"G" is coming from Greta ? If so : " Lasciate ogni speranza , vuoi ch'entrati ..."
Well it’s Easter… :nerd_face:
I don’t come over here to post often. The last time I was here was to read up on the Emisar’s in a couple of really good threads. Say what you want, but I’ve not seen the nastiness in these two threads directed towards other enthusiasts in my almost 10 years on CPF. Don’t worry, I’ll stay “over there”…
For those born north of the Mason-Dixon line, this means: Abandon hope all ye who enter here (Dante’s Inferno).
It did stand for Gretta. Not that I agree with how she runs CPF but it will be nice to be able to log back in. Hopefully information such as the Fenix E01 torture test won’t get lost due to server complications anymore.
Somehow , the CPF remind me of my country ( Romania ) , during the "Ceausescu Epoque".., a country full of good people ruled by an semianalphabet shoe maker !!!
We can't deny that a LOT of good people started on CPF , and their contribution to the flash light world was and is , remarkable ...I can understand even their standing up , defending the forum ...
What I can't understand is that , in a free country , could be acceptable to be ruled in the way CPF is...
I left my country because of the freedom .., I joined the CPF , and at the first sign of totalitarianism I decided to move away , I knew a little too well where this is leading...
So , dear CPF's fellows , there is nothing wrong with your hobby , I just feel that you are in the wrong "country"...
This is the difference , here you can ( and you've done it) find a shoulder to lean on , find compassion and maybe friends.., no questions asked , no hard feelings...
Would you have the courage to do this on CPF ? Maybe , but only once !!!
Thanks to SB we are here a FREE community , with divergent opinions , with wise and crazy people , accepted as we are , not as somebody wants us to be...
Have you ever seen on CPF ,at least one post about BLF being down ( even when it was in maintenance) ? NOOOOO ! Have you asked yourself why ? If not , this is the perfect time...Peace ,brothers in arm'...
Haven’t logged into BLF in a while but I knew there would be comments over here since CPF is down…LOL.
I’ve been losing a lot of interest in CPF over time for various reasons. It seems like there isn’t anywhere near as much posting going on, as there was years ago. So I may not be the only one losing interest. The slow opening of threads for the past……….what over a year?……….if it wasn’t for the fact that I would look at CPF on off hours, I simply just gave up on CPF during higher traffic times. So the migration to a new server is probably needed.
I wonder what the advertisers are thinking right now with a site down for this long and with traffic dropping?
An update was posted on Facebook about 30mins ago, basically some more nonsense about email and that there is still a long wait as they try a plan-b, and noted that they have switched to https protocol. If you use https to reach the top domain you will see something like:
CandlePowerForums is currently in the process of moving to a new server. Please feel free to hang out in the CPF FaceBook Group until we are back up and running again. Updates and current status will be posted when available. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. ~Greta
Noooooooooooope, no respawn please 
It was by far the slowest/most frustrating site I’ve ever been to, I would always mutter “wtf is wrong with this site” or “open already”. Maybe this will fix the issue, but who knows.
Eventually your cpf links will permanently direct to the Facebook group page?
I quit going there at least a year, year and a half ago, as it was rare that pages would load for me at all. I now spend my Flashlight time here on BLF, it always works!
Despair no longer. Greta, eh Sasha, eh Kelly (Dreller) is back on line.
So far it’s working great 
I don't use the site much, but I'm glad it's back up. 
I’ll wait for the dust to settle.
It’s back up as of Monday noon ET. I’ll see how it behaves at night, which seems to be when most of the issues are, as the server updates, or hiccups.
Anyhow, I guess haters are gonna hate. I’ve been there for 6 years and here for 4 and I don’t see the drama a lot of you do.
I’ve moderated for some pretty big gun/HiFi sites and there’s always going to be somebody bitchin’ about something, so one can’t win for losing.
Chris
CPF is back up, I hope it runs smoothly and faster than before.
atm the Search feature is disabled on CPF, but google works to find some things
fwiw, when searching for reviews, CPF comes up in the top hits, but BLF usually does not. I mention this because many reviewers post to both sites.
When I want to find BLF reviews, I have to specify budgetlightforum and -candlepowerforum in the google search terms
seems CPF hits get priority over BLF hits… not sure why
anyway, enjoy having choices
How about …. eh, coughing up money?
The site seems to be down again. Perhaps there were still a few things left to set up.