Hello,
Things might look funny around here after our recent shutdown. That's because we're running on a February database backup and we've suffered permanent data loss. All of the data posted since the end of February is gone. The hard disk where the site was located crashed and when running the backups from another hard disk the hard disk with the backups crashed as well. This is a very low probability event and it happened exactly to us. All data on these hard disks were permanently lost and this is the most recent backup we have, which was located on a different disk. This means the following:
1. People that registered from February until today need to check whether their account still exists and if not, re-register.
2. Some banned users might be unbanned. I took care of the high profile cases but for the rest there's not much I could do other than you helping out and pointing the finger toward them.
3. Some things might not work, I'm aware of that so do post it here if you encounter any errors or notice something funny.
4. Please understand that I will not change anyone's post count. All I can do is if you lost your custom sig and avatar rights I can get them back on. For this, send me a PM.
It also took this long because we've switched hosts. Our previous host lost 6 months of data on a forum three times as large as this and will probably close shop.
E-mail didn't work either. For future issues you can add me to Y! Messenger. My ID is bdavid_ro. Even if I'm not online you can leave offline messages. I'll also consider building up an independent mailing list to keep you updated in case future downtimes happen.
Well, that's about it.
Things might look funny around here after our recent shutdown. That's because we're running on a February database backup and we've suffered permanent data loss. All of the data posted since the end of February is gone. The hard disk where the site was located crashed and when running the backups from another hard disk the hard disk with the backups crashed as well. This is a very low probability event and it happened exactly to us. All data on these hard disks were permanently lost and this is the most recent backup we have, which was located on a different disk. This means the following:
1. People that registered from February until today need to check whether their account still exists and if not, re-register.
2. Some banned users might be unbanned. I took care of the high profile cases but for the rest there's not much I could do other than you helping out and pointing the finger toward them.
3. Some things might not work, I'm aware of that so do post it here if you encounter any errors or notice something funny.
4. Please understand that I will not change anyone's post count. All I can do is if you lost your custom sig and avatar rights I can get them back on. For this, send me a PM.
It also took this long because we've switched hosts. Our previous host lost 6 months of data on a forum three times as large as this and will probably close shop.
E-mail didn't work either. For future issues you can add me to Y! Messenger. My ID is bdavid_ro. Even if I'm not online you can leave offline messages. I'll also consider building up an independent mailing list to keep you updated in case future downtimes happen.
Well, that's about it.
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