Beketov

It used to be under "Test1" but I think he made some edits because it's blue now.

A little late on that one Unless you mean the builder category, I'd be cool with that haha

I feel like the server people would have been able to diagnose that though rather than telling us is was DDOS. Usually a DDOS attack is pretty obvious.

Gotcha covered Doesn't look quite right for some reason, might be a slightly different one. It'll do as a temp though.

We don't really know any. Even they if they gave us the IP the attack originated from it could easily be a proxy and without our site we have no way of checking if it's a past member anyway. People have a few guesses but at the end of the day none of us really know for sure.

By my guess we'll have to upload it onto a new SMF forum since it's likely encrypted so that only SMF can read the data. Hopefully from there we can transfer everything over.

I understand that but sometimes it's best to hold off and wait to see exactly what we're working with. Plus, in this case, we only have a fraction of the members anyway so there wouldn't be much to do locker room wise. When we have all our main topics and stuff back, then we can consider extra stuff like locker rooms.

I wouldn't expect it as high priority, especially with so many members still missing; it's not really worth doing right now.

Alright so chances are it is the fact that we were all trying to download it which likely fucked with the servers that I doubt are too robust for something like this. So download one at a time guys

From what I've found it used to be doable but they removed the ability in recent updates. I'll look into some hacks for it later because they are pretty small.

I'll look into it.

That could work. Smarch, do you have any suggestions for getting the download to work? I think for most of us it gets to like 1.5GB and then stops downloading and extracts to like a 2.5GB file.

Yeah, that's not bad. I would just like to know that we CAN get all of our important posts back before we pay anything. $5 isn't much but it would be annoying to pay just to find out that none of the posts exist anyway.

Yeah, that's what I mean. Mobile wise it's way better and in general it seems much more user friendly. Just annoying that we couldn't get everything set before moving like we did with our first forum switch. As a note, will we be able to re-direct our domain here or is it shutdown as well because of the attack?

So basically if we could find some free web space and not have very many people access it (therefore avoid bandwidth issues) we could probably set up a free SMF forum and put the backup on it to get the information.

Yeah really. While this board does seem a lot better it would have been better to be able to move on our own time, not forced like this.

Chances are if anything is there, like I said, it's probably encrypted. Is there a way to get SMF for free or would we have to pay for it if we needed to build a temp site?

Actual posts could be highly encrypted though. 6GB seems way too large to be behind the scenes info and smilies. Might be best to check with smf support about whether or not the backup file will give us access to what we need.

In theory if we open up a temporary SMF forum and import the backup there (since it's designed for SMF it should work there) we should be able to access what we need. I just hope it actually contains actual posts and not just forum system info.

I'm on it, give me a few minutes. Edit: All groups should now have an unlimited number of storable PM's

I'll hide it for now (assuming that will hide the entire thread, we'll see I guess haha, so that we can just re-open it after.

You had messed up a bracket so it became a broken link instead of an images. I edited it to a normal img tag. 1. Good 2. That makes absolutely no sense. I've had photoshop as far back as CS2 and ALL of them allow you to save it as any image type you want. Even cheap, shitty Elements should allow things other than gif which is by far one of the worst for quality.

Yes?

Fix the link for you. Although two things: 1) I think we should worry about getting things setup before worrying about CnC on sigs. 2) Why the fuck would you EVER save a non-animated sig as a gif?

Should work for everyone now