They are still working on it.

This was posted today in the support forum for admins:

Dear users,

We are sorry for the slowdowns you have been encountering for the past days.
Hopefully, the fix will be made tomorrow.

I will keep you tuned with fresh news when they get to me, thank you for your patience.

Best,
Forumotion staff.

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Apparently they decided to transfer to IBM servers and they are not doing the job.
In fact there was some mention of suing IBM.

If I find out anything more, I'll let you know.

BTW... no use to complain to me because it is out of my control.

looks like we've lost the gallery and most of the smilies.
OFF TO COMPLAIN

Dear users,


We have had for some time, downtime and slowdown due mainly to a new provider for our servers. This service, that we had been advised by top IBM engineers, was meant to optimize and anticipate the traffic increase on your forums and our servers.

We bitterly regret that provider choice which currently and after several days of research and development, was unable to provide a stable solution.
Therefore, we decided to leave the service to join back to our previous provider. This change will take place within hours and we are confident about the result.
These new servers are ultra-efficient and will provide you with what we've promised : faster forums, more efficient, 99,9% uptime and enhanced security for your data.

During this migration, your forums will suffer delays. Do not worry, your forums do not risk anything, this maneuver is controlled and your forums should regain their vitality very quickly.

We are still sorry for the inconvenience caused, we fully understand the bitterness generated by such issues.
Therefore, as soon as the stabilization of your forums on the new servers will be established, we will make a gift to all our users and forums. o)

Best regards,
Forumotion Team.

Edit : An unexpected blackout was encountered during the process, we are sorry for this inconvenience.

All forums are although now back on brand new and 100% working servers this time!

Another post on the support forum:

The smilies and avatars are being looked at, the priority was to make your forums operational.
The rest will follow

Thanks Nancy, I thought there was something wrong with my computer at first. I wonder what kind of gift they'll be giving you (well at least the smiley works)

Supposedly, they are going to add some new features when it gets sorted out.
Most will be more for the administrator to make things easier.
LOL - like a temporary ban.

Weird... had to log in again... thought you were trying the temporary ban on me ~

I miss the smilies!!

This one is still working

The board is being very very very bad today!

Looking good now

Don't know about anyone else but it's still slow on my end. I expect to be kicked again.

100% better now!

So far so good. I'm crossing my fingers.

GRRRRRRRRR

I can't even get on the support forum to complain, but if I do.... !!!!!!!!!!!!

It is impossible to get on and when I do, the system kicks me out.

I'm having real problems this afternoon as well.

LOL Nancy... What Snow showed!!!

@#$%^&$!!!!

They may delete it... LOL hope I don't get in trouble.

link to my post in the support forum

This afternoon I realized I am addicted to AABB. Connection problems made me so friking angry.

Yea, what snow said. I didn't get on til just a few minutes ago, I gave up trying earlier tonight. Seems to be working fine now, I better shut up before I jinx it