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General Category => Board News and General Announcements => Topic started by: FEMMEFIGHT on March 27, 2015, 06:08:59 PM

Title: Site Outage
Post by: FEMMEFIGHT on March 27, 2015, 06:08:59 PM
We had a major (and I mean major) power cut in Amsterdam today (http://rt.com/news/244537-power-outage-north-holland/) which took most the data centres off line temporarily. What this meant for FCF is that whilst things came back online within minutes, we had a severely corrupted database which has just been restored.

If anyone notices anything unusual, post it here and we will get on it.

Good to be back!

cheers
John
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: Nutmeg on March 27, 2015, 06:15:47 PM
Only thing I noticed so far is forum profile pics seem to have been deleted. I just re uploaded mine but the other pictures seem to be still there.
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: FEMMEFIGHT on March 27, 2015, 06:33:52 PM
Thanks, a lot of files were corrupt and had to be restored from previous backups. this is the case for the banner management module as well so you may see some outdated stuff there
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: neofiyte on March 27, 2015, 07:03:24 PM
I noticed a number of members missing from my friends list and pending friends list...

I don't know if they all disabled their accounts last night or it was part of the database issue.

Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: DJP60 on March 27, 2015, 07:08:40 PM
"notice anything unusual" Meg is still Glob Mod. lol
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: CashleyAshley on March 27, 2015, 09:27:27 PM
Members list is still messedup and can not add my profile pic either...Thxx   also I tried to bring on new profile pic but it has krakmonster on it so beware my profile might be hacked ..thxx again
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: BigDevil on March 27, 2015, 09:51:09 PM
Like everyone else My profile pic was missing but otherwise everything else seems normal
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: aag77 on March 27, 2015, 11:25:05 PM
Noticed pictures from my threads gone, and wondered why that was. Maybe this is the explanation?
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: stormbolt7 on March 28, 2015, 05:35:13 AM
Meg ....

Hopefully you will look here first. Happened to see this, right before signing out, after sending you message ..

Not sure, but NEWBIEs ...  May have knocked some newer members out of forum.  Happened to see lady post entering poll. Done with in last 24 hours.
Yet now she is gone, just shows as guest.

May be nothing, yet thought I would mention it.
Also my profile is like scrunched/ compacted down now ....  Maybe due to lack of buddy profile photos?

Storm
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: FEMMEFIGHT on March 28, 2015, 10:16:37 AM
Some files were badly corrupted and we had to grab back up copies to get to where we are now. It seems a lot of recent or newer profile pictures have been lost. Please reup them.

There is still a fair bit of work to do but at least were back up. For a while it looked like we would be offline for possibly 48 hours....thanks to the guys at VXS, were back and busy :-)
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: neofiyte on March 29, 2015, 03:55:36 PM
I am having problems e mailing people on the site that have _ or . after their names...

It says:
The following error or errors occurred while posting this message:
One or more 'to'-recipients could not be found.
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: wrstlvr on April 05, 2015, 03:35:07 AM
I had posted dozens of pics in my "Trip down memory lane: 50 years of nostalgia..." thread under General Discussions about Catfights.  Any idea if they will be reinserted or are there gone for good? 

I took me quite a while and a lot of work to get them posted on that thread.  If they are gone, that's OK, but I don't think that I'll have the time and patience to repost all of them.  Very unfortunate.

Cheers,

Wrstlvr
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: wbiassociates on April 06, 2015, 06:46:54 PM
Hi Moderators - This might be totally unrelated to the outage, but our most recent post in the Producer's Announcements Area (April 3) has completely disappeared along with 2 supportive responses.  We will re-post our original post in the belief that we did nothing wrong and that "the internet" simply burped.  If that is NOT the case, and if our post is either illegal or improper, please let us know the issue and we will resolve it immediately.

Thank you - Walt, WBI Associates, LLC
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: Jill_T on April 09, 2015, 11:05:56 PM
Quote from: DJP60 on March 27, 2015, 07:08:40 PM
"notice anything unusual" Meg is still Glob Mod. lol
and a good one too ;)
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: rustedone on April 28, 2015, 09:44:23 AM
Still trying to upload an avatar, still getting error messages. Any advice?
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: Nutmeg on April 28, 2015, 10:13:23 AM
Quote from: rustedone on April 28, 2015, 09:44:23 AM
Still trying to upload an avatar, still getting error messages. Any advice?

Take a look here, just in case that is your issue http://www.freecatfights.com/forums/index.php/topic,37417.0.html

There is a solution a few posts in.
Title: Re: Site Outage
Post by: rustedone on April 28, 2015, 09:34:09 PM
It might help if I mentioned I was trying to upload .gif animations for an avatar. Is that still a thing or was it nixed in the update?