VM Community Forum Move

[Richardr]

Originally Posted by newapollo

I've exchanged emails with Kei (the VM community forum manager)

Merging both communities has proven to be far more complex than envisaged so they have gone back to the idea of having 2 communities. They are still being built and tested before being released. Estimated timescales are now around July for the VM community with the O2 Community shortly after.

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

[adduxi]

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

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by adduxi

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

Steve says:
May 26, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I can’t help but think of the soap opera drama of nthell world whenever I see a story relating to their forums. I wonder what happened to the guy after ntl employed him, I seem to remember he wasn’t with them long

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?)

[OLD BOY]

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!

[jem]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

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?)

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.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

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!

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.

[jem]

Originally Posted by Mr K

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.

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.