


I'm wondering... would our very own Missp care to add anything to this?

Top work chaps. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Admin wrote:

As part of the move, we will need to issue each of our users here with a new login password, as the current passwords cannot be transferred, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Your usernames will remain the same and be carried over to the new site.

So all you guys have to do is navigate to the new site and log in with the new password we issue you with.

We advise all of our users to change their password once logged into the new site to a password of their choice.

^Scratch that bit too.

There will no longer be any need to issue everyone a login password etc. Because we aren't transferring over all the data from here (threads, posts etc) everyone will simply sign up as a new member over there with a username & password of their choice...far less hassle all round. You can either keep your present username or choose a different one, entirely upto you.

Very nearly there now guys...watch this space