Thread: VM Community Forum Move
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Old Yesterday, 23:59   #40
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Re: VM Community Forum Move
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Originally Posted by jem View Post
No all, of the threads are ‘read-only’, no new posts allowed and no new threads requesting help or advice can be made.

The claim was that the forum needed to he moved to a new platform because VM’s contract with the old provider ‘Khorus’ was ending and for whatever reason they didn’t or couldn’t renew it. Absolutely fine, make arrangements to move one it to a new provider.

A post from the VM mods back in January stated that the forum would become ‘read-only’ soon, then be completely off-line 'for a while', at the end of the month - presumably end of January. This came and went and the forum still worked, and then suddenly all of the threads were locked, no new posts allowed in early February, so OK a slight mess up and it all needs to change by end of February. Fine.

And here we are, 6th March, the old VM community forums are still there and accessible but still read-only; you can’t post anything or request help.

So what of Earth is going on? It does have all the hallmarks of VM’s legendary ‘confusion’ as the staff used to claim on the forum. To which a number of posters would point out that by ‘confusion’, please do read ‘complete incompetence’!
I think the writings on the wall. The prospect of VM and O2 collaborating to get a new forum up and running, involving merging their two forums seemed a bit optimistic at best. They seem like perfect bed fellows in their new merger with incompetence and b.s. being their mission statement.
I expect we'll end up with some token interactions possible via Facebook and Whatsapp only, thankfully from my pov it won't matter as I'm now cable provider free for the first time in decades.
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