Bmw5 forum down?

[E24man]

Not been able to get on today; I hope it hasn't gone the way of BMWLand.

[roofer]

Should be ok tomorrow. Think the big lad made provision after BMW Land.

[sparks_E39]

I was worried that it may have too suffered the same fate, hopefully all is well.

[hornetrider]

I did wonder after the sad news.

[cableguy]

Nothing this morning. Fingers crossed it's back soon.

C.

[sparks_E39]

Still down

[Osinjak]

E24man said:

Not been able to get on today; I hope it hasn't gone the way of BMWLand.

There is an alternative in case you weren't aware, a lot of the old and bold are on there: www.bmwlander.co.uk

[E34m525i]

Hey guys, joined here so I could post on the thread, I do hope the forum comes back online, I've also checked with the lads on the zone and no one seems to know anything as of yet but fingers crossed its just a tempory glitch.

[sparks_E39]

I fear the worst I'm afraid. It's a shame if it is gone, it was the best BMW forum I've used, I've been a member since 2008.

[smashie]

I too have been a member on there on and off for a number of years. Hopefully just a technical issue. Would hate to see that site go as well. Yes there is BMWLander, but I feaar that it is quite a way off getting a large enough membership to make the site as good as bmwland or the bmw5 forum.

[E34m525i]

I've also been a member for a good ten years or so, it really is a great forum, there's also details of people I had in Pms that without access I'll loose, had a few good mates on there that I don't have any other details for! If it does turn out the forums over I guess we'll all bump into each other on other forums sooner or later but I doubt we'll ever get the kind of community bmw5 had.

[E24man]

The sheer amount of technical information on forum5 is/was incredible; many a car was kept on the road rather than written off due to knowledge from those pages, I sincerely hope the pages can be saved. I understand that despite good efforts the pages of BMWLand are lost forever.

[E34m525i]

I learnt pretty much everything I know from the guys on there, I can do many diy tasks now, there was some cracking write ups, and if ever in doubt some one would always explain it! My e34 when I first got it would have died many a time of wasnt for the forum!

[E34m525i]

Any one know if any of the mods are posters on here? Maybe they might be more in the know as to what the forums fate may be?

[roofer]

I suspect that as Donut was only buried recently, the mods don't want to bug the family right now. Donuts brother has 'the keys' I believe, but for now, let's just let them have some privacy, and hopefully it'll be up and running soon.

[e39champagne]

Hi.

We are working in resolving the recent outage of bmw5.co.uk.

We hope it will be back up and running soon for everyone.

Please follow the BMW 5 forum Facebook page for updates

https://www.facebook.com/groups/forum.bmw5/

Cheers

Alun and all of the bmw5 moderator team

Edited by e39champagne on Sunday 27th March 23:49

Edited by e39champagne on Sunday 27th March 23:53

[rtv]

Boys,

We are working on restoring the forum. It still exists and it sat there as left quite happily. No data has been deleted, no posts are missing.

We just need to sort some Internet geeky st out and hopefully we'll be back.


In the mean time, keep an eye on the Facebook page for updates.

Rob-the-viking

[cosworth330]

Thanks for the update Rob.

[Patrick Bateman]

Aye, cheers.

[hornetrider]

Cheers lads appreciate the update