rockman forums gone?

[Wario]

any reason

[AndrewG]

any reason

:shrug:

(edit - it just came back it seems. But still no SSL in 2020 - ouch.)

[letsgotoofar]

Well, that's what happens when your website's design is mildly updated, but still somehow looks like the most sophisticated the Internet had to offer circa 1997. I wouldn't doubt there's a lot of that under the hood too.

[AndrewG]

Well, that's what happens when your website's design is mildly updated, but still somehow looks like the most sophisticated the Internet had to offer circa 1997. I wouldn't doubt there's a lot of that under the hood too.

It's probably made to look like a website from the same year when Steinman and Meat were physically in a studio together for the last time. :lol:

[AndrewG]

Definitely some type of issue as it is randomly down. Either moving servers or an unreliable DNS or so.

[letsgotoofar]

Spoke last night with someone on their web team (for that group actually exists) and was told: "The forum is some custom thing Jim liked, a million years ago. He got that same guy in to build him a forum. I am really not a fan of his code. It's the kind of code that looks like it's a bomb made entirely out of tripwires. And the server admin was supposed to secure the site with SSL months ago, and I'm still waiting for that."

When I asked if there was any chance of an upgrade, I got: "There are so many different good solutions for forums these days. So many! But no, the site is sticking with the one it has. [...] the brief I got was that the site needs to retain its basic look and structure. The idea is still that of the site being a building of many different rooms to explore."

[AndrewG]

Lords of excess and broken down crappy old webs(h)ites. :roll:

https://media.mlxxfc.net/Screenshot 2020-01-14 at 14.16.56.png

[Evil One]

I'll never understand why Meat Loaf never had a better website. He could have done so much with it. :shrug:

[AndrewG]

I'll never understand why Meat Loaf never had a better website. He could have done so much with it. :shrug:

It's always been used by record companies as a marketing tool for each album it seems rather than it being a website about Meat. Even when they had sign up / memberships these only seemed to last as long as an album / tour cycle. Really annoying.

Bruce Springsteen used to have a good site but it seems even album song listing and lyrics have been removed. Bizarre when that was complete for ages. It is still a better example though.

It's probably too late to do anything with Meat's site now.
Shame.