All right, I feel I should make some clarifications concerning the forums (see previous two updates for the details of what happened).
Yes, I am going to make new forums. This really ought to be obvious.
When I say "the whole database was wiped", it should also be obvious that yes, this includes your user accounts, and yes, you will have to re-register.
No, I do not know precisely when this will be. My dad is home now and hopefully we can renew the vBulletin license later today. Then I'll need to run the installation, remake a couple of the more essential hacks, recreate all the forums (probably with some tweaks), recreate the important threads (with help from Google cached versions of the relevant pages), remake a couple of custom BBCodes, and recreate the styles; then I can probably open the forums and make some sort of a 'Hack Wishlist' thread for people to request which hacks they would like to see again. Depending on how much I have to do, it could be anytime next week.
All banned members will be able to rejoin with a clean slate, although they will obviously be banned again if they continue to break rules.
Believe it or not, I don't actually personally care that the forums were wiped. It's irritating how much work needs to be done to get them up again, but seriously. My post count? I don't even know what it was. My posts? Normally I'm just fine with not having an archive of everything I've ever said. (The only posts I really miss are the posts in the Crushes thread in which I talked about my attempts to flirt with my now-boyfriend and the elaborate Mafia rules that I'll have to recreate from memory.) My fanfics? Both saved on my computer and posted elsewhere. Okay, I would wish that I had a couple of the exclusive hacks saved just to save time in recreating them, but that's pretty much it. I suppose I might feel different if I participated in roleplays or ASB, but I don't. The most upsetting part of the database wipe, to me, was that it deleted all of the recent entries in the Quest Blog on the Quest for the Legends minipage, which were a lot more personal. There is no need to feel sorry for me. Feel sorry for the people who actually lost something that really was important to them.
well, at least this is a good opportunity to go through and do some spring cleaning - tweaking rules, fixing boards, etc. (:
good luck getting it back up, and I hope everything goes ok.
(lol, my pokemon was spearow, and I was totally going to type 'swellow' into the box. xD)
NO!!!!!
Someone kill me. I've lost my life and soul. Why did the forums have to go like that and just while I had requested my egg from Worst Username Ever.WHY is the world so mean. Waaa!!!
SUICIDES…
Dragon_night: That joke fails on the Guinea Pig part. Guinea Pigs were called that because, apparently, they were first sold in New Guinea, and the pig part comes from the fact that they sound and walk (…Yeah, the book I read this from may fail slightly as well) like pigs.
Is true. There's some sort of irony in that. :/
Hey, Butterfree. Did you yet notice that the new forums were made in June as well? :P
…uh, of course they still work. That doesn't mean they're actually in use. Just wait for the real forums to come back, okay?
Okay, sorry for the triple post (unless someone has posted while typing this up), but I just found something interesting. Unless I'm mistaken, the very old forums still work.
Click here, and see at the bottom, a post made by a guest only two days ago, and mine right about now ;) (Although, it's in the pokemon haters section, I'm pretty sure it works for all the threads)
Ha, I knew the old, old forums could be revived.
Uh, looks like I totally screwed up the third sentence in my last post… My god, I just realized how important the edit button is right now >_>
I meant to say: The forums went from nothing but the 'rules' section to having all the other sub-forums.
Wow. Kudo's Butterfree. The forum when from just 'rules' to all the other forums (I want to be the first to post in writing ^^)
I didn't think it would go up so fast. Too bad there's no thread or posts anywhere… I'm guessing that would be the hardest part (or at least, the most time consuming) of getting the forums back up.
Aaaand, another bunch of joke's, pointed at the English language (again, no credit towards me, it's from http://www.walkupsway.com/grammar_jokes.htm):
Lets face it: English is a terrible language.
There is no egg in the eggplant, no ham in the hamburger and neither
pine, nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England. French fries were not invented in France.
We sometimes take English for granted. But if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.
If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth.
If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught.
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
Why do people recite at a play, yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house
can burn up as it burns down and in which you fill in a form by filling it out.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race (which of course isn't a race at all).
That is why when the stars are out they are visible, but when the
lights are out they are invisible. And why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts but when I wind up this story it ends?
I hope we can pick up all of the RPGs where we left off when everything gets back to normal thouh. I wouldn't want to start The Eight Regions or The Underground over.
Now that I think about it, I really don't care that the forums were deleted, as long as they come back (which they are). Now, if they didn't come back, that would be a different story…
Wow that sounds like fun Butterfree. Not.
Slowpoke for the Spammifier.
Dragon: I'm impatient too xD
… actually I just want to get an early registration (after all, if my theory's right then I was the 13th person to register on the old forums o.O). I know it doesn't matter too much when you register, but I'm just weird like that.
Dusclops for the spammifier (which is what I had on my first post on this page).
Oh dang. I'm trying to register, but Butterfree has disable that ability >_> (Although the forums have like 5 members with about 48 guests viewing it) *sighs*
I'm too impatient ;_;
Okay, I managed to retrieve as much of the Mafia information as I could (most of it was spread out over various Mafia games on the other forums). I think there'll be a few things worded slightly differently than the original, and maybe even a few parts missing (right now the only part I can think of that's missing is the part about the characters and the 'plotline' that comes at the beginning), but for the most part everything's here. :P
Dang, all my posts down the drain… But at least the Torkoal Lava Style'll be up! I might just change my name…
I don't care about the forum wipe, this is kind of awesome, being one of the 'earliest' members (even though I'm not).
Anyway, good luck with the task.
whoa, some new forums just popped up
If I wanted to I could go steal the position of member #2, presuming registrations are open
but I'm not going to
(also damn there's a validation image but I'm not sure if it's silcoon or cascoon)
I thought next week sounded reasonable. Well, I'm sad to say I haven't saved anything. Besides some avatars, but only the ones on my computer because I made them.
Good luck with rebuilding the forums!
I will help out by lookoing through that web archive I found. Which threads are the important ones?
