FORUMS ARE BACK!

YouTube · Post by **BasiliskWrangler** » January 18th, 2007, 1:17 am

Everyone:

Our deepest apologies...the forums were sacked tonight and we have no idea what happened. The investigation will continue as to the cause, but at least for now we're back up. A few people have emailed us with concerns over the safety of the game- don't worry! These forums are hosted offsite on a separate server. No computer in the studio was affected.

The biggest problem is that our last forum database backup was over two weeks ago, so we lost a few accounts and some posts!!

We have learned our lesson and will do backups more frequently.

As you can see, we also lost our color scheme after the restore, so it'll be a few days before we get that back.

Again, we're very sorry!

Rollor · Post by **Rollor** » January 18th, 2007, 10:50 am

Wow tough luck.. Hope you will find whos resposible and put them to justice!!

YouTube · Post by **BasiliskWrangler** » January 18th, 2007, 3:10 pm

This looks to have been caused by a failed update from earlier in the evening. Long story short is I updated the forums software but didn't have the smarts to back-up the database first, and since I work from multiple computers I didn't immediately check on the success of the update from the computer I performed the update from (hey, it seemed like a flawless automated process every other time I did it!)

Apparently the update failed to complete itself and subsequent forum activity caused the database to crumble.

Live and learn.

We now have safety measures in place to prevent this from happening again.

YouTube · January 19th, 2007, 10:22 am

Testing...

We will be playing around with different forum skins (again) for the next couple weeks, so if you log on and see some odd graphics here and there just ignore them.

YouTube · January 21st, 2007, 10:11 am

New graphics and color scheme finished today- you may need to clear out your browser's cache to load new icons. Please report any anomalies. Thanks!

YouTube · January 21st, 2007, 10:19 am

Crap.

I just realized that we lost everyone's avatars when restoring the forums.

I can't possibly apologize enough for the hassle this has caused....

Elveronion · Post by **Elveronion** » January 21st, 2007, 10:46 am

Mine was one of the accounts deleted!!

no big deal. I like the new forum look.

Gallifrey · Post by **Gallifrey** » January 21st, 2007, 1:53 pm

Liking the new colour and graphic scheme! Very nice.

Grayth · Post by **Grayth** » January 21st, 2007, 11:08 pm

Glad to see the forums back!

I've been lurking a bit. Good to see the progress! Looking forward to a game that isn't as complicated as a lot of them out there today.

Keep it simple!

Thanks for all your work.

Grayth

Rollor · Post by **Rollor** » January 22nd, 2007, 1:58 pm

Uhh new skin

Looks nice, great work

Though it was your own fault you had to do it

YouTube · Post by **BasiliskWrangler** » January 22nd, 2007, 2:05 pm

Yeah, thanks for rubbing it in.

screeg · Post by **screeg** » January 22nd, 2007, 4:24 pm

I like the new skin. It's unusual, but classy.

Rollor · Post by **Rollor** » January 23rd, 2007, 12:56 pm

BasiliskWrangler wrote:Yeah, thanks for rubbing it in.

Thats what im here for