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06 Feb 2012, 7:27 am

Enquiring minds (and minds suffering from withdrawal symptoms!!) need to know.



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06 Feb 2012, 7:29 am

Yes, I've been wondering about that myself. What the heck happened here???


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06 Feb 2012, 7:37 am

I'm guessing it was a planned Super Bowl upgrade thingy

Perhaps replacing hardware for the upcoming new software.

Or maybe an offline blind rehearsal of said new software upgrade. :shrug:



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06 Feb 2012, 8:10 am

I'm wondering what happened as well. WP was out of commission for a long time.



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06 Feb 2012, 9:42 am

Server failure. Had to restore from backup, which took quite a lot longer than anybody thought it would.



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06 Feb 2012, 1:24 pm

Terrorism aspie style maybe

and now the fun really starts to begin, woohoo



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06 Feb 2012, 1:38 pm

Alex has been working on various upgrades. Weird things almost always happen during upgrades. The best thing anyone can do is report any issues they've seen (checking, of course, to see whether someone has already reported the issue), so the admins can see what's been happening and do what they can to fix it.

It can be frustrating, but it's a reality that's almost impossible to completely avoid. Patience Grasshoppers! :)


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06 Feb 2012, 4:13 pm

MrXxx wrote:
Alex has been working on various upgrades. Weird things almost always happen during upgrades. The best thing anyone can do is report any issues they've seen (checking, of course, to see whether someone has already reported the issue), so the admins can see what's been happening and do what they can to fix it.

It can be frustrating, but it's a reality that's almost impossible to completely avoid. Patience Grasshoppers! :)


This is not an upgrade. The server had an issue, and we had to restore the whole server from backups. As of now, there are still files being restored, so many of the site functions are in a broken state.



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06 Feb 2012, 4:15 pm

Well all I know is I was having withdrawal symptoms. I felt like I ought to be walking around the hood asking strangers for a dollar and scratching my neck.


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06 Feb 2012, 4:20 pm

OliveOilMom wrote:
Well all I know is I was having withdrawal symptoms. I felt like I ought to be walking around the hood asking strangers for a dollar and scratching my neck.


:lol: That's how I felt.



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06 Feb 2012, 4:58 pm

sliqua-jcooter wrote:
MrXxx wrote:
Alex has been working on various upgrades. Weird things almost always happen during upgrades. The best thing anyone can do is report any issues they've seen (checking, of course, to see whether someone has already reported the issue), so the admins can see what's been happening and do what they can to fix it.

It can be frustrating, but it's a reality that's almost impossible to completely avoid. Patience Grasshoppers! :)


This is not an upgrade. The server had an issue, and we had to restore the whole server from backups. As of now, there are still files being restored, so many of the site functions are in a broken state.


Ah. Yes, well both can cause similar wonkiness. Sorry to hear you're having issues. Good luck with the restore efforts, and thanks for for dealing with it BTW!


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06 Feb 2012, 6:21 pm

I'm pretty sure their hamsters broke down


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06 Feb 2012, 6:23 pm

"The forum you have selected does not exist."

It was like a surreal nightmare.



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06 Feb 2012, 9:32 pm

Declension wrote:
"The forum you have selected does not exist."

It was like a surreal nightmare.


Try being the one responsible for fixing it :P



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06 Feb 2012, 9:35 pm

sliqua-jcooter wrote:
Declension wrote:
"The forum you have selected does not exist."

It was like a surreal nightmare.


Try being the one responsible for fixing it :P

Great Job BTW

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07 Feb 2012, 3:01 am

Vigilans wrote:
I'm pretty sure their hamsters broke down


The server monkeys had a union strike.