Return of RuneScape Community

[Sector Six]

Happy to see that this website was relaunched, hi again!

[The duck]

Happy to see that this website was relaunched, hi again!

Hey friend!!!

[bluerose13x]

happy it relaunched but sad i lost my stats from the old forms onto here

[Brian]

Hello friends,

This forum been online in one form or another since 2001. During all these years, it has changed names, changed domains, and changed the underlying forum software several times.

You can say this is one of those times.

As of now, we're back to using the domain runescapecommunity.com and we're now using myBB as the forum software, rather than IP.Board. Also, we were forced to make this a clean start, unable to bring any old posts or registered accounts with us.

• 2001: The earliest trace of these forums is June 2001 on a hosted forum provider called RevampScripts. They were called "RunescapeHelp Site's Message Board". Sometime around this time, these forums were also hosted on AvidGamers.com. Each time, it was a fresh start.
  
• 05 November 2001: Domain Zybez.com registered. The website "RuneScape Help" and the forums were shortly moved to it. The software used was OpenBB and then switched to InvisionPowerBoard. There was at least one fresh start due to losing data during a software upgrade.
  
• 03 November 2002: Domain runescapecommunity.com registered. The forums moved from http://www.zybez.com/community/ to http://www.runescapecommunity.com.
  
• 20 July 2003: Fresh start after the site and forums were hacked and forums were made unrecoverable.
  
• 13 April 2005: The domain zybez.com was accidentally lost, so the website and forum was moved to zybez.net. 
  
• 15 May 2013: An old version of Zybez.net relaunched as 2007RsHelp.com for Old-School RuneScape players. 
  
• 15 January, 2007: URL changed from http://www.runescapecommunity.com to http://www.zybez.net/community . 
  
• 2009: Forum URL changed from http://www.zybez.net/community to http://forums.zybez.net . Henceforth officially known as Zybez Forums.
  
• 15 September 2018: Zybez Forums ( http://forums.zybez.net ) closed and set to read-only mode by Curse. The forum database that had been accumulating registered accounts and posts since 2003 was not made available to me by Curse. I put RSC ( https://runescapecommunity.com ) online again as a clean start on a fresh install of MyBB.
  

With the decreasing popularity of RuneScape and the online forum model, I was faced with the decision to simply let this story end on 15 September 2018, or to try to do something about it. After many people's calls to put up an alternative forum, at least for nostalgia's sake, I decided to use the old domain ( runescapecommunity.com ) which I still had for some reason and put up this fresh copy of a forum. If nothing else, let it be a place to congregate and be nostalgic.

W13

Are you able to forward the old Zybez forums here?

If not, why not add a category above news that simply has a forum that links here.

Finally, I want this damn community to have some life. What is the $ amount to get one of the two above options done?

Curious as to why Curse shut it down, if you're able to share.

[Wee Man]

Are you able to forward the old Zybez forums here?

If not, why not add a category above news that simply has a forum that links here.

Finally, I want this damn community to have some life. What is the $ amount to get one of the two above options done?

Curious as to why Curse shut it down, if you're able to share.

https://runescapecommunity.com/showthread.php?tid=98

[squirl100]

Oh my god yes, it's back! I was so sad when I saw that the old forums got shut down.

Hi again all <3

Finally, I want this damn community to have some life. What is the $ amount to get one of the two above options done?

I agree - is there a Discord server for us?

I really miss the golden age of forums, social media does not have that interpersonal building.

1st of all... MANGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2nd of all - I completely agree. No longer communities, just people who want groups of people to help them.

[Wee Man]

Finally, I want this damn community to have some life. What is the $ amount to get one of the two above options done?

I agree - is there a Discord server for us?

There is:
http://discord.gg/ZZ4EWxr

[Piss_Gaming]

Great read. Although I lurked Zybez often, I didn't know of all the hardships and setbacks your site went through. You pulled through it all though and created what is a big part of the Runescape nostalgia for many people, and had people throughout the game saying "use Zybez" for so much in the game back when it was that game.

[tymiller]

Hello friends,

This forum been online in one form or another since 2001. During all these years, it has changed names, changed domains, and changed the underlying forum software several times.

You can say this is one of those times.

As of now, we're back to using the domain runescapecommunity.com and we're now using myBB as the forum software, rather than IP.Board. Also, we were forced to make this a clean start, unable to bring any old posts or registered accounts with us.

• 2001: The earliest trace of these forums is June 2001 on a hosted forum provider called RevampScripts. They were called "RunescapeHelp Site's Message Board". Sometime around this time, these forums were also hosted on AvidGamers.com. Each time, it was a fresh start.
  
• 05 November 2001: Domain Zybez.com registered. The website "RuneScape Help" and the forums were shortly moved to it. The software used was OpenBB and then switched to InvisionPowerBoard. There was at least one fresh start due to losing data during a software upgrade.
  
• 03 November 2002: Domain runescapecommunity.com registered. The forums moved from http://www.zybez.com/community/ to http://www.runescapecommunity.com.
  
• 20 July 2003: Fresh start after the site and forums were hacked and forums were made unrecoverable.
  
• 13 April 2005: The domain zybez.com was accidentally lost, so the website and forum was moved to zybez.net. 
  
• 15 January, 2007: URL changed from http://www.runescapecommunity.com to http://www.zybez.net/community . 
  
• 2009: Forum URL changed from http://www.zybez.net/community to http://forums.zybez.net . Henceforth officially known as Zybez Forums. Zybez was acquired by Curse in June 2009 and these forums were part of that ownership change.
  
• 15 May 2013: An old version of Zybez.net relaunched as 2007RsHelp.com for Old-School RuneScape players. The name "Zybez" still belonged to Curse. They permitted 2007RsHelp.com to be operated by me (using Zybez's old files) independently of Zybez as long as it didn't use the name "Zybez".
  
• 15 September 2018: Zybez Forums ( http://forums.zybez.net ) closed and set to read-only mode by Curse. The forum database that had been accumulating registered accounts and posts since 2003 was not made available to me by Curse. I put RSC ( https://runescapecommunity.com ) online again as a clean start on a fresh install of MyBB. I managed to scrape a snapshot of the Zybez Forums before they were taken offline (it's very incomplete but it's something nonetheless - an alternative to the Archive.org versions).
  

With the decreasing popularity of RuneScape and the online forum model, I was faced with the decision to simply let this story end on 15 September 2018, or to try to do something about it. After many people's calls to put up an alternative forum, at least for nostalgia's sake, I decided to use the old domain ( runescapecommunity.com ) which I still had for some reason and put up this fresh copy of a forum. If nothing else, let it be a place to congregate now and then and be nostalgic.

W13

Holy crap, W- what's up man! I randomly found this the other night. So cool that you put it back up, hope you're doing good!