[retired_eneko5613]

Originally posted by Raptor:
It would look like everything closed and marked for archiving is gone.

That, by definition, includes all big finished/inactive/on ice stories, because all cr@p from yesteryear was deleted already.

Anything that's won an award last year and was still on the forum appears to have vanished.

I double checked with Kris in the OTF thread that this wouldn't happen

Kris out

[retired_bbcarr]

Supa playa, feel free to continue to post, but make sure that you have a back up of whatever you've posted since Saturday night at least. To be fair, it'd be best to make a back up of the entire story, I hardly have much trust in this board software.

[retired_amyslack]

**** poor software if you can't backup/restore forum by forum. Time SI got a better forum provider. My enthusiasm to continue drops another notch downwards.

[retired_bbcarr]

Right, as of this moment, 21:15, I have made complete back-ups of every story that has been posted in since Saturday (everything from What is a Wigan? by Supa playa down to Chelski Revolution by Okkas).

Feel free to continue posting in your stories, but make sure that you have a back-up of whatever you post from this point until this whole mess is sorted out.

If the board does revert to a Saturday night back-up, then I'll e-mail round the various authors with the copies of work that I've made.

Shows you just how much I trust this board

[retired_eneko5613]

Kris has confirmed in OTF that no restore of the backup (if one exists) is to be attempted.

fs if you ask me, and if my two in progress stories have gone (one of them again) then I for one won't be bothering to write anymore.

(Well, not strictly true, but I'll make sure I find somewhere else to host them - somewhere reliable)

[retired_bbcarr]

Wish I'd read that before I did a back-up in case he did a restore

[retired_eneko5613]

My Stalybridge Celtic story has gone again. It's been deleted in two ****ed up cleanses now

Honestly, it's a good job it's only a football simulation message board. I'd have been sacked for incompetence if I'd done this at work.

[Mike..]

Cheers for the info guys, not entirely sure I know what's going on yet so I'll leave it a couple of days and see what happens

[shannon2007]

TBH I think I lost Bringing Up Baby and now I just can't be arsed writing anymore. In fact I'm off to kill myself cos of it.

[retired_destiny1124]

Both The Bet and LotR Challenge stories are gone (for present)- well over 1000 posts *sigh*

I have a majority of both of them saved on diskette, but really don't want to bother posting all of them again.