# Board crash for months long?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-crash-for-months-long/411169>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 10, 2007, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-crash-for-months-long/411169 "2007-07-10T08:03:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-crash-for-months-long/411169/1 "2007-07-10T08:03:42Z")

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I didn’t want to hijack the smilie thread, so I’ll put the quote here.

[QUOTE=FisherQueen]  
And for those who weren’t here, a few years ago, there was a months-long board crash, and the whole message board was relocated to a place where Smashie was available.  
[/QUOTE]  
Now I knew about the “winter of lost content thing”, is this what **FisherQueen** was referencing? I know my membership says that I’ve been here since 09-26-2001, but there was a big gap in the time I joined and the time I became a regular poster. I was just looking for a little SDMB history clarification. Bonus points for enlightening me on which board everybody relocated to.

Sorry if this is one of those things we’re not supposed to bring up.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-crash-for-months-long/411169/2 "2007-07-10T09:47:19Z")

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I remember it - it was in the spring of 2002 and the board was relocated to a forum on [bbboy.net](http://bbboy.net) - set up and paid for by **TubaDiva** , I think.

It was a bit of a hoot at first, because lots of the default features were initially unlocked, so for example, there was a ‘whoview’ tag that would insert the username of whoever was reading it (assuming they were logged in), so someone could post a thread saying:

> [@](#):
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> [whoview] is my favourite poster on the board

, and everyone reading it would see their own username in there and think it meant them.

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**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-crash-for-months-long/411169/3 "2007-07-10T10:48:45Z")

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That’s funny, **Mangetout** is my favourite poster on the board

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**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-crash-for-months-long/411169/4 "2007-07-10T13:33:26Z")

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Yes, I was referring to the Winter of our Missed Content. Strange days, indeed.