Downtime!

Luca

The weird insight when a One Piece fan-forum remained the only constant in your life in the past 7+ years.

One Piece in general, actually.

Thanks for your efforts, Brennen & Friends. I know nothing lasts forever, this site will go down eventually at one point, but hopefully not like this. Not just poof and that's that.

haha, ove only been here for 7 years, but I have an other forum about a Naruto flash game, which I am active since 2006, crazy 14 years!

It is a shame a lot fo forums and communities died throughout the years, let's hope for Ap to stay alive as long as possible!

Thank you for the site to be back on!

maxterdexter

So, can I have that image's name and search criteria to use it as a destruction weapon on other forums?

Nobodyman

Oh my god. I don' know if I can remember a time before apforums went down. I don't know how I'll readjust.

…eh, I'll manage.

G1Ravage

This downtime took years off my life.

But now the forum's back, and the anime's on hiatus.

Mr. Hide

Thank you for your hard work, Brennen. I'm sorry you have to deal with all this.

Are there precautions we should take to make sure we don't post another picture or anything that could get this site another dmca?

No swords style best style

The forums, like Jinbei, have made their glorious return.

Thank you to everyone working behind the scenes!

fdsfgfs

Hey guys, I have access to lots and lots (and lots…) of hosting and/or can help with bills if it'd help. Sad to not have my forums to lurk on after all these years.

Good to see it back.

oikgerd

Thaaaaanks guys for the hardwork!!!

Garaku

Omg we're back! Thanks to the team for managing this forum.

(It was rough being internet homeless for the past… weeks? Month? Gladtobehome)

brennen.exe

@joekido:

Maybe you should find someone who can do your job when your busy so you don't have to have so much burden.

I'm not necessarily the only one with access to the server, but in this case it was tied to billing and ownership over the server so the buck has to stop somewhere, right?

@Mr.:

Are there precautions we should take to make sure we don't post another picture or anything that could get this site another dmca?

Not really, no. Don't worry about it.

auem

I still don't understand what happened. Can someone explain me in a layman's language?

ponx

Glad to see this site is back. Without it, I had to get my spoiler from shudders Reddit. Thanks for all of your hard work guys. Especially Brennen

amanitium

@ponx:

Glad to see this site is back. Without it, I had to get my spoiler from shudders Reddit. Thanks for all of your hard work guys. Especially Brennen

THIS! I have to resort to that site for 2-3 weeks, really out of my comfort zone.

shanksa

Holy moly! im glad its back! kinda worry for the last few months huhuhuhu

stay safe guys

RoboBlue

@auem:

I still don't understand what happened. Can someone explain me in a layman's language?

Someone falsely claimed that we stole a picture.

blackness662

Nice, AP forums is back.
I survived the downtime, but it was a bit unexpected…

Candide

16 chars of kudos @brennen

Ping

Thanks god, I though I was gonna die in those reddit fanart…

Green_vs_Red

Praise be .

MasterKingJC

Aaaaaaaaand we're back! I really thought this might have been the end for Arlong Park. There's so much history and information here that needs to be preserved for the future.
AP has been a part of my daily routine for over a decade, and losing it for a few weeks was unsettling.

JulieYBM

I kept clicking on the tab only to wait five minutes for it to load and not get anything. :lol:

Don Quichotte De Flamingo

Shoutouts to you Brennen for dealing with this whole mess, thank you for the time you spent for it so that we can…waste some time here
Also a big thank you to all the other admin/mods who were involved dealing with all this, we´re glad having you around here dealing with internet shenanigans^^

Darkestsith6

We back! Felt really weird not visiting this site

tolazy

It´s back! I´m so very happy. Thanks to Brennen and everybody invoveld to bringing the site back.

Fire-Fist

Out of curiosity who is our hosting provider?

dwo

geat you are back. thanks for the work.

Kishido

Is the poster banned for posting they pic?

Pennywise

Good to see AP is still alive & kicking. Would've been sad to loose yet another constant in these dark times! Tyvm to everyone who put in time & effort to bring this page back!

starlalilymoon

Woohoo! I thought the site of gone forever :sad:

Thank you admin for all your hard work in helping in bringing it back! :3

Ivar

I Didnt know how important Apforums was to me until it went down.

Glad you guys are back, times like this make me appreciate the beauty of this forums

EDIT: Holy hell im in this forums from oct 2014 ? im pretty sure i was also lurking as a guest until you guys decided to make spoilers members only. That more than ~10 YEARS youve been in my life guys..

Kudos !!

Missed Yall

sandman

@Foolio:

Basically our host just instantly sides with the DMCA and takes sites offline, regardless of whether the claim is valid (this one was pretty full of crap, considering it was linking a public image hosted by the owner).

Sad to hear that.. DMCA reminds me of one of the reasons about another ONE PIECE forum called "Oro Jackson Forums"' shutting down last year.

They said,

A few months back, we were on the receiving end of multiple false DMCA complaints. Even after having complied with existing copyright laws we were harassed and bullied.

Here is the details on Oro Jackson Forums. Thread title is "Oro Jackson needs your help to fight against corporate bullying".
https://web.archive.org/web/20190713074606/https://orojackson.com/threads/oro-jackson-needs-your-help-to-fight-against-corporate-bullying-by-comeso.43533/

@Foolio:

Bren was also pretty busy, as can be expected given the current situation

It must've been a tough work. Thank you so much brennen and Foolio for running this awesome forum!!

HEATXZ

Great to see Arlong Park is back

DemonX

Welcome back AFP!

RoboBlue

@sandman:

Sad to hear that.. DMCA reminds me of one of the reasons about another ONE PIECE forum called "Oro Jackson Forums"' shutting down last year.

They said,
Here is the details on Oro Jackson Forums. Thread title is "Oro Jackson needs your help to fight against corporate bullying".
https://web.archive.org/web/20190713074606/https://orojackson.com/threads/oro-jackson-needs-your-help-to-fight-against-corporate-bullying-by-comeso.43533/

It must've been a tough work. Thank you so much brennen and Foolio for running this awesome forum!!

Jeez, OJ got shut down because people said "g'day"?

Eldir

I was so scared. I thought you were gone. (。﹏。*)

Kishido

Damn section popped up and I thought it was me getting a star

Zar

Glad you're back. Might not be as active anymore but I still like to pop in and read every now and then.
Feels weird but AP is one of those few sites that feels just like it did when I first joined, so I'd be sad to see it go.

brennen.exe

Server was hung. It always picks the worst times. I'm on vacation right now so it took a minute for me to be able to load up from some free wifi but things are back online.

Riddler

Thanks again brennen!

otakufan

Thanks brennen! Enjoy your vacation!

pariston_hill

Blessed be the overlords of the site for such a short down time.

onemoment

The site continues to be too angry to die.

Thanks much for all the hard work.

Nolus

Like an anime protagonist, no matter how many times it's down, it always gets back up.

starlalilymoon

Thank you for all your hard work in getting in back up! :happy:

Don Quichotte De Flamingo

@brennen.exe:

Server was hung. It always picks the worst times.

When this happens during Chapter 1000, we might have a real crisis.

Onepieceanimefan23

I'm glad you got this back up and running, your work is very appreciated.

RoboBlue

Sorry in advance for the forum problems, we're working on it.

Johnny B. Decent

That was quite a downtime we had. I'm glad everything is back up.

pariston_hill

AP is back long live AP.

LightningAce

FINALLY. IT'S BACK.