AHS Forum Status - Page 3

jean-baptiste · #1 2nd October 2021, 07:48 AM

Gonna miss you AHS. This forum has been a mainstay in my life since 2008 (got locked out of my first account lol). The comfort of this site has accompanied me through so many phases in my life, almost all the important ones. Thanks to every single person who contributed to making it what it was - from mods to members.

Deep snow · #2 2nd October 2021, 09:12 AM

oh man. I've been here since 2004 (got locked out of my first account), I was a high school student and now I'm doing my doctorate. AHS has been a constant in my life. ayu's was my first fandom and people here really taught me a lot to navigate access to all these content I wouldn't have otherwise known.

I'm just going to say that I'm going to miss coming here. I'm not in a position to download so many of the things I would want to save, and that makes me sadder. thank you for people who have shared and uploaded their collection, especially for the benefit of people who may not be able to afford buying them, like me.

thank you AHS Forum!

DavidChaiLatte · #3 2nd October 2021, 10:59 AM

NOT SO FAST! Scraping all the data right now and stay tuned for the new AHS

URANUS · #4 2nd October 2021, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidChaiLatte

NOT SO FAST! Scraping all the data right now and stay tuned for the new AHS

Thank you. Please make it work! Do you have the URL yet?

***koumori*** · #5 2nd October 2021, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidChaiLatte

NOT SO FAST! Scraping all the data right now and stay tuned for the new AHS

I'm currently working on this with DavidChaiLatte. I'd like to ask people to either join the discord for updates on this project, or you can follow this new twitter account which will be used for updates as well. There is no URL available yet, but I'm hopeful whatever happens, we'll have a more stable base we can actually update and work on to help us keep contributing to the overseas Ayu community.

Didz-19 · #6 2nd October 2021, 11:59 AM

Although i'm mostly reading all of the news of Ayu, i really gonna miss this community where we could share opinions and the love of Ayu. I really hope this is not the end of AHS.

Aderianu · #7 2nd October 2021, 01:56 PM

It's important special place that impacted my life a lot. Nothing will replace this forum.

Katsuyuki012 · #8 2nd October 2021, 04:56 PM

I'm currently having a hard time putting my emotions, so I apologize if this isn't my most well-writtwn post:

I truly hope that AHS will be able to stay. I haven't been on here for nearly as long as most people have but this place has become so important to me over the years. This forum is the one place where I could talk about Ayu to people who love her just as much. This is the place where I was able to learn so much about Ayu by going through old threads or talking to other users. I made friends here that I would have never met otherwise.

I remember how odd (and sometimes scary) it felt when I joined the forum, since pretty much everybody was an adult already. Yet I was able to 'find my place' here thanks to you guys. In a way, this forum has been a part of my personal growth over the past 5 years too. I sure as hell have said a lot of awkward things a couple of years ago, but I wouldn't want to trade this experience.
AHS is simply such an important piece of my life... When I joined, I was still far away from graduating and now I'm in my final year. Most of you have been here for much longer than that, so I can only begin to imagine how others feel about the possibility of AHS going down forever.

If this is really it, then I just want to say thank you to everybody who made this forum what it is. I'm glad I got to experience being a part of AHS for a couple of years – it's been a fun ride.

Sim' · #9 2nd October 2021, 09:24 PM

AHS was the 4th english ayu forum I found when I discovered her during the CAROLS era in 2004 (after Ayunite!, Tokyo Nights and Ayumi Hamasaki Network, all dead ages ago), many memories come when browsing my posts/threads, it would truly be tragic to lose such an important database...

While I'm not as active as I used to be, ayu is still my #1 artist and I never miss a chance to attend her tours when I'm in Japan or support her (#team-ayu). I truly hope for a mirrorcle to happen that can save this forum, as I'm not planning on moving to discord or any other forum after that (team-ayu messages will stay my only source).

Big thanks to the staff for doing their best to keep this forum alive all these years, I know by experience it's not easy...

Katsuyuki012 · #10 2nd October 2021, 09:42 PM

^Thank you SO SO much!!!

MiiSan · #11 3rd October 2021, 01:26 AM

I remember first coming only for the downloads in 2008 but slowly posting time to time within the forum starting with NEXT LEVEL era and remembered how excited everyone was when her albums would get released

(except maybe Sunrise/Sunset, I remember quite some rage regarding her covers

)

Also the A WORLD IS ONE book that happened just before RnRC and we were closer to Ayu more than before and knowing how kind she was to fans (hugging them and such) was the most surreal feeling ever. I was 15 when I joined AHS and Ayu's music and this community was my little escape when school wasn't so great, I will cherish this forum and hopefully the data can be saved or this forum will not go down just yet

***koumori*** · #12 3rd October 2021, 01:53 AM

Hello everyone - apparently today the domain has been renewed until September 28th, 2022. The active mod team still do not have access to the domain payment, so it was luck when I looked it up that I can now see a precise date and renewal period.

This is obviously great news for not suddenly having a gaping hole in the internet where this forum used to be, but the issue still lies that the active team do not have access to pay for the domain, and then there is the bigger issue of not knowing who even pays for our server database... When I asked the sysop about that he didn't even know himself, so that's... a mystery that lurks in the back of my mind every day, I'm not going to lie

So, we're still going ahead and hoping to rebuild a second copy of AHS with the help of DavidChaiLatte, but that means we have more time to figure out how that will go. Progress has been really promising and I hope we can give more updates on that as they come.

I am genuinely sorry for the stress I know this has caused a few of you who have strong attachment to the forum and its history, and I promise if I could have avoided it, I would have. Thank you all for being so responsive about my updates and I still urge anyone reading this to join the discord/follow the twitter account if you want to stay informed of anything in the future if the forum goes down.

jean-baptiste · #13 3rd October 2021, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by koumori

Hello everyone - apparently today the domain has been renewed until September 28th, 2022. The active mod team still do not have access to the domain payment, so it was luck when I looked it up that I can now see a precise date and renewal period.

This is obviously great news for not suddenly having a gaping hole in the internet where this forum used to be, but the issue still lies that the active team do not have access to pay for the domain, and then there is the bigger issue of not knowing who even pays for our server database... When I asked the sysop about that he didn't even know himself, so that's... a mystery that lurks in the back of my mind every day, I'm not going to lie

So, we're still going ahead and hoping to rebuild a second copy of AHS with the help of DavidChaiLatte, but that means we have more time to figure out how that will go. Progress has been really promising and I hope we can give more updates on that as they come.

I am genuinely sorry for the stress I know this has caused a few of you who have strong attachment to the forum and its history, and I promise if I could have avoided it, I would have. Thank you all for being so responsive about my updates and I still urge anyone reading this to join the discord/follow the twitter account if you want to stay informed of anything in the future if the forum goes down.

Awesome news, thanks for the update! Made my week, honestly.

YUKARI · #14 20th October 2021, 03:32 AM

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Originally Posted by koumori

Hello everyone - apparently today the domain has been renewed until September 28th, 2022. The active mod team still do not have access to the domain payment, so it was luck when I looked it up that I can now see a precise date and renewal period.

This is obviously great news for not suddenly having a gaping hole in the internet where this forum used to be, but the issue still lies that the active team do not have access to pay for the domain, and then there is the bigger issue of not knowing who even pays for our server database... When I asked the sysop about that he didn't even know himself, so that's... a mystery that lurks in the back of my mind every day, I'm not going to lie

So, we're still going ahead and hoping to rebuild a second copy of AHS with the help of DavidChaiLatte, but that means we have more time to figure out how that will go. Progress has been really promising and I hope we can give more updates on that as they come.

I am genuinely sorry for the stress I know this has caused a few of you who have strong attachment to the forum and its history, and I promise if I could have avoided it, I would have. Thank you all for being so responsive about my updates and I still urge anyone reading this to join the discord/follow the twitter account if you want to stay informed of anything in the future if the forum goes down.

Yay!! Such great news!!

I remember how AYUNITE! disappeared and it was very very sad because I felt like I spent forever there, I was a teenager and time felt different. I was like 12 when I joined it and then it disappeared when I was 18. I remember I didn't like AHS that much when I joined it (sorry!) because I was really attached to AYUNITE! And now it's been 10 years since I joined the forum. I even met some forum members on ayu's concerts. aww precious memories

I hope it stays active forever! or at least for extra 10 years.

Thank you for all your efforts, guys!! We really appreciate it

Sky High · #15 3rd October 2021, 01:45 AM

It is so sad see ending of this forum.Still there is hope for new format.

maxikot · #16 3rd October 2021, 02:01 AM

Thanks a lot for all the effort that You, DavidChaiLatte and others put into this matter. It's hugely appreciated. Looking forward to what the future brings

KPL · #17 3rd October 2021, 05:56 AM

Thanks all my goodness!

summerain · #18 3rd October 2021, 06:24 AM

We will discover in the future the person who ia renewing AHS domain is... Ayu herself! j/k

JackieRos · #19 3rd October 2021, 06:46 AM

We have one more year! That’s great news but I do hope that is here to stay for good ❤️

Bigtop · #20 3rd October 2021, 09:08 AM

Really great news to hear amidst the separate but unrelated AHS and JPopsuki issues ongoing at the same time. But I think we need a new AHS, one that is ready for the future (possibly including HTTPS support as well).

Is a newer version of vBulletin - or change to another forum software - in the works?