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Elvas Tower Forums on Hold

Due to a frivolous potential DMCA-related action, the Elvas Tower forums are temporarily “on hold.” New members can’t join, and the MSTS-specific forum section is offline. Open Rails and other forum sections are still operational, but only for current members —  so the “shop” is effectively locked for the time being.

It’s a very unfortunate turn of events propagated by a particular individual. I have no desire to name anyone or go into specifics, but it’s safe to say that Elvas Tower itself has done nothing wrong. The board has been targeted by someone angered over being legitimately rebuked for inappropriate conduct.

In the best-case scenario, everything will right itself and things will be back to normal in a couple of weeks.

If not, then Elvas Tower will need to change or re-form, or even close down (at worst).

Sic transit gloria mundi…

Good free web hosts are hard to find. The first one started out great, but then performance dropped. Once that as fixed, it improved but then came and went as the host operators blamed abusers of the service, but never seemed to be able to do much about it. Then it was sold, and ads were inserted. Then mail forwarding broke, supposedly just for my site, but magically it fixed itself. Every problem reported got the response of, “you could always upgrade to a Premium Account…” If this is how free users get treated, are what do I get for paying? Finally, after a pop-under ad debacle, it was time to jump. I had been parking on this new host for some time, “just in case.”

Everything should be working fine, although you might notice a few things out of place in the sidebar until the migration is complete. Links and articles should all be working fine, and once I have the forwarder set up, I’ll open up the “Contact” page.

A “contact” link will be available, hopefully soon.  I had hoped to put it up at the same time that Op-Ed pieces appeared, but it may take a little longer. My old host has gone through a string of issues with mail malfunctions, ad malfunctions, and general mess-ups. Once forwarding is set up here at the new host, the contact option will show up.