Did we lose some posts?

[Viper GTS]

I just replied to a thread that was on the front page for me, but when I looked at the time-stamp on the message it was from around midnight last night...

Did we crash or somethin'?



Viper GTS

 

[marketsons1985]

Yeah, something goin funky, my post about CS questions is gone too.....

 

[duragezic]

Yeah I come to General Hardware and there is about 6 recent ones and the rest are about 3:50 and earlier this morning.

 

[shiner]

Let's do the time warp again!!!

 

[AlphaIVT]

we lost all of today's post mostly

 

[optoman]

Anand himself wrote a blurb about the outage in Forum issues.

Edit: Linktified



<< As you may have realized we had a outage on the forums for a period today. This issue has been tracked down to be a fault with the database server that holds and serves all of the posts that are made in the forums. Unfortunately the error, which was hardware related that took down the forum's database array happened to corrupt the forums database. Luckily we back up the forums every morning at 3:00AM (EST) and thus were able to restore from our backup. Unfortunately any messages posted after then were lost, we apologize for the inconvenience. >>

 

[prodigy]

D'oh! I think I was about to hit 10K too. :|

 

[Tripleshot]

Go to forum issues forum to get the scoop from the CEO.

 

[BoberFett]

Kinda looks that way.

 

[shawnmos]

Yep we lost all of todays posts!!! ARG!!! :| They must have crashed and that was the last time they backed things up.

 

[Valhalla1]

yeah, okay that sucks.

 

[Viper GTS]

Dat sucks.

NFS4 lost his new title, too.



Viper GTS

 

[Valhalla1]

so did everyone's post count drop from the lost posts or not?

if not.. it'd be cool to know when an outage is about to come, so you could post one huge nef thread with likw 2,000 posts and then &quot;whoops, its gone!&quot;.

just kiddin'. something paulson would do

 

[Mday]

ATTN MEMBERS!!! okay, if you did NOT delete your cache, please see if you can &quot;restore&quot; some of the posts...

 

[dennilfloss]

Damn! I sent some rc5 invitations between 3am and 7am. Now I have to go trough my black book and compare it to the history to see which ones were lost. Aw well, up to work we go. Hi ho, hi ho...


[edit]Ack! 7 invitations gone! Only 5 survived! Oh, the humanity!

Afterimage (Rush)

 

[EmperorNero]

my heidi klum vs laetitia casta poll is gone too

I think it's b/c my gf got jealous and caused a DOS on anandtech and somehow deleted my post and then proceeded to your posts to cover up the original intention

 

[Viper GTS]

And I lost my thread devoted to NFS4, although it was locked anyway...



Viper GTS

 

[BuckMaster]

Damn I was tripping out. I was trying to go back and read a few replys when I got home from work and they were gone!! But I figured if anyone knew what was up, someone in the OFF TOPIC would know something!

Thanks!

 

[Ranger X]

I was in the hot deals forum and I remembered signing up for something. Now the thread is gone and I thought I was thinking of another board. Ah, that explains everything.

 

[IBhacknU]

pheeewww!

I thought for sure I was gonna get BANNED for what I wrote late last night. Good thing it's gone b4 the mods saw it

 

[hippy]

Friggin lightweights! What's bad about the loss of a few thousand Nef-isms anyway?

 

[Aquaman]

I lost about 6 posts....... no biggie

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[sweetrobin]

luckily I didnt lose any cause i was at work all day .. now I only get to post at night when I get home ...

 

[Optimus]

Dang - it was quiet at work today so I had a lot of posts!



Ah well - how 'bout I nef a bit to make up for it?

Go ahead. Make my day.

AnandTech Mean Moderator

 

[IBhacknU]

Cause you know, I had passed Paulson in posts, and now I'm back to where I started