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PEx (or PinoyExchange ) is a local forum. It's very popular and it has a lot of topics. We had a few threads in the Hobbies forum. The most popular thread was started by palin. That's where I got to know some local modelers like Lattex, stressor, shonen_red and rysorne.

PEx's popularity is both it's greatest asset and worst liability. It's got a lot of people online most of the time and advertisers have taken notice. However, it suffers from really slow page load times and it sometimes kicks you out for no apparent reason. This happened to me a few times already and I've lost a lot of "meaty" posts because of this. This prompted one of us to set up a yahoogroups account as a temporary home for pinoy modelers. This did not gain popularity though.

Last month PEx was down for a loooooong time. Their hard disks got corrupted and it took them quite a while to get things up and running again. Now it's back, albeit with a few temporary restrictions since they're exercising the new servers. They're also uploading the backup files they had. The last upload is dated January 2003.

Would I go back to PEx? Maybe. If I want to connect with other Pinoys then it is the place to be. It still has a lot to offer. I'll stay with Armorama most of the time though since the modeling thread is the only reason why I go to PEx anyway. Armorama is where I get my modeling fix. Jim was also kind enough to give us our own forum and we are eternally grateful for that.

I have a comrade who works (part time?) for PEx and yeah, he did mention doing a LOT of backing up (the site was just so DAMN BIG!). Haven't gotten in touch with him lately though...