Bmwland ??

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The Livster

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222 posts

115 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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hello guys, if you have arrived here because you are searching for Bmwland , I'm afraid it no longer exists,due to the tragic circumstances explained within this thread

However a new site Bmwlander has been created in what many of us believe is a fitting tribute to Bmwland. Would be great to see you all there,

Edited by The Livster on Thursday 9th June 16:41


Edited by The Livster on Saturday 18th June 08:08


Edited by The Livster on Friday 15th December 19:07

DavidLScott

1,048 posts

223 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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That's a long ten minutes.
It said it was optimising its database and try again in 10 minutes late yesterday afternoon.

dgm

97 posts

207 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Just read elsewhere that Matt, the owner of the site, has died suddenly.

Osinjak

5,453 posts

120 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Been offline for a week or so now.

Denis O

2,141 posts

242 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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dgm said:
Just read elsewhere that Matt, the owner of the site, has died suddenly.
Confirmed on XDrivers. Very sad news.

DavidLScott

1,048 posts

223 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Very sad news.

The Livster

Original Poster:

222 posts

115 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Very Sad

Tea Pot One

1,842 posts

227 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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:-(

smashy

3,030 posts

157 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Oh no RIp.....tell you guys live for the day I learnt recently you never know whats...

Krupp Stahl

212 posts

127 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Bloody hell. I hope that's not true.

Osinjak

5,453 posts

120 months

Sunday 24th May 2015
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Krupp Stahl said:
Bloody hell. I hope that's not true.
Do you know the fellow involved?

dave_s13

13,813 posts

268 months

Sunday 24th May 2015
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That's a shame, used that place a lot when had BMW's.

Krupp Stahl

212 posts

127 months

Sunday 24th May 2015
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Osinjak said:
Do you know the fellow involved?


No, not personally.

Matt's obviously been a key presence on the Land for years. It's been an excellent resource and a pleasant community.

The forum seemed to stop working properly a few days ago. When you clicked a link, it froze and the screen was blank. When the 'database maintenance' message appeared, I assumed that the forum had been hacked or something and was being sorted out.

The above news has come as a bit of a shock if I'm honest.

verbarthe

73 posts

195 months

Sunday 24th May 2015
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That s really sad news. Matt Hinton was the founder and owner of Bmwland and a very nice man . Gutted to hear of his death .

Spuffington

1,203 posts

167 months

Monday 25th May 2015
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Yeah, I saw this terrible news on the BMWLand Facebook page earlier in the week - Olli and Brocky announced the news.

Looks like Matt was the only one with the server passwords so the Mods can't do anything at this stage. Would be a shame if BMWLand died with him since it's a great legacy; the community that Matt created there.

But obviously at this stage thoughts are with his family and friends.

Puts things into perspective (and also shows me how much time I spent on there, given I'm feeling a little lost without it!).

snrbrtsn

32 posts

126 months

Tuesday 26th May 2015
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Very sad news, deepest sympathy & thoughts are with his family

RichardM5

1,733 posts

135 months

Tuesday 26th May 2015
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Very sad news indeed, I used to use BMWLand a lot. Thoughts go to Matt's family.

simonfr

3 posts

106 months

Tuesday 26th May 2015
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Thoughts to Matt's family and friends at what I can imagine will be a difficult time.

Simon

bwmzoom

2 posts

106 months

Tuesday 26th May 2015
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Oh no how sad condolences to his family, I recently jumped to the otherside (Merc) but was still a regular on the land as it was an excellent forum. Very sad news

Edited by bwmzoom on Tuesday 26th May 22:17

Spuffington

1,203 posts

167 months

Tuesday 26th May 2015
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Part of me thinks we should be organising a meet or something in Matt's honour. Clearly no way of gauging how his family feels about this, but feel it would be a fitting tribute to him.

BMWLand was a relatively tight-knit community amongst its core supporters and we were only so because of Matt's forum. I can't help but think it would be good for us to organise something to show how much we appreciated what he did for the community.

What are other people's thoughts and is anyone in touch with any of the Mods who knew him personally or may be liasing with his family? Clearly, if the family want to grieve in peace, that's understandable but remember a really big and overwhelming support for the family of a chap who sadly passed too early on S2ki UK a few years back and was a big comfort to his family.

I'd love to help keep BMWLand alive in Matt's memory but sadly have no IT skills but happy to be called upon for anything else which could be done.