Losing the plot

OurManInTangier

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...or more importantly over 600 posts.

I thought it was only posts made over the last weekend but I haven't been around for a while and I'm not sure I even posted over the weekend, even so I've lost hundreds of posts. Admittedly many are trivial and of no future use but many of those may have contained useful info from other members that I would have searched for in the future.

Has anyone else lost so many posts, anyone else slightly miffed or am I taking the bad day I've just had out on the forum?
 
Me too - I 'lost' about 70-80 posts off my count. I don't really care as it's only a number, but it's worrying if posts actually are getting deleted - or are they being archived somewhere in cyberspace???
 
Thanks Simon to raise the issue. I've lost about 500 posts. It's not the first time, and I'm pretty annoyed (sorry mods) with all this restore thing. I'm not willing to participate in the fora as I've done before. Some threads have been lost and we have to start again and again the same discussion
... sorry I'm in a bad mood today, but that's how I feel about that.
 
Never paid much attention to my tally, nor to how many results Google returns for my name. It would be bad if threads disappeared in which there are useful posts.
 
Not sure how many posts I lost, but it's a few hundred. I am surprised there isn't a scheduled task using mysqldump to back up the database every morning and evening.

If only 2 days' posts were lost yet people have hundreds of posts missing, it sounds like the restore wasn't done properly, and at least some of the index tables are probably out of synch. This probably ought to be fixed if it hasn't already been, as it is likely to lead to more persistent problems.

Ian
 
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back alley said:
hey, don't blame the mods on this one.
we are hands off when it comes to software.

sorry for the inconvenience but poop happens sometimes.

joe
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I didn't Joe. By "sorry mods", I was meaning "sorry mods that I have to say that blabla". I know you have nothing to do with that, don't worry 😉
 
I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Even if some posts actually get deleted, the shared knowledge of all the forum members will more than suffice to regurgitate all information anyone ever needs about RFs.

In my view, a forum is not a replacement for a memory stick. It's more like a brain, if one of the cells dies, the others around it know how to take over the most essential functions. And it's the same with some posts disappearing every now and then. We're collectively able to reconstruct the essence of it, often with less error and misinformation than in the original thread.

So, I'm all for moderators randomly zapping threads every now and then.. 😛

Also keeps the place alive a bit 😀
 
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