Members of CU have been wondering if the CU forums will continue to operate since David Hall has been terminated. Most think this is nuts but as of now the site is off-line. Can any members here log on? Hopefully this will be temporary. Earlier, I recommended folks at CU join Coin Talk if the site ever closes.
I'm gobsmacked. It's hard to see how shutting down the CU forum could be a good move. I agree with the, "Hopefully this will be temporary".
I'm guessing someone tried upgrading or updating something and screwed up. I've accidentally taken down VAMWorld while experimenting.
Yeah no chance it's anything other than temporary. Those forums aren't going anywhere and if they do it's one awful decision by someone.
Saves money. The sport cards are doing well - apparently they hired more graders. Coins not so much and I've heard they let some graders go. They have been getting ragged for attribution problems and that could explain it.
They may have taken it down intentionally for a day to let some stuff blow over but they could just poof whatever they wanted so it doesn’t make sense to nuke it cus of content. They get more good press from it than bad for sure
It’s a problem with the hosting site they are using. Other websites I use that are hosted on Cloudflare are also affected.
It's surprising to me that their forums would be down at this particular point in time. But who knows whether it's an unfortunate coincidence or something more intentional. On another note, CLCT stock has essentially shrugged off the news about Hall's departure. [edit: just saw Yankee42's post above about the hosting service. So it could just be a coincidence.]
"This page (https://forums.collectors.com/categories/u-s-coin-forum) is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version. Always Online™ is powered by Cloudflare " Doesn't work for me.
As a perpetual noobie, I recognize the name David Hall, but not much beyond that, so here is a link for others who are as ignorant as I. https://coinweek.com/education/coin-grading/pcgs-founder-david-hall-out-at-collectors-universe/
Maybe they should go back to not guaranteeing the attributions. Then if someone complains they can just point to the guarantee and say "Sorry but attributions are not covered under the guarantee." (Until just a couple years ago PCGS did not guarantee their attributions and a LOT of them wre wrong. Now they do and their error rate is lower, but still never trust a TPG attribution except VAMs from VAMslab, or ANACS, or SEGS for most everything. Error rates are way too high.)
