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I haven't seen it mentioned on here, but last week ispreview had a story in line with this:

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...um-merger.html

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SO, back to the drawing board, albeit with new Forum software. Some interesting comments in that ISP Preview piece.

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What happened? Did it turn out that NTL/Virgin had actually been stringing him along & only offered him a job to get him to close the Nthell forum?

Did he then start this forum as an alternative way to bring it back (or wasn't this forum anything to do with the situation?)

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I don’t understand what is causing such a huge problem. Why don’t they just start a new forum from scratch? Talk about making the job harder!

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Not exactly, the owner of the original nthellworld.com site, sold it to NTL back in, I think around 2002, and was briefly employed by them. In its then form, the forum was closed by NTL about a year later.

In an amazing display of not understanding how websites work, NTL failed to realise that this person also owned the domain nthellworld.co.uk, and a forum based on that domain name was set up - because who could possibly have seen that coming!

That forum then became the precursor of this forum, it was renamed and relaunched prior to NTL and Telewest merging to form Virgin Media.

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True, they might aswell start from scratch, most will have forgotten their passwords by now anyway.

However I still doubt how genuine they are about resurrecting it. More likely VM were hoping the punters forgot it existed. What happened to the VM staff running it? Are they still employed, or are they suddenly going have to recruit new staff which seems unlikely.

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The forum staff also doubled as ‘helpers’ on their various social media platforms, I assume that is still the case, although there was a suspicious mass-exodus of forum staff in the months before the closure.

So make of that as you will.

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Forums are now considered old hat, it's all about social media these days.

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https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...highlight=Paul

Paul owns cable. Those beliefs are hilarious :rofl:

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no, he (and Richard) are right, people would rather ask on Farcebook, twitter and tiktok than join a forum.
Lots of gaming communities have also now descended to the depths of Discord :(

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Reddit is the other place where a lot of conversation has gone.

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absolutely nothing stopping VM having a discord channel. In fact it makes sense too. They could even have support in there and the costs to them minimal . Same as nothing stopping them having a legit presence on FB however there is a plague of people making up support names now FB allows nom de plumes and I am sure stupid people fall for it but all the same I have had support off Octopus for example on X Tesco and Asda on FB.

I feel it is good to be able to post in public and hold them accountable where more people will see it as to get quicker support. I have always been of the mind a squeaky wheel gets the grease

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I always get decent support from Asda on FB.

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Which is good, but there is an obvious problem, you need to have a FB account!

Admittedly, we are in a minority but there are people who will never touch FB with someone else’s bargepole, let alone our own - even if I think I’ll only use it for VM support, Zuckerborg will absolutely hoover up even more of my information - ditto for Instagram, WhatsApp; and the less said about X the better.

I don’t want, and refuse to have, any sort of social media presence (membership on here probably doesn’t count); so am I now denied proper support?

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Conversation, maybe, but official help?

Unless VM employees are hanging out on Reddit threads, interacting and offering to help, then it’s fairly pointless.