Replace the Sierra Studios Messageboards

On the 11th of May, 2000, Sierra Studios brought their new Web Crossing messageboards on-line for public use. They were not met well by the communities, so much so that at least one community abandoned the boards partially and set up a community of free Ezboards.

Over the months the situation has become gradually worse. First it was only mirror servers kicking in, sometimes only for a few minutes, other times for a few hours. However, soon the mirror servers were on-line for days at a time and in recent weeks, it came to the final straw.

For a few weeks ago, the servers went down completely, not even the mirrors were up.

Then, on Christmas eve, the servers went completely and when they came back up, on Christmas day, they had been set behind 5 days to the 20th.