Why did Thumb Bandits start afresh in January 2010?
In short, we had to. The site had previously been hacked and certain functions had to be removed, including the all important search function (something a gaming site needs so people can look up posts and reviews for specific titles). Then to top it all off 2009 was the year from spam hell. Our forum became so overun with spam, we lost a lot of good members (and who could blame them!). We only hope they return now we’ve made the effort to clean every aspect of the site up. Sadly though we could not transfer our forums, so we need to start all over again. In all approximately 14219 members who had made 30614 posts in total (6228 topics and 24386 replies.) in 9 forums were lost. We’ll get there again though!
