<![CDATA[Final Fantasy Hut - All Forums]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:34:18 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[What was your first Final Fantasy?]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=8 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:58:12 +0100 Melterz-]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=8
What was yours?]]>
What was yours?]]> <![CDATA[What games are you playing right now?]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=7 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:55:00 +0100 Melterz-]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=7
What is it that you're playing right now?]]>
What is it that you're playing right now?]]> <![CDATA[Day 1: Starting the Dig]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=6 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:50:46 +0100 Melterz-]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=6
The "archaeology" part of this project is proving to be a much steeper climb than I had hoped. I’ve managed to identify 130 entry points that lead to old threads, but the Wayback Machine is rarely kind to our specific mess of a history. Most of these are heavily fragmented, single pages from what used to be five- or six-page discussions, and there are plenty of dead ends and broken links that lead nowhere. I have also found about 50 "lofi" snapshots, which have yet less information but still contain discussion.

It isn't perfect. I can't speak to the quality of the fragments I'm finding, half of it might be unintelligible, but there is enough here to begin the slow process of piecing the story back together.

I’ve reached out to a few people who were here back in the day, hoping they might have some remnants hiding on an old hard drive somewhere. If you were a part of this and have anything, be it a saved thread, a screenshot, or just a stray memory, please get in touch.

I don't have much to show right now. Just a stack of digital scraps. But I am working on organising these snippets into something readable. My goal is to have something tangible to share by next week.

Until then, I’ll keep digging.]]>
The "archaeology" part of this project is proving to be a much steeper climb than I had hoped. I’ve managed to identify 130 entry points that lead to old threads, but the Wayback Machine is rarely kind to our specific mess of a history. Most of these are heavily fragmented, single pages from what used to be five- or six-page discussions, and there are plenty of dead ends and broken links that lead nowhere. I have also found about 50 "lofi" snapshots, which have yet less information but still contain discussion.

It isn't perfect. I can't speak to the quality of the fragments I'm finding, half of it might be unintelligible, but there is enough here to begin the slow process of piecing the story back together.

I’ve reached out to a few people who were here back in the day, hoping they might have some remnants hiding on an old hard drive somewhere. If you were a part of this and have anything, be it a saved thread, a screenshot, or just a stray memory, please get in touch.

I don't have much to show right now. Just a stack of digital scraps. But I am working on organising these snippets into something readable. My goal is to have something tangible to share by next week.

Until then, I’ll keep digging.]]> <![CDATA[FFXIV Characters]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=5 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:25:22 +0100 Melterz-]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=5
Meltoro Meltors > Alpha > Light]]>
Meltoro Meltors > Alpha > Light]]> <![CDATA[Best Era of Final Fantasy?]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=4 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:15:00 +0100 Melterz-]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=4 <![CDATA[(Re)introduce Yourself]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=3 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:50:21 +0100 Melterz-]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=3 I was known as Zidane103, Z103, Kaze, a number of other names (such as HRH Zidane disparagingly because I was an annoying little shit sometimes)
I was an admin of the original board for a time, and then just disappeared I guess. It's been a long long time but FFHut kept popping up in my memories, everybody I met here, the friends I made and have long since lost.
I've made this so if anybody else is the same, if any of you drop by, you'll see this, maybe drop a comment, maybe reconnect. Maybe, just maybe, we can bring this back to life.
I miss the old internet.]]> I was known as Zidane103, Z103, Kaze, a number of other names (such as HRH Zidane disparagingly because I was an annoying little shit sometimes)
I was an admin of the original board for a time, and then just disappeared I guess. It's been a long long time but FFHut kept popping up in my memories, everybody I met here, the friends I made and have long since lost.
I've made this so if anybody else is the same, if any of you drop by, you'll see this, maybe drop a comment, maybe reconnect. Maybe, just maybe, we can bring this back to life.
I miss the old internet.]]> <![CDATA[Project Roadmap & Site Status]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=2 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:04:58 +0100 Melterz-]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=2
  • Phase 1: Domain Acquisition & Landing Page Portal [COMPLETE]
  • Phase 2: Legacy phpBB/MyBB Forum Core Deployment [COMPLETE]
  • Phase 3: HTML Wayback Scrape & Archive Extraction [IN PROGRESS]
    • Keep an eye on this space.]]>
  • Phase 1: Domain Acquisition & Landing Page Portal [COMPLETE]
  • Phase 2: Legacy phpBB/MyBB Forum Core Deployment [COMPLETE]
  • Phase 3: HTML Wayback Scrape & Archive Extraction [IN PROGRESS]
    • Keep an eye on this space.]]>         <![CDATA[FFHut - A Forum Reborn]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=1 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:51:39 +0100 Melterz-]]> https://ffhut.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?tid=1 FFHut forums back in the day, you might remember me running around these boards under the handle Zidane103. After two decades, the original ffhut.co.uk domain is officially back.

    Quote:"A voice from the past, joining yours and mine."

    This isn't an archive run by strangers. I bought our old home back. While I posted here as a kid named Zidane103, Z103 or Kaze, I go by Melterz- now. My aim is to scrape as much as I can of what used to be there, no matter how much some might make me cringe! I want to preserve some of the memories, and maybe bring back a little of what was there before modern internet destroyed small communities.]]>     FFHut forums back in the day, you might remember me running around these boards under the handle Zidane103. After two decades, the original ffhut.co.uk domain is officially back.

    Quote:"A voice from the past, joining yours and mine."

    This isn't an archive run by strangers. I bought our old home back. While I posted here as a kid named Zidane103, Z103 or Kaze, I go by Melterz- now. My aim is to scrape as much as I can of what used to be there, no matter how much some might make me cringe! I want to preserve some of the memories, and maybe bring back a little of what was there before modern internet destroyed small communities.]]>