July 11-12 AW Outage and Rollback

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muse

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All hail SHawkins. (And everyone else working so hard behind the scenes.):Hail:
 

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Small problem, perhaps, but before the calamity I had a permissible total of 200 private messages (I'm a contributor), and now it's down to 150 permissible messages. :Huh:

Another small problem: I had been using animated GIFs in my signature, and they're not permitted anymore. Don't know if that's an accident or intentional.

However, congrats to SHawkins and Mac and others on managing what was obviously a monstrous situation! :Clap:
 

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I lost a bowl of hot, buttered grits.

Haz anyone seen it?

Anyone????




(Many thanks, Gang for all you do - My name is Lavern, and I'm addicted to AW)
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Check the garbage.
Someone who understands food may have found it.
 

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Small problem, perhaps, but before the calamity I had a permissible total of 200 private messages (I'm a contributor), and now it's down to 150 permissible messages. :Huh:

Another small problem: I had been using animated GIFs in my signature, and they're not permitted anymore. Don't know if that's an accident or intentional.

However, congrats to SHawkins and Mac and others on managing what was obviously a monstrous situation! :Clap:

Nymtoc, I've put you back in the Voluntary Subscription user group -- I *think* that should solve the issues you're seeing.

Thanks for letting me know! We'll have to do a little detail adjusting for a few days, I imagine -- but so far, everyone has been really terrific and understanding about the AWpocalypse.

I appreciate everyone's patience more than I can tell you. Thank you, all.
 

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The only thing I noticed was that a few of my private messages disappeared including a new one (I think, since it popped up to tell me I had a new message but then took me to an old one, and my two newest were no longer there).

It's no biggie though, I can just re-message them and tell them I didn't receive the last message.

Thanks for all your hard work!
 

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Haha, horrible timing for me! Wiped out my posts/introduction thread/avatar/signature/profile~ |D
Good thing I waited a few days before setting everything up, so my account wasn't deleted! \o/

I'm really glad the site is back up! I was wondering what had happened. :O
 

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That being said, there is still a notice about the forums being down on the front page.
 

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That being said, there is still a notice about the forums being down on the front page.

Thanks for the reminder - I was a little buried today, setting back up accounts for people whose memberships vaporized during the rollback.

Fixed it!
 

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Am I the only one who reads this phrase and immediately thinks 'wow, that would be an awesome two-word prompt for an AW-wide pan-genre writing contest'?

Oh.

I am?

Damn.


:D

Actually, I think that'd be a great idea... Maybe the best entries get a one year free paid subscription - or an amazon gift card or something like that...

Can't hurt to make the suggestion, can it? Nothing ventured, nothing gained... :)
 

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Thank you Mac and SHawkins, thank you so much for sparing me the pasin of withdrawal. Thanks to the time difference, my favourite website was up and running sooner than I had thought.

Bravo! BRAVO!!! THANK YOU!!!
 

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And, I don't know if this was related, but I was having trouble with AW pages loading properly back in the before times and that seems to have gone away.... coincidence? I think not.
(or maybe it is, I'm not good at the technical stuff :D)

Oh I like that. The "before times" kind of reminds me of the new planet of the apes movie coming out, you know before the apes and after the apes. I have no clue why it makes me thing of that but it does.

Thanks all for getting us back on track and proving to me that I wasn't crazy.
 

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Lost all of my posts and rep. Annoyed but happy to be back.
 

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Bassa, what was your previous post count? I can certainly restore the number for you.
 

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Mac, never leave us again!

*holds on to Mac at the knees*


I was having a few glitches before it went down too. Odd stuff - pages going a bit screwy, being able to see a part of the forum I can't usually. I thought it was my ability to break anything...
 

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Thank the goddess for AW being back. Thank y'all for working so hard!

I nearly cried when AW was down. FB& Twitter can kiss my grits. AW is where it's at!
 

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Thank the goddess for AW being back. Thank y'all for working so hard!

I nearly cried when AW was down. FB& Twitter can kiss my grits. AW is where it's at!
You have Lavern's grits? I'm shocked, Kitty. Shocked.

:D
 
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