Hacked and Smacked

[fecc-mechanic]

Turns out in the last 48 hours or so (presumably) Russian hackers have taken down servers worldwide. I have every 3hr backups, dailies, weeklies, and monthly backups spread across servers in various geolocations. They took out everything BUT the monthly backups. We are slowly but surely returning to live.
I apologize for the disruption in service, and I am doing everything in my power to resume normal services, my heart aches that we lost a month of content. But it is better than NO content.
Again, my apologies to all.

[Cryogenic]

That's rough.

Do you not keep offline backups? Leaving everything online sounds risky, as demonstrated by this unfortunate outcome.

I actually have a copy of several threads saved over the past few days, albeit the uglier ones concerning bootleg titles and bootleg companies. Happy to supply them if that helps anything.

[fecc-mechanic]

That's rough.

Do you not keep offline backups? Leaving everything online sounds risky, as demonstrated by this unfortunate outcome.

I actually have a copy of several threads saved over the past few days, albeit the uglier ones concerning bootleg titles and bootleg companies. Happy to supply them if that helps anything.

It has crossed my mind. But the cost of the medium and other associated costs kept it from happening. My thought process (as warped as they are) was that if I had backups in different countries the chances of them all getting hit would be (and is) miniscule. But. It happened. Much larger companies like Tesco in the UK had it rougher I heard. It seems the (again presumably) Russian hackers goal was to hit the largest amount of servers. Whether it's a giant like Tesco, or a nobody like me. As a form of "sanction" in rebuttal. All we can do now is hopefully move on. From all this craziness - Where cyber warfare has literally now hit home.

[Cryogenic]

That's rough.

Do you not keep offline backups? Leaving everything online sounds risky, as demonstrated by this unfortunate outcome.

I actually have a copy of several threads saved over the past few days, albeit the uglier ones concerning bootleg titles and bootleg companies. Happy to supply them if that helps anything.

It has crossed my mind. But the cost of the medium and other associated costs kept it from happening. My thought process (as warped as they are) was that if I had backups in different countries the chances of them all getting hit would be (and is) miniscule. But. It happened. Much larger companies like Tesco in the UK had it rougher I heard. It seems the (again presumably) Russian hackers goal was to hit the largest amount of servers. Whether it's a giant like Tesco, or a nobody like me. As a form of "sanction" in rebuttal. All we can do now is hopefully move on. From all this craziness - Where cyber warfare has literally now hit home.

I don't think it's (all) down to hacking.

In 2021, Tesco did admit its systems had been hacked:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59027423

However, the more recent outage from a few days ago was blamed by Tesco on a software update (with Tesco taking heat from at least one expert quoted in the article for failing to properly do a software test before applying a live update to its system):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235

Ditto, also, for McDonald's and Sainsbury's:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/outages-at-greggs-mcdonalds-sainsburys-and-tesco-what-the-hell-is-going-on/

Part of the issue is just simple human arrogance, laziness, and blunder. Beyond that, and also interacting with those factors, is that it is in the nature of complex systems for sub-components to fail, or to interact with other sub-components in unexpected ways, producing various glitches and sometimes (alas) catastrophic failures. I learned a little about this quite recently when I was reading about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident that occurred back in 1979:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

Normal accident theory

The Three Mile Island accident inspired Charles Perrow's Normal Accident Theory, which attempts to describe "unanticipated interactions of multiple failures in a complex system". TMI was an example of this type of accident because it was "unexpected, incomprehensible, uncontrollable and unavoidable."

Perrow concluded that the failure at Three Mile Island was a consequence of the system's immense complexity. Such modern high-risk systems, he realized, were prone to failures however well they were managed. It was inevitable that they would eventually suffer what he termed a 'normal accident'. Therefore, he suggested, we might do better to contemplate a radical redesign, or if that was not possible, to abandon such technology entirely.

"Normal" accidents, or system accidents, are so called by Perrow because such accidents are inevitable in extremely complex systems. Given the characteristic of the system involved, multiple failures that interact with each other will occur, despite efforts to avoid them. Events which appear trivial initially cascade and multiply unpredictably, creating a much larger catastrophic event.

Normal Accidents contributed key concepts to a set of intellectual developments in the 1980s that revolutionized the conception of safety and risk. It made the case for examining technological failures as the product of highly interacting systems, and highlighted organizational and management factors as the main causes of failures. Technological disasters could no longer be ascribed to isolated equipment malfunction, operator error or acts of God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_accident

A system accident (or normal accident) is an "unanticipated interaction of multiple failures" in a complex system. This complexity can either be of technology or of human organizations and is frequently both. A system accident can be easy to see in hindsight, but extremely difficult in foresight because there are simply too many action pathways to seriously consider all of them. Charles Perrow first developed these ideas in the mid-1980s. Safety systems themselves are sometimes the added complexity which leads to this type of accident.

For a pop culture example, think of Jeff Goldblum's character, Dr. Ian Malcolm, warning everyone about the inevitability of systemic failure -- via chaos theory -- in Steven Spielberg's iconic "Jurassic Park". It's not all the fault of Russians; until, of course, it is. Just to be on the safe side, don't get drinking any vodka next to your computer for the near future!

[BrianTCB]

I'm glad we didn't lose everything. It's good to see everything back online. And at least somewhat intact.

Onwards and upwards.

[Cryogenic]

Right, so, anyway...

As far as the "All Elvis" section goes, the search engine Bing presently returns a cached version of the first page of threads in the forum that goes back to March 18th, a day or two before this supposed "hack"/security breach took place:

Active URL:

https://mail.elvis-collectors.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

Cached URL:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2felvis-collectors.com%2fforum%2f&d=4993690135773500&mkt=en-GB&setlang=en-GB&w=mabhY-T5mIje3kms3ZiADPGhyRFqE_rt

From there, it's at least possible to see the thread titles, and sundry thread data, like the thread starter, when the thread was created, number of replies, number of views, who last posted, and when the last post was made.

Unfortunately, I can only seem to find the first page, which covers roughly five days (from late-AM on March 13th to mid-PM on March 18th). And, of course, you can't actually see the contents of any of the threads (except what you've now restored -- up to a month ago). But maybe it would be useful to post this data as a big dump of text, as a spur to encourage fresh discussion and potential recreation of at least some of the now-missing threads.

Forgive the somewhat basic and ungainly formatting. It's very late here in the UK and I don't have the time to finesse it right now. This is a copy-and-paste job from the page coming up via the "Cached URL" link above. I've cleaned it up a little, but all the relevant thread data and attendant data categories, as mentioned above, are intact:

NOTE (1): There is a total of 50 (fifty) threads listed.
NOTE (2): All threads listed in descending time order.
NOTE (3): All supplied times and dates are in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
NOTE (4): Threads that have been completely lost (i.e., threads created after Feb 21st 10:00 PM GMT) are highlighted in red.
NOTE (5): This list, of course, is not complete (i.e., it is only as complete as the first page of threads in the "All Elvis" section, which is the only relevant cached snapshot I could find).

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1967
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New Forum Cover Picture
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by rollinson1 » Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:28 am
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This Is Elvis outtakes?
41 Replies, 1355 Views
by Jokerlola » Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:55 pm
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Last Elvis Youtube Clip You Watched?
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FTD and audience recordings
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S
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by elvisalisellers » Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:38 pm
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Unfortunately, we lost a couple of hefty threads. Here are the top five lost threads, by reply count, in descending order:

Blame Elvis for not touring the world not The Col.
181 Replies, 3621 Views

How would You like to have another movie about Elvis?
115 Replies, 1779 Views

MRS Elvis Presley The Complete Movie Masters 1960-62 Plus Sessions Out-takes
86 Replies, 2660 Views

The King in the City of Six Flags
69 Replies, 2283 Views

Who are the persons in this picture August 10, 1970
43 Replies, 1432 Views

A couple more, continuing the list, that were larger than a single page and have been entirely lost (default is 25 replies per page; or 24 replies plus opening post when talking about the first page):

This Is Elvis outtakes?
41 Replies, 1355 Views

New Forum Cover Picture
28 Replies, 934 Views

Again, this list is not comprehensive, since it derives entirely from a single cached snapshot of the first page of threads (default total of 50 threads). Moreover, threads created prior to the backup cut-off date of Feb 21st may have had many new replies added in the last month, and these will also have been lost. Still, I hope the list here gives a flavour of what was being discussed in the past five days (actually closer to nine days if you include the brief outage period), and the type of discussion topics that could be partially recapitulated.

[Cryogenic]

I'm glad we didn't lose everything. It's good to see everything back online. And at least somewhat intact.

Onwards and upwards.

True. It's good to be back.

It's good to see you back, too, Brian.

[vinelvis]

Right, so, anyway...

As far as the "All Elvis" section goes, the search engine Bing presently returns a cached version of the first page of threads in the forum that goes back to March 18th, a day or two before this supposed "hack"/security breach took place:

Active URL:

https://mail.elvis-collectors.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

Cached URL:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2felvis-collectors.com%2fforum%2f&d=4993690135773500&mkt=en-GB&setlang=en-GB&w=mabhY-T5mIje3kms3ZiADPGhyRFqE_rt

From there, it's at least possible to see the thread titles, and sundry thread data, like the thread starter, when the thread was created, number of replies, number of views, who last posted, and when the last post was made.

Unfortunately, I can only seem to find the first page, which covers roughly five days (from late-AM on March 13th to mid-PM on March 18th). And, of course, you can't actually see the contents of any of the threads (except what you've now restored -- up to a month ago). But maybe it would be useful to post this data as a big dump of text, as a spur to encourage fresh discussion and potential recreation of at least some of the now-missing threads.

Forgive the somewhat basic and ungainly formatting. It's very late here in the UK and I don't have the time to finesse it right now. This is a copy-and-paste job from the page coming up via the "Cached URL" link above. I've cleaned it up a little, but all the relevant thread data and attendant data categories, as mentioned above, are intact:

NOTE (1): There is a total of 50 (fifty) threads listed.
NOTE (2): All threads listed in descending time order.
NOTE (3): All supplied times and dates are in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
NOTE (4): Threads that have been completely lost (i.e., threads created after Feb 21st 10:00 PM GMT) are highlighted in red.
NOTE (5): This list, of course, is not complete (i.e., it is only as complete as the first page of threads in the "All Elvis" section, which is the only relevant cached snapshot I could find).

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Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:50 pm

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Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:12 pm

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by elvis4life » Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:02 pm
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2 Replies, 71 Views
by Scoobie » Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:17 pm
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Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:55 pm

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22 Replies, 919 Views
by The Swamp Fox » Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:48 am
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Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:50 pm

New FTD: Stateline Sahara 1974
122 Replies, 7494 Views
by K.C. » Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:56 pm
Last post by javilu
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:47 pm

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4 Replies, 274 Views
by carloselvis » Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:49 pm
Last post by elvisjock
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:45 pm

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15 Replies, 806 Views
by PEP » Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:20 pm
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Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:26 pm

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86 Replies, 2660 Views
by RickGreekElvis » Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:06 pm
Last post by javilu
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:39 pm

TOP OF THE POPS 1977 - Moody Blue
21 Replies, 522 Views
by SpyGuyUK » Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:11 pm
Last post by Greystoke
Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:47 pm

Never ever quite like this time ...
100 Replies, 7033 Views
by elvisalisellers » Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:47 pm
Last post by darod
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:44 pm

The King in the City of Six Flags
69 Replies, 2283 Views
by The Swamp Fox » Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:49 pm
Last post by Johnny2523
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:13 pm

1967
3 Replies, 281 Views
by colonel snow » Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:21 pm
Last post by Mister Mike
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:38 am

New Forum Cover Picture
28 Replies, 934 Views
by rollinson1 » Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:28 am
Last post by rollinson1
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:02 am

This Is Elvis outtakes?
41 Replies, 1355 Views
by Jokerlola » Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:55 pm
Last post by drjohncarpenter
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:44 am

Last Elvis Youtube Clip You Watched?
508 Replies, 32587 Views
by Johnny2523 » Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:27 am
Last post by Johnny2523
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:11 am

FTD and audience recordings
79 Replies, 1890 Views
by Bobc » Sat Jan 02, 2016 3:19 pm
Last post by Markus K.
Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:02 pm

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11 Replies, 339 Views
by On Tape 1972 » Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:09 am
Last post by YDKM
Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:55 pm

S
2 Replies, 231 Views
by Sodman » Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:35 pm
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Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:57 pm

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5 Replies, 521 Views
by CountCanada » Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:22 pm
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Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:41 pm

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12 Replies, 602 Views
by dsiciliano » Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:09 pm
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Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:49 pm

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61 Replies, 2906 Views
by elvisalisellers » Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:59 pm
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Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:16 pm

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24 Replies, 683 Views
by jetblack » Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:43 pm
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Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:12 pm

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25 Replies, 1348 Views
by Buddy » Sun Oct 03, 2021 7:41 am
Last post by rlj4ep
Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:07 pm

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48 Replies, 1237 Views
by jurasic1968 » Fri Nov 05, 2021 11:18 am
Last post by Jaime1234
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:24 pm

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38 Replies, 3616 Views
by elvisalisellers » Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:38 pm
Last post by MartyMcFly
Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:52 pm

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467 Replies, 19532 Views
by RickGreekElvis » Sat Dec 16, 2023 6:31 pm
Last post by Swedish
Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:26 pm

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10 Replies, 479 Views
by ekenee » Sat Jun 22, 2013 8:10 pm
Last post by thommesen
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:39 pm

Last Elvis Concert You Listened To Was?
5236 Replies, 172745 Views
by Rob » Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:22 am
Last post by Rob
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:15 pm

Pickwick! Can anyone explain this label ? Grey
5 Replies, 511 Views
by Rocker77 » Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:01 am
Last post by Rocker77
Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:32 am

What are you listening to right now?
6183 Replies, 92134 Views
by Scoobie » Sat Dec 21, 2019 2:31 pm
Last post by pmp
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:14 am

Our Memories of Elvis glitch?
30 Replies, 1330 Views
by dennyelvis » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:26 am
Last post by Jokerlola
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:22 am

Elvis on CBS-TV Vic Damone's Variety Show, 1956
3 Replies, 514 Views
by Greg1995 » Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:55 pm
Last post by Jaime1234
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:01 am

Elvis - UK Vinyl
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by jasper » Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:49 pm
Last post by elvis-fan
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:51 pm

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6 Replies, 306 Views
by Yamaguchi.Y » Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:02 pm
Last post by colonel snow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:07 pm

Update on latest Elvis related auctions, depictions, showcases in museums and lists
236 Replies, 9852 Views
by Jaime1234 » Fri May 18, 2018 6:21 pm
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Unfortunately, we lost a couple of hefty threads. Here are the top five lost threads, by reply count, in descending order:

Blame Elvis for not touring the world not The Col.
181 Replies, 3621 Views

How would You like to have another movie about Elvis?
115 Replies, 1779 Views

MRS Elvis Presley The Complete Movie Masters 1960-62 Plus Sessions Out-takes
86 Replies, 2660 Views

The King in the City of Six Flags
69 Replies, 2283 Views

Who are the persons in this picture August 10, 1970
43 Replies, 1432 Views

A couple more, continuing the list, that were larger than a single page and have been entirely lost (default is 25 replies per page; or 24 replies plus opening post when talking about the first page):

This Is Elvis outtakes?
41 Replies, 1355 Views

New Forum Cover Picture
28 Replies, 934 Views

Again, this list is not comprehensive, since it derives entirely from a single cached snapshot of the first page of threads (default total of 50 threads). Moreover, threads created prior to the backup cut-off date of Feb 21st may have had many new replies added in the last month, and these will also have been lost. Still, I hope the list here gives a flavour of what was being discussed in the past five days (actually closer to nine days if you include the brief outage period), and the type of discussion topics that could be partially recapitulated.

Thank you

[BrianTCB]

I'm glad we didn't lose everything. It's good to see everything back online. And at least somewhat intact.

Onwards and upwards.

True. It's good to be back.

It's good to see you back, too, Brian.

Thank you, Cryogenic!! It's good to be back as well.

Good to see you too, BTW.

[MartyMcFly]

Thank you Jordan for all of your efforts. And it's super that the site is up and running again.

[Cryogenic]

Right, so, anyway...

Thank you

You're welcome, vinelvis!

Just doing my bit to help. I hate seeing data lost and people's input compromised.

Now, unfortunately, I'm out of time. If I find anything else of relevance, I'll post it in here later. Quite gutted to see those bigger threads gone, and to think of all the replies lost in various other threads, but life goes on -- even in the online world of EP.

One interesting little exercise, before I go, is to note the TOPICS and POSTS totals for the "All Elvis" forum (I confess I pay a lot less attention to the other forums) back on Sept 22nd 2023 -- almost six months ago to the day. A snapshot of the main page exists with this data on it, courtesy of the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230922090109/https://elvis-collectors.com/forum/

(The most recent snapshot dates to Oct 7th 2023).

Now, the numbers on that date, back in September last year, are as follows:

TOPICS = 48,147
POSTS = 1,160,001

POSTS to TOPICS ratio = 24.09

The numbers we have now, based on FECC just being restored to where it was a month ago (i.e., five months on from that date in September, in effect), discounting a handful of new posts that have already been made, are as follows:

TOPICS = 48,638
POSTS = 1,173,013

POSTS to TOPICS ratio = 24.11

Here are the "gains" (i.e., the surplus for each data item) over the past five months (Sept 22nd to Feb 21st):

TOPICS = 491
POSTS = 13,012

POSTS to TOPICS ratio = 26.5

So the gaining of topics and posts has remained fairly steady, but there has been a roughly 10% increase in posts compared to topics.

But what about the last month? How do the numbers look? If we assume a roughly linear progression from one month to the next in the cumulative gain of topics and posts, then we can estimate the losses for the past thirty days as follows (interpolated numbers):

TOPICS (lost) = 98
POSTS (lost) = 2,602

Or roughly 100 topics and 2.5K posts.

Of course, this says nothing about the subjective quality of those topics and posts, nor can it tell us anything about the data therein (e.g., text, photos, video links, newspaper clippings, data tables, etc.). The numbers also apply only to the "All Elvis" forum. The impact to private messages is also ignored here. But in terms of standard, publicly-available "Elvis Presley" discussion, this is a basic measure of what we've lost.

[Cryogenic]

I'm glad we didn't lose everything. It's good to see everything back online. And at least somewhat intact.

Onwards and upwards.

True. It's good to be back.

It's good to see you back, too, Brian.

Thank you, Cryogenic!! It's good to be back as well.

Good to see you too, BTW.

Thanks, Brian!

[emjel]

Posting this as a test, as It seems that posts that have been added to this thread in the past 10 minutes before this one, and as shown below have now disappeared. The search option is not available either.

!	Message from: Moderator 3
	it's not a coincidence. Stay on topic and you're posts don't disappear. Especially in a circumstance of this magnitude.

[pmp]

If we lose a month of posts, Jordan, then we lose a month. The bulk of the site is back (thank you), and that's the key thing, plus we all know you have more than enough going on in your life without having to restore a month of posts here. Look after yourself first. Fecc members can survive without those lost posts.

[Greystoke]

Thanks Jordan. Good to have the site back up and running.

[jam62]

Good to be back up, I was wondering what had happened?

[londonflash]

If we lose a month of posts, Jordan, then we lose a month. The bulk of the site is back (thank you), and that's the key thing, plus we all know you have more than enough going on in your life without having to restore a month of posts here. Look after yourself first. Fecc members can survive without those lost posts.

Well said.

[pmp]

One thing I would suggest, though, is setting up a social media account. It can stay idol for 99% of the time, but it would be useful in order to make an announcement to members when this kind of thing happens. Word would soon spread once someone saw such a message.

[Rob]

....my heart aches that we lost a month of content.

I don't care about anyone else's posts, but some of my best comments came during the last month.

Maybe now I'll be appreciated more around here.

[fecc-mechanic]

One thing I would suggest, though, is setting up a social media account. It can stay idol for 99% of the time, but it would be useful in order to make an announcement to members when this kind of thing happens. Word would soon spread once someone saw such a message.

Great suggestion. I'm on Twitter @ElviCitiesINTL

[drjohncarpenter]

The only thing these replies should be saying are:


THANK YOU.


We are VERY fortunate to have Jordan in charge of the software and hardware around here.

[iplayastrat]

Jordan all of us appreciate what you're trying to do to get
things back to normal.

You probably already know that "pm's" are also missing from
this time period.

Just a few days back I mentioned the site might have been
hacked after some deletions from my private account. But
Mod3 seemed sure that I was wrong.

[Mike C]

Thank you, Jordan, for all you do and the precise explanation. No need to apologize.

[Swedish]

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/elvis-fecc-forum-gone.1197965/

[Swedish]

The "search bar" is gone!

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