OK - let's try this again. The database has once AGAIN been restored to pre-server-migration status, so old posts will have to be restarted, and recent accounts will have to be reregistered. I will try to make daily backups until we get these database problems resolved, so hopefully we won't have to loose all this data any more.
* The root problem still hasn't been identified yet and may return, so don't be surprised if the board goes on and offline as we continue to research it.
* Old posts have been deleted to reduce the size of our database. I think part of the problem is we have an enormous database that mysql is having trouble with, so unfortunately I had to prune some sections of any topics that have not been active in over a year.
* If you had some old favorite topics bookmarked, I'm sorry for the loss, but getting the board back online was a bigger priority. I may still be able to recover some stuff from the old backup, but that's a much lower priority now. Going forward, we can try to implement a process to save the really good topics (maybe move thgem to a Hall of Fame subforum?).
