Dubstepforum.com

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/04874 ... l-accounts


check total current liabilities.. in 2012 it was 157k GBP...

thats what they owed within a years time.... so yeah

Harsh. Surely they could raise £150k ish by doing a Kickstarter or something?

They must've been doing something wrong though...if you get that much traffic there's no reason to be making a loss on a site. They must've had some expensive server deal.

Perhaps everyone of their users had adblock on, and they served 0 ads.

Knobends, what an f'ing waste.

Archived some of the Q&S responses in Thinking Out Loud thread, but sadly neglected to properly catalogue it...so you've got quotes but no points of reference

Strange one - that's a lot of money to be in so deep for what they were doing.

For example - http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/50392 ... to-startup

They had a huge costs for hosting at $35,000 a month - I'd be surprised if DOA were even using 1/10th of that for their forum. So not sure what happened to get in so deep. It will be missed , was a great forum around 2004/2005 then it kind of slipped a little.

It's a real shame, but kinda predictable. Hope Khal finds a decent place to write for and Croms (if he was still workign the Grid at all anyway) is knocking about and well.

I made a load of good friends on DOA over a decade ago, found out about loads of ldn parties, got to be in the 'Mo Fire' video shoot which was hilarious. And yeah the Grid taught me loads.

Surely someone has the database archived somewhere?

IDM Forum's has the right idea, top of the homepage, urging user's to support the forum and donate, with a bar showing how much they have received and what the target is, usually around 3000 USD.

I heard that DOA was going under because they were so deep in debt, because from what I remember just about 6 or 7 months ago, everything took a good 5-10 seconds to load up, at least. I do hope the servers come back up soon. So much rich information from there.