Restored
I've restored us to about a week before the attack just for security measures. It seems some posts didn't complete because the server load was so high, so most would lead to blank pages. Everything is back to normal so no further restoring is needed. So feel free to post back any posts you may have lost. Some of you may need to upload your avatars and signatures again.
If you were V.I.P. and you were removed thanks to this restore, please PM me the transaction number from your receipt so I can give you back VIP.
Members
You may have noticed we lost about 12,000 members. This was done on purpose and is a good thing. I have only removed those members that have less than 10 posts and have not been active in 60 days. At first I made it so that members with less than 1 post were removed, but that only removed about 4,000 members.
Threads
I have removed over 11,000 old threads that have not been replied to in 6 months. This should not only reduce our server load, but also increase our servers speed as google is not constantly indexing these files that no one any longer reads. It could also prevent some people from using out of date tutorials.
Note: All of this is necessary to reduce the server load. Google is still indexing these old topics that no one views anymore. So google is just adding additional load to the server by indexing those posts that no one reads. Most are out of date and an up to date topic had already been posted. I've been wanting to clean up the forums a bit anyway.
button. Thanks.
Originally Posted by Some phag
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