Update

06/22/08: Forum Clarifications

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.

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Bakuphoon
Website: I don't have one ^^;;;
Commenting on: 06-22-08

So, um hi people of tCoD :)

I'm really sad that the forums got deleted :( Especially the RPGs.

So, Butterfree, got any idea on how it happened?

» Reply to this [22/06/2008 18:20:33]
Dragon_night
Commenting on: 06-22-08

Well I guess my school timing is almost perfect. If the forums are guessed to be up in a week, then I don't have to worry about being bored this summer! Although, what really sucks is if I'm not on the forums, I'm cleaning to get rid of my bed bugs ;_;



Anyway, because I'm still bored and to lighten the mood, I'll pass out more jokes ^^(again, I take no credit for them, I just heard them before, but don't know where they came from)





Inside a train is a man, a pretty woman, an old woman, and a male police officer. As the train moves into a tunnel, thus making it impossible to see (there aren't any lights in the train), the group people on the train heard the following: A kissing sound, and then a large smack.



As the train exited the tunnel, the pretty woman though "Why would the man kiss the old hag instead of me?"



The old woman though "That's right young lady, smack him good"



The police officer though "That man's sly. He get's the kiss, and I get smacked for it"



And finally, the man thought "Sweet. I kiss the back of my hand, smack a police officer and get away with it!"



~



A man stood in a park, looking at the horizon. A Frisbee came into view, and then man thought "Why is it getting bigger and bigger?"



Then, it hit him.

» Reply to this [22/06/2008 18:06:53]
Pazo the Mortamor
Commenting on: 06-22-08

Yay! New forums! Everything will be new :D

And I seriously have no idea why the forums were wiped. Neither does anyone else. Of course it's obvious to me because I'be never had a website like this before.

Anyway, good luck rebuilding the forums ;)

» Reply to this [22/06/2008 18:06:14]
EmeraldLeafBlade
Commenting on: 06-22-08

OUCH.

I didn't post much at all on TCoD forums, but I know how it feels to have posts and such important to you lost.

When Mew's Hangout was wiped… the first conversation I had with my first online friend was on there. Gone now. Tons of other great things and memories from the great year that was 2004… (to me, at least) gone. Just gone. For those who lost something important to them, like a post or a fic they cared about and never will read again… I feel for you. I really do.

» Reply to this [22/06/2008 17:56:49]
Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 06-22-08

Really? Awesome. :D Thanks, and don't lose them.

» Reply to this [22/06/2008 17:38:59]
Leafpool
Commenting on: 06-22-08

Oh-Butterfree! I have the Mafia rules saved on the other forum I'm on! I can send you them over PM when the forums get back up.

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