Will everything that was here before the site went down return.. all the threads, stats, banners etc.
Could do that but then all the new members who were not in the back up database would need to sign up again. I would assume that he would have a copy from when they moved the site to Merks hosting but he may have deleted.
Yeah, the posts will build up quickly, its a shame that the forum went down almost straight after we hit 1,000,000 posts.
I reckon it might be worth just starting again. No previous performances counting, can re-sign up as whatever.