ThePhotoForum.com Outage and Update/Lost Data

[Space Face]

i know, but i always sorta imagined i'd be involved with the end of the world rather than just laughing at being redirected to pornhub.

What's a Pornhub?

 

[Jeff15]

I have been trying to log on all day and I have noticed that I have about 24 million posts to my name

 

[nokk]

What's a Pornhub?

google it!

 

[Space Face]

google it!

No thanks. I have a heart condition.

 

[otherprof]

As some of you may have noticed the site has been upgraded to the latest software and we are also running on newer (faster) hardware. The biggest thing you may have noticed is that the past couple weeks of forum posts/threads/media has disappeared.

An old administrator account that was no longer active was used to deface the site and to delete content. We do daily backups but unfortunately a silent error was preventing the backups from being run over the last couple of weeks. This cascade of failures unfortunately left us only with an older copy of the database than we would prefer. We are very sorry for this loss of data and do apologize to our community.

We are still ironing out some of the wrinkles of the newer software so if you see anything else broken please let us know and post in here. Thank you for your support and your patience.

To quote Odysseus, " Be brave, my heart. We have seen worse than this." Thanks to the staff for all the great work they do. A glitch during a major software upgrade - who would have thought that could happen?

 

[cgw]

No spike in positivity, no hospitalizations/ICU admissions as a result. Annoying but we're all good. Still my favorite community.

 

[ekool]

Heck, we've been playing with uploading photos over in the Off Topic forum, and I'm here to tell you - it's a BREEZE! Faster than the old version, and @limr said it even let her re-size one before she posted it. Great feature!

Of course, no one likes a hack or a hacker, but the outcome is a faster, upgraded version of the site we all love - so let's just play with the new features and have fun with it.

Poor Charlie - he has to re-do the Photo of the Month winner, and all the images for May's contest, too. *sniffle* Let's be patient with each other for a few days.

Yes the new software has some pretty slick features, and we can add some more stuff to it. We also just enabled emoji support, so give that a try!

 

[snowbear]

Nowhere near any kind of priority, but I hope you can reinstall the Red skin.

The April winner announcement page has been rebuilt; luckily I was able to find the original post. As far as the May nominations - I don't know what photos were nominated.

Anyone having nominated a photo for May 2021 POTM, please try to re-nominate the photo.

 

[ntz]

To quote Odysseus, " Be brave, my heart. We have seen worse than this." Thanks to the staff for all the great work they do. A glitch during a major software upgrade - who would have thought that could happen?

this is not just a "glitch" .. this is bummer and utter failure .. I am IT guy and I am and I was involved in several forums as an administrator so I am just now speaking of my experience in the real world. It has nothing to do with fact, that I love this forum and community. Truth is, that this is not a minor fault but dealbreaking bummer caused by probably lack of competence and it's damaging the confidence and raises more questions. Let's move on .. what else can we do ? the bitter taste will remain and hopefully fade away over the time ..

 

[Space Face]

 

[Rickbb]

Welcome to the new world order where hacking and counter hacking of everything will be the new normal.

 

[otherprof]

I have been trying to log on all day and I have noticed that I have about 24 million posts to my name

I think I read them

 

[jeffashman]

Here to stay. I work with databases on a daily basis, and perfectly understand how things can go sideways. I've recovered from the shock of being redirected to PH; those are not the photos I want to see. The update looks great! Now to try out the new software.

 

[jeffashman]

this is not just a "glitch" .. this is bummer and utter failure .. I am IT guy and I am and I was involved in several forums as an administrator so I am just now speaking of my experience in the real world. It has nothing to do with fact, that I love this forum and community. Truth is, that this is not a minor fault but dealbreaking bummer caused by probably lack of competence and it's damaging the confidence and raises more questions. Let's move on .. what else can we do ? the bitter taste will remain and hopefully fade away over the time ..

If this were business critical, I would agree, however, this is a site being run by volunteers, and very few people outside of business have things like DR in the forefront of their mind. This isn't Colonial, which really did have an impact on people's lives, and none of us, as far as I know, lost any of our pics, because we have them on our computers, and probably online at one of the photo sites. Some grace needs to be extended.

 

[VidThreeNorth]

You completely lost a "topic" that I posted to the "DSLR Video" zone. I think it was called "State of Cropped Sensor Mirror-less Camera Video, May 2021". I might have notes enough to rebuild parts of it.