Greengoop wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2024 3:51 pm
Does anyone know why a lot of old links on this forum (e.g. Tehrunescape455’s sig) take you to some scummy porn/malware site? Thanks!
Aha, thanks for pointing that out!
Some background: InvisionFree was a free forum hosting site that was around in the late 2000s, which I guess a lot of people used back when "running your own forum" was still a thing people wanted to do. There were a few Rayman forums on it, and the most influential one was probably Betilla's Gardens, which was set up by the aforementioned Tehrunescape. (In fact, that was the first Rayman forum I ever used actively!)
A few years ago, InvisionFree was taken over by Tapatalk, which resulted in those forums getting covered in ads and otherwise becoming less pleasant to browse. For a while, the "invisionfree.com" links still redirected to the equivalent Tapatalk sites, but it looks like that's not the case anymore.
It seems that Tapatalk, being Tapatalk, allowed the "invisionfree.com" domain to lapse, and then it got taken over by, as you put it, a "scummy porn/malware site". Fantastic!

I guess it might be a good idea for me to go and fix those links if I can, to avoid our users being misdirected…