ShawnVallance Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 As the title states, today, Rigs of Rods's main website/forum (http://www.rigsofrods.com/) went completely offline. This means the multiplayer option in the configurator no longer works for tonight. Luckily, there is a GitHub site that still has the source code and the mp list still intact. If anyone is to play mp, I recommend using this site: https://github.com/RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods/issues/795 *STATUS EDIT*: After a few hours watching replies, the site is coming back tomorrow and over the course of 31 or so days, all of the information from the original server will be migrated into a new one, so no one should be panicking anymore about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 why is it gone? do you know, nevermind thats sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlawed Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 There was a thread on the beam ng site that was almost immediately taken down after a few posts, last post I saw was saying that the forum on there is not for ROR (even though it was put in off topic) and to "Stay tuned to the ROR website for updates", so I guess they are updating some stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancakeman Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I just tried to visit the site, and it said, restoring backup ... sorry folks, stuff will be back in some hour. I don't know if it means if it will come back online or not. Hopefully, it will come back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnVallance Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 Not necessarily Outlawed, the services are being shut down for good. One of the people I know on skype told me that the site will be brought back up for a month for everyone to make backups of their belongings. As stated, after this shuts down again, GitHub's RoR page will be the only thing left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancakeman Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Do we know why the services are being shut down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnVallance Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 From what I know, it's because the forum's activity has declined to a point where only a few dozen people were left, and the majority of the rest moved on to BeamNG. TDev noticed this and decided to just end the forum's life after all this time. The forum community there used to be massive, but again, as years passed by, the popularity declined as well. It was only a matter of time before this would happen, but I did not expect it to happen today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancakeman Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 That is sad to hear. I remember when I first found the site. It will be missed by many. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roach Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 1 hour ago, ShawnVallance said: One of the people I know on skype told me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnVallance Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 Another update regarding this entire event: The RoR site now states this quote. Hello everybody, this is only_a_ptr writing. Things got settled with TDev, the server is being restored from today's backup, so nothing will get lost. Stay tuned and be patient, things are going to be back to normal tomorrow. Don't stay up late though, the backup will take a few more hours. Cheers. No one knows if TDev decided to stick with the month-long restore decision or not, but time will tell. EDIT: Things are going to be okay everyone. The recent GitHub notice from Hotrod55 (the same guy who's been keeping me up to date with the entirety of this roller coaster of a day via skype.) states this: We arranged a deal: I got admin access to rigsofrods.com. We have month of time to move our data to a different server. Then, TDev will pass me the rigsofrods.com domain so I can redirect it to our new place. From @only-a-ptr on Gitter Rigs of Rods is not dead, it still lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nks1996 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 so we will be able to resume tours soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnVallance Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 Most likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKM Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 8 hours ago, ShawnVallance said: From what I know, it's because the forum's activity has declined to a point where only a few dozen people were left, and the majority of the rest moved on to BeamNG. TDev noticed this and decided to just end the forum's life after all this time. The forum community there used to be massive, but again, as years passed by, the popularity declined as well. It was only a matter of time before this would happen, but I did not expect it to happen today. I'm surprised something like that didn't happen sooner with how against new members everyone on their forum was ever since I first joined it. You can't really expect to have a long lasting community when they're main goal in almost every thread was to drive away any new members curious about learning and god forbid you tried to ask someone for help. Not saying SM is any better but at least some of us try to welcome to new members and gently push (or sometimes violently shove) them in the right direction for what they're looking for. I don't think RoR is going to actually die though... not just yet at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnVallance Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 1 hour ago, RKM said: I'm surprised something like that didn't happen sooner with how against new members everyone on their forum was ever since I first joined it. You can't really expect to have a long lasting community when they're main goal in almost every thread was to drive away any new members curious about learning and god forbid you tried to ask someone for help. Not saying SM is any better but at least some of us try to welcome to new members and gently push (or sometimes violently shove) them in the right direction for what they're looking for. I don't think RoR is going to actually die though... not just yet at least. Yeah, I'm surprised too that it held on for this long, and I agree with you on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockgod88 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 #RoRisMTM2CONFERMED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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