Rybka Forum Is Officially Closed?

[MikeB]

It will be missed, it actually had a forum board dedicatd to chess positions with virtually no trolling, no politics, no arguments, no who did this or who did that ... imagine all the people living for today ...

No politics? I guess you didn't read any of the climate change discussions.

Correct - I just visited the chess position forum, I forget what they called it. I normally do not go to chess forums to view non chess topics. It appears to be a waste of time for me, ymmv.

[Werewolf]

It's very sad. I was a moderator there and got no warning it was about to be shut. If I had known I would have saved some of the articles.

For Aquarium users a lot of invaluable information has been lost.

[MikeB]

Time for wayback!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210412064 ... um_show.pl

[carldaman]

It's a terrible way for a website to go. Very short warning, no attempt at backing up the site, nothing, except whatever the imperfect Wayback Machine might have cached.

[Ozymandias]

Better than the way Vasik left, at least.

[Eelco de Groot]

Why not try to save some archive? Just like is done with Talkchess now? Felix Kling is still webmaster at the official Rybka site. The domain of Rybkaforum.pl is still there and you can log in, but nothing else.

[Werewolf]

Can't someone just buy the domain off Felix, keep the thing going?

[BogStandard]

The Rybka Chess Forum has reappeared: https://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkafor ... _show.html

Login and Search don't work though.

[Eelco de Groot]

Darkness won't last forever!
Thanks whoever did this! Thanks for sharing!

[Ovyron]

Darkness won't last forever!
Thanks whoever did this! Thanks for sharing!

Wow! Didn't expect the archives to be brought back fully, I don't remember if I made it to 30000 posts on there or not (I was Uly there).

As far as I know, Dadi Johnson was the administrator of Rybka Forum, the one paying for the rybkaforum.net domain and hosting, so it's a good bet to thank him for bringing it back.