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Hmm, a bit odd. Presumably they will have regular backups which could have been used to test a migration, rather than making the site read only for that length of time.

I think it's more problematic than they claim.

They never said anything about it being a test run or anything beforehand- which indicates some sort of cock-up behind the scenes.

And I remember you

From memory we (re)launched the forums under the Digital Spy brand in March 2000 before packing all of those old diginews sites up into DS about a year later.

It's a little saddening to read some comments on this thread from old school users who felt progressively isolated over the years, as media and broadcasting was the genesis of the site and remained a key, albeit smaller, part of it when I left around six years ago. (On my new venture I still look for us to cover broadcasting articles, no matter how tenuous the link!)

For what it's worth I felt we used to do a good job of maintaining the two spheres of our site - internally we used to brand the entertainment and media content 'purple zone' and 'red zone' - and the showbiz content we did cover at the time was deliberately as down-the-line, as "BBC", as we could make it.

As I say that was six years ago though and the site has since changed dramatically in several ways - editorial style, remit of content covered, design, staff, etc - not to mention the online environment is a much, much tougher atmosphere for publishers to thrive in. Aaaaaaand it wouldn't really be my place to comment on any of that

Just checked my join date 04-03-2000, so 17 years next month, also more than half my life!

Forums seem to be down at the moment. I wonder if it was the CBB final that caused it or if the forum refresh is current happening...?

Well, it wasn't the refresh, the forum is working now, no change. Maybe CBB did crash it.

Rubbish like Big Brother has crashed the forums in the past.

This might be of interest to some:

http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a816819/digital-spy-forums-changes-software-upgrade/

It's nice of them to think of the Big Brother masses. What would they have done without the forums should DS had done down during BB?!

Actually, Imagine what would have happened if TV Forum went down during a Good Morning Britain relaunch?

Life would have continued as normal I imagine

Digital Spy Forums have now gone read only.