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Post by blueshift on Mar 16, 2009 18:44:42 GMT
Bad news guys! www.tfwiki.net has exploded! Apparently the guy hosting the wiki decided to do everyone a 'favour' by 'upgrading' the software without asking or telling anyone who runs it. And he didn't make a backup / made a corrupt backup And then it all corrupted and crashed. So uh. Crap. There's an effort going down to rescue what can be rescued from google's caches, but at best that will be a month old. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 16, 2009 20:33:23 GMT
I don't know the site, but that sounds terrible. To be honest though, I don't know why people let that sort of thing happen, and I always scratch my head when people say their computer has died and they've lost all their files. I have never typed anything worth keeping, personal or work-related, that I haven't immediately stored in two different media. I do it compulsively. (My entries uploaded to the Underbase are all backed up on multiple CDs, since I know that no website or hard drive lasts forever.)
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2009 22:54:25 GMT
A shame. It is an enjoyable site.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2009 23:09:05 GMT
I've only visited it about two or three times but whenever I did I found it very informative. It's a shame that something like that could happen.
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Post by karla on Mar 17, 2009 8:42:53 GMT
noooes
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 19, 2009 10:33:40 GMT
I hope you get it patched up, good as new, soon.
I wandered into the thread about it on the IDW boards, then wished I'd hadn't.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2009 10:49:21 GMT
Were they moaning?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2009 10:58:28 GMT
Hmmmm, I haven't looked but I'll say yes.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2009 11:00:04 GMT
I'm struggling to think how they could be moaning this time.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2009 11:04:35 GMT
There will be bitching about the wiki because of who runs it (David Willis) as he's made more than a few online enemies in his time, both justified and not. There will be bitching about how the older tfwiki was better and there will be bitching just for the hell of it.
Andy
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Post by Nigel on Mar 19, 2009 11:13:49 GMT
Ouch. I've only recently discovered the site, but have found it interesting, informative and entertaining. What a shame.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2009 11:14:53 GMT
Someone is moaning that one of their friend's edit about how Hardhead was gay got deleted. I mean HOW ELITIST!
Unfortunately most of my contributions were image related (including every UK comic cover!) and it is a bit iffy if all the images can be recovered.
Luckily I have a cache of my Quickswitch page with every single Quickswitch apperance (including how he wins the war in the Ladybird books!)
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2009 11:24:31 GMT
I think that person should have their internet privileges revoked.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2009 11:36:06 GMT
It's always funny when people rant about how shit free websites that they don't have to visit are.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2009 11:58:44 GMT
It's always funny when people rant about how shit free websites that they don't have to visit are. -Ralph Yeah, or when people whine about how 'someone should make something better and how /they/ want it' but don't want to go through the effort of doing it themselves. Ah, if only we could rule the world in our armchairs! |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2009 12:00:53 GMT
You see this mentality a lot in youtube video comments, sometimes downright abusive. If I've watched something someone has done on youtube and it isn't my cup of tea I just don't comment or rate and move on. It's just nasty to slag off something someone has done for fun that hasn't cost you a penny nor much time.
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 19, 2009 12:40:47 GMT
Can't we all just get along?
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 19, 2009 12:41:40 GMT
Oh, incidentally, could we make one of the "creative" forums to encompass "fansites"? Maybe bung it in with "fanzines" or sommut?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2009 12:47:55 GMT
Will sort that out just now.
Andy
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Post by Gav on Mar 19, 2009 12:51:51 GMT
TF Wiki has always been a funny, informative site - I'm sorry to see they're having some problems. I use them a lot for character references and to have a wee chuckle.
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Post by karla on Mar 19, 2009 13:30:04 GMT
wow....people are really pricky. They've also noticed that there are two bombshells in the comics?? I've never noticed or been that bothered but they are....damn they are.
It should be shut down, certian people shouldn't talk to eachother.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2009 13:39:43 GMT
At the risk of getting off-topic it has always been said that casual continuity shouldn't get in the way of a good story, but it seems ludicrous that in Spotlight Blaster the entire plot revolved around Bombshell (in the distant past) cerebro-shelling someone, and yet not even a dozen issues later, Bombshell is explicitly built in the present for the first time. Which if it were a reboot I'd be cool with, but its not.
Little thing can slip sure, but thats a bit of a strange mistake to make
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Post by Stomski on Mar 19, 2009 14:07:09 GMT
Well the tfwiki.net was born from the old TF Wiki on Wikia. Willis left that up and running when he took the content private. Although things quickly changed (removal of derogatory comments about Pat Lee for example) surely a lot of the content is still up?
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2009 14:11:50 GMT
Well the tfwiki.net was born from the old TF Wiki on Wikia. Willis left that up and running when he took the content private. Although things quickly changed (removal of derogatory comments about Pat Lee for example) surely a lot of the content is still up? Yes BUT all that stuff is 9 months old What has happened now is that all the cache details from google dating from March 9th has been uploaded and needs clearning, though someone is coordinating that so I am holding fire on it for the moment. |
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 19, 2009 14:27:00 GMT
Darn you, Internet!!
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Post by Dave on Mar 19, 2009 18:03:59 GMT
Looking at the Damage Control page, it seems that almost all the pages have been recovered from Google cache. It'll take some time sorting out but I guess it could have been worse.
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Post by Cullen on Mar 27, 2009 16:56:32 GMT
I went to back up the Underbase after reading this but no-one has updated it in 15 months, so I decided to go cry in a corner instead.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 27, 2009 16:59:27 GMT
We are bad John.
I shall endeavour once the AA mag for this year is put to bed to go through and do entries and give you files for all the content of the previous mags I have been involved with.
Andy
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Post by Cullen on Mar 27, 2009 17:11:42 GMT
Nice one Andy! I'm bad too because I could have updated it too. Damn my stupid job for interferring with my website about stories written by adults about children's toys!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 27, 2009 17:13:28 GMT
Bloody real life! Shakes an angry fist!!!
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