Lets do the TIME WARP!

[whatsitmatter]

AAH!!! I don't want one!! You stay away from meeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JesusRocks]

he's just not come back yet... I wouldn't see Heavy as being responsible for this... especially since the person who is responsible for this has been named... Remember: He has been INSANELY LESS trollish since he became a mod...

[MrsSallyBakura]

I HIGHLY doubt HeavyDDR would crash all of Magick's servers. Remember it wasn't just this site that experienced these problems. Even if he for some unrealistic reason had this huge grudge against this site and was immature enough to crash it, why would he do it on all the servers?

[JesusRocks]

HERE HERE... Let us defend the honour of HeavyDDR... he should not be accused of something he has no possibility of doing. I noticed Kroze was getting blamed a lot as well... even though he is in much more of a position to be able to do this... it is quite obviously not him... plus the admins already know what went down - and it's neither Heavy's nor Kroze's fault.

[moo102]

Some of it, most likely. Maybe even a good chunk of it. However, good luck piecing together a full copy.

Even if it was only a chunk of it, it'd be better than losing everything

RE: who did this? I hear it was Cueball. Feel free to deny that, confirm that or edit it out of my post, mods.

[MrsSallyBakura]

he should not be accused of something he has no possibility of doing.

Amen to that one! :D
Nobody should ever be accused of doing anything they have no possibility of doing. Because that's just silly.

[JesusRocks]

¬_¬ it upsets me when people try and scapegoat this kind of stuff onto Heavy or Kroze... there's no need for it.

[MrsSallyBakura]

Exactly.
People are just in dire need to blame someone else.
It could be some inhuman spam/viral bot taking over overloaded servers one by one for all we know.
We the non-computer-techy users, that is. Mehaps the computer-techies have a slightly better idea?

[sonyco]

is the caption contest continuing from here?

[moo102]

MrsSallyBakura: Do you mean "methinks" or "mayhaps"?? O.o

And, from what I heard, Cue went and quadruple-asterisked up all the forums on this server, including this one... I'm just not sure how he did that.

[GcarOatmealRaisinCookies]

the site died for a few days.
give them time to put everything back together, and maybe we will have a new contest.

[ktiger34]

wow that really sucks about the all the accounts... o well... but at least i am still here <img src='/images/emoticons/smiley7.png'> ...

btw look past the pic 2 see what it really is...

[GcarOatmealRaisinCookies]

You know what we are missing? The Stickied Mod Locked "when the next episode is coming out threads." Those were great.

[insanehusky]

Good to see my Photoshopped Genius!™ caption contest pic was saved, lol. I was going to be a sad husky if it wasn't.

[Tinkerbell26Caruso]

my account was deleted... i have to do everything over....
so ur saying the server fell/failed/something else????
Id like to know so i can make sure it doesnt happen to my network


nice lolcat by the way....

[MrsSallyBakura]

MrsSallyBakura: Do you mean "methinks" or "mayhaps"?? O.o

It's my made-up word that's a cross between "perhaps" and "methinks."

[JesusRocks]

THIS IS PROBABLY WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SERVER

[feel4yogurt]

im not saying he did it, im speculating

[MrsSallyBakura]

Unrealistically so.

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[feel4yogurt]

totally, wut happened.

[LadyAbaxa]

It's nice to see the site back up. There has been a spate of hackings and DDoS attacks over the last six months*. Since the server was hacked I imagine it was a vulnerability in server code and not something to do with this site itself. These days hacking is BIG business and the real brains behind it are sophisticated and always probing for new weaknesses they can exploit. You simply can't be too paranoid in this day and age ... unfortunately.

Now as far as caching goes, that is something you'll see in search engines. Say, for example, you search Google you can click the little 'cached' links. /shrug There's no telling what a little Google-Fu will turn up.

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*Allakhazam was knocked off the web several times and ultimately had to move to a new, more secure server. Just a week ago or so most of the player sites for EQ had their forums hacked into although, to my knowledge, nothing severe came of it. Everyone had their passwords reset and there was a giant headache patching up the database vulnerabilities.

[MrsSallyBakura]

You know, now that I think about it, last year in June (while I was on vacation, go figure) the other forum I frequent got hacked, which is why we ended up rebooting and upgrading our server. It's an invisionfree, so nothing like this server, though I don't know if that has to do with anything.

Glad to see someone who knows their stuff. :)

[Raulst]

Wow, we went back in time...so now everything Dec-Apr never happened...while shadows of that missing period can still be seen in Google...*brain implodes*

Sorry to hear the site went down, and I'm glad the staff put effort into putting it back up for us.

[moo102]

Ahah! I knew it! Bits of the site can be pieced back together!! :3

[Feball3001]

Now as far as caching goes, that is something you'll see in search engines. Say, for example, you search Google you can click the little 'cached' links. /shrug There's no telling what a little Google-Fu will turn up.

Thanks for that hint. I had a heap of stories that I had written in my blog that I never saved and luckly the majority of them I wrote where on the first page of the chached version of my blog has it there.

[moo102]

A search for site:www.yugiohtheabridgedseries.com got 19,400 results... So, like that guy said, only a chunk could be saved. But that's a pretty big chunk, if you ask me. With any luck, none of those results will have forum games. XD

(sadly, there were only two cached pages with my posts, and in one of them half of the posts could be seen on the first cached page. At least there was one witty post from the second page, though.)

[Swordstalker]

No excuses (kicks him over a pit)

[BanditZugg15]

Woo the sites back!
and now I re-registered so is my account :D
Happy times for all.
But my caption contest entry went bye bye...not so fun.
woo new episode on the way! Pink marshmallows for all!
(the white ones are mine)
*dances* wooooooo YTAS is baaccckkk!
xx

[JesusRocks]

***!!!****!!! MAGICKEDIT ***!!****!!!
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4ND S0

TH3 M4G1CKJ3SUS 0FF3R3D H1S L1F3 0NT0 cthulhu 4ND H3 Us3d h1s m1ghty p0w3r t0 br1ng f0rth 4 t1m3 w4rp wh3r3 dr fr4nk3nfurt3r H1MS3LF r3turn3d th3 d4t4b4s3 t0 N0v3mb3r 1n 0rd3r f0r us t0 surv1v3 th3 gr34t r3ck0n1ng

Translation Courtesy of JR:

MAGICK'D IT!
In the midst of the reckoning there was a resurrection. The MagickZombieJesus ascended into the great depths of the afterworld and battled Cthulu and lost; For his loss the almighty Cthulu said unto me, "Thou shalt bring back the Yaoi/Yuri thread".

And so

The MagickJesus offered his life unto Cthulu and he used his mighty power to bring forth a time warp, where Dr Frankenfurter himself returned the database to November in order for us to survive the great reckoning.

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[MrsSallyBakura]

THANK YOU I FOUND MY BLOG! <img src='/images/emoticons/smiley2.png'>