technical issues So, we had some kind of technical problem.

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34 minutes ago, Lisias said:

It was way before my time!

If I understood correctly what I had read, there happened a software update that day. Instead of changing networks or servers, they changed the program that makes Forum "be" the Forum. It's yet another hop on that long chain of events above - when the HTTPd receives the https message, it must decide what to do with that thing, and someone told it "hey, ask this program here what to do", being "this program" the Invision Forum (Invision is the company that created, maintain and sell the software used by this Forum).

How the Invision Forum software operates is beyound me, but since I worked on similar products in the past, I infer that while migrating data from the old software to the new version of it (while "migrating" is a type of copy, but changing bits because the target like some things in a different format), something got wrong and data wasn't migrated, was corrupted in the process (becoming unusable) or was plain lost.

But... it was before my time, there're other reasons that could explain what happened, I'm only explaining to you what I think it was more likely to had happened (assuming I had all the facts correctly)!

i heard it was a global DoS attack that caused the forums to be restored from an old backup, but the first few were corrupted or smh, so they wound it back to the last october, deleting everything that came after that.

[Iapetus7342]

Returned from my UK Storm-induced slumber!

[FTLparachute]

5 minutes ago, Iapetus7342 said:

Returned from my UK Storm-induced slumber!

don't remind me - eowyn is a pain rn

anyway, hoping that whatever they're doing is over and the forum can continue as normal for a bit longer

Edited 6 hours ago by FTLparachute
staying on topic

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