I believe Grumpy is the site administrator. And if this persists it might be worth having a conversation with him.

I just got another server too busy message. All this weekend all I could get was server too busy or database error and mostly the latter.

If upgrading the forum software allows better tools to stop this nonsense and clears up the attachment issues then it's probably high time for an upgrade.

It's taken me 4 days to finally get through. One day I got to the main page and the site was being hammered by 22000 "guests". Right now it's about 15000.

I do hope this gets fixed, but the reality is it's gone on for quite a while and it's more likely they'll close this place rather than fix it. The lack of solutions and input from administration are big red flags that this place is nearing the end.

I'm sure they're on top of it. This is something that will have to be solved by their ISP provider.

I thought the same thing when audiokarma split away some years ago but to be honest I've not seen nearly as much activity here as before the split. What I do know is I've been a member since Jul 11, 2006 but let things go until I began to tackle my old Magnavox Astro Sonic combo and that's when I noticed my user name never followed so I had to rejoin under the videokarma banner.
Still the same software hosting the forums with the same image size limits. There isn't a camera or phone out there now that does anything below a few megs and this is one reason I've chosen to move my Magnavox posts elsewhere.

Personally I'd like to see this venue active again but on a newer server with security protocols, again I vote for verticalscope but that's biased being I'm on the administration team.

Hi to all,

i hope VK can be archived by some web preservation service or museum entity, there are more than 25 years of precious vintage TV info and it would be a shame if it disappeared forever.

Maybe the ETF, i don't know.
They have some personal web sites archived such as Pete D's CT-100 site, Peter Y's mechanical TV and Roger D's mechanical TV site.

host checker data :
https://hostingchecker.com/

"Who is" data about VK host :
https://uk.godaddy.com/whois/results...eokarma.org%2F

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France

I sent 15 private messages to a moderator from January 24, 2024 to February 10, 2024 advising of the problem we are now experiencing was happening. I saw 600K (no exaggeration) views to a certain thread in about a week. The site would go down temporarily. I monitored that thread and every hour, 50K more views. This went on for weeks. The moderator said he was only a mod and couldn’t do anything about it and he did not know who ran the site.

So I started a thread “Attention Administrators” and so far silence. Your silence gives the impression you don’t care. Possibly the ADMISTRATORS can't do anything because possibly they don’t own the site, either way, NOT GOOD!

BTW, that tread has over *1 million views without commentary post activity!

*CORRECTION: over 11 million plus views, last post 12/28/2023.

I suggest members take a look at this information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBulletin

We're not the only ones. Go here:
https://threatmap.checkpoint.com/
On the left is current DDoS activity.
Quite a bit of it and it updates quickly.

I dont see how they are doing this.... It only says 1193 Guests right now........

Another VBB site im on has over 10,000 guests and no slowdowns......

Look at the footer found on pages of this site:


If the entities listed on the footer are accurate, as best as I can tell, London based Jelsoft Enterprises LTD. was dissolved 6/18/2013 and sold to MH Sub 1, LLC d/b/a Internet Brands, a software company based in El Segundo, California. On 6/3/2014, Internet Brands was acquired by an American private equity, venture capital firm, Kolhberg Kravis Roberts based in NYC. vBulletin is a software package and the latest version is 6.1.1.

Based on Jerome’s post, the second link is broken, but my own search of “Whois” reveals the domain name “VideoKarma.org” will expire on August 13, 2025 if not already renewed.

In my last post where I reported about a certain forum thread; when I began monitoring that thread on January 24, 2024, it had about 90K views and the last post was on 12/28/2023. Today that same thread has over 11.4 million views and the last post continues to be on 12/28/2023.

Hi to all,
Hi E-type2, Marshall,

There is a thread about VideoKarma on ARF's TV forum.
https://antiqueradios.com/forums/vie...49878&start=40

Post#45, Aug 13th 2025 informs that the VK hosting rights have been renewed just days before expiration.

I find it disturbing and downright rude that Admins HERE offer no explanation, corrective action nor excuses for the mess of the last month and a half.

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France

2nd that.

I created my last post August 10, 2025. Wasn’t able to post until about 30 minutes ago.

Yes. The domain was renewed for one more year after new search just moments ago.

Domain search: August 11, 2025: https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-co...8/IMG_8828.png

Someone is doing this because my friend Pauls site is also being hit... (cableforum.co.uk/board)

I got on for a few secs earlier and there was over 40,000 Guests!!!!!

Isnt there anyway to track this illegial activity??

It doesnt matter what SW the site is on,DDOS can happen anytime!!

Moderation/Administration team: this site has been basically inaccessible for the past 2 weeks from DDOS attacks and You've been silent. Please update us on what's being done to fix this. The silent treatment is only acceptable when an issue lasts less a full day.

Site is working at this moment 11:32 pac.hopefully problems are over?I see a few members have joined ARF. Antiqueradios.com RonL

Im talking to Ms Grumpy about this... (Daves wife)

She is trying to get it resolved here........ She told me it isnt as easy as raising the max load limit sadly......

Lets hope it keeps working! -- No where near the traffic needed that should cause these messages all the time......

They know about it now.... Lets hope they get it fixed :)