Makes you wonder what will happen to the historical knowledge compiled on this site. It's a wake-up call.
The old Lefever Forum was attacked by some bad foreign actors several years ago. They hacked it and locked out the Site Administrators. It was impossible to log-in, Post, register new members, etc. The only thing regular members could read was profile pages of hundreds of fictitious new members, and vulgar descriptions of their interests.
After a short while, I found a way to get back in to almost all of the sub-forums. I emailed the old Admins and showed them how to get back in, but unfortunately after trying for several days, I wasn't able to restore complete control to them. The original site is gone now.
Before everything disappeared forever, they were apparently able to copy and save almost all of the old Threads and Posts, and I understand that information is still available in Archives to members of the new Forum.
Considering who is running the new Forum, I'm quite sorry I helped. Lesson learned.
