As all of you may have noticed...the Forums are clean (no posts). I spent no less than 20 hours working with our web host trying to restore the forums back to their original state. I spent an additional 4 hours setting up the new forums you see now. The problem began Thursday sometime when people were unable to post messages on the forums. They kept getting a database error when they tried to post. I immediately responded and attempted to fix the problem. Well I fixed them, but the search function of the forums was totally destroyed. I felt the search function was important so I attempted to fix it. I totally reinstalled the forums program, and made a complete backup of all the files (posts and configurations) using the phpBB Backup?program that came phpBB Forums. I found out later there was another way I could have backed the forums database, but that's hindsight. The cause of the malfunction is unknown, but it may have had something to do with the upgraded I installed (newer version) about month ago. As I said, I backed the forums up using the program that came with phpBB, however the backup file I created was unable to restore the forums to their original state (missing database tables). This caused me much grief. I will ask the web company to reinstall the old forums sometime next week, but the old forums will be for show only, because I think it may crap out on us again sometime in the near future. When they do come back online, you will be able to transfer (cut and paste) some of your great posts to the new forums. I will leave the old forums up for a while, but I will shut them down after about a month or so. For now, I have the old forums working partially so you can go to your old Profiles and copy (cut & paste) the old information to set in your new Profile. When setting up your profile, be sure to set the time, as the default is set to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). That way all the posts will reflect your local time. You may or may not have known about the time setting, so I thought I would mention that. If you signed up after December 2002, you profile will not show, but when you will find it once the database is installed again on the old forums. If you do not want to wait, please go ahead complete you Profile now. NOTE: ALL TA MEMBERS MUST REGISTER ON THE FORUMS. If you do not like the black (default) theme, I have also enabled many other themes you can chose from in your Profile? section as well. I personally like the subsilver my self. When the old forums come back on line, please do not post there, but rather cut and paste any of your articles of interest that you want to bring back. If the web company is going to charge me a great fee for the database tape restore, I will not do it. I have to wait and see what they say Monday (hopefully not).I am sorry this happened, but it was out of my control. At least I know how to properly back the forums up now, and I will make routine backs from this day forward every week (another job I have now), so as to prevent this from happening again.Again, I am sorry this happened, but we now have a clean and properly installed forum that should load fast in your browser. Sincerely,GatorClan LeaderFriendP.S. The old forums are located here: http://www.fa-thearmory.org/phpBB2/index.phpAlso, MacGyver is no longer the "Mac Daddy" of posters :mrgreen

-Kamikaze]

Mwah ha ha, I've been looking for a new form of spam to unleash, and this looks like that type and place to do soI look to have at least 100 posts every few daysi cans do thats if i spam like no tomorow lol but im not like that hehe :þ well maybe i am but owell lol i dun care who gets more post than mac but just some1 do that

Thanks for all your hard work gator - (i thought it was still like the other one whreere it puts the subject in bold so hear is what i was refering to.)And you dont need to apologise you do all this work for us and you hardly ever get to play on the server cause its full or your working on fixing stuff for us. We should be apologising to you. You should realy let us do some more of the work so you dont have to do so much stuff. And Thanks again gator Your doing to great of a job and over working your self :shock:

-ClaymoreCarl]Thanks for your hard work gator! Glad to see the forums back up!

Thanks Carl...you are going to be surely missed around these parts...

I'm glad to see the forums are back up. I got a little worried when I got an error trying to access them.Nice work Gator!

-Okibi Hiryuu]I'm glad to see the forums are back up. I got a little worried when I got an error trying to access them.Nice work Gator!

Thanks Okibi...If I had enough energy, I would explain in great detail what I went through trying to get the old ones back up. Everytime I think about now, I want to throwup Anyway, I learned a great deal about maintaining them now, and I hope to prevent the same thing from happening again.

This could be a good thing. Mac is de-throned, everyone spamming to be #1 because of him... On a serious note, good job and thanks, Gator, for all the hard work and effort. It's greatly appreciated. :wink:

Oh, by the way.The forums are like dated sometime in mid-November, the 26th to be exact.Definetly before I've ever made a single post and before I was in TA and many former members were still members. Just to let everyone know.

Gator,I have had issues like this at work, and I know it is no fun. It saps the energy out of you and is down right sickening. Thanks for all the effort and for getting them back up. You da man! :mrgreen:

i went psycho because i had like a couple private messages that i couldnt go read cuz that stupid problem lol owell. anyway yay again for forums!

Thanks Gator so much!!! Without you [TA]- would be horrible!!!

nuh uh without gator there would be no ta!

Thanks, Gator, we appreciate all your hard work.Now for the next trick, someone teach Bulletface how to use punctuation!

i dont like to use punctuation or however its spelled :þ it just takes extra time to press the buttons for it ?¿?

Gator, don't worry about it stuff happens! I see how much time you put into everything you do for this clan. Anyone who would be mad should be lynched! I'm not mad that it says n00b shooter under my name. Heck, even Mac isn't mad, he's sad, not mad. Mac needs to get Glad®. Gator i've been inspired by you to construct a new humongous sig! hehehDon't worry gator I wrote down all the popular forum styles! NOw I have to get going to my grandmamaS! PASTA TIME!!

-BulletFace]i dont like to use punctuation or however its spelled :þ it just takes extra time to press the buttons for it ?¿?

Yet you take out enough time to make an upside-down question mark.Odd. :?(Sorry, I couldn't resist, I'm shutting up now. )And, by the way, I totally believe that without the incredible amounts of effort Gator puts into this, this wouldn't be as fun and there wouldn't be as much "eye-candy".

gj on getting the forum back up

-were having fun now]gj on getting the forum back up

Thanks a bunch "were having fun now"

You did a great job Gator! Stuff like this happens, and it sucks, but at least you had the persistence and patience to get the forums back up and running again. Great work! Oh, and Bullet or Cupcake likes to use "lol" and "hehe" and her periods and other punctuation. Even though it takes one push for a period and commas, she would rather take the time to press 3 keys! She never makes sense anyway, so it's a waste of time trying to analyze her! :wink:

Click on profile and the first thing there is: Username change it there.That is in the forums.

Thanks for the forum work. Now I have to start all over.I was alomost at 1300 post's.Oh well.

this is neat-o. I was wondering why I my name wasn't on the memberlist. Keep up the good work, Gator.

-WakeUpHate]she would rather take the time to press 3 keys!

its not 3 keys its 8 to make that so bleh :þ and that tounge thing it takes 5 lol

It takes 8 keys to make what, Bullet? "lol" is 3 keys, and "hehe" is 4, so I don't know where you get 8....

8 is for ¿ and 5 is for þ so i win lol