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Dman176
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All right, I hope no one minds if I babble on for a minute here:
I still hold out a small glimmer of hope that we'll see this board "fixed" somewhat over the next week or two. The techs are saying that some "repairs" might not be showing up yet until they take the final steps to initiate a restoral. However, after the most recent updates made by the ever-so-informative CEO (yes, that was sarcasm), I'm not holding my breath that we're going to be getting back most of what we lost. This might just be my pessimism talking, but to be honest, I don't have as much faith in ezboard as I used to. (I know some people never had that much faith in it to begin with...)
What is really frustrating is that we were told that posting in the "broken" forums was not a good idea, and now we're basically being told that if we haven't replied to all of the threads that were messed up, they are likely gone forever. This would have been a damn good thing to know; maybe we could have actually saved a number of posts that were made over the past year.
The thing that concerned me more than anything was all of the comments and ratings that people gave over at the Virtual Seasons board. In the past, MJ had set up an e-mail group at Yahoo where the official raters would post their messages and ratings there. This season, she tried something new by having the raters submit their ratings and comments on a voting board which would then automatically forward those comments to us in an e-mail message, which we would then copy and paste into the episode polls. So, of course, neither MJ nor I have those e-mails any longer (except for the very last story from last week)... which means that, other than what I was able to copy and paste, many of the comments and speculation that people had made regarding the story arc (which Greg and I also went to great lengths to plug all year long) are now effectively gone. An entire year's worth of work down the drain. Sure, the actual stories are still there for all to read (the main websites were not affected in any way, shape or form), but reading the comments that people gave was what made writing those stories worth it for me. What's the point of even writing anything if you can't read feedback and know what people thought of it when you feel like your writing isn't up to par? (Especially with someone like myself who has a low self-esteem as it is.) Now, I have nothing to look back on when I need inspiration for my next set of stories. :cry
I'm at a loss as to what we should do at this point. Our entire history here is being eaten into cyberspace, the chance of getting it back diminishing with each passing minute. I've been feeling extremely disillusioned with ezboard for quite a while now, and I've been trying to be patient while they work to correct this disaster, but this just takes the cake for me. Perhaps we should seriously consider moving elsewhere after all is said and done.
What does everyone else think about this whole situation? Were they irresponsible with their backup system? Are the techs doing everything they could be doing? Should I be trying not to let this affect me so much?
Any suggestions? Anyone?
Damon
I still hold out a small glimmer of hope that we'll see this board "fixed" somewhat over the next week or two. The techs are saying that some "repairs" might not be showing up yet until they take the final steps to initiate a restoral. However, after the most recent updates made by the ever-so-informative CEO (yes, that was sarcasm), I'm not holding my breath that we're going to be getting back most of what we lost. This might just be my pessimism talking, but to be honest, I don't have as much faith in ezboard as I used to. (I know some people never had that much faith in it to begin with...)
What is really frustrating is that we were told that posting in the "broken" forums was not a good idea, and now we're basically being told that if we haven't replied to all of the threads that were messed up, they are likely gone forever. This would have been a damn good thing to know; maybe we could have actually saved a number of posts that were made over the past year.
The thing that concerned me more than anything was all of the comments and ratings that people gave over at the Virtual Seasons board. In the past, MJ had set up an e-mail group at Yahoo where the official raters would post their messages and ratings there. This season, she tried something new by having the raters submit their ratings and comments on a voting board which would then automatically forward those comments to us in an e-mail message, which we would then copy and paste into the episode polls. So, of course, neither MJ nor I have those e-mails any longer (except for the very last story from last week)... which means that, other than what I was able to copy and paste, many of the comments and speculation that people had made regarding the story arc (which Greg and I also went to great lengths to plug all year long) are now effectively gone. An entire year's worth of work down the drain. Sure, the actual stories are still there for all to read (the main websites were not affected in any way, shape or form), but reading the comments that people gave was what made writing those stories worth it for me. What's the point of even writing anything if you can't read feedback and know what people thought of it when you feel like your writing isn't up to par? (Especially with someone like myself who has a low self-esteem as it is.) Now, I have nothing to look back on when I need inspiration for my next set of stories. :cry
I'm at a loss as to what we should do at this point. Our entire history here is being eaten into cyberspace, the chance of getting it back diminishing with each passing minute. I've been feeling extremely disillusioned with ezboard for quite a while now, and I've been trying to be patient while they work to correct this disaster, but this just takes the cake for me. Perhaps we should seriously consider moving elsewhere after all is said and done.
What does everyone else think about this whole situation? Were they irresponsible with their backup system? Are the techs doing everything they could be doing? Should I be trying not to let this affect me so much?
Any suggestions? Anyone?
Damon
