Cinq - gone, or has your forum been hacked?
 

Cinq,

Looks like your excellent website is... Gone ??

Are you gone, or has your website been hacked?

http://www.vbarticles.com/

Stachel

Don't look like a message a hacker would leave.

Yes, I spotted this too! I hope all is OK in Cinq's camp... let us know matey please.

The articles hack is one of the most important hacks within my board.
I hoped cinq will release it for vB 3.5 and now his page is down.

Hopefully this is only a bad dream

i dont think this is a bad dream :( Its real

I don't think it is gone for long. b/c cinq was planning to release a 3.5 version of VBarticles and releasing other hacks on top of that...

I hope it does come back...

There was another message earlier in the day yesterday, saying Down for a While or something like that...

I'm sure he has many PM's in his mailbox, as I'm sure most of us have dropped him a note... I'm sure he's just not going away (I hope) I am (was) also looking forward to 3.5 releases of VBArticles and VBGlossary from Cinq

There will be other SUPPORTED hacks soon guys. I would just let the unsupported vbarticles go away.

This is uncalled for. Cinq supported his hack from his site and shared it with everyone here for free. I hope that this situation is only temporary....

You are incorrect. Cing HAD a site that he setup in hopes of others helping him support the hack. Support from him personally was non existant with the exception of a few cases.

Why does this hack have it's own premium section on vb.org ?

Feeling jelous, eh Paul? :P

This was not my experience. Also- his hacks worked fine, and if you followed instructions there was no need for any support.

Because Cinq requested one. If you feel a hack of yours requires a premium area here then you can request one. Modification authors of large Modifications may PM either Xenon or Erwin to apply for Premium Modification status if they believe they qualify for such.

Yes, I know how you get one :) I think you kinda missed the point of the question (see below).

No.


You both seemed to have missed the point of my question - Cinq does not seem to support this hack from this forum, nor, as far as I can tell, is it available for download at vb.org (or anywhere else now it seems) hence the very simple question, why does it have it's own area ?

well, since it's not available here, and not accessible there (vbarticles.com), does anyone have this hack available so that i can install it? please help :cry: .

We have been discussing what to do with 'abandoned' premium hacks in staff. Looks like we never thought of this when we started with it. It is not so easy to withdraw the status, since the postings about the hack are not in a single thread anymore like with a 'normal' hack.

Looks like he is installing Vb3.5
If you goto
http://www.vbarticles.com/forum/index.php
There is something about an upgrade script not been run yet.

Hope he is just in the middle of upgrading....

Now it says... --> Gone...

http://www.vbarticles.com/
says
However If you look a little deeper at http://www.vbarticles.com/forum/index.php then you get
Which is what gives me some hope that he is just upgrading...
Maybe...

I think your wrong because it says The page cannot be displayed.

I really want this hack for 3.5 but i cant see it happening anytime soon

yep looks like he ran into troubles upgrading...

Here is his thread on vbulletin.com; http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153950

No need for the speculation.
To cut a long story short, did a backup, tried to run upgrade, faced many errors, tried to redo everything with the backup only to realise backup was a corrupted one. Attempted to obtain a 3-4day old backup from host, but they only do daily backups ( of which has already been messed up by the upgrade processes ).

So end of the day, I have nothing to work with anymore.
So there, as the page says...gone. :(
Oh well, it's been fun. Esp with folks like 1014 around lol

It happens to alot of people (including myself) ... I guess you could just install the last good copy you have and let users re-register.

oh no dont give up!! i could help u? that has the most potential! please dont give up....i know a lot of people besides me who are only waiting on your hack to upgrade........dont bother bout ppl talking trash about that one its the best one.........i wish there was something i could do........if there is let me know!

Don't Give Up Cinq!!!

I've been playing around with vBArticles and we have planned on it being a big part of our site. Cinq has been very responsive to every question, and has been very patient with a lot of my "newbie" questions. Thank you Cinq!

Damm, sounds like you have had a bad couple of days :(

Hint: In the meantime you can always release your Vb3.5 glossary and articles hacks on here :D /hint

cinq i would really like it if you could release articles for 3.5 i am willing to pay for it because its something that i really need for my forums

Sorry to hear that. :( I just migrated my board to VBulletin and was going to your site to get your mod. Any chance of it being e-mailed to me...by you or someone? (nealu at sport-touring.net)

Thanks. :(

same here!!

We were waiting for vbarticles for vb 3.5 too - Is there anything else similar that could be used instead? :(

Yes, don't give up! I've accidentally destroyed my own forums half a dozen times and loyal people always understand! :D This really is one of the better and most useful hacks, and many webmasters adore your systems even if there are a few dissatisfied people!

Cing,

We understand your need to give this project up. When you no longer have time to support it - I think thats the best thing you could do. It saves all of us a lot of time and energy.

Best of luck

How exactly did your backup go corrupt? What method did you use to create the backup??? Telnet, cron, PhpMyAdmin?

I'd like to know in-order to avoid this happening to me in the future.

Methods not that important.


Just backup twice and make sure you verify the backups if you want to be sure.

You should do regular backups anyhow, so if worse case happens you only lose a week or so of data.

Sorry to hear about the problems.

Does anyone have the latest stable version available? I just decided to switch to it from V3Articles and now I can't find it. Anyone, please?

Yes, it seems like cing is trying real hard. When I first saw the word "GONE" I thought he had just gave up on the hack and took it offline. Now since I've read this thread, that truely isn't the case, which is an awesome thing to see! If anyone has a copy of the version for 3.0X, can someone send it to me? I already have it on one of my sites, I just launched another one and I need it on their as well.

If anyone is willing to help send me this hack, whether it's Cing himself or another user, I'd be willing to give you a link on one of my popular sites for one month! (Thats if its ok with cing, I'm not trying to buy this hack or anything, this hack just means alot to all of my sites and it'll save me alot of time)

Cheers, best of luck Cing ;)

I love this hack and have it running,however somtimes when I post using the WYSIWYG It creates double entries within the same article???

Eddie

I would, but cinq clearly states that he doesn't allow it:

Yeah, I was smart and downloaded this before the site went down. Even though I don't need it lol. I run 3.5 now and I really want this for 3.5!

so its over? man i loved that hack guess ima have to pay for one that wont run with vb.....that sucks it took forever to find one :(

Well this is the kind of attitude that loses customers. I am moving on to something else also. This is just plain uncaring.