Closure of DFI effective 10th July 2024

[Yusuf]

Dear Valued DFI member,

Our journey started on 14th of February 2009, in the aftermath of the Mumbai 26/11 attack. It has been a great journey with avid defence enthusiasts, some professionals, and others just lurking for their daily dose of high on a subject we are all passionate about - the defence of India.

They say, all good things come to an end. We only wish this didn’t. However, we regret to inform you that DFI will be closing permanently effective 10th July.

In the age of fake news, deepfakes and stringent laws and compliances, despite our best efforts, we will be unable to sustain the necessary technical and operational requirements.

We know it will leave a void for our members who have stayed with the forum even as other social media platforms have taken over daily discourse.

@Singh, the owner of the forum along with the admin team thanks all the moderators who have done their best to run the forum. We thank every member for being part of our community and making DFI a part of their lives and making it the place to go for discussion on defence.

Jai Hind!

 

[mokoman]

no more posts or entire website will be offline ?

lot of good info gathered here will be lost

 

[SwordOfDarkness]

Welp. Not joking, ig?

 

[Azaad]

If the owners are open to sell it , how does one get in touch with them ? @Yusuf

 

[Blood+]

Man, this is gonna suck so hard. Is there no way we can pull you out of this decision?? If it's about money, then I'm sure we can do something about it. is

 

[Blood+]

If the owners are open to sell it , how does one get in touch with them ? @Yusuf

Very well said, I'm willing to bear part of the hosting costs.

 

[thebakofbakchod]

Wow why? This is literally one of the only good Indian specific (defence) forum out there. Do send donation links if that is the reason. I do not see the reason why fake news etc should be the reason for closing this forum. If anything this is great for combating narratives.

 

[Extraordinary]

@Yusuf do consider a crowd funding.
We can spare a few bucks.

 

[RDXChauhan]

Please don't shut, merko aaye hue 1 mahine hua he bass

 

[Mr.Evil007]

Noooo bro I just got here don’t do that after a long ahh time Iam actually interested in doing something DFI distracts me from lot of bs irl

 

[bengalraider]

Dear Valued DFI member,

Our journey started on 14th of February 2009, in the aftermath of the Mumbai 26/11 attack. It has been a great journey with avid defence enthusiasts, some professionals, and others just lurking for their daily dose of high on a subject we are all passionate about - the defence of India.

They say, all good things come to an end. We only wish this didn’t. However, we regret to inform you that DFI will be closing permanently effective 10th July.

In the age of fake news, deepfakes and stringent laws and compliances, despite our best efforts, we will be unable to sustain the necessary technical and operational requirements.

We know it will leave a void for our members who have stayed with the forum even as other social media platforms have taken over daily discourse.

@Singh, the owner of the forum along with the admin team thanks all the moderators who have done their best to run the forum. We thank every member for being part of our community and making DFI a part of their lives and making it the place to go for discussion on defence.

Jai Hind!

@Yusuf Thank you for inviting me into the DFI community at a time when many Indians were being removed from international forums post 26/11. Though I'm no longer a regular poster nowadays DFI has been & will remain a big part of my life & has given me many real life friends such as yourself , Sayarekd & Sumoberoi . DFI will be missed !

 

[jai jaganath]

So this is the end
I thank supermods for preventing Hollywood style ending and giving us time to accept and recover

Anyway where will our members flock any suggestions?
Where can we shift in order to maintain our defence knowledge and be updated

And will this forum be closed for replies and posting or completely disabled bcoz many important and critical posts of knowledgeable members have been bookmarked and saved

 

[mokoman]

we can shift to bharatrakshak

ancient website running since vedic period.

 

[RDXChauhan]

So this is the end
I thank supermods for preventing Hollywood style ending and giving us time to accept and recover

Anyway where will our members flock any suggestions?
Where can we shift in order to maintain our defence knowledge and be updated

And will this forum be closed for replies and posting or completely disabled bcoz many important and critical posts of knowledgeable members have been bookmarked and saved

Someone suggested Strategic Front.
Someone can design a forum like this? How much money will it cost.

 

[RDXChauhan]

we can shift to bharatrakshak

ancient website running since vedic period.

Uska UI aacha nahi he

 

[SKC]

 

[Haldilal]

Ya'll Nibbiars BharatRakshak is for Script Writer's and startegic Front is too liberal for anyone here to sustain there. We lost the Final Bastion of Defense and RW Indian Forum?.

 

[skunk works]

we can shift to bharatrakshak

ancient website running since vedic period.

Don't you need an invite for that

 

[mist_consecutive]

Such a waste closing a gem of forum which has collated 25 years of information. I don't think the reason you quoted for closing this forum is genuine but something else.

@Yusuf @Singh are you considering selling it ?

 

[SKC]

Someone suggested Strategic Front.
Someone can design a forum like this? How much money will it cost.

It’s not difficult to design a forum like this.

hosting it and managing the server cost is another thing altogether

There are multiple options :
PhPmyBB, vBulletin and Xenforo

DFi is built on Xenforo it seems