Anime Beta Down?

GK,

I forgot my password at AB :( Would you please send one at ruriko.yoshida@gmail.com ?

Thanks! ^_^

[quote]It is sad that RS seems to only get an influx of visitors only when AB is down.[/quote]

Hey, this is nothing! It brought a SHOW ME thread to ANIMANGA: http://www.eu.animanga.com/cgi-bin/celsbook?cmd=thread&tstart=1&tnb=30 And how long has that been? ^__^

Alrighty here's the latest so pay attention. I have a lot to share. >_<
[quote]Anime-Beta is currently unavailable. The user table was corrupted and lost due to server issues with the webhost last week. I am working on restoring a backup, but the last one I have that is useable is from Jan 2007. I am working on recreating all the accounts for users that have joined since then, but it is a slow process. The good news is that no other parts of the DB were affected. All posts, private messages, etc. are intact. The bad news is that any changes made to any of your accounts since Jan 2007 were lost. This includes avatars, signatures, post counts, buddy list info, email addresses, and probably the most painful, your passwords. I will set up a special email account for you to email account issues to. I will be diligent about checking it every day until everyone is able to log back into their accounts. I will be able to accurately update your post counts in time, but it will be an account-by-account process and will be slow. I apologize for this mess. Had I been more involved with my backups, this wouldn't be the mess it is now. -Magician[/quote]

Now Magician and I have been discussing this issue and here's what the latest is on how soon it'll be up and running:

[quote]For now I just need to keep sorting thru the DB. The good news is that I can
put usernames and joined dates back to a large number of the "lost
accounts". The "Welcome to Anime Beta" PMs that cloud sends out have the
username in the message text. I was also able to reset all the post counts
for the 60 lost users. The bad news is that I will have to write a rather
difficult SQL query to count posts made between the date of the last user
backup (mid jan 2007) and today for all the older user accounts. I hope the
older members will be patient with me regarding the post counts. Once I get
the SQL syntax for that query down, it will just be a matter of running it
on each user account one at a time.

I got the private registration hack installed today. This should all but
eliminate spambots. I am going to keep new registrations disabled for a
while until the bulk of the user table issues are cleaned up. I am going to
upgrade the phpbb code tomorrow night, and see if I can finish the medals
hack too. This may be optimistic, but I think we can put beta back online
sometime Wednesday night.

I am going to create an email account "userissues@anime-beta.com" for
everyone to use for account issues. I will check it every day and fix what
people will send me. If you could help spread the word on the other boards
like rubberslug that would help. I will put an announcement up on the portal
and in the "please read" sections as well.


What a mess...

-A[/quote]

In order to avoid this mess in the future DW and I will also be doing backups from now on. Magician has been so busy with work and certification stuff for his job that obviously the backups took a back seat. -_-; So now DW and I are going to jump into the tech mess and help out more in that area. At least take some of the heat off of Magician so that he can focus on his studies.

More to come later....

poor Alec >_<

I can sympathize completely with him about having to juggle so many IT duties both job and career-related and then come home and find he has to invest what lil free time he gets to fix up A-B forum. @,@ it really bytes!
Heres hoping that its not too terribly frustrating and difficult for him.
Its no fun having to fix website bugs/errors especially large ones like a crash.

As much as I love AB I can totally wait for it. I think majority of folks here can understand if it takes longer than Wednesday.
No pressure on getting it up exactly in a week, at least not from me. If it takes longer thats ok too. ^_^
Thanks for keepin us posted Ang!