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Server Migration & Forum Porting - Eos - 2026-07-04
Southperry is very old by technology standards.
It's had to move servers multiple times in it's life but its more or less always lived in a heavily modified vBulletin that's now decades out of date and bled security issues like a Wizet game.
So for this year's anniversary of my ownership I had to choose between mothballing it for good, or moving it to something modern and stable and letting it lose a lot of the features and functionality that are frankly moot at this point anyway.
Since you're reading this instead of a couldn't be reached message, I obviously opted for the latter.
It's mostly here. It's familiar if not quite identical. There are probably some quirks I've missed from the porting that just as likely don't matter that much to the four people who will wander through looking for nostalgia.
Happy 4th people.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - SaptaZapta - 2026-07-12
Thank you for keeping it going, Eos!
I, for one, greatly appreciate the archive of game and community history represented by Southperry.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - ShinkuDragon - 2026-07-15
And my Axe! so glad to see the site actually running properly again.
shame i can't pineapple your post, but alas. a sacrifice had to be made i'm sure.
EDIT: also, i don't browse just for nostalgia's sake. to this day i still come in looking for info that may have been lost to the annals of time.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - icephoenix21 - 2026-07-15
I appreciate the forum still being alive!
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Eos - 2026-07-17
(2026-07-15, 01:24 AM)ShinkuDragon Wrote: shame i can't pineapple your post, but alas. a sacrifice had to be made i'm sure.
I still have the ratings and whatnot but haven't figured out quite how to integrate them this with one and put back the ability to rate.
I do actually consider those an important cultural aspect of our history, so maybe one day in the the near future.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - SwordStaker - 2026-07-24
This is great. Thanks for keeping this going. I went looking for this site the other day.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Pikamemnon - 2026-08-26
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Great job!
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - LuvDWayULie - 2026-08-26
Just saw this, it's alive!
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Justin - 2026-08-26
Thank you for keeping this old fossil alive, Eos.
Looking forward to seeing some of you old birds in Classic!
.....Even if Nexon is doing their typical stupid crap regarding the release
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - chrome - 2026-08-28
Hahaha I was wondering what happened here. Glad to see you're still maintaining the site.
(Also I'm glad you picked MyBB - maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I've seen a handful of "modern" forum softwares by now and they all look... wrong. At least the UI does.)
EDIT: Thank you for whatever you did to make the database actually searchable again. Out of curiosity I went to go look at some of my first posts on this forum; vBulletin shat the bed when I tried to do this, but this new arrangement you've got has queries executing really quickly. Love being able to read my old cringe.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Zelkova - 2026-09-02
Thank you for preserving the site Eos. If there ever is a day you wish to mothball, I'm sure someone else would pick up the steward hat.
We appreciate you. I hope life is treating you well.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Bahamut X - 2026-09-09
Still parts that try to look up and find that they aren't there. Or patch notes that were missed for that matter.
But nice knowing the site is back in limited capacity.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - SkyTheBM - 2026-09-19
Glad to see the site still around and preserved! MyBB's a good choice.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Liteness - 2026-09-20
Hello my friends, hope to see everyone in classic!
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Skylit - 2026-09-20
Lets bring it back. Reddit sucks.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Zelkova - 2026-10-02
Quite literally. They're killing off old reddit as soon as the people let them. Public API is dead next year. Forums need a comeback.
Edit: This was meant to be a reply. I can't cheese them here.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - chrome - 2026-10-03
(2026-10-02, 06:51 PM)Zelkova Wrote: Quite literally. They're killing off old reddit as soon as the people let them. Public API is dead next year. Forums need a comeback.
Edit: This was meant to be a reply. I can't cheese them here.
Don't get me started on the enshittification of every platform out there. I have gone on a tear self hosting nearly everything I use day to day, including a Reddit frontend. Though I guess if the public API dies that dies also. Oh well.
RE: Server Migration & Forum Porting - Jared - 2026-10-06
Thank you for keeping this alive all these years.