As the notice says, I finally managed to restore the forums. The database was corrupt and needed tio be rebuilt.

The server seems a bit unstable. I've had a few pages not load and instead go to a holding page. Just refresh the browser if this happens and hopefully it will then load.

If you spot anything not working properly please let me know.

I have decided to try and make things as simple as possible on the forum for the future. I want to remove all extra stuff that's no longer needed such as the downloads, arcade, gallery and links section and just make thre site simple. And uninstall any extensions that are not needed. I'm also going to start going through the forums and deleting a lot of the old and out of date posts. And then try to reduce the number of forums we have.

If anyone with mod abilities has some time please can you help? Any out of data news posts for example can go. Or anything site related that's no longer relevant.

Once it's cleaned up I'm going to be looking at alternative hosting companies for the forum and main site as this server is now 14 years old! And more than time to be ditched. And then move the forum to the XenForo software.