For those of us in the know, we all saw it coming a mile away for a while now. Today I finally decided to pull the plug on my first real webventure; Jaia Interactive. For a good few years now, this site was host to my very first open source project, MyTopix. An open source PHP-base discussion board solution. It had a great following for a while until our hosting provider went monkey shit and decided to lose all our data.

Due to personal issues, it took a good month to get the site up and running again. I didn't even have the time to get to all our users to explain what was going on with the site. This was probably the first death blow to the project. It was young at the time and was starting to pick up a serious following. We were in position to compete against some of the bigger discussion board solutions out there and this disaster couldn't have come at a worse time.

The loss of data coupled with the amount of time it took to get back on our own feet was a serious blow to the project's credibility. We ended up having to start our community from a very old backup dated a year or so before the crash. The project's momentum never picked up again to the same level that it was.

Some time later I just lost complete interest in the site and wanted to move on to other things. Since then, I've been far too busy with other projects to even look at the site. Now, the old forum is a ghost town. Only a few of the regulars pop by every now and again.

All these factors brought me to the conclusion that it was time to take the site off life support. Everything will be removed and the domain will be redirected to this site. The data from the old support boards has all been saved and converted to a new Vanilla install on this site. I want to start the community up again, but take it in a different direction.

If you are a member of the MyTopix support boards and would like to stick around, just go to the new forums (via the link at the top of the page) and go through the password recovery process. Due to the differences in the way Vanilla and MyTopix store passwords, there is no simple way to transfer them across. Resetting your password is the only viable option at this point.

For the members of the board who were a part of the 'Mod Squad', you still retain your positions in the new forum install.

As soon as I get a chance, I'll go ahead and publish the MyTopix to Vanilla converter as I'm sure I won't be the only one who wants to move on.

I have quite a few things in store for this site within the next few months and this is only the first step. I hope that you will join me in taking this site to new places.

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