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Post by Ninmast on Feb 20, 2008 11:09:10 GMT -5
Alright, as some of you no doubt have already found out, there is something wrong with the forum. At this point, it seems five member profiles (TrueBlue, Teh Donut, Kagetsuki, Subtle and Bloo) have vanished, as well as every RP in the Serious RP section. We don't know the cause, but we haven't ruled out a deliberate attack.
At present, no posts except those in the Serious RP section have been lost, so no need to panic about loss of characters and such. We are currently trying to get hold of proboards administration to find out what can be done. If we cannot get the RP section back, we'll simply have to restart the RPs where we last left off, so be trying to get that down and ready just in case so you don't forget.
If you have lost your account, it seems I still have access, as well as Kainus, so contact either of us about creating a new one and seeing if any privileges need to be reset.
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 20, 2008 11:52:54 GMT -5
UPDATE: Proboards is aware of the problem, and it does seem that it was, indeed, an error with the servers, one that only hit the forums that weren't up to 4.5 yet. And guess what we're still running. They've got an auto-patch running that should fix the problems, but keep your fingers crossed, there's no guarantee when or even if it'll do its job way down the line on us. We ask that you please do not post our URL in the thread. That has already been handled by our great and on-the-ball Teh Donut. If you are one of the five who have lost your account and it suddenly respawns, but you have already created a new one, we ask that you delete your new one and return to using your original. And as always, if anything new comes up, let us know.
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 20, 2008 12:53:41 GMT -5
Alright, looks like Kagetsuki has her account back. She sent me this PM.
Be sure to check your recent posts and see if you can get your stuff back. But please don't post anything in the Serious section until we're sure we won't get it spontaneously back, to avoid interfering with it.
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Subtle
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Post by Subtle on Feb 20, 2008 13:15:04 GMT -5
This ain't a deliberate attack. Theres no way for them to be so precise with user accounts and rps
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 20, 2008 13:39:32 GMT -5
Like I said, it's a server error. See the second post, please.
Kagetsuki's account seems to be back up, but Harukai's seems to be down. I must've missed it in my initial count.
The good news is that the danger is over. It's simply reconstruction now.
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Post by Teh Donut on Feb 20, 2008 13:50:05 GMT -5
I'll re-create an account in a minute...
I was hoping they would have gotten to this by now. Oh well; like I told Subtle last night, expect this to take about 12-14 hours (that was in last-night time, so....probably about 4-6 more hours) to see any sort of improvements. I think. That's a rough estimate...could take a day or two. I don't really know, just going by what I'm seeing.
You should really thank Subtle and good ol' lady luck that I was even on here to deal with it; I wanted to go straight to bed and catch up on some sleep, and if Subtle hadn't told me something was wrong with the EAB, I wouldn't have checked. All props should really go to him.
Anywho, if you guys want to continue with roleplays, a little suggestion: do a search for at least your last 50 posts, find your roleplays, take the link, recreate the roleplay thread, and plaster the link as your first post. You can continue roleplaying however you feel like roleplaying from there...
Because it's odd; like KT discovered, our roleplays are still there, but it seems the thread topics are just not displaying. If Kainus or Ninmast will return admin powers to me when I rejoin, I'll run through the list of active roleplays (which really only involves me searching through Ninmast's posts and copy-pasta from there ;D ), and...do something. I don't know quite yet...
Have fun, happy vanishing.
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Post by donut2 on Feb 21, 2008 14:03:35 GMT -5
A winner is me. ;D
I'm recovering the old roleplays. If you want any brought back, send me a PM; I'm already going to do the ones that have "substitutes".
Unfortunately, I have just discovered that True's "The Valiant Effort" roleplay is completely gone. Vanished. Deleted. This is odd, since it was up yesterday, after the problems had ended somewhat. While I still believe that it's a proboards issue, the fact that this took place after that proboards issue had ended and was being resolved is...suspicious, to say the least. If Kainus would be so kind as to allow other admins the ability to see admin and moderator activities, I'd gladly spend my day getting to the bottom of this...
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Post by TrueBlue© on Feb 21, 2008 14:44:10 GMT -5
And this fact is EXTREMELY DEPRESSING.
However! As those of you involved in my RP know (Or ought to, I've only been going on about it for all of three days now), I was lucky enough to have my very lengthy starter post on file, as well as my very recent plot-important post. The RP is definitely still a-rolling. That means go post.
*Wha-pish!*
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 21, 2008 17:31:53 GMT -5
I believe you are overreacting to the situation, Donut, and it would be unwise to cause such a stir with such accusations in a public thread. Regardless, however, there is no way to log when or why posts and threads are deleted.
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Post by EJP on Feb 21, 2008 17:48:08 GMT -5
Woah! The RPs are back. Well their is some good news. Even if they are just the new or recent ones.
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Post by donut2 on Feb 21, 2008 18:29:02 GMT -5
there is no way to log when or why posts and threads are deleted. I have a proboards forum; I know there is. I've used it. Why we can't seem to so on EAB is beyond me... *sighs* I'm not accusing anyone of anything; no admin were online at the time any of this happened. You and I wouldn't want this to happen, we've put too much effort into what we do here (and I'm certainly pissed my accounts gone, with its special notes), Kainus certainly wouldn't do anything, and it couldn't have been Spectral because he didn't pop in with a lengthy evil monologue of doom first. I, for one, use a shared terminal and network half the day. I don't think it's overreacting to want to make sure no one else is dorking around on my account.
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 21, 2008 18:36:42 GMT -5
I didn't mean to offend you, Donut. If you meant your own account, it would have saved confusion to say so. In any case, I've been in the administration panel on this site and my own more than a few times, and I've never seen anything about logging deletions. If you could perhaps tell us where it is, it would make it easier to find it.
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Post by donut2 on Feb 21, 2008 18:55:59 GMT -5
Meh, sorry.
Give me a moment, I'm going to screenshot it. It'll be easier than an explanation.
*edit*
Better yet, I'll PM it to you.
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Subtle
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Post by Subtle on Feb 21, 2008 20:21:02 GMT -5
This can't be an attack on the EAB. If you guys notice, when a mod/admin or user deleted an account, it dosen't leave a blank name, it makes their name appear white, like a guest poster. Case in point all of scarmiglone's posts
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Post by Psi on Feb 21, 2008 21:52:34 GMT -5
It's very simple to do deliberate attacks on some people, all you gots to do is first find a hole ya can exploit and then - - - Ya know, I clicked on meh bookmark thingy one day and it said server was down, guess it was that day. Hope it works out >..>
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