Viqsi
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Today at 5:43 PM
A simpler explanation for the less tech savvy (as written by Hatterson):
HF needed to restore from a backup.
When they went to do this they found out that the backup was incomplete, a bunch of data was missing from it.
They have an old backup but that’s from a year ago so doesn’t have any data that’s changed in the last year (new posts, new users, account changes, etc)
Some of that data from the last year can be manually recovered because they happened to have a sort of copy of it in a different format, but that’s not ideal and takes a lot of manual work.