Okay. So. The whole database was wiped. There do not appear to be any backups.
So everything that was on the forums is gone (including the styles, hacks, and so on). Everything that was in the guestbook is gone. Now, it will take a bit of time to get the forums back into shape, seeing as I need a fresh install of vBulletin, and it is further delayed by the fact that my vBulletin license expired a few days ago and my dad is away - he'll be back on Saturday, and then we can renew the license and start working on that. Hopefully. I'll have to remake all the styles, though, as well as installing all the hacks again and remaking a couple of my own little hacks created specifically for the forum. So that could take a while. Just please be patient and rest assured that I'm getting an automatic database backup program to prevent this from happening again.
On the other hand, the guestbook, being far simpler and my own script, was relatively simple to bring back - without all the posts, of course, but I just had to recreate the database to get it working again. So the guestbook and guestbook-powered update commenting are back (as well, as, incidentally, the forum and comment system on the Quest for the Legends minipage, which were a bit more complicated to bring back but I did anyway since it's the fic's sixth birthday today, and I really wish I could have spent it posting a Laughing Cupboard thread at the forums and finishing chapter 42 instead of messing around with MySQL).
To look on the bright side of the forum loss: this will provide some nice cleanup, hopefully fix some bugs, and get me to actually get all the hacks working properly in 3.7 (not to mention that if I need to recreate all the other styles, it's a perfect opportunity to remake Hellfire style and adapt Torkoal style to the forums).
I'm sorry about this.
Could be a good thing; forums sort of needed it really imo. Sucks for ASB though :(
Yep. What Zora said? I wanted to curse but I decide to replace them with beelps for no good reason…probably humor.
But Butterfree will fix this…when I'm away…
i'll be away from Saturday-Sunday
Who is "y'all"? o.O And I don't really see a reason to start the tournament over. I mean, I know who had what position and I'm NOT going through the hell of waiting for a bunch of lazy people to remember that they have to battle again.
And I've been able to recover a lot of basic stuff from Google so far, so I might be able to restart ASB. Can't get some of the attack guide, though, so I hope you guys don't need to look up anything that comes after Pain Split ><
What the hell.
It's not enough that my upstairs computer dies, which had my oldest sprites and ALL my scanned drawings on it, the forums have to get wiped too… Great, just f*cking great… My cherished account… The RPs that I loved… It's all gone…
Y'all got Flareth PO'd too. She's talking with me about it on another forum. And now I gotta tell Hysterical… It just isn't fair…
But at least they might start the tournament over… That'd at least give me a fair shot as all my other battles were too late for me to focus… And we might restart all the RPs… I'd like that… But why does this keep happening to meeeee?!
Well, it could've been worse. Besides, a chanse to wipe away all the junk topics, and start anew on other topics that were straying. Plus we can start a new game of "Get to *Insert number here* posts*
Well, good luck getting the forum hacks and styles working again. Stuff like this just happens sometimes.
No, Kratos is not happy, although at least I have backups of the league rules and stuff. Now I have to go leave Negrek an email asking what she had saved on her own computer… and I have no idea what to do about ASB while she's gone. I was only doing what she told me to, I didn't have anything saved… D:
Good luck getting everything back together, Butterfree. Sorry this had to happen on TQTFL's birthday… ><
I was like totally lucky since I was able to recover the Crystal League Tornament infomation. ^^;
Hopefully it will help when the forums come up again.
Well, that sucks. Although, being pessimistic, I thought this might happen. I didn't expect it to though ;-;.
But, to be optimistic:
Oh well, maybe now all the fiction posts won't need to have another post after so they show up.
And for all the RPG things, they could just start off again without that later data (although, people might steal usernames >_>)
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Okay, nevermind. The cons are outweighing the pros.
There goes the six hundred post count ;-;
Oh, I hope that, once the licence is renewed, we will be allowed to post right away, instead of having to wait for EVERYTHING (e.g. Styles, Hacks) to be put back up
Oh wow. It's all gone. Aw man, all my posts are gone. I was really looking forward to making it to 1,000 posts, I was at 900.
Ah well, stuff happens, ya? I'm sure that you'll get the forums back and we can all rebuild everything in time, a fresh start!
I wonder if we'll have to restart ASB? o.o
Probably.
oh-noo, My gym stuff got deleted, but hopefully I will get it rewritten again. ^^;
>.< Ouch. Well, look at the bright side… No more thread revivals for a month or two! :D
But oh, Kratos will NOT like this one bit. We were in the final round of the tournament
Feel so sorry for you, we know you are very upset about this. Good luck in getting the forums back up, Butterfree.
Yes, you'll have to re-register. When I say "all the data", it should be self-evident that this includes user data. In fact, it ought to be considerably more self-evident than things like styles and hacks being wiped.
If the forums were completely wiped out, does that mean we'll have to re-register once they're back up?
Yes, all posts on the forums are gone. That's kind of why I said it about three times in the update. o_O
So…all posts on the forum are gone?
Aww, that sucks…
But I guess it will give you a chance to start fresh the forums.
