BeGroovy's Ryan, aka Nutcase, e-mailed me today with a status update on the BeGroovy situation. As i'm sure you're all aware, this past few months BeGroovy's been having problems staying up for long periods. The cause? Their host Site5 has been repeatedly hacked (by some dumb script kiddies with no life who have way too much time on their hands, when they're not doing some one-handed-browsing) since last November.

In the last attack, they destroyed their /var directory, which included (among other things) their database, so while they're rebuilding the site, the old posts (valuable in terms of knowledge) are lost.

They have moved to a new (and more secure) host, and hope to get the site back up and running in another week or two, if all goes well.

I'm sad about this... BeGroovy is (unless i'm mistaken), the oldest BeOS news site, still active, and to lose it would be a damn shame... Here's hoping for a speedy return, BeOS and the community needs them!

Correction: Ryan e-mailed me to let me know they only lost the very last posts, the ones from this month, i misinterpreted what i read. So, among the bad news, one bit of good.

Correction #2: Donovan (Deej) posted in our forum about BeGroovy (not) being the oldest BeOS news site. LeBuzz (of our buddy Dane) is older by a few months and the site that wins hands-down is BeForever. BeGroovy (which was supposed to be Audio oriented) was registered in November 98. A nice bit of trivia. Thanks Donovan (who had his birthday not long ago)