Recent Site Downtime - What you should know...

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  1. Alien

    Alien Regular Member

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    Hey humans,

    We want to apologize for the recent downtime. What started as bad ram a couple of weeks ago, has now also become a hard drive failure on our primary SCSI drive. This drive has now been replaced, however we've had a few problems along the way with some corruption. We've managed to restore the bulk of things, however there are a few things you should know.

    What's missing?

    1) All *custom* avatars. You will need to re-upload your own custom avatar if you choose to have one, otherwise you can use one of our stock ones. All members using stock avatars do not have to reset them. I do have backups of all old custom avatars should you need me to restore it for you. However, if you have the ability to restore it yourselves PLEASE do so.

    2) Any *recent* profile pics, or signature images that were uploaded/updated on our site (say, the past 7-10 days) will have to be re-uploaded. If you notice a missing image of THESE types, that's most likely what has occurred. The database knows you changed it recently, but we do NOT have those files any longer so go put them back! For a small handful of you, I went in and deleted any missing images myself while browsing about and testing. However, the rest of you will have to do so yourselves.. :tongue:

    Report Bugs
    If any of you notice anything odd around the site for the next couple days, please let us know immediately and we'll try to fix it.

    We appreciate your patience during all this downtime, hopefully we won't see a repeat of this.
     
  2. monsieurjohn

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    thanks for your work getting it back up! i have my avatar somewhere.
     
  3. Panache

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    Thanks for letting us know about this, and getting the site back up! :)
     
  4. Alien

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    Things look pretty good so far...

    Let me know if you encounter any oddities!
     
  5. V4L3NT1NE

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    Images don't seem to be posting properly in pm's at least. I just tried posting a few images in a pm and when I previewed the message all it showed was the link.

    Thinking that I may have done something wrong, I tried posting an image in a pm at wtf using the same method and it worked fine.

    Are images handled differently here?

    The images are hosted on photobucket, btw, if that makes a difference.

    edit: No, they weren't newds. They were avatar ideas for Jane.

    GAWD! :tongue:
     
  6. jane

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    LOL valentine...thanks for the avitar

    alien, thank you for all of your hard work!!
     
  7. V4L3NT1NE

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    Jane you are most welcome. :)

    Plus, along the same lines, though slightly different, when uploading my new avatar, which is a .png, a white background was added as you can see.

    The preceding sentence was not constructed as a rhyme but who am I to change things that happen in time?

    Seriously though, the auto addition of the white bg has left me slightly confused as I have recently and successfully uploaded a .png file to the Recent Site Updates thread.

    Again, my first thought as usual, was that I had done something wrong. However, at this point I am at a loss for what that might be.

    Sincerely,

    Me
     
  8. Alien

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    Thanks for the report!

    I'll do some testing of those issues as soon as possible, and report back!
     
  9. Alien

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    Images in private messages = FIXED.

    I'll take a look at the other stuff soon...
     
  10. V4L3NT1NE

    V4L3NT1NE Regular Member

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    :thumbsup:

    Thank you for all your effort.
     
  11. Alien

    Alien Regular Member

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    (Just to keep a record)...

    Jane (via IRC): Social Groups Link and Album link not working via Quick Links menu (but only on homepage) = FIXED.
     
  12. Elmo

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    \o/ Yay, back up. Good work :) I know how hard running a board can be. Thanks for the work you put into The Soup !
     
  13. Alien

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    Thank ya kindly, furry one. ;)
     

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