[font=Verdana, Arial]Posted by Sandwich on Friday, April 8th, 2005 at 20:30 GMT [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial]Here's the deal. We've restored the forums - and notice I said forums. So, if you were able to see HLP right now, it'd look normal at first glance.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial]However, if you were to venture into any of the restored forum sections, you'd see that they're missing all their posts. You see, forum sections are stored seperately from posts in the database. And the short of it is that Styxx was able to restore the forums, but didn't have time to complete the restoration of the posts themselves.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial]So, I'm left with a decision. I can do one of 3 things:[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial]Now, the other problem with options 1 and 2 are that I don't know if anybody posting in the forums, with the state they're in now, will knock the restore process out of sync or not. Therefore, in the interests of saftey, the HLP forums will remain closed until the restoration process is completed on Monday. Sorry, I know it sucks, but such is life. I don't like it either.[/font]
- [font=Verdana, Arial]Reopen the forums, and disappear for the weekend while you all scream and bitch about how we lost all the posts on the internals.[/font]
- [font=Verdana, Arial]Attempt to hide the forums that were restored, so you can't see that they're still incomplete. Theoretically. What with vB's wonderful record at private forums staying private, however, I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of you had direct links to the internal forums that would completely bypass vB's "hiding" of them.[/font]
- [font=Verdana, Arial]Leave the boards closed until Styxx can get back to the posts backup, on Monday.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial]In the meantime, however, I encourage you all to go haunt any or all of the following "rising stars" of the Freespace community - most HLP regulars also infes-err, visit one or more of these, so you should find yourself surrounded by friends just like you are at good ol' HLP.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial]And now, an announcement from Goober:[/font]
- [font=Verdana, Arial]SectorGame - forums[/font]
- [font=Verdana, Arial]Game Warden - forums[/font]
- [font=Verdana, Arial]GTD Bastion (which, err, also seems to be down as I type this...)[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial]We, the HLP admins, apologize on behalf of Gamespy for the extended forum outage. To ensure that these incidents do not recur in the future, we plan to ... <crackle>... Gamespy ...<snap>... soon ...<pop>... 3.0 is....<hisssssss>..........[/font]
Wow...
