OOTP Forums

[archibalduk]

Looks like the OOTP Forums were hacked/crashed. It has been offline for the past 24 - 48 hours and is now back online with a backup that's one year old. I wonder if it's just a glitch or whether a year's worth of posts has been lost.

[B. Stinson]

Update from their Facebook page:

"A status update on our web site from Andreas:

I changed the domain to another server with a copy of the site on a different server. Unfortunately for me it's still not showing up
The server provider now said it's a network problem and they are working on it.
I'll keep the forums offline because it doesn't make sense to activate the backup copy (which surely has a few hours missing) and then move it back later (today? tomorrow?) when the original server is back online."

[archibalduk]

A few hours missing?! More like 12 months when I saw briefly earlier today!

A bit of a pain really because I needed to download the FHM Editor this weekend so that I could input a mass of changes before today's DB deadline (the final 2013/14 DB research deadline). Now my changes will have to wait for the 2014/15 DB (i.e. for FHM 15).

[dave1927p]

A few hours missing?! More like 12 months when I saw briefly earlier today!

A bit of a pain really because I needed to download the FHM Editor this weekend so that I could input a mass of changes before today's DB deadline (the final 2013/14 DB research deadline). Now my changes will have to wait for the 2014/15 DB (i.e. for FHM 15).

perhaps they will extend the deadline this week...

[dave1927p]

I'm surprised it's still down. They really did a number on it.