OT: General OT Thread #44 - The World is Still Turning

[TaLoN]

I cannot change my name back to what it was. Infuriating.

Still working it the kinks from the cluster f***

 

[57special]

Not liking things so far, but will be patient.

 

[TaLoN]

Not liking things so far, but will be patient.

Yeah, need patience. Not HF's fault those hired to host the site failed to do their job. Management is pretty angry at them to say the last. Cleanup will take time. At least we didnt appear to lose any threads in the data recovery, though i had 9 pages of thread prefixes to fix here...

What really sucks, is the new account data completely lost over the last year!

 

[Minnewildsota]

Yeah, need patience. Not HF's fault those hired to host the site failed to do their job. Management is pretty angry at them to say the last. Cleanup will take time. At least we didnt appear to lose any threads in the data recovery, though i had 9 pages of thread prefixes to fix here...

What really sucks, is the new account data completely lost over the last year!

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with this. If they're asking people for money, and taking in ad money, they should have a proper backup plan.
"Well XenForo had it covered" isn't a proper backup plan. They should have some sort of software that backs up to offsite data.

 

[TaLoN]

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with this. If they're asking people for money, and taking in ad money, they should have a proper backup plan.
"Well XenForo had is covered" isn't a proper backup plan. They should have some sort of software that backs up to offsite data.

That money goes to paying for hosting/ server services. HF has never owned servers to store data. They rent server access. Always have since the beginning.

 

[Minnewildsota]

That money goes to paying for hosting/ server services.

Doesn't matter WHERE it's going. People are paying for the service of the site being up and running properly. That requires having a proper DR plan in place.

 

[TaLoN]

Doesn't matter WHERE it's going. People are paying for the service of the site being up and running properly. That requires having a proper DR plan in place.

Which is part of the services they pay for

 

[NHL1674]

I cannot change my name back to what it was. Infuriating.

Guess you're gonna have to become DigitalTrenin.

 

[DigitalBoldy]

Guess you're gonna have to become DigitalTrenin.

 

[TaLoN]

Thank God dark mode is back! I think my retinas got burned over the weekend!

 

[Minnewildsota]

Thank God dark mode is back! I think my retinas got burned over the weekend!

I don't know how people use light mode. It's unbearable.

 

[Wild11MN]

Someone said we could try to get the sponsor status back, correct? Assuming ads on mobile are unbearable still if/when they are back