What Happened to the forums?

[Cena44]

I think the title explains all.

[James Moretti]

I think the title explains all.

Database error.

[Chief J. Schappell]

Seems to be fixed now, but the theme has changed... *Looks around confused*

[James Moretti]

This is the standard SMF theme.


Just wait for Paul to set it back.

[Chief J. Schappell]

This is the standard SMF theme.


Just wait for Paul to set it back.

It appears as if Gandalf was fixing the forum recently when it broke, but as to why the theme was changed is a bit confusing.

[Cena44]

Oh I hope it will be fixed fast

[Chief J. Schappell]

Oh I hope it will be fixed fast

Agreed. This is a bit odd.

[Deluca]

I must say I'm impressed with the new theme Newest motive?

[Ivan.Cipone]

I personaly don't like this theme. 

[Chief J. Schappell]

It's the default SMF 2 theme. I think Gandalf forgot to switch things back when he fixed the forum.

[Dimos]

is easy to fix it

[[Rstar]Paul]

Hi,

Occasionally a server restart can cause a table to be crashed. There for usually as soon as we notice a restart, we check for errors and repair the database. We did this yesterday, which means there was no reason to put the forum to closed and miss most of today.
A quick message to me or Sauron will repair it within a couple of minutes, and usually the repair is already done before anyone can alert us.

Gandalf

Everything should be back to normal now, including the theme.

[Darxez]

is easy to fix it

It's easy to fix, possible in your eyes, If the guy with the texture file isn't there, then it is god damned hard. Serieusly, get some brains before saying this kind of stuff. It's not that easy at all.

Thanks Paul !

[JDC]

Approximately 1315 hours on May 28, Central Eastern Time, renegade elements of an elite hacker group launched denial-of-service attacks on the hosting servers which were home to the ARPD Forums. Administrator Paul was online to combat the immediate threats, although his efforts were no match for the collective experience of the rogue gray-hat hackers.

In the ensuing chaos, one of the hackers accidentally broke into the Pentagon's defense security system, believing it to be a security upgrade done by Sauron to the Azellus hosting server we use. As a result, 13 nuclear bombs from the United States of America were launched at different locations all over the world, obliterating major cities such as Houston, Washington D.C., London, Langley, and The Hague. Argonath Forum Headquarters reported the first attack at approximately 1410 hours CET.

As of now, the United Nations has deployed relief forces in an effort to alleviate the damage caused by the accidental nuclear holocaust. Rations and fuel are running low in many different parts of the globe, with 3 billion dead and an additional 2 billion injured. The US Government has considered moving selected individuals from all over the globe to Mars, which has been recently terraformed (through a secret Russian project), and leaving the rest of the human population to die.

...

Nah, I'm just bored. We don't even have a forum headquarters.

[Ronaldo]

Paul do the forums have backup detabase ?

[[Rstar]Paul]

Paul do the forums have backup detabase ?

Database is usually backed up by Sauron when necessary.

Locked.