ThinkPotter.com?

[RagingPenguin]

Does anybody know what happened to thinkpotter.com or know which member here used to run it? I was trying to find out why it's no longer available, and if there were any plans to reinstate it. Thanks!

[Wayne Luke]

Never heard of it before.

[RagingPenguin]

It was a vBulletin based HP theories site. Pretty popular for a couple years. Until just recently. No sign of it now. I was hoping to incorporate thier old data if they didn't plan on resurrecting it. Ah well...

[Lats]

You could check their threads on the 'way back machine' for some parting info...

http://web.archive.org/web/20031212052904/www.thinkpotter.com/community/

[RagingPenguin]

I actually already tried that. I did it before asking here. They don't have anything recent enough to know though. The archive stops a while back and I know the site was up a good deal of time after that.

:(

Thanks for the suggestion though.

[ManagerJosh]

The site was last seen alive around 2005-01-08

[TruthElixirX]

Yeah I tried searchnig around and that was about the date I came with.

[RagingPenguin]

Thanks for the help guys. I suppose that wherever that vB licensee is he'll eventually either come back around or not. Untill such time the point is moot. Thanks again for trying.

[_| () R | Z]

nobody tried google?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=%22thinkpotter%22&btnG=Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22think+potter%22&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta=)

"ThinkPotter.com was started in early July 2002 by it’s original administrator superscott, whose original and extremely effective marketing plan was to show up on HP.com and announce that he was starting a site for people who wanted to have real discussions.
There was a main site as well, with various different discussions and some news, which he took down in spring 2003 to re-work into the ThinkPotter Theory page, which was up in working fashion the summer of ‘03.
The membership grew significantly the first month and a half or so after the site was opened and also a bit before the release of the Chamber of Secrets movie in Nov. 2002. This was helped by an ad placed on several sites re-iterating superscott’s original announcement on HP.com.
A quick establishment of enticing book discussion means we got a lot of very like-minded people. Our membership grew exponentially starting in May 03’ and all through the summer due to the release of Order of the Phoenix, and relatively steadily from that point on as we became an “established” site.
Late in 2003 the site began experiencing technical problems culminating in a loss of two weeks of content in early Nov. Despite the problems, ThinkPotter.com continued to attract new members with a high degree of intelligence and maturity. During this time a core group of members began looking for alternate ways to keep in touch, mostly via e-mail.
The latter part of 2004 was plagued with problems, technical and otherwise. Server moves, changes in hosting and just plain glitches kept members on their toes. In Aug. ThinkPotter went down for two days straight, but thanks to quick thinking by kimdudley311 and acciofirebolt29, ThinkPotter Backup was born in the MSN Groups, which included a chat room.
There, members, most of whom were contacted by e-mail, could gather and discuss the fate of ThinkPotter.com as well as news from the world of HP. Also at this time Irish J created a backup site on the invisionfree boards as a contingency plan. The existence of this site was not widely known however.
The return of ThinkPotter.com after two days was marred by the fact that many of the members experienced problems logging on and staying logged in. This, plus the tendency of the site to go down frequently kept the MSN backup site buzzing. This continued for the next couple of months, despite superscott’s efforts to fix the problems.
Then in early Oct. the site went down again, this time due to a hosting problem, the backup group at MSN once more became a shelter for ThinkPotter-less members.
A period of up again down again followed thru Oct. and into Nov. and then the site went down for the last time.
In early Nov. the host for ThinkPotter.com shut the site down permanently. The reason: Spamming. Hostnetways Terms Of Service included a Zero Tolerance policy on Spamming and they deleted the site the moment proof was provided.
Numerous appeals to superscott were blocked simply by the fact that the only contact info given to us was his e-mail provided by the site and it no longer existed. Some of the more web savvy members attempted to contact Hostnetways for more information, but little of any use was learned.
Hostnetways maintained a back-up database for approximately thirty days that the domain owner could purchase but superscott never contacted the members at the backup site, much less the host about the database. To this day, no one has heard from him.
The core members at the MSN site swiftly migrated to the site Irish J had set up and ThinkPotter {backup} was created. E-mails were sent to as many of the members as addresses could be found to make them aware of existence of the fledgling site. Most members that were unaware joined some of the other established sites; others tried to start their own sites.
By the end of 2004 approximately 35 members old and new had joined, with more arriving slowly, but steadily. Talk started of re-establishing a presence on the Internet, as the invisionfree boards functioned independently of the web. The administrators worked both behind the scenes and with the membership to secure hosting, licensing and domain registration that was both comprehensive and affordable.
Debates were held and polls were taken for everything from the Domain name to how the Rules would be stated, and while some members felt that the new site needed a new identity, the majority felt that the one thing that held us together thru all the trials and tribulations was that we were ThinkPotter.
And so we are… we are ThinkPotter.org… the site that lived!"

http://s4.invisionfree.com/thinkpotter/index.php?showtopic=512

[RagingPenguin]

So it's alive and well. OK. No longer running vB though it seems. That's a shame. Thanks dude.

[waggawaggawere]

So it's alive and well. OK. No longer running vB though it seems. That's a shame. Thanks dude.

In answer to your queries, yes, Thinkpotter is indeed alive and well. Our URL is now http://www.thinkpotter.org and the left hand link leads to the forums. We are currently preparing for the release of Harry Potter and the Half-blood prince Saturday week when we hope to have more to discuss.

In the previous post to yours is a history of what we have done to keep our site alive, under the circumstances. Unfortunately we were unable to contact all our old members at the time. And although some members have found us, since, there may well be others who miss us. I'd like to say that members of the old Thinkpotter.com who may have been looking for us would be most welcome to come back to see old friends, and those who want to discuss the new book are also cordially invited to visit our site. :)

[ManagerJosh]

wow...you guys aren't using vBulletin :|. I thought you guys did.

[waggawaggawere]

wow...you guys aren't using vBulletin :|. I thought you guys did.

We did, but when the old Thinkpotter.com went down and left many of us high and dry, in mid-conversation, you could say, we didn't know quite what else to do. The previous Thinkpotter webmaster was the one who had made the Thinkpotter vBulletin website, and neither he nor anyone else, were responding to our queries. I don't think any of us knew which person or which vBulletin area to contact, who might have helped us either.

And so we, the core members, of whom I am one, organised the current site so as to keep on with what we were doing in the interim. At first we hoped we could go back to the old vBulletin site, and go on as we were. But when that proved unfeasible we decided to keep going as we are now. We can now say proudly we are Thinkpotter.org: the site that lived.

[ManagerJosh]

Ah okay...

[sonicpotter]

hey Wagga Wagga werewolf you found it to?
hi i am sonicpotter2000 i joined shortly before the site crashed but i enjoy it.
Super scott never came back. but hey we got a new place. we are cool.
oh yeah Kimdudley (one of the co-founders of msn tp group) is my sister. and that's how i got to in the whole thing about this time last year

[RagingPenguin]

I would go myself, but since I couldn't find it before I posted this, I started my own using vBulletin. It's in my sig.