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Update on the status of the club. - Printable Version +- Forums (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards) +-- Forum: The Parade Ground (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=2) +--- Forum: General Discussions (https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=86) +--- Thread: Update on the status of the club. (/showthread.php?tid=73905) |
Update on the status of the club. - Mr Grumpy - 10-03-2020 Some of you may have noticed that The Blitz's website was taken offline last weekend by our website host. We discovered through them that the registered account owner wasn't responding to their requests for hosting payments. This event put into motion staff efforts to reach the Blitz owner and treasurer, Jim von Krieg. Jim was not answering any emails, nor was he responding to anyone through his Facebook page. To make matters worse, the host will ONLY take payments from Jim, though they were kind enough to give us an extra month of hosting while we continued to track down Jim. Sadly, through Jim's sister, we were informed that Jim is going through some serious health issues since early this summer. In the short term he is unable to handle or worry about the problems concerning our site. We asked his sister to convey our thoughts and prayers. We hope he'll be back at some point in the future. We owe Jim a debt of gratitude, for his military service, and also for his gift of this club. So... the host won't accept payments from us and only Jim has control over where the domain name points (which host). The consensus among staff was to register a new domain name and transfer the site to a new hosting company. From this point forward, if you go to the old site, theBlitz.org, you will automatically be transferred here and you'll need to log in. After that, nothing else has changed, it's business as usual. When Jim is able to return, we'll discuss whether to reinstate the old name, go solely with the new or both (one site name being an alias or shortcut to the other). I recommend everyone change their bookmarks to the new domain name theBlitz.club. In a few weeks, the old site will go offline and there will be no more redirect, so please make a note and tell your opponents. In the meantime, you might experience some bugs. You can email or PM anything you find to me or use the "Contact Us" link in the top nav and our webmaster Raz, will look into it. Lastly, I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention what a HUGE help Raz has been this past week getting us through this. Without Raz I'm not sure we could have recovered and the club would have been lost. RE: Update on the status of the club. - Steel God - 10-03-2020 Thanks for passing on the news of Jim's situation. I don't suppose I need to tell you how disconcerting that news is to me. I know for a lot of folks JvK doesn't mean more than a name on the website, but he is much more than that to some of us old farts. RE: Update on the status of the club. - rahamy - 10-03-2020 Thanks for the update, hope Jim pulls through ok! RE: Update on the status of the club. - Herr Straße Laufer - 10-03-2020 (10-03-2020, 02:03 AM)Steel God Wrote: Thanks for passing on the news of Jim's situation. I don't suppose I need to tell you how disconcerting that news is to me. I know for a lot of folks JvK doesn't mean more than a name on the website, but he is much more than that to some of us old farts. Amen. Well said. You took the words right out of my mouth.  HSL RE: Update on the status of the club. - gabeeg - 10-04-2020 Thanks Mr. Grumpy, Raz and all that have taken on this challenge for our club. Very much appreciated. I know everybody has day jobs, family obligations and their own issues and pulling time away for this sort of thing is PIA, so thank you! Thanks and well wishes for a speedy recovery to Jim as well! RE: Update on the status of the club. - General Panic - 10-05-2020 Prayers going out to Jim. This takes a back seat to real-life issues. RE: Update on the status of the club. - BigDuke66 - 10-06-2020 Big thanks to anyone who helped keeping the club going! And all the best and a speedy recovery for JvK. |
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