Respawned: The Boards are back

We've been working all day on this, but the BASH forums are back:


The bad news is that our forums provider has let us know that we have lost all of last week's posts. Going on the freeforums site and reading some of the stories from other folks who lost everything evoked in us the internet equivalent of the scene at a train wreck.

The stories of effort loss were everywhere. In one case, an elderly lady passed away and left her dying comments on one forum - last words that will never be recovered. The folks who knew her were, shall we say, distraught. This story put my self-pity to shame. Misery loves company...so here's a few of these stories:

I´ve been an admin for a group with you guys since the 13th of June. I am surprised to read this has happened before, is this true? I can´t have this happen again, my bboard is a support group for people with mental illnesses. They can´t stand things like these.
- addi

After years of running an on-line support group for amputees on Yahoo I decided the end of June to move the members to a Forum here. On July 15th I closed the Yahoo site and this became our Forum. Thankfully I did not delete the Yahoo Group, but only closed the door. I am now leaving it up to the members if they wish to continue given our experience here.
-alpikecp

I can't say, how deeply frustrated I do feel. The more as I had asked our administrator to save the database in a backup and was informed, that "the button is inactive" - so, we now don't have anything remaining.

We've had our game-guild forum here and we have been on a problematic point of development. Now EVERY discussion, all agreements, all contracts are gone. our "partners" turned out to be deceitful - we are ruined.

luckily its just a game..... but still i am very annoyed.

When the forum came up again the first time, I missed some posts. Confusingly all contributions of our guild-leader and administrator of the last 3 weeks were gone. Other recent contributions were still there. Then, after another long down-time, all posts after june 29th were gone. And now only one topic is remaining. What the hell happened? Got we hacked? Did our admin run mad?
- sabata

Apologies to all the folks who registered on the BASH forums this past week. We have been told by our provider that this will never happen again.