So what happened??

[admin]

We also followed the links on archive.org, in the hopes of being able to restore the old forums. Unfortunately, its not just as simple as "download and import". The main problem is, we have tons of InnoDB files but no way to use them because we lack the FRM files... Apparently, there *may* be a way around this limitation -- that is if it's not beyond *our* limitations to sort things out. At the moment, I don't recommend holding your breath while waiting on us to get the old forums back up. We're trying, but ...

I guess only time will tell how all that pans out.