HOLY @#*)($&@)&#$, the somethingawful forums got accidentally deleted, there's no backup! EDIT: IT WAS A JOKE! :MAD:

[Phokus]

http://forums.somethingawful.com/index.php?s=

"Sorry, the forums got accidentally deleted... we're trying to find our backup from 2001. Go ahead and panic, this is bad. "

WTF?!?!? What kind of moron administrator doesn't have a backup!?!??!

HOly shit, this means they have to reprogram all the new code the introduced from the last 6 years?!?!?! WTF WTF WTF

Edit: It was a march 23'rd joke! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[DaTT]

hehehe.....from 2001?

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Early April Fools joke?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

hose job? hack?

I haven't logged into SA in a while. This will suck, I'm not gonna pay again to join up. Hmm, wait a minute, maybe that is the plan.

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Early April Fools joke?

wayyyyy too early for april fools.

 

[Bullhonkie]

Damn, that's pretty bad if it's not some kind of prank.

 

[DaTT]

Never even been there....is/was it any good?

 

[isasir]

Uh, whoops?

What would happen if this happened to the Anandtech Forums? :shocked:

 

[ed21x]

a good number of SA people post here as well. Maybe we'll be experiencing a surge of membership because of this. Either way, this is pretty bad.

 

[EvilYoda]

lol, wow...that's so stupid that I can't imagine it being real. I hope it's a joke somehow, even though I've never visited.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Hahahahahahahaha!

 

[eakers]

they are probabley just doing upgrades or something and want to freak people out.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Early April Fools joke?

wayyyyy too early for april fools.

Less than ten days away, an early lead-in would make it very convincing. Especially if they had wanted to take things offline for a bit to do some maintenance anyway.

 

[MAME]

it's a joke

 

[ed21x]

http://forums.somethingawful.com/

routine maintenance.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Heh!

 

[rh71]

2001 doesn't seem that long ago until you actually think about it. Damn.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Told you so.