VM Community Forum Move
 

The VM Community Forum is moving to a new provider over the next couple of months. The boards will be locked as read only until all the existing accounts are migrated. The VM & O2 forums will also be merged into one at the relaunch.

https://community.virginmedia.com/bl...wntime/5692886

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Title changed to be less confusing.
I thought this was going to be about you being suspended, until I read it.

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Yes I was perusing this morning and noticed some threads are now locked and some are still available, mostly to do with VM TV.
It will be interesting to see what the outcome is, I mean can it be any worse than the VMO2ID merged account creations ...

Good luck with your move guys!!

I had a look at your site,looks nice!!

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It’s an odd situation, most of the sections are locked except for some related to TV, you would have thought that if they were moving it to a different platform, they would have locked the whole lot to avoid the risk of losing posts.

Also the post from their mods specifically called out about the forum going off line at the end of the month (January), which patently hasn't happened.

You don’t think that maybe VM’s legendary propensity to be completely incompetent has stuck again? Surely not.....!

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All the VM Community Forum boards are now read only (the VIP boards were the last to be locked yesterday). The forum is likely to go offline completely around the end of the month.

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"The forum is likely to go offline completely around the end of the month.”

But will it ever come back? I’m 50/50 about whether VMO2 will simply abandon it in favour of ‘social media’.

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That is when the Khoros contract ends.
The signals we were getting from the forum mods just before the shutdown was that progress with the new platform was already under way.

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“The signals we were getting from the forum mods just before the shutdown was that progress with the new platform was already under way.”

Yes but do you honestly think that Kei et. al. will be aware of the actual situation, our are being told to say ‘xyz’?

Yeh, fine, they have about as much validity as if you asked my cat for a statement!

Sorry no, this is not how stuff works; your contract with a certain provider expires at a certain time and won’t be renewed, you know this and so take action well before to mitigate against it. Also ‘end of the month’; the original implication based on when to was posted was that it was end of January, which never happened. Here we are in mid February and the VM community forums still seem be on-line, albeit in a read-only mode, so presumably there is still some relationship with Khorus.

Anyhow, this is simply not how a competent company who genuinely want’s to maintain a forum works. Either VM are not competent to do this, or they simply don't want to have a forum.

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VM aren't the first (probably not the last) big company to close a 'public' forum that does tend to only have posts (accessible without logging in) concerning problems and issues with the service, equipment, and it's contracts.

Damage limitation in my eyes ;)

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It was far too useful for customers. Advice from others and VM mods who would try and help. That won't do at all, not the VM way.

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Only a temporary thing.
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Yes people always seem to do away wiith GOOD things and its quite sad!

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How longs a offline a 'bit'? Its been offline for several weeks. Either they have a major technical issue, or they intend kicking it into the 'long grass'.....

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The point being it's not permanent as some people are suggesting.