Pherotruth down :o

[Johnny Fever]

ScentHero Yes, Mark in Dallas. Sad to hear about his passing and thanks to SteveO for some of the backstory regarding his sudden / unexpected illness. He was younger than myself which in itself can be scary as none of us are guaranteed tomorrow.

While it's in the very beginning stages a small group of us are, hopefully, going to continue upon the foundation that Mark had hosted. It's going to be a bit of time while things before things are ready for prime time but I hope it will honor the effort Mark originally gave us.

[dsouza]

Gladen was running PT in the recent year or two.

[Shadowknight]

So sad to hear about this. 😔
I would like to thank Mark for the forum and everything he did for us. This news really saddens me. I spent many hours of my young life going through the forum and reading about pheromones. I’m thankful for finding his forum when I was young because it played an important role on helping me self improve in several things as i grew.
Rest in peace 🕊️

[masterfu678]

So the current state of PheroTruth is that while the live version is still down, all of you can try your luck with Wayback Machine, it has some of the threads archived, but not all of them. Also some threads only have partial pages archived.

[somechick99]

Seriously so sad that pherotruth is gone...I am thankful to have the discoverXS forum, I think I would have a meltdown if something happened to this site.

With that said I never would have found out about XS without pherotruth or even heard of the reputable brands that sparked this whole journey for me. It's sad that a lot of pheromone companies and sites do so well and then disappear (Androtics, pherotruth, pherotalk)....

[Johnny Fever]

I had been working on trying to bring a PT-like forum back online, but haven't found anyone who would help pick up the ball on bringing the forums in line to what was on the original (I'm currently in the midst of a life event which is demanding an excessive amount of time). A domain name has been secured, the server is running and a more-or-less forum structure is in place but I simply lack the resources (time) to tweak things the way they should be before throwing the site into live mode.

I agree, thank goodness for the DXS forum, and SteveO and crew are wonderful, but I would feel guilty to have large scale discussions about competing products here. The old PT was great as it covered multiple vendors and was, for the most part, based on user experiences rather than those trying to game the system.

[Marriedmones]

I reached out to Joe Masters from the house of pheromones, before I got the information on Mark RIP 😪, and he said he's working on putting a form together. Maybe you guys could work together.

[Gloomoon]

I was a long time lurker on Pherotruth; been out from the scene for a couple years, it's some days I have found this bad surprise. Very very unfortunate. RIP to the forum owner/chief, will be forever gratefull and never forgetful, but is there really 0 chances to retrieve the huge wealth of discussions that was there? No survivors/relatives that could help?

[Johnny Fever]

Gloomoon Unfortunately, with the server no longer in existence there's no way to get the database that ran the software, so it looks like it will be a 100% manual task to reburb the site. While it won't be 100% like Mark's site the mission is to keep the info and a gathering place alive for enthusiasts.

[Gloomoon]

Gloomoon Unfortunately, with the server no longer in existence there's no way to get the database that ran the software, so it looks like it will be a 100% manual task to reburb the site. While it won't be 100% like Mark's site the mission is to keep the info and a gathering place alive for enthusiasts.

What you mean by "manual task", and what happened to the servers? When was the last time site was on?

[Johnny Fever]

The site was last up til the end of June or early July as when Mark passed either his rental for the servers expired or, if he was running his own, were likely taken out of service since his passing. It's going to take participants to re-populate the site with new info since there's no master database to restore the server software, in spite of being able to use the identical forum software. Without the database there's no easy way to restore the former forum to the way it was before the plug was pulled. We can, at least, carry on Mark's mission with a new site, though it will take time to build it up to come to where the legacy site was. Lots of information can be lost but, with luck, former participants will return and hopefully re-share their experiences.