Hey folks. We had a big technical glitch which affected our database. Andy had to run a restore to get the sites working functionally. In the process, we lost several hours of data. More data was lost on BooTrib than on Euro Trib.
We will be tightening up our database backups so they are much more frequent, and we will be moving to a supported server soon. I’m not sure whether heavier than average traffic caused this problem or not.
The worst problem is for new users that signed up at either site during the period when we lost data.
At EuroTrib this will effect users 460-501, who need to re-create their accounts. At BooTrib this will effect users 1546 and 1547.
We also lost front-page stories, diaries and comments from both sites. We will look into what we can retrieve, but a lot of it is toast. Once again, the problem was worse at BooTrib than at EuroTrib.
If you posted a front-page story, or diary, please re-post them if you have copies. If you don’t I am truly sorry that we lost your valuable contribution.
I am writing this on the fly, even as we are still investigating. I will update as more information becomes available.
(frog) shit happens! Thanks for the update and all of your work, Booman.
(Oh look…catnip swore…out loud)
I was posting a comment on the ‘What Happened in the Year of Your IUD#’ and making a humorous – I thought it was humorous – comment about the Council of Chalcedon when
the site went down.
So you need to make a rule: Ya don’t fuck with the Council of Chalcedon!
Alrighty then – it’s your fault! Phew. That takes the heat off me then.
Oh…and kudos to this mysterious “Andy” creature as well. (Better be nice to him…he obviously weilds some great power around here…(whistling innocently)…)
are really sorry about the loss of comments etc.
We spent a lot of time trying to restore them, but we couldn’t get a lot of it back.
Andy is the brains behind the operation, the rest of us are just political junkies opposed to needless aggression.
I am also opposed to needless aggression… but more like a techno junkie than a political one.
Booman, thank you for responding so promptly to my worried e-mail about the site. (I’m guessing there were many others like it.) Customer service is the key to success!
and I was getting a steady stream of emails from people who thought they had been banned.
It was frustrating, because some people’s feelings were really hurt. But what could I do but try to explain that we had a glitch?
As most of you know, banning doesn’t happen lightly here.
Hope not… I live off that stuff, man…
great power in the hands of a fool… 🙂
you can believe that i’m seriously kicking myself for not setting up a better backup system… stupid argh oh well.. next time.
yourself, but I’m quite content to thank you for doing whatever you had to do to put it all back together again.
Kudos to you dude.
Heck – no need to kick yourself. Au contraire. I was actually relieved to lose the comment I submitted to the mojo site. It was shameful indeed to be the only writer who didn’t receive mojo (except from dear, kind Man Eegee, who never fails to come through, even during the bleakest hour).
Good day to all!
bye
sorry I didn’t see it… I’m back to working too much again, and internet’s out at work…
Sorry – I was just throwing myself a pity party (when I have a “gift”, I use it!) Thanks for the mojo mocha, kind sir. And have yourself a wonderful, snark-filled day!
(as she continues to hum along to “Betty Rubble hair” 🙂
Carrey when he played the Riddler for one of the Batman movies (sans spandex). He gets zapped at the end and his brain inflates. I’ve done so much reading, but it’s been worth it. Now I’m off to try and get some work done before my boss frog-marches me out of here.
Wishing you a day full of sunshine and devoid of personal frog-marchin’!
A big hug for you, andy, and stop being so damn hard on yourself!!
Andy, take it from an old techie. That’s not how to do it. You should be more open and sympathetic. Something along the lines of:
COWER BRIEF MORTALS!
I am in control of the site. I control whose comments and diaries live and those that die. You are under MY power.
One Blog to Rule them All,
One Blog to Find them.
One Blog to Bring them All,
And in the Darkness Bind Them!
In the Frogpond of BooTribune
where the comments lie.
___________________
You see? Something like that help promote the site to newbies and creates community among the existing users.
heh. thanks for the laugh. nothing quite like fear to keep the populace in line.
now back to figuring out those login problems…
I’m so glad I didn’t slip into an alternate reality where everything was exactly the same except I had memories of phantom internet posts. 🙂
no kidding. But, but – I swear, it was right here!!!
It’s been quite the month so far, huh? Kudos BooMan for surviving it.
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Geez – I only suggested a delete option for one bad comment I made. This is just too much service coming my way …
Telling I’m just glad BooMan is up and running again – will give you all support today to redo some of the comments. Heh people, don’t be stingy with spreading some cheers and mojo today for all newbies who are all trusted, but not yet reached the threshold of TU. Need a big fix it today.
Listen to BooMan moan last night …
USA WELCOME: Make Yourself Known @BooMan Tribune and add some cheers!
I can post again…phew!
feels good, doesn’t it?
And that’s saying a lot.
Is this thing on? <tap, tap, tap>
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Yes – Yes Back To Business. Don’t Wipe the Blackboard! Problem has existed in all generations!
USA WELCOME: Make Yourself Known @BooMan Tribune and add some cheers!
I am shocked and outraged! I demand a recount… I demand a march, a protest.. a petition be signed and hand-deliver! We will not stand for this…
Oops.. wrong thread. Where was I again? 😉
Pax
geesh, I was only commenting about a fart…..wheeewww,,good thing I really did’nt, could’ve wiped out the whole site ; )
I posted a diary yesterday, one with some issues with a pic (was offline last night and received an email about it this morning)…I thought maybe it got yanked….I was going to do something with it this morning and it was no longer there…I was like, “Did I do something over the line that I wasn’t aware of?”
That’s OK though. Not a big deal. Just glad I can post and comment again! 🙂 –M
Which ones are lost? I had posted in 19 so I know it’s gone – my first clue was looking to see if I had any more replies to my comment there, it wasn’t listed any more.
looks like everything before #19 is okay.
Hi snakelass – I noticed that too. In fact I had you in mind when I made a crack about Oui’s bear being responsible. Yah – I know – not funny.
I think we should have a ‘do over’ – I don’t remember everyone, but the guy in Ontario with the dog – his picture is gone, and a guy from Philadelphia… um anyone else?
Was it from “Starship Troopers”?
Not Buffy either. It’s just an old habit when signing up for anything to grab whatever I happen to be reading at the time, and use a name and phrase as user and pass. It makes for some um.. interesting names, but at least there’s no password continuity traveling through thousands of places that I’ve forgotten about. I was stuck for a while with something ugly pulled from The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945, but zander, as unlikely as it sounds was, I think, from The Aquariums of Pyongyang. Random and meaningless, but I think it’s growing on me….
Hi zander. I remember snakelass (hi snakelass!!), peterborocanuck w/ his rocking best of breed dog, and Daniel the sociologist who has recently been reunited w/ his partner (woo hoo!).
When I couldn’t get on, I thought I BooMan had kicked me out of the pond too. Very relieved to get through today.)
O.
That’s pretty impressive.
I was engaged in a discussion about, of all things, the OJ trial.
Now it seems my comments have gone off to find the real killer….
Somehow eerily on point:
477 CE: Rome – Cassiodorus, inspired by St. Augustine, is a Benedictine monk who believes that knowledge of the classics is mandatory for understanding the Bible. He also includes copying manuscripts as “manual labor” suitable for monks. The preservation of all classical Latin texts is due to the persistence of Benedictine monks, under the guide of Cassiodorus who dies in 570 CE.
A lot of the posts in this diary are gone, so if you posted in it, please check to make sure your entry hasn’t gone away (mine had, so I reposted it).
But at least now I know the symptoms of BooTrib withdrawal: shortness of breath, quickening of the pulse, dilation of the pupils, slight palsy of the trackpad hand. In future I’ll have ameliorative measures at hand — I just need to discover what those might be.
“There are two types of poeple: those who have lost data, and those who are going to lose data.”
We were having a good conversation on mental illness and social policy. I thought you all had decided to hate on me…
But with my short term memory ‘issues’ I’m not sure I wrote anything worthy of keeping anyway.
As I trundled off to bed the thought was “oops – Booman’s having a bad night”. My geeky hubby was tremendously sympathetic…
Glad you’re back…compost happens – and makes the garden grow!
I guess my timing couldn’t be better. Last night I shut down my computer at 5:30 and proudly announced my actions to my husband. He gave me a hug of support and congratulated me for going cold turkey for the evening. HA! I guess it was like making a grandiose gesture that I was having my final cocktail when it was actually beyond Last Call.
“Frogzilla goes to Rome” wound up lost last night…
I had posted it for Donna in Rome by request and he got wiped out… or did he?
hmmm… maybe he likes eating hard drives instead of flies…
So…. is this why the rating option is gone?
Can you elaborate on this at all? You cannot rate comments any more?