Sorry guys.. more on the downtime

[Guest]

someone tell me if I still have my avatar, all I see is a red X 

 

so uh, are we gonna get all that stuff we lost back or are we gonna have to start all over again? I'm not talking posts I'm talking topics and- OH CRAP! I just rembered! my TIE thread and the modeling idea thread! they're gone! ARGH! it took forever to find all of those pics. Oh well I think I saved most of them.  :-\

[Controller]

nope i cant see your avatar. why oh why wont doesnt the forums like my avatar which it liked before the down time. why oh why. Edited September 20, 2006 by Controller

[Evaders99]

Alright Fosh. You made me feel bad for a little because I've really been the only one not sleeping, trying to restore all the website services.

Thanxs for the support though z3r0x

 

 

I'll look into the avatar issue. This is running the latest SMF 1.1 RC3 forums, so there maybe some bugs they have not fixed.

 

 

If you're looking for something that you posted, see directions at How to: Search for and restore posts from Google Cache

[Juggernaut1985]

what we lost about 600 people who don't post?

[Kelathin]

maybe 50 that did post ;D

[Guest]

"The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved."

 

DOH! not again.......  :-\

[Controller]

yep. we got that bug back. how did we fix it the first time round?

[Cain]

THERE is a big problem with the Avatar upload/link system !!!!!!!!!!1 Helkp pls Evaders. Thanks

[z3r0x]

Evaders.... not sure if you checked. I tar'd each database... then I placed all the tar files in one big tar. PFF's db was fully intact when I recovered it. Some others in the mySQL directory were not. However that was due to half the content in /var being totally corrupted and useless.

[Evaders99]

Avatars should have the proper permissions now

[z3r0x]

Ill be home at 5pm EST. If you need help.. we can try and add in the missing data on the DB. Worst case scenerio is we add the tables in by hand.

[Cain]

Ill be home at 5pm EST. If you need help.. we can try and add in the missing data on the DB. Worst case scenerio is we add the tables in by hand.

 

Thanks man. Pls. coordinate with Evaders. For your help I have granted you global mod powers as a symbolic reward.

[Foshjedi2004]

Congrats Rox mate  ;D

[z3r0x]

Well thanks Cain.. as I told Evaders a few days ago.. I didnt want anything in return.. just helpin my fellow geeks out. We all gotta stick together.

[jedi_consulor]

It might take a bit of work to get the site to back where it was I think so many posts and threads lost as well as user accounts (including mine) was lost - the forums seem very still at the moment going to have to work on getting people backand re gain peoples confidence in the site.

[Foshjedi2004]

Well me and z3r0x were just talking about that...

 

Should we take a collection and get Vbulliten?

[z3r0x]

Vbullletin is VERY stable not to mention its better looking, safer and has MUCH more functionality.

[VZaknaril]

I know I am new around here but I posted many times before the crash and this site was something I enjoyed contributing to.  I'm pretty bummed about losing all my posts, so I wanted to let you guys know I would be willing to contribute to the purchase of the new bulletin board system.  Contact me via email when the times comes, along with what the cost will be and I will do what I can.

[Evaders99]

Personally I'd rather not switch to any licensed software. It is more for me to deal with, especially with unfamiliar mods and support.

 

I'd rather see a full portal site, if you want to expand on the capabilities of PFF. Consider where you want to go, do you want to keep making subforums for all kinds of games? It seems that "Petroglyph Fan Forums" would be a misnomer then. Rather stick what you do best with the audience you have, and you'll do well like Relicforums has done for their site.

 

I'm inclined to go with phpBB/phpNuke - that is what is powering most of the sites and that is what I am most familiar with. Even our backend is synchronized for user sharing, so you can easily go from the main SWR site to our other sites. I run the central files, updates, maintainence, and everything. It is quite slick for those who are not code hackers and don't need to look at code.

[NOT Hadoken13]

just in case you forgot....i need those mod powers i lost back.....

 

please?

[Evaders99]

On the look, I'm hoping for something clean and easy to look at. While the graphics are nice to make it stand out, the content is really what is important. If we have large headers and images everywhere, it would make the forums cumbersome to navigate and use. Simple functionality over flashy graphics. I don't mind SMF as it is now.

[VZaknaril]

PHPbb is a nice forum.  I use it for my clan (www.mandalorrising.com/forum) and have had great success with mods and changing things (a basic knowledge of HTML is all you need to change things on your own as the source is a modified version of HTML) on my own.  Administrator control panel is nice as well.

 

As far as the look, I have made extensive modifications to mine (found a decent template and modified it after that) so anyone can do it.

 

On a side note: are you guys making progress restoring the database?  I know it's tedious work (I have gone through that myself) so I'm not nagging at all.  Just wondering if I can expect my contributions to the forum to return or if they are lost forever?

[Guest]

bleah, avatar thing is still broken 

[Eric072691]

They'll fix it sooner or later, I hope.

 

Didn't I sign-up before April 2006 or was the backup from April 2005?

Oh well, It doesn't matter, I just want my mapping tutorial back. I guess I'll have to go and find it.

[swfan654]

bah I dont really care about post count or losing an account, only takes like 2 minutes to register

 

Im more dissapointed in the content lost too..... really, really hope that can be fixed... ......eventually..